[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Allen Edwards]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:26 PM Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8/12/19, Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In planning for Phase 9 channel reassignments scheduled for next year I
> > found this quote (paraphrase):
> >
> > "MythTV rescan is just too difficult so I did it manually and it only
> took
> > 4 hours"
> >
> > Not what I wanted to find. Can someone point me to how this should be
> done.
> > Specifically, I find four possibilities on how this might be done in two
> > menus:
> > In Connect Source to Inputs
> > 1) Scan for Channels
> > 2) Fetch channels from Listing Source
> >
> > In Channel Editor
> > 1) Channel Scan
> > 2) Edit Transports
> >
> > I have learned the hard way not to just experiment so I am asking for
> > guidance.
> >
> > I have two HD Homerun dual tuners (first generation) so I have four
> capture
> > cards listed and connected to a single Video Source called "Antenna
> North"
> > which is linked to Schedules Direct. All the capture cards are apparently
> > set up as MPEG2TS.
> >
> > My system is Mythbuntu 14.04.1 LTS and MythTV fixes/0.28
> >
> > Is there some documentation or can someone give me some specific guidance
> > for doing the required rescan or other channel reassignment process.
> >
> > Allen
> >
>
> I just replied to a thread from James Abernathy with the subject "USA
> OTA FCC frequency rescan?" that you may want to check out. As far as I
> know, the biggest pitfall of the channel rescan in mythtv-setup is the
> possibility of new channels getting created when you really want to
> just change the frequency of existing channels. This (also as far as I
> know) is caused by the station changing the callsign that gets
> reported from the signal itself.
>
> Assuming you have something that can be used to just scan channels to
> a file as I describe in that reply, you should be able to use the
> channel editor to change and callsigns to the new ones before doing
> the rescan to prevent that.
>
> I'm actually one of those who's written utilities of my own to
> manually change frequencies surgically, but again, I believe those
> callsign changes are the main source of unwanted results.
>
> Tom
>
>
I am not sure I understand the call signs of these stations. Let me give an
example.  Channel 7_3 in MythTV Channel infor is LAFFTV.  In HDHomeRun
(under windows) it is also LAFFTV. In Schedules Direct it is KGODT3  and
the channel that overwrites it is KGOLD3. I think I should ignore the SD
name.

I did hdhomerun_config 10126134 scan /tuner1 filescan and for the above
channel I get two listings
Channel 35 Program 5 7.3 LAFFTV
Channel 7 Program 5 7.3 LAFFTV

That is the problem I always have with scan. I end up with channel 35 and I
want channel 7. According the the repack guidance I am seeing, 7 will move
to 12 and 35 stays put. This will still give ma a problem when I scan. I
think I just rescanned and interrupted it before the overwrite but I am not
sure.

So just to clarify, you are suggesting checking that LAFFTV and all the
other channels to check for name changes then just do a rescan and figure
out how to deal with channel 7.

It looks like the repack will move 4 stations we watch.

Channel 35 comes to the back of my antenna and is weak. It has the same
program information as channel 7.

Allen
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