[mythtvnz] Mhegepgsnoop Setup

[David Moore]

On 21/06/12 13:50, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:15:19 +1200, you wrote:
>
>
>> Interestingly on my system, with an HVR2200 tuner, I never need to tune
>> to get the EPG and I never have problems pulling the EPG from an active
>> tuner. My system is powered off overnight too.
>
> You must have your tuners set up to be used continuously by MythTV. In
> mythtv-setup, Capture Card Setup/Recording Options, you will have the
> "Open DVB card on demand" option off for that tuner.  But I was under
> the impression that with that option off, MythTV would not actually
> tune the tuner until it first needed it for something, like a
> recording or EIT grabbing.  So I would have thought that mhegepgsnoop
> would not work until that first tuning happened.  If you have the next
> option on that page, "Use DVB card for active EIT scan", also set,
> then that would cause the tuner to be tuned immediately after
> mythbackend starts.
>

Spot on. I do have "Open DVB card on demand" OFF and "Use DVB card for 
active EIT scan" ON. No tuner magic after all. :) Not sure why I have 
the EIT scan on. Just playing around I think but happily it works for 
MHEG EPG grabbing so I'll leave it as is.