[mythtvnz] Mapping EPG to DVB-T channels

[Jason Taylor]

I usually just fix this using mythweb the channel editor is a bit easier to
handle

2008/11/15 <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
>
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