[mythtv-users] Program Guide Showing Unknown

[James Oltman]

On 9/24/07, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have created a test SD account and selected only my OTA HD channels.  I
> have run the scan channels on my HDHR.  It has deteced FOX and a church
> channel with several sub channels.  However, there's only data for the fox
> station in my program listing and web guide and non of the other channels I
> have setup in SD, but only rarely get due to my OTA setup.  How can I ensure
> that the data for all the channels I have marked in SD are in my program
> guide?  Thanks for the help!
>
> Jim
>

More info.  I had setup the channels that I wasn't receiving (but sometimes
could due to the signal bouncing off the troposphere) in the Channel
Editor.  I set them up as the correct channel.subchannel with the correct
digital channel ID (ie, digital channel 57 is 25.1 NBC).  I believe I got
them setup correctly.  I ran a mythfilldatabase and the data wasn't being
pulled down.  I was getting these errors:

2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WCCU'  (WCCU).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WEEK'  (WEEK).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WBUI'  (WBUI).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WHOI'  (WHOI).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WMBD'  (WMBD).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WWTO'  (WWTO).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WYZZ'  (WYZZ).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WTVP'  (WTVP).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WCCUDT  (WCCU-DT)'
(WCCUDT).
2007-09-24 19:35:45.383 DataDirect: Not adding channel 'WYZZDT2  (WYZZ-DT2'
(WYZZDT2).

So I went searching around and found this command.

mythfilldatabase --do-channel-updates

That seemed to populate my database with the correct information.  However,
the times seemed to vary on when the update took place.  Some stations
started receiving listings for the 10 o clock hour, some the 8 pm hour.  Is
this something I'll need to do everytime a mythfilldatabase is run?  Or is
this because the tuners can't receive a signal on the channels when the
mythfilldatabase is run?  Thanks!

Jim
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