[mythtv-users] Freesat and missing red button

[Lawrence Rust]

On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 21:47 +0000, Gavin Whitehead wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I don't seem to have a Red Button channel in my 'channel' table.
> 
> I am running v0.24.2-3-ge4660d6 on Ubuntu 11.10.  I have a TBS 6981 Dual 
> DVB-S2 card.  I have tried re-scanning a couple of times with the same 
> result.  My channel table has 472 entries in it but none of them look 
> like the Red Button channel.
> 
> Each time I re-scan I delete all Video Sources and Capture cards.  I 
> then add the Capture cards in (one per tuner) and a Video Source of 
> EIT.  When I scan for channels I follow the advice on Garry Parkers site 
> (http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_freesat.php) and do two scans:
[snip]
> I seem to be able to watch all the channels which are in my 'channel' table.
> 
> Any suggestions?

When you scan ensure that you select Desired services: All.  The BBC Red
button channels are marked as data.  Unfortunately, this will result in
many more channels being detected.  Suggest that you use a script (like
the Wiki www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments) to hide the
unwanted.

You can list the BBC data channels:
mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv -D mythconverg -e"\
 select channum,serviceid from channel\
 where default_authority like '%bbc.co.uk' and callsign not like 'bbc%'"

-- 
Lawrence