Re: Trying to migrate from Media Center to Ubuntu MythTV
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:25 pm
Now starting to have success.
I set up the tuners for the antenna to use EIT EPG data and the tuners for cable to use Schedules Direct data.
i did this partially to see if it was viable to use the EIT data. I discovered that the EIT data for Sunday afternoon CBS was all TBD, while Schedules Direct has data.
So I am now able to watch TV from the tuner connected to the Antenna, but not yet from unencrypted cable.
The reason that I can not do unencrypted cable is that similar to Microsoft Media Center, MythTV needs every channel to be configured in the guide before it can be used.
My cable provider, Mediacom, does not put their unencrypted channels in their online guide listings. They put a mostly accurate listing of most of them on one their web pages. These unencrypted channels are also not listed in Shedules Direct.
To find out what cable channels that I can actually get, I have to look at a scan from the tuner connected to the cable and then try to match them.
So it means that I have to add almost every channel manually for cable for both Microsoft Media Center and MythTV.
Now adding a channel manually in Microsoft Media Center could be improved, but you have to go through their GUI that was designed to work mainly with a remote, so it does not have a good search function.
In Microsoft Media Center, when you add a channel, and you need to map a guide listing for it, it allows you to scroll through the list of known "stations/channels" in the guide until you find a match. It will allow you to enter in 1 character to move the search to start at that character.
So you just need to find a compatible listing.
The method for MythTV appears need more steps, the big one that apparently I need the XMLTV id for the directory listings that I need to enter.
I guess I need to find a better way to look the up than opening up each channel entry.
I set up the tuners for the antenna to use EIT EPG data and the tuners for cable to use Schedules Direct data.
i did this partially to see if it was viable to use the EIT data. I discovered that the EIT data for Sunday afternoon CBS was all TBD, while Schedules Direct has data.
So I am now able to watch TV from the tuner connected to the Antenna, but not yet from unencrypted cable.
The reason that I can not do unencrypted cable is that similar to Microsoft Media Center, MythTV needs every channel to be configured in the guide before it can be used.
My cable provider, Mediacom, does not put their unencrypted channels in their online guide listings. They put a mostly accurate listing of most of them on one their web pages. These unencrypted channels are also not listed in Shedules Direct.
To find out what cable channels that I can actually get, I have to look at a scan from the tuner connected to the cable and then try to match them.
So it means that I have to add almost every channel manually for cable for both Microsoft Media Center and MythTV.
Now adding a channel manually in Microsoft Media Center could be improved, but you have to go through their GUI that was designed to work mainly with a remote, so it does not have a good search function.
In Microsoft Media Center, when you add a channel, and you need to map a guide listing for it, it allows you to scroll through the list of known "stations/channels" in the guide until you find a match. It will allow you to enter in 1 character to move the search to start at that character.
So you just need to find a compatible listing.
The method for MythTV appears need more steps, the big one that apparently I need the XMLTV id for the directory listings that I need to enter.
I guess I need to find a better way to look the up than opening up each channel entry.