<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Ronald Frazier <<a href="mailto:ron@ronfrazier.net">ron@ronfrazier.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> You would need to scan in QAM (no CableCard) mode, but I thought with a<br>
>> CableCard it would be just like adding a Firewire tuner. There is no<br>
>> scanning involved there, unless there is something going on under the hood<br>
>> without intervention.<br>
><br>
> But how does myth know anything about what channels are available?<br>
<br>
</div>It downloads the list from Schedules Direct. That's how it works for firewire.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Ron,<br><br>I was just verifying my understanding of what you have done so far. It is greatly appreciated.<br><br>As for channels in the database, that happens when you assign a video source to a capture card in the input connections in mythtv-setup. You have the open to "Scan for channels" or "Fetch channels from listing source".<br>
<br>As Eric stated about Firewire, the "Fetch channels from listing source" options fetches the lineup from Schedules Direct.<br><br>- Tom<br>