[mythtv-users] Comcast grounding and channel lineup questions

David Williams mythtv_david at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 18 16:04:27 UTC 2015


 I know this ispartially off topic. We still have one small analog tv in the kitchenand the tuner wall wart died so I called Comcast. In the past I wouldhave simply exchanged it myself but Comcast closed the local officeand rather than drive 45 minutes each way I called for service. Mysystem incorporates both an Hdhomerun cable card Prime and anHdhomerun OTA Connect. When the tech saw the antenna he officiouslydeclined my report the inputs don't merge and insisted upon checkingthe wiring to ensure the two don't intersect. He noticed the splitterwas an “older model” and insisted upon swapping it for a newunit. While there he disconnected the ground lead which I had runningfrom both the Comcast splitter and the OTA lead to a copper waterpipe. Regrettably, he wasn't very forthcoming with information. Somy question is this: Would I be well-served to reconnect the groundlead since the new splitter does have a connection for a ground lead?
FWIW, he wasclueless about Mythv; moreover, he came across as miffed that Iemploy a cable card system. He noted that there are probably fewerthan ten cable card customers in my 35K population downstate Illinoiscity. He remarked “we had a migration recently and you won't get HDanymore with a cable card.” Which is inaccurate. On another note, I played around a bit with KODI on a Raspberry Pi a while back andnoticed that it accessed OTA but not Comcast content. The problem wasresolved when I rescanned the channel lineup via the Silicondustwebsite. I assume this had something to do with the infamous Comcastchannel migration but the fix I stumbled into was really just a luckyWAG and I'd like to know if my assumption is correct. 
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