MythTV Channels
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Setup for channels (Fingerlakes Time Warner Cable in Palmyra NY). YMMV.
Links
- MythTV wiki on DataDirect. Note: we've gone to SchedulesDirect now...
Setting up Myth Channel Info
- Read all the MythTV wiki pages on setting up initially here.
- In mythtv-setup, after you set up your video source, scan channels using QAM 256 (digital cable). Might be good just to do cable-high, since you won't be finding anything below 80 anyway.
- Make sure mythbackend is stopped
- mysql -u (your sql username) -p mythconverg
- or whatever you called the db
- update channel set visible=0 where visible=1
- sets all channels not visible--you will reset the 'good' ones manually.
- They really need a multi-channel interface for this, badly!
- I noticed recently you can do this from the mythweb interface!
- Make sure the channels you will be pulling are enabled in your lineups (on schedules direct)
- To update channels, stop mythbackend, run mythtv-setup, and go into the channel editor. On each channel, type 'E' to edit it. Here you can change descriptions, visibility, and the DataDirect ID (note--also doable from mythweb!)
- After updating, you'll want to exit mythtv-setup, restart mythbackend, and then run mythfilldatabase (maybe with --refresh-all to get all dates). Make sure it's pulling all the channel data you want.
- Then check mythfrontend to make sure the channel info is OK.
channel table
As of 10/02/2007, our PCHDTV-5500 card found (using QAM-256, cable high):
- Got XMLTVID codes by logging into [1], viewing details of both Fingerlakes Time Warner Cable and a Syracuse local lineup (hover over a channel to get ID). See this for more info.
| Channel # | Affiliate | HD? | Call Letters | Channel# | City | xmltvid | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | CBS | X | WTVHDT | 5.1 | Syracuse | 42578 | |
| 80#1 | PBS (specialty) | WXXI-Q? | 21.2 | Rochester | 34382 | ||
| 80#3 | PBS (specialty) | WXXI-Create | 21.3 | Rochester | 34387 | ||
| 81#0 | Fox | X | WSYT | 68 | Syracuse | 32777 | |
| 81#1 | NBC | X | WSTM-DT | 3.1 | Syracuse | 32129 | |
| 81#2 | CW | X | WSTQ | 6 | Syracuse | 33044 | |
| 82#0 | PBS | X | WXXIHD | 21.1 | Rochester | 34355 | locks again! 2008-04-19 |
| 82#1 | ABC | X | WHAMDT | 13 | Rochester | 34707 | locks again! 2008-04-19 |
| 83#0 | Fox | X | WUHF-DT1 | 31 | Rochester | 44632 | locks again! 2008-04-19 |
| 9.1 | ABC | X | WSYRHD | 9.1 | Syracuse | 35712 | |
| 92#5 | Lifetime Real Women | 29612 | |||||
| 102#0 | CBS | X | WROC-DT | 8 | Rochester | 34732 | stopped getting lock sometime in March 2008! |
| 102#1 | NBC | X | WHECDT | 10 | Rochester | 34611 | stopped getting lock sometime in March 2008! |
| 113#2 | RNews | 12326 | |||||
| 115#2 | CW | X | WHAM16 | Rochester | 15769 |
-Erica
