[mythtvnz] What DVB-T tuners are people using?

Paul paulgir at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 03:17:27 BST 2022


On 4/06/22 18:08, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 15:06:50 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> I recently bought this from PBTech:-
>>
>> Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD Four HD Digital TV Tuner PCIe
>>
>> https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/TVNHGR1607/Hauppauge-WinTV-quadHD-Four-HD-Digital-TV-Tuner-PC
>>
>> (I haven't got around to setting my MythTV backend with a grabber that
>> does not use EIT yet.)
>>
>> A couple of people have stated that they are getting 7 days of EIT data
>> but for me, several channels only have now/next. Could it be that they
>> are using DVB-S?
> Maybe they are not watching the channels that are only getting
> now/next.  Or maybe the EIT data is different from different
> transmitters.
>
> BTW re your problems with mhegepgsnoop - try not using the -p option,
> so that the MythTV Python bindings are not used.  If mhegepgsnoop is
> run from root without -p, it should be able to access the database via
> a "mysql" command.  Or you can add the -m option to provide it with a
> username and password to use as a non-root user:
>
> mhegepgsnoop -m "-u <user> -p<password>"
>
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Yes, I use EIT with DVB-T (have done so for years) and always get a full 
seven days of data.

If you search the archives from around 2016 where I had problems with 
mhegepgsnoop ,there is a post where I discover the data changed to 7 days.

-Paul




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