[mythtvnz] EIT guide problem with new MythTV Version

[Robert Fisher]

I had this problem several months ago and it was/is caused by the
broadcasters who have no interest in supporting MythTV.
Basically the data is just not there for us.

I now use Stephen's method.
Look in the archives where there is a "how to"

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, 9:52 pm Colin Fraser, <reg at ccfraser.com> wrote:

> So still struggling...
>
> I did the "apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt autoremove" and managed
> to get the mythtv versions moved to on both those commands 33. Yay! But it
> still had the same problem.
>
> This fresh install was on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install that was upgraded
> to 22.04 before installing myth TV.
>
> So, I thought I would start with 22.04 directly, but couldn't even get
> that to pickup any channels... I am wondering if the locale is wrong as it
> didn't ask for locale settings when installing 22.04, and starts scanning
> from channel 5 whereas the old version started from 20 something...
>
> Rather than research locale updates in Ubuntu 22.04 server and figure out
> why it was not picking up any channels, I thought I may as well try and
> upgrade the original mythtv OS as at least that one is working with EIT
> working on all channels... so upgraded to 20.04 then 22.04... took a while,
> but got there in the end, and myth TV version has moved to 32 on that box
> (have not added the myth tv ppa's).
>
> But now this box is also no longer updating channel guide data with EIT on
> all the channels... sigh...
>
> We do have a pretty weak signal on TV 3 (and related), but fine for TV 1
> (and related)...
>
> Note sure what version of MythTV the guide data stopped working on, but it
> is not working properly on versions 32 and 33...
>
> To recap, Channel 1, 2, 3, Bravo, 2+1, eden, Bravo +1, Prime, 1 +1
> Dueke +1 and 15 all don't seem to be getting EIT updates. I assume it will
> be the same as before, just getting what's on now and next, though it still
> has a few days' guide data from before upgrading.
>
> Channel 5, eden +1, hgtv, Al Haxerra, Shine, First Light, Hope,
> Parliament, 33, Southern TV, WairarapaTV, Radio NZ, Ch 200 and a test
> channel all have guide data out for a week... I don't think all of those
> channels actually work here, but they have guide data...
>
> So, not sure what to look at next. Any tips welcome... Perhaps I need to
> sort out the signal strength issues for some of the channels that aren't
> always working that well, but as mentioned, it works on the older Myth
> versions (the guide data, not all the channels).
>
> Any tips appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Colin
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 at 00:44, Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:50:29 +1200, you wrote:
>>
>> >Thanks for that,
>> >
>> >Interesting to hear the two different sorts of EIT data, that does look
>> >like what is happening. Some channels seem to get the full, and others
>> the
>> >short...
>> >
>> >In terms of installation, I started with a fresh Ubuntu 22.04, the
>> version
>> >that comes with that didn't work with mythweb complaining about missing
>> >tables, so I (from a fresh install) followed the instructions here (
>> >https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu)
>> >
>> >I will try again tomorrow from scratch just in case I did something wrong
>> >(I did try a couple of installs, so I may have made a mistake somewhere
>> on
>> >this one)...
>> >
>> >I can report back after that and see if I get a higher version number and
>> >go from there.
>> >
>> >Regards
>> >Colin
>>
>> The instructions on that page are not exactly comprehensive, and have
>> not been fully updated.  Due to the mythbackend package problem, after
>> installing the PPA (add-apt-repository), do:
>>
>> apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt autoremove
>>
>> twice to ensure that all the packages have been fully upgraded to the
>> PPA versions.  Then run:
>>
>> mythtutil --version
>> mythbackend --version
>>
>> and check they show the same version.
>>
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