[mythtv-users] Tuning freesat

[Nick Morrott]

2009/10/30 Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com>:
> 2009/10/19 Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/10/19 Ben Lancaster <mail at benlancaster.co.uk>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Having done some googling around, seems like this is a fairly oft-discussed
>>> topic!
>>>
>>> So, I just had a dish installed today, and have plugged in an HVR-4000 card
>>> and updated the firmware (to work around the MythBuntu 9.04 corrupt firmware
>>> issue). The card is /dev/dvb/adapter7, and the DVB-S tuner is adapter0.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to scan using the 'scan' tool from dvb-apps to generate a
>>> channels.conf, however, it can't seem to pick anything up? (See output at
>>> the end of this message).
>>>
>>> Do I need to set any command-line LNB options? I've never used DVB-S before,
>>> so I'm a little bit in the dark.
>>
>> MythTV 0.22 RC1 should handle DVB-S scanning without requiring the use
>> of a channels.conf import.
>
> Nick
>
> How can you scan DVB-S without either entering a frequency or using an
> existing channels.conf?
>
> The reason I ask is that I'm currently configuring a .22RC1 box and
> have hit a problem.
>
> Specifically I can generate a channels.conf on 28E using dvbscan
> without a problem and it has hundreds of entries, however when I try
> to import that into .22RC I only get 5 muxs being identified.  I've
> tried this on both DVB-S tuners and get the same result.

You do need to use a starting frequency for the scan - I tend to use
the BBC1 England mux at 10773 H (SR 22000). There is however a plan
for a future release to keep an internal satellite database to allow
the end-user to simply choose a satellite to scan.

Cheers,
Nick

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