[mythtv-users] Easiest way to find NBC on Comcast QAM

[boehm100 at comcast.net]

scram69 -- I'd be intersted in hearing more on your method. I've tried to do this in the past but could not determine were and how to edit the db manually. 


Monkeypet -- the best way I've determined to add a single channel is to: 
1) Got to http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lineup_web/US:YOUR_ZIP_CODE and locate the new home of the channel. 
2) Print you old lineup to a pdf from mythweb/settings/tv/channels. This way you can save call signes, channel names, xmltv numbers etc 
3) Go into myth backend config and do a manual qam scan of only the one channel that contains the channel you need. I tell it not to chop encrypted channels. At one time there was a bug that cause a channel scan to stop if there was a encrypted sub channel before an unencrypted channel. 
4) go back into mythweb/settings/tv/channels. Transfer old call signes, channel names, xmltv numbers etc, but not frequency info. Then delete the old channel. 


The only problem I've ever had with this method is that sometime it take 24hrs for the guide to transfer to the new channel. 


Good luck 

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From: "scram69" <scram69 at gmail.com> 
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Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 8:00:56 PM 
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Easiest way to find NBC on Comcast QAM 







On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Monkey Pet < monkeypet at gmail.com > wrote: 



Hi all, I am hooked up to Comcast Cable using a HD Homerun Tuner and scanning using QAM. I have the channel lineup that I want. The only thing is that I want to find one specific channel. The channel is NBC (11.1). Unfortunately, the first time I scanned NBC wasn't available. Now a few months later, Comcast changed the lineup, so that NBC is now available. My other TVs are now getting NBC. I only want to find this new channel without resetting my channel lineup. How do that the easiest/fastest way? 


My thoughts: 
1. Nuke the channel lineup, rescan and repopulate the channel lineup along with redoing the xml matching etc. This is the most work and would truly suck. 


2. Use the sctescan utility and attempt to rescan finding the channel, then manually insert into the db. 


3. Undo my invisible channels and manually walk through all the channels and find the missing station. This would suck since there are many many channels. 


Any other thoughts? 
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I use phpmyadmin to manually add/modify individual channels in the DB via web browser. Just don't forget to find the appropriate frequency for the channel in the dtv_multiplex table. 


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