[mythtv-users] [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: eed7862e8 by Raymond Wagner (wagnerrp)

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 01:35:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 12:20 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 03/13/2012 07:47 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>> On 03/12/2012 04:28 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>>>> On 03/11/2012 01:53 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>>>>> Michael,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On my parents 0.24.2 setup, if I run with dd-grab-all it adds all the
>>>>>>>> channels in my schedulesdirect lineup to all my sources, which causes
>>>>>>>> my QAM tuners to try and tune cable channels. I don't see any of the
>>>>>>>> options for mythfilldatabase that will prevent it from adding channels
>>>>>>>> to the sources when running a grab. Is there a way to do this? right
>>>>>>>> now in testing I'm having to dump the channels table and restore from
>>>>>>>> a few days ago.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It seems to not be doing this on my 0.25b setup though.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> thanks!
>>>>>>> Sounds like you're either using the not visible channels hack (to hide
>>>>>>> the untunable channels on the source you don't want them) or running
>>>>>>> mythfilldatabase with --remove-new-channels on the working setup, and
>>>>>>> you're not on the broken setup.
>>>>>> Ah, yes, on the setup that is working I do have some channels set with
>>>>>> visible=0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So should I be running with --remove-new-channels when I run
>>>>>> --dd-grab-all to avoid this issue?
>>>>> Or set up the channels you don't want the QAM tuners using as not
>>>>> visible in the QAM video source.
>>>> so create two sources in schedulesdirect, one for the QAM and one for
>>>> cable and link them separately in MythTV?
>>> Well, assuming the QAM tuners are tuning with their internal tuners
>>> (i.e. using ATSC major/minor numbers) and the cable tuners are analog
>>> encoders that use "frequency ID" (which is likely a channel number sent
>>> to a channel change script that changes channel on an STB), you should
>>> have 2 different video sources--because they tune channels differently.
>>> (Video Source is a list of channels available on an input /and/
>>> information about how to tune those channels.)
>>>
>>> Note, also, that if a video source is connected to a digital input (and
>>> only a digital input), mythfilldatabase should not attempt to add
>>> channels to the video source (since it realizes that you need to scan
>>> for those channels).  So, if you have a single video source connected to
>>> a digital (scannable) and analog (non-scannable) input, that probably
>>> explains why it's trying to add channels to your QAM video source.
>> sorry, right, my bad on the nomenclature.
>>
>> I have two sources, one for the QAM tuner (yes, by frequency), and one
>> for the cable tuners (HDPVR's) but channel number using a channel
>> change script.
>>
>> running mythfilldatabase without --remove-new-channels causes the
>> channels available on schedulesdirect (for use by the HDPVRs) to be
>> added to the source for the QAM tuner.
>>
>>>> Also, oddly, ever since I ran the --dd-grab-all on that machine even
>>>> if I go back to just using the commands I was previously using of
>>>> --refresh-today --refresh-second it is still adding all the channels
>>>> to the QAM source.
>>>>
>>>> that was a frustrating realization =P
>>> FWIW, --dd-grab-all has no bearing on whether channels will be added or
>>> not.  So, this may have been happening before, but testing --dd-grab-all
>>> just made you notice it?
>> previous to this "ordeal", I had --refresh-today --refresh-second as
>> arguments for mythfilldatabase, I may have added --remove-new-channels
>> as well, though I don't remember now.
>>
>> It sounds like, however, regardless, I should be able to run with
>> --dd-grab-all without --remove-new-channels and the source for the QAM
>> tuner should not add those channels. So to add to this, the QAM tuner
>> is a Ceton card but without a cablecard (Time Warner), could it be
>> that Myth sees this as a digital tuner that should be updated with the
>> new channels and not as a QAM tuner that should not?
>>
>> running with --remove-new-channels for now "solves" the situation.
>
>
> Then it sounds like your Ceton card is being treated as an unscannable
> digital tuner (i.e. perhaps because it's not a supported device in
> 0.24-fixes?).
>
> If so, you'll need to either add those channels and mark them as not
> visible in the video source where they shouldn't be used or use
> --remove-new-channels.

I'll leave --remove-new-channels for now, the plan is to upgrade it to
0.25 soon anyway and we'll see if it's still an issue then.


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