[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1203: Fix channels.conf import for ATSC OTA/QAM

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 18:02 -0500, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> >>> If you can fix the channum column issue (assign consecutive 
> >>> numbers starting at 1 if you must, but don't use any numbers 
> >>> already assigned to a channel from a previous scan),
> Unfortunately this won't work, because the channel numbers in the guide
> data can be arbitrary and are not known in advance.
> Unless we run mythfilldatabase first and then the scan? Hmm...
I just want them to have some channel number, so you can switch to
the channel and then say, "Ok, 534 is CSPAN, lets fix that in the
channel editor." I don't want people to have to get mplayer up and
running to get MythTV up and running.

BTW If you need info from mythfilldatabase, I don't think it
is a bad idea to run it. There is already a button for doing
it without getting 14 days of listings in input connections...

> > * match channels by callsign This will cause too many problems. Can
> > you write something that tries to fill in the blank XMLTV id's from
> > the callsigns instead?
> I am not sure what you mean? This is exactly what it's doing now.
I don't want to run after the user exits mythtv-setup, I'd like it
to be something the user does by pressing a button in the channel
editor, so they can easily edit the result and fix the mistakes.
But, I'd have committed this two weeks ago, as is; it's just too
late for features now.

> Well, my idea was to use the callsign from channels.conf. Are you saying
> that this is not unique enough (within a sourceid)? If this is so, then
> like you said maybe we need to table this issue for now although I will 
> think some more.
It is not unique for me, but it is pretty close; I think it would be a
great start at filling the data in.

> You can still commit the first part though.
Can you fix the channel numbers being set to zero first?
Not everyone is going to have a fully fleshed out channels.conf
at the ready, creating one it is a tedious manual process which
is greatly simplified by having MythTV up and running with the
data needed for tuning.

> > Otherwise work on this for 0.20, though it might be a better use of 
> > your time to figure out why the internal QAM scanner isn't working 
> It's working for me but the problem is that it produces tons of junk
> channels and there is no easy way to get rid of them. Also, for the
> desired channels, there is no way to associate the guide data without
> manually entering xmltvid.
I see, the junk channels is something we will have to fix in 0.20,
but you do know that you can delete a extra channel by selecting it
and pressing 'D' ?

> Also, having an accurate channels.conf has other benefits outside of
> myth. And once you do the work, why not reuse it?
Sure. It would be nice to have MythTV be able write out a
valid channels.conf. My MythTV channels tend to be more up
to date than my channels.conf.

-- Daniel