[mythtvnz] Prime on freeview from tomorrow

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Oh and one other thing, after I did all that the channel was set to 
invisible (ie not visible).  I fixed this in mythweb (as well as 
tweaking a few other parameters such as the channelid) but you could 
probably fix this in mythbackend.

Bummer that Prime is on a different multiplex to TVNZ and TV3 etc as I 
won't be able to simultaneously record all of them (Nova T 500).   Oh 
well it might be TV3-Plus to the rescue!

Ross and Jemima Knudsen wrote:
> I couldn't get this to work for me but I think it was because I wasn't 
> sure which multiplex id to use (looking back at it now I see I guessed 
> wrong so it may have worked if I tried each one).  Note this is for 
> DVB-T in Hamilton, I'm not sure if it will work everywhere.
>
> Way I got it to work is from the backend go to channel scan but select 
> from the scan type options choose 'scan existing transports'.  I also 
> selected ignore timeout but I'm not sure if this is needed.  This 
> didn't seem to wreck any of my existing channels.
>
> Then getting mythfilldatabase (xmltvnz / tv_grab_nz-/py) to work 
> involved going to ~/user/.mythtv/XMLTVNZ.xml and changing the '!' to a 
> '=/' for the prime.sky.co.nz entry and rerunning mythfilldatabase.
>
> HTH someone
>
> Steve Hodge wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz 
>> <mailto:hads at nice.net.nz>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 14:03 +1200, Aaron Drysdale wrote:
>>     > What is the easiest way to add this into my system? Do I have to
>>     scan
>>     > from the backend? Past experience with this has been painful, as
>>     I have
>>     > often lost the channel icons and also have to re enter all my
>>     xmltv IDs.
>>     > Also I have two tuners - a Nova-T 500 and Nova-S 500, so twice
>>     the pain
>>     > if I do it this way. Any tips on an easier method would be
>>     gratefully
>>     > received.
>>
>>     I just insert a record directly into the mysql table myself. Note 
>> that
>>     this may break things and isn't a supported way of changing 
>> settings.
>>
>>     Something like;
>>
>>     INSERT INTO channel(chanid, channum, freqid, sourceid, callsign, 
>> name,
>>     icon, xmltvid, visible, mplexid, serviceid) VALUES($1, 4, 4, $2,
>>     'Prime', 'Prime', '/home/hads/.mythtv/channels/prime.jpg',
>>     'prime.sky.co.nz <http://prime.sky.co.nz>', 1, $3, 1928);
>>
>>     You need to sort out $1, $2 and $3, and possibly adjust channel
>>     numbers,
>>     icons, and xmltvids to suit your system.
>>
>>     SELECT MAX(chanid) + 1 FROM channel;
>>
>>     will give you $1;
>>
>>     SELECT * FROM videosource;
>>
>>     will give you $2, and;
>>
>>     SELECT mplexid FROM dtv_multiplex WHERE frequency = 12456000;
>>
>>     will give you $3. You should be able to do all that in one query 
>> too.
>>
>>
>> This is how I did it as well. One shortcut for figuring out mplexid 
>> and sourceid is to look at what is in the channel table for one of 
>> the other channels on the same multiplex. E.g. for Satellite you can 
>> copy the values used for TV 3.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
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