[mythtv-users] how properly to rescan channels

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 17:07:15 UTC 2015


Hoi UB40D,

Saturday, July 11, 2015, 6:30:25 PM, you wrote:

> On 11 July 2015 at 17:17, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

>>
>> I have looked around in capture cards, video sources, input connections
>>> etc and I cannot find where it says that card 1 is set to start on
>>> channel 3897 or any other channel.
>>>
>>
>> I usually see that it's set to start on channel 'please add' - but I think
>> it's inviting you to edit the starting channel in 'input connections.'


> Mmh, yes, in input connections there is a field called
> startng channel
> with a value of
> please add channels to this source
> and there seems to be no way to enter any other value; the left-right
> arrows have no effect, the up-down arrows move to another field and typing
> a number doesn't work. So I don't see anything I can edit there.

As far as I remember this is not fatal and the field gets reset to the 
last channel used on livetv. You should be able to type a channel
number or parse through available channels with left/right.


>> The 'yes please' simply gives you an opportunity to correct something that
>> it sees as a problem, and 'I know what I'm doing' is almost always untrue...
>>

> Neither of them fixes anything, as I understand:
> Yes please = throws you back in the main menu of the backend setup
> (presumably so you can fix the things it flagged)
> I know what I'm doing = exits the setup (presumably because you believe the
> warning was incorrect)

> There isn't an option to "fix the detected problem in some reasonable way".

> I still don't know how to make card 1 start on any other channel...

>> What should I do to clean out all channels, rescan what works today and
>>> be done with it?
>>>
>>
>> I don't have any DVB-S experience, but with DVB-T, 'scan all known
>> transports' usually works as an update once I've settled on the ones I need
>> - which rarely change and can often be chosen from published lists.
>>

> Where is this option found?

> So far I have seen

> input connections / scan for channels

> and
> channel editor / channel scan

> both of which take me to the same screen which takes about half an hour to
> complete a scan.

> Where is "scan all known transports"? Or is it a DVB-T-only thing?

> In any case, if I begin with
> channel editor / delete channels
> why do I still get those leftovers about starting at 3897?
> What's the proper way to start from a clean slate?

> Thank you




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