[mythtvnz] DVB-S initial setup problems

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:26 PM, criggie<criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Criggie wrote:
>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Steven Ellis<steven at openmedia.co.nz>
>>>> Take a look at the guide I did for myPVR.
>>>> http://support.openmedia.co.nz/mypvr/support/how-to-set-up-a-dvb-s-card-for-freeview-dth/
>>
>>> I have used that page every time I have set mine up and it is spot on.
>>> I suspect Craig's problem is not realising that you can edit the
>>> symbol rate as well as using the list of defaults provided in the gui
>>
>> Will try that tonight - thanks.
>> I'm 90% sure I couldn't edit that field... but may be wrong.  By directly
>> updating the value in mysql table seemed to get around that.
>
> Okay you were right and I was wrong.  The field is editable.
> However my problem is still there:
> ...big-snip...
> And suddenly it makes progress.... I configured Video Sources as NONE
> and it happily found some channels.
>
> Now I need to find out why it won't get any EIT info, and why I can't
> even open Watch Live TV.  Running mythfilldatabase  makes no mention of
> eit data at all.
>
mythfilldatabase does not gather eit data, it runs whatever xmltv
script you have set it to run.

abandon eit data, that produced by epgsnoop is better quality, or use
xmltv_grab_nz-py, which downloads someone elses epgsnoop results.