[myth-ie] testing!

[Justin Mason]

Barry Flanagan writes:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > Hi guys -- are you getting this?
> 
> Hi Justin. Seems to work fine. So, is it just the three of us so far?

yep -- for now ;)

> Who can give me an easy way to get my Myth box talking to my NTL digital
> box?
> 
> I have a Hauppauge 350 with the MCE type remote, and I bought a serial
> IR blaster from irblaster.info but have not been able to get it to work.
> I also recently ordered the red_eye blaster, as someone had said that it
> works with the Irish NTL digital box. Haven't received that yet.

I suspect you'd have to get more help from Bren on that side of things; I
don't have my mythbox set up to record any of the digital channels, just
the analogue ones.  

(I'm actually planning to go back from NTL Digital to NTL analogue,
due to crappy reliability of the digital set-top box...)

> Brendan sent me his xmltv file for NTL digital, but I am a bit lost as
> to how to get Myth to know which channels are which. When I do a scan it
> picks up lots of channels but does not seem to match them to the xmltv
> channels.

So what I did was scan, pick up all the channels, go into the xmltv setup
and pick the channels I wanted there -- then go into MythWeb
(recommended!), go into its "channel info" settings page, and work on it
there.

Basically it looks like a HTML table like this:

delete sourceid xmltvid      channum callsign name     freqid .... visible

[ ]    1        rte-1.rte.ie 1       RTE1     RTE1       A11         [x]
[ ]    1        rte2.rte.ie  2       NET2     Network 2  A7          [x]

so this is where you can match up the various settings (mainly "xmltvid"
and "freqid"), and rearrange the order (using "channum") to your taste.

here's a copy of mine:

        http://taint.org/x/2007/channels.html

> It seems to me there should be a simple database import of the relevent
> info that I could do from a working installation, or am I hoping for too
> much?!

it probably would be.  I fear messing with the raw tables though, I prefer
going through MythWeb or the "Setup" item in mythtv -- or if worst comes
to the worst, mythtv-setup, ick. ;)

--j.