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

[Douglas Peale]

On 08/07/2018 01:48 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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.'
>
>
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I actually am already doing this. I have three video sources defined, one each for my three antennas.

The problem is that I had accidentally deleted a channel, so none of the scans would add it back except the full scan.
Unfortunately, that goes and adds all the channels from two antennas, a few from the third, and changes the channel number on
all of them.

I end up with 54 channels for which I need to edit or delete every one. To edit 54_1 to 54.1, requires 11 keystrokes in myth
backend setup. It is a little easier in mythweb, but mythweb was not working at the time.


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