[mythtvnz] xmltvid and four

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 02:56:35 BST 2012


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Worik Stanton <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/10/12 14:18, Worik Stanton wrote:
>> On 26/10/12 13:40, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:17:42 +1300, you wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> Leave the input groups at their default values.  They are for things
>>> like my HVR-900 tuner which has an analogue and a DVB-T tuner in the
>>> same device, but only one of them can be used at the same time.  The
>>> analogue and digital tuners show up as two separate devices and need
>>> to be grouped.  Your two DVB-T tuners are separate and can be used at
>>> the same time - grouping them just made you unable to use both at
>>> once.  Hence the conflicts.
>>
>> That is very useful..I thought it meant something different.  I see I
>> have, in "Input Connections"->"interactions between inputs" (second
>> page) Input Group 1 and Input Group 2.  I would set them all to Generic,
>> but I cannot.  It insists on "Input Group 1" and "Input Group 2" having
>> different values.  So I set both "Input Group 1"s to the
>> adapter0/frontend0 and  both "Input Group 2"s to Generic
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Also, every time you scan for channels, it is likely that you are
>>> creating more problems in the database.  That should only be done
>>> once.  There is an option somewhere to "re-scan an existing transport"
>>
>> That is disturbing!  If I can screw up my settings by doing ordinary
>> things...  Thanks for the warning.  Looking in the Channel Editor I see
>> I have two copies of each channel.
>>
>> So I "Delete All" in the channel editor then a channel scan from the
>> channel editor.
>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The channel editor in mythtv-setup lets you edit individual channels,
>>> or mythweb can edit some of the channel settings and is easier to use,
>>> especially for bulk updates.
>>>
>>> It is not the use of SQL commands that is screwing up your setup - it
>>> is likely that rescanning the channels is what is doing it.
>>
>> Hmm...
>>
>> Having done all that I have no listings again.
>>
>> So I following Nick's advice...
>>
>>> I suggest (and have previously suggested) you delete all sources and
>>> tuners and start again.
>>>
>>> You need ONE source and TWO tuners. BOTH tuners need to be connected
>>> to the SAME source.
>>
>> Still no listing data.
>>
>> Damn!  It was going!
>
> Further:  In Live TV every channel is marked "Unknown"
>
> They have names in the channel editor.
>
> I tried running "Fetch Channels from Listings  Source"  and it made no
> discernible difference.
>
> The xmltv file is nammed correctly "Pinnicle.xmltv" and the video source
> (ponly one) is names "Pinnicle" (my spelling is not good!)

Go into mythweb and insert the xmltvid's manually into the scanned
channels. Don't forget the "save' button at the bottom of the page.

The specific page im mythweb is mythweb/settings/tv/channel

You can also unset use on air guide there on a channel by channel basis.

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