[mythtv-users] Recovering when zap2it screws the pooch---a warning & some questions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/19/2006 04:00 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

>    > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:24:12 -0400
>    > From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>
>    > On 07/18/2006 10:27 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>
>    > >Today, I deleted and re-added all my channels via mythtv-setup, which
>    > >-would- have worked fine, apparently, except for one small detail I
>    > >failed to notice at the time---zap2it has -severely- blown it on half
>    > >of the -rest- of my lineup!
>
>    > Ummm.  That might not have been completely DataDirect's fault...
>
>    > >The OTA channels (2,4,5,7) all got moved into the 30's.  The stuff
>    > >that normally hangs out in the 30's got moved to another place.
>
>    > DataDirect may have changed the way they were reporting information and 
>    > Myth has just made a change for it ( 
>    > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1848 -- Daniel is still working on 
>    > getting the digital channel changes fixed).
>
>I might have been confusing when I said "OTA", since I meant "the
>over-the-air SD ANALOG channels".  Does that ticket address analog
>channels or only digital ones?
>
Analog and digital.  Analog is fixed.  (For analog, it primarily only 
affected cable (and satellite?) users.)  Digital is not yet fixed.

Either way, since you're still using 0.18.1, you don't have the fix.  
Therefore, even though analog just got fixed, you don't have the fix.

Mike