[mythtv-users] problems recording ABC in SF bay area

[Marco Nelissen]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:22 PM, John Lundell <jdlundell at gmail.com>wrote:
>> (...)
>>
>>> Yes, I have been having problems with KGO as well.  They are on their
>>> original VHF channel 7 which is problematic with my UHF antenna but it use
>>> to be fairly solid.  They also were retransmitting on channel 35 in the
>>> south bay but that transmitter now seems to go on and off.  You may check
>>> to see if you are using channel 35 (599MHz) and if so move to channel 7
>>> (177MHz).
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. Is there a way to check which channel/frequency a given
>> recording actually came from? Mythtv doesn't seem to show the actual
>> channel number or frequency anywhere, only displaying the channel name.
>> In schedulesdirect, I've enabled KGODT, and disabled KGOLD, which
>> according to
>> http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-52235.html are on
>> channel 7 and 35 respectively. Also, my antenna is pointed at Sutro, so I
>> don't think it could even pick up channel 35. On the other hand, just now
>> this problem happened again as I was watching near-live TV. I switched to
>> the TV directly, and verified that the TV itself did it too. The TV seemed
>> to think ABC was on channel 35 though, and showed a signal strength jumping
>> erratically between 0 and 71. Would mythtv ever pick channel 35 even though
>> it's not enabled in the channel lineup?
>>
>> Yes. Disabling the channel in SchedulesDirect does not remove it from
> your local mythtv installation. You have to manually remove (or set
> invisible) the channel either in mythweb or via mythtv-setup (I think).
> Mythweb is the easiest, but might require some server and/or php setting
> tweaks if you have a lot of channels. Disabling the channel in
> SchedulesDirect is a good move, though, because otherwise mythtv might
> re-add the channel after you delete it in your local install.
>

Alright, so after spending way too much time last night digging into this,
I discovered I did actually have ABC in the channel lineup twice, on
channels 7 and 35, and some of the ABC recording schedules were set to
record from the channel 35 entry. That perfectly explains the problems I
was having.
I also discovered  that KTVU/Fox is on both channels 44 and 48, so I should
probably look into which one of those I should be using.
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