[mythtv-users] What happened to the ability to scan a range of channels?

[John Pilkington]

On 07/08/18 06:29, Douglas Peale wrote:
> What happened to the ability to scan a range of channels?
> 
> I have two antennas aimed about 20 degrees apart. Both see all channels from both directions, but each sees the channels from
> its direction much better than the other direction.
> 
> After a full scan, I must delete all channels from the other direction to prevent MythTV from choosing a source with bad reception.
> 
> While doing this, I accidentally deleted one channel. I tried to manually add it back, but I was not able to select ATSC as the
> type as it does not appear in the selection list.
> 
> So I tried a full scan, assuming I could choose which ones to add by selecting manual. Nope. there is now way to skip one
> channel. You can skip a type, but not a single channel.
> 
> Worse, I had edited all of the channel numbers from xx_yy to xx.yy. MythTV changed them all back to xx_yy.
> 
> I can't even use mythweb to edit the channels. It will display them, but when I try to save the changes, it gives me an error,
> and displays the old values.
> 
> Rant complete.


I haven't tried anything like this. but I think you need to define two 
Video Sources in mythtv-setup, one for each antenna.  Then in the 
Channel scanning/editing section you should be able to scan separately 
for each, using a 'full scan' or perhaps, after a first run,
  'all known transports.'