[mythtv-users] HDHR OTA electronic program descriptions mixed up?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Dec 13 18:27:05 UTC 2013


On 12/13/2013 12:54 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:50 PM, wrote:
>> Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>>> What is your EPG source?  SchedulesDirect, or EIT, or other?
>> OTA = Over the Air public HDTV
> That's the source of your content, not the source of your guide data
> (unless you're using EIT, which is embedded in the broadcast data).

The point being that if you're using Schedules Direct, but you also 
enable EIT on the same channels, you will get exactly the symptoms you 
describe.  You can only enable one listings source--Schedules Direct, 
XMLTV, or EIT--per channel, otherwise the differing sources step over 
each others' data.

Oh, and the symptoms are most likely to appear on the public broadcast 
stations, too, because they're the ones most likely to actually have any 
kind of EIT data embedded (whereas many other for-profit stations in the 
US (not sure about Canada or Mexico) will have only the bare minimum 
requirement, which is "now" and "next" data).

Mike


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