[mythtvnz] Mapping EPG to DVB-T channels

[banksie at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Tony Peguero <tony at plasmadog.com>:

> what the EPG is showing:
> TV1 (1) showing data from Stratos
> TV2 (2) showing data from TV3
> TV3 (3) showing data from C4
> C4 (4) showing data from TVNZ7
> TVNZ6 (6) correct
> TVNZ7 (7)showing data from TV2
> SPORTEXTRA(20) showing lots of unknowns (probably correct)
> I've double checked that each channel has the correct XMLTV ID
> assigned.
> 
> I don't understand what the proper procedure is for setting up these 
> channels. What am I doing wrong?

   This drove me nuts for a few days too when setting up my box. What I found
was that you had clear out all the channel data in myth, then do an initial scan
to finds channels and frequency data from the cards. Note down the channel name
and channel number.

   Then run mythfilldatabase in manual mode (so mythfilldatabase --manual --file
1 <xml file of channel data>) - you should only need to do this once as the
initial setup. Manual mode will then work through the channels and ask which
xmltvid is to be associated with it. This should then correctly associate the
channel number with the xmltvid and in the future just a mythfilldatabase --file
is needed.

   If you don't do the first manual update that the mythfilldatabase command
does what it considers to be sensible defaults and creates channels to associate
the xmltvid to. Naturally these new channels have no tuning data... It helps to
be doing this via a VNC connection so that you can have a notepad application
handy to write channel names, numbers and xmltvids down in to make sure you get
them all straight.

   At least that is how I remember getting it to go here. I am using Reven's
xmlTVNZ.exe to do the scrapping directly from my myth box so my setup is a
little different from those using the pre-filtered guide data.

Philip