[mythtv-users] New install Hdhomerun Prime Fetch listings Issues

[Tom Bishop]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:

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> *From: *"Tom Bishop" <bishoptf at gmail.com>
> *To: *"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> *Sent: *Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:43:05 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [mythtv-users] New install Hdhomerun Prime Fetch listings
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> If anyone really knows how that piece of the code is supposed to work,
> like when your prime unit doesn't have a CC in it, would be interesting to
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> Thanks
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> A homerun prime without a cable card is a QAM tuner. For QAM tuners you
> need to scan for channels, then manually update them with channel numbers
> and xmltv ids, There is no ability to import channels from SD for QAM
> tuners, because there is no way that the channel numbers could be matched
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> Peter
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> Thanks for the explanation, kind of makes since how would it now one from
the other without the card.  I wished that had popped into my mind before I
spent hours trying to get it to work, oh well I know now.

Thanks for following up :)
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