[mythtvnz] Prime DVB-S changes

Jason Taylor killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 8 03:50:05 BST 2013


Just did a rescan and picked up prime again, so the freq are now

12483000 - TV1, TV2, Maori TV
12456000 - TV3, TV4, Choice, Cue, Te Reo, Parliament, Shine
12707000 - Prime

Which as noted is a pain as now you need three tuners to capture them all..
not to bad unless the Olympics are on ;)




On 8 September 2013 14:02, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 10:06:13 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >>> >>I guess this means we will need to scan the sky freq now?
> >>> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/duplicate-prime-satellite-signal-be-removed
> >/5/166041
> >>> >
> >>> >I just did a rescan and no difference, I don't have Sky but I should
> >>> >now be able to see an extra Prime channel shouldn't I ?
> >>>
> >>> You need to do a scan of the Sky frequency that carries Prime, which is
> >>> reported as 1957 in my last scan of the Sky transponders.  So the
> >transponder
> >>> frequency works out to be 12707000 Hz.  [My LNB frequency is 10750000,
> so
> >>> 12707000 Hz - 10750000 Hz = 1957000 Hz.]
> >
> >Thanks that was very helpful
> >
> >I scanned from 12707000 and found quite a few channels, all via Sky I
> >presume
> >
> >The first 3 were prime so I just removed the existing prime channel and
> >added the first of the 3 Sky
> >ones I found.
>
> Here is my last scan of that transponder:
>
> [[Tuning to 12707000 Hz]]
> Animal
> Planet;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1007+8190:1107=eng:1907:0:1014:169:11:0
> CNN;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1005+8190:1105=eng:0:0:1015:169:11:0
> Prime;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1001+8190:1101=eng:0:0:1018:169:11:0
> Disney
> Channel;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1008+8190:1108=eng:1908:0:1027:169:11:0
> MTV;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1003+8190:1103=eng:1903:0:1039:169:11:0
> Comedy
> Central;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1004+8190:1104=eng:0:0:1042:169:11:0
> Prime;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1002+8190:1102=eng:0:0:1055:169:11:0
> Prime;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1009+8190:1109=eng:0:0:1056:169:11:0
> Country
> TV;SkyNZ:1957:HC34:S0.0W:22500:1006+8190:1106=eng:0:0:1098:169:11:0
>
> All the other Sky channels there will be encrypted except for the
> Prime channels.
>
> >Deleting the old one I had to press "M" then click "Delete" and then
> accept
> >"Delete channel 'Prime'". Of course
> >I now see I could have just pressed "D"......
> >
> >I presume to get the exact specifics of any given channel I need to query
> >the DB ?
>
> You can see a lot of the channel data using Mythweb:
>
>   http://<your mythtv IP address>/mythweb/settings/tv/channels
>
> That shows a lot of the data for each channel from the channel table,
> but the data for the multiplexes (mplexid, serviceid) is unfortunately
> not shown, at least in 0.26.  Maybe 0.27 will.  So if you want to see
> everything you will need to delve into the database using SQL or an
> SQL tool.  The tables you need to look at are:
>
>   channel
>   dtv_multiplex
>   diseqc_tree
>   cardinput
>   capturecard
>
> The diseqc_config table is normally empty in NZ as we do not usually
> have multiple or rotateable satellite dishes.
>
> The data from scans is found in:
>
>   channelscan
>   channelscan_channel
>   channelscan_dtv_multiplex
>
> I have pretty much worked out how all those tables work by now, since
> I manually update my channels with SQL.  So let me know if you need
> anything explained.
>
> >Again thanks
>
> Did you remember to go to mythtv-setup and put in the xmltvid values
> for the Prime channels again?  Those are not available from the scan
> data and have to be input manually.
>
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