[mythtv-users] Missing channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/09/2016 08:33 AM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> I have an HD-PVR (connected to a sat box).  So the HD-PVR is dumb...I have to somehow tell it that I have new channels

So you're using an externally-tuned input, which means it's 
non-scannable, so you can use mythfilldatabase to add channels.  It 
should do so automatically unless you explicitly disable the behavior 
with --remove-new-channels.  If you're not seeing it adding the "new" 
channels, they're not new--they exist in your database but may have 
wrong information in them.  If that's the case, you can use the channel 
editor to go through all the channels and--through comparing XMLTV IDs 
to the ones--find the ID of the channels you think are missing and then 
either edit the channel's data or delete it.  Then, go through all the 
other channels to find out if any others are broken (i.e. duplicate 
channels or channels without XMLTV IDs or channels with incorrect 
matching of XMLTV ID with channel data or ...).

If it were me, however, I'd just delete the Video Source (or, really, 
I'd "Delete All Video Sources") and then re-create the Video Source and 
re-connect the Inputs, including doing a "Fetch channels from listings 
source" when connecting the first Input.

Mike