[mythtvnz] EIT guide problem with new MythTV Version

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:51:01 +1200, you wrote:

>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...

There are options in the channel scanning pages to make it scan all
channels.  You do have to set the MythTV locale to New Zealand
somewhere in mythtv-setup to get the right defaults, but you can
override that setting for each scan if you drill down into the
options:

mythtv-setup > Input Connections > select a DVB-T tuner > Scan Type

Set Scan Type to Full Scan, and right arrow to get the country
setting.  I think this ability was there for people in Europe close to
country borders where they can receive from more than one country.

If you remember back that far, NZ originally used different
frequencies for the muxes, and after they were changed to the current
frequencies when two new muxes were added, a lot of software out there
still retained the old frequencies.  So if you try to do a scan for
say the Auckland frequencies, any given software may still be using
the old frequencies and will likely only find one multiplex.  But if
you have the settings on New Zealand, and do a scan of all
frequencies, you will find all the multiplexes, but it will take a lot
longer to do the scan.  Fortunately, I do not think MythTV ever had
the local frequency sets - it always scans all frequencies unless you
choose to scan only the current transports.