[mythtv-users] Easiest way to find NBC on Comcast QAM

Joseph Fry joe at thefrys.com
Tue Jun 25 13:32:34 UTC 2013


> Hi all, I am hooked up to Comcast Cable using a HD Homerun Tuner and
> scanning using QAM.  I have the channel lineup that I want.  The only thing
> is that I want to find one specific channel.  The channel is NBC (11.1).
>  Unfortunately, the first time I scanned NBC wasn't available.  Now a few
> months later, Comcast changed the lineup, so that NBC is now available.  My
> other TVs are now getting NBC.  I only want to find this new channel
> without resetting my channel lineup.  How do that the easiest/fastest way?
>
> My thoughts:
> 1. Nuke the channel lineup, rescan and repopulate the channel lineup along
> with redoing the xml matching etc.  This is the most work and would truly
> suck.
>
> 2. Use the sctescan utility and attempt to rescan finding the channel,
> then manually insert into the db.
>
> 3. Undo my invisible channels and manually walk through all the channels
> and find the missing station.  This would suck since there are many many
> channels.
>

Umm... last time I checked, you could scan for channels and tell it to only
add new channels without overwriting what's in the table already.

Try doing a scan from Mythtv-Setup... it won't make any changes until after
it has fully scanned, and it will show you what it wants to do before you
accept the changes.... I think you might be pleasantly surprised.
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