[mythtv-users] HDHR Prime

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/29/2013 04:03 PM, Stefan Jones wrote:
> From: "Michael T. Dean"
>> On 10/29/2013 03:40 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>>> Have you signed up at http://www.schedulesdirect.org? It costs
>>>>>> $20
>>>> Actually it's $25 a year and completely worth it, in my opinion.
>>> But unlikely to be related to Stefan Jones' problem of not being
>>> able
>>> to get encrypted content.
>>>
>>> This is something I would start by debugging without involving
>>> mythtv.
>>> Just use hdhomerun_config to scan, set a virtual channel, check the
>>> channel status, and save the video to a file. If you can't do that,
>>> then it's not a MythTV problem.
>> I think Stefan's problem is that he was trying to do a scan with an
>> unscannable CableCARD tuner, which doesn't work. He either needs to
>> "Fetch channels from listings provider" with a good listings provider
>> (i.e. Schedules Direct) or manually add all his channels.
> Actually, as of last night everything is fine. I guess I didn't cheer about it here. The CableCard was authorized, paired and activated, but it had been provisioned as a STB and not a cable card. It was a matter of talking to the correct analyst at Comcast. The most recent one spotted the problem that the last two had not. Within a few minutes I was able to do a scan (via the HDHomeRun's web page configuration tools)

Ah, yeah, you can scan with the HDHR tools, but not with mythtv-setup.

>   and confirm that the encrypted channels were being picked up. The channel map for the CableCard comes via an Out Of Band channel; digital tuner cards could actually pick this up (scte-65 scan) to determine what local channels were available. The CableCard was able to "see" the list even though it couldn't decrypt the channels. It is also possible to download a channel list via the Schedules Direct, and in any case you need to choose a lineup in order to populate the tables with names, channel programming ID, icon and so on. This is done on the "video source" scre
>   en.

Right.  Since MythTV isn't doing the actual tuning (but instead asks the 
HDHR to tune by sending it an ID (channel number) that it tunes for us), 
we don't need the low-level tuninginformation.  Since we just need the 
channel ID, we just pull it from the listings data.

Glad you got things working.  And thanks for clearing up the 
confusion/guesses about what was going on.

Mike