[mythtv-users] Help! How to properly add channels? [SOLVED]

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 15:06:27 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> History:
> Prior to OTA analog channels going off-line I had all my HD channels
> coming in over a UHF antenna, afterwards 2 channels moved to their
> original VHF frequencies so I stopped being able to receive them.
>
> Yesterday I installed my brand new CS-600 VHF antenna. After stopping
> mythbackend I brought up mythtv-setup and went to the channel editor
> to scan for the "new" channels. It found them but did not set any
> XMLTV id's. I screwed around with that until I got frustrated and
> logged into Schedules Direct, looked them up manually, and set them in
> mythtv-setup.
>
> After that I ran mythfilldatabase but I did not see any schedule data.
> I did some googling last night and ran it with a few other options
> (--refresh-today) and now 5_2 and 5_3 seem to have a good bit of
> program data but 5_1 only has today and tomorrow.
>
> Where did I go wrong? Most of the documentation I found seemed rather
> out of date...

Well, I'm not sure it was the right way to fix it, but I ran
mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all and now everything is fine. That's
currently an undocumented option for my 0.22 install so there must
have been another way to do it, but I'm glad it worked.

Richard


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