[mythtv-users] Switching from SchedulesDirect to EIT

[John Pilkington]

On 11/03/2019 19:45, Tom Harris wrote:
> My MythTV usage is now entirely for broadcast OTA channels, and I was 
> attempting to switch my guide data to be EIT sourced.   But, I haven't 
> had any luck in retrieving guide data.   Is there some trick to using EIT?
> 
> I'm on MythTV 0.28, and my tuner is an HDHomeRun Prime
> 
> - I changed the schedule source in mythtv-setup
> - I marker the channels "useonairguide" in mythweb settings.

First, have you seen https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/EIT ?

Latest edit is nearly 4 years old, so treat with caution.

In the UK, using dvb-t, each tuner has a 'use for active EIT scan' box. 
I don't know if this applies to HomeRun hardware, but I recently found 
that I needed to have that enabled for one, and preferably only one, tuner.

John P

> 
> I guess mythfilldatabase isn't used for EIT?   When I run it, it exits 
> quickly and one of the lines output is:  "2019-03-11 12:38:10.572008 I  
> Source 1 configured to use only the broadcasted guide data. Skipping."
> 
> I do see backend log entries which appear to be trying to retrieve EIT data:
> mythbackend.log:Mar 11 12:38:00 mythbackend: mythbackend[4306]: I EIT 
> eitcache.cpp:99 (delete_in_db) EITCache: Deleting old cache entries from 
> the database
> mythbackend.log:Mar 11 12:38:00 mythbackend: mythbackend[4306]: I 
> TVRecEvent eitscanner.cpp:205 (StartPassiveScan) EITScanner (1): Started 
> passive scan.
> mythbackend.log:Mar 11 12:39:17  mythbackend: mythbackend[4306]: I EIT 
> eitscanner.cpp:143 (run) EITScanner (5): Now looking for EIT data on 
> multiplex of channel 702
> mythbackend.log:Mar 11 12:39:17  mythbackend: mythbackend[4306]: I EIT 
> eitcache.cpp:411 (PruneOldEntries) EITCache: Pruning all entries that 
> ended before UTC 2019-03-10T19:43:43Z