[mythtv-users] Trying to watch livetv on 0.28 is starting on an invalid channel

[Dan Wilga]

On 7/18/16 9:05 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> So I updated to 0.28-fixes (04650e0).  Most things seem to be working
> but when I try to watch LiveTV it seems like myth is trying to tune to
> an channel that is invalid for the input/source:
>
> Jul 18 08:56:07 pvr mythbackend: mythbackend[14530]: E TVRecEvent channelutil.cpp:1889 (GetChannelData) GetChannelData() failed because it could not#012#011#011#011find channel number '93-62351' in DB for source '3'.
>
> That tuner (11) isn't even a digital tuner.  It's analog.  The starting
> channel in mythtv-setup for that tuner in Input Connections is a valid
> analog channel (3) so I can't imagine why mythtv is trying to start it
> with a different, invalid channel for that tuner.
>
> Of course LiveTV fails to start at that point with no way to select a
> valid channel.  That seems like a bug in itself.  Even if the starting
> channel is invalid it would be useful to stop and ask the user which
> channel to tune rather than failing to start at all and leaving the
> repair up to (presumably) being a database edit.
I can't comment on how the wrong channel ID got set as the default, but 
I can tell you how to fix it without modifying the database directly. 
Run mythtv-setup and it's there in the Input Connections settings, under 
Starting Channel.