[mythtv-users] no display of channel name/number and program when changing channels

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jan 17 01:53:59 UTC 2010


On 01/16/2010 08:04 PM, Milan Durovic wrote:
> thanks for your reply. I played with different OSD themes, but that's
> not an issue. One thing I noticed I missed doing is assign channel IDs
> when running mythtv-setup that would match IDs from channel grabber I
> use (icetv). So, I did that, but still no good.

Don't know if this is just a terminology error or if you actually did
something bad, but the channel ID's are /not/ user-editable data.  They
also have no bearing on listings data.

The xmltvid's are user-editable fields which specify which listings data
should be associated with which MythTV channel.

>
> I'm not sure when or how MythTV invokes TV grabbers, but I'll wait a
> day, maybe a week, and hopefully, they'll synchronize.
>
> But, atm, I still have no channel/program info displayed in OSD. I do
> have channel icons displayed, so it's not so critical.

You can run mythfilldatabase --refresh-all to force it to refresh.  If
you edited channel ID's, above, I /highly/ recommend you clean up the
mess with the video sources portion of
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 (after
which you'd need to run mythfilldatabase--but since the process will
clear out the old/incorrect listings, you won't need the
--refresh-all).  If, instead, you had just edited xmltvid's, just re-run
mythfilldatabase with the --refresh-all argument.

Mike


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