[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun && Digital Cable Listings

[William Munson]

David Frascone wrote:
> William Munson wrote:
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>> David Frascone wrote:
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>>> My digital cable provider has HD locals in their feed -- but they are 
>>> *not* on the normal channels.
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>>> How can I get a listing to work right from zap2it?
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>> Set up a signal source but do not set a grabber. Assign that source to 
>> your hdhomerun and then set the quick tune option on and do a qam256 
>> scan of your cable channels. This should give you a list of channels 
>> that myth thinks it can receive. The ones with callsigns and channels 
>> imbedded will show up with that info, the other ones will have a 
>> different format depending on what you select for the separator. Now for 
>> the fun part. Start by trying to watch each channel and on the ones that 
>> actually work write down the info about the channel
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>> There are several howtos out there for setting these things up. 
>> Unfortunately the state of mythtv right now means that it's a royal PITA 
>> to set up. There is work going on in SVN to make this easier. That said, 
>> basically you need to make the channel number and callsign exactly match 
>> the info in your zap2it listing. On my cable system the scan reported 
>> calligns were in the form of WABC-DT and zap2it was in the form of 
>> WABCDT. Once you get all the channels converted then set the grabber for 
>> that source to your zap2it lineup and do a mythfilldatabase. That will 
>> set the xmlid for each of the channels that match and provide listing info.
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>> The difficult part for me was editing the channels. You are supposed to 
>> be able to do that in the channel editor but I did not have any luck 
>> that way. What I ended up doing was installing phpmyadmin and using the 
>> web interface to edit the channels table manually.
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> Thanks!  I finally did find a e-mail reference to setting it up -- Probe 
> rocks!  But -- alas -- my HD does not like to display :(  I think I need 
> more memory.
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Or more likely, more processor or a better video card. I run HD on a 
AthlonXP 3000+ with 512M ram.