[mythtv-users] MythWeb redirection problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Michael,

Saturday, January 30, 2016, 6:44:32 AM, you wrote:

> On 01/29/2016 03:27 PM, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
>> Since some weeks I have an interesting problem with my MythWeb installation (MythWeb and MythTV 0.27.5 with fixes/0.27; Apache 2.4.10 with mod_php 5.6.1; DVB-T with EIT EPG).
>>
>> In MythWeb EPG (menu TV program) I see only listings for channels 1,3-14. Channels 2,15-40 have an empty EPG. In MythFrontend I see EPG from all channels (1-40).

> This sounds like you have "shadow" channels--multiple copies of some 
> channels.  Therefore, when you display the guide, depending on whether
> you get the proper (part of a Video Source which is connected to an 
> Input) channel or the shadow copy, you will either see guide data or not.

> Look in the channel editor to see if you have multiples.  If you do, 
> your best bet for clearing them is the Delete all Video Sources 
> method...
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034

> However, if you want, you can try to delete the shadows only--and hope
> that's the only misconfiguration in the Input Connections configuration
> (which is why I prefer the "clear out all Input Connections settings and
> set it up once, correctly" approach--it's easier to start clean and add
> only good configuration than to try to find all the brokenness in a 
> known-broken configuration).

>> After debugging a while, I found that each channel has a detail view (e.g. http://localhost/mythweb/tv/channel/1001/1454098500 for channel 1). Channel links for channels 1, 2-14 show the EPG for the specific channel. But channels 15-40 redirect back to http://localhost/mythweb/tv/list.

> I'd guess this would be the behavior you'd get with the above 
> misconfiguration--when there's nothing for the detail, it just sends you
> back to the list.

> Mike

In my experience, the most common cause is your grabber inserting data
for channels that are unknown to MythTV, so they are created to accept
the data. If you are using an xmltv grabber, check your xmltvIDs.

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