[myth-ie] Channel setup/EPG guide?

[Brendan Kehoe]

Hi Ross,

ross.ward at ireland.com wrote:
> Has anybody written a channel/EPG setup guide 
> specifically for Irish users of Mythtv?
>   

Not that I'm aware of.  Yet. :)  I put a bunch of notes up on 
http://www.zen.org/?cat=6 if it's of any help.

> I did the channel scan, "mythfilldatabase" and also ran 
> "tv_grab_uk_rt --configure".
> All my channels have a number or letter/number 
> combination, are the real channel
> names/numbers updated from the Radio times data or do I 
> have to do this manually?
>   

You have to do it manually.  In mythtvsetup, pick 5, Channel Editor and 
for each channel you want to set up, select it and edit the "XMLTV ID" 
field.  In /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt is the 'channel_ids' file used 
by the grabber which will have the XMLTV ids for each channel you're 
interested in.  It's tedious, but you should only have to do this once. 
:)  (Except when channels come and go, anyway.)

> Also, most of the channels are not fully tuned in, I 
> guess the channel scan doesn't
> take into account the variable frequencies used by 
> NTL/UPC. Is there a way to fine tune
> the channels?
>   

Yes, also in the channel editor on the next page for a given channel is 
everything about the frequency and fine-tuning it.  I've never done this 
myself, so there may be some tricks to doing it effectively that the 
others on the list can share.

Best of luck,
B