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dcrobertson01
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Mythtv 30 with HomeRun - most programmes not showing.

Post by dcrobertson01 »

Hi - I have installed MythTV 30 onto Lubuntu 18.04, and have installed the hdhomerun_config utilities.

When I run hdhomerun_config <deviceid> 0 or hdhomerun_config <deviceid> 1, all the channels available. When I go into mythtv-setup, add a Capture Card, add a video source, add an input connection, then scan for channels, I get 9 tv programmes detected, all from the same channel. The rest do not show up.

My old mythtv box, which I think is 0.29, picks up all the channels. This machine was turned off while I tried to get the new one running.

Anyway - spent a lot of time trying to figure it out but ... was going to say I am out of ideas, but did not really any to begin with. One post somewhere suggested using a channels.conf file in setup - but could not find any info about how to do this.

Homerun device: gets detected as homerun3_dvbt
Chanel scan:

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 hdhomerun_config 11112571 scan 1
SCANNING: 858000000 (eu-bcast:69)
LOCK: none (ss=43 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 850000000 (eu-bcast:68)
LOCK: none (ss=22 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 842000000 (eu-bcast:67)
LOCK: none (ss=21 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 834000000 (eu-bcast:66)
LOCK: none (ss=22 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 826000000 (eu-bcast:65)
LOCK: none (ss=21 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 818000000 (eu-bcast:64)
LOCK: none (ss=20 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 810000000 (eu-bcast:63)
LOCK: none (ss=27 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 802000000 (eu-bcast:62)
LOCK: none (ss=24 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 794000000 (eu-bcast:61)
LOCK: none (ss=42 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 786000000 (eu-bcast:60)
LOCK: none (ss=43 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 778000000 (eu-bcast:59)
LOCK: none (ss=59 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 770000000 (eu-bcast:58)
LOCK: none (ss=62 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 762000000 (eu-bcast:57)
LOCK: none (ss=63 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 754000000 (eu-bcast:56)
LOCK: none (ss=18 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 746000000 (eu-bcast:55)
LOCK: none (ss=20 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 738000000 (eu-bcast:54)
LOCK: none (ss=19 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 730000000 (eu-bcast:53)
LOCK: none (ss=18 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 722000000 (eu-bcast:52)
LOCK: none (ss=19 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 714000000 (eu-bcast:51)
LOCK: none (ss=21 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 706000000 (eu-bcast:50)
LOCK: none (ss=40 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 698000000 (eu-bcast:49)
LOCK: none (ss=35 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 690000000 (eu-bcast:48)
LOCK: none (ss=38 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 682000000 (eu-bcast:47)
LOCK: none (ss=41 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 674000000 (eu-bcast:46)
LOCK: none (ss=43 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 666000000 (eu-bcast:45)
LOCK: none (ss=42 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 658000000 (eu-bcast:44)
LOCK: none (ss=44 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 650000000 (eu-bcast:43)
LOCK: none (ss=42 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 642000000 (eu-bcast:42)
LOCK: none (ss=18 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 634000000 (eu-bcast:41)
LOCK: none (ss=19 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 626000000 (eu-bcast:40)
LOCK: none (ss=43 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 618000000 (eu-bcast:39)
LOCK: none (ss=44 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 610000000 (eu-bcast:38)
LOCK: t8qam64 (ss=85 snq=100 seq=100)
TSID: 0x0023
PROGRAM 1600: 5 Maori Televisio
PROGRAM 1601: 15 Te Reo
SCANNING: 602000000 (eu-bcast:37)
LOCK: none (ss=18 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 594000000 (eu-bcast:36)
LOCK: t8qam64 (ss=87 snq=100 seq=100)
TSID: 0x0021
PROGRAM 1400: 200 Kordia TV
PROGRAM 1401: 31 Parliament
PROGRAM 1403: 28 ChineseTV
PROGRAM 1404: 10 PRIME
PROGRAM 1407: 12 ChoiceTV
PROGRAM 1414: 26 Firstlight
PROGRAM 2001: 51 Radio NZ Concer
PROGRAM 2002: 71 BaseFM
SCANNING: 586000000 (eu-bcast:35)
LOCK: none (ss=20 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 578000000 (eu-bcast:34)
LOCK: t8qam64 (ss=89 snq=100 seq=100)
TSID: 0x001C
PROGRAM 1200: 1 TVNZ 1
PROGRAM 1201: 2 TVNZ 2
PROGRAM 1205: 13 TVNZ DUKE
PROGRAM 1206: 6 TVNZ 1 +1
PROGRAM 1207: 7 TVNZ 2 +1
PROGRAM 12500: 500 INFO CHANNEL (control)
SCANNING: 570000000 (eu-bcast:33)
LOCK: none (ss=18 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 562000000 (eu-bcast:32)
LOCK: t8qam64 (ss=92 snq=100 seq=100)
TSID: 0x0020
PROGRAM 1300: 3 Three
PROGRAM 1302: 8 ThreePlus1
PROGRAM 1307: 4 Bravo
PROGRAM 1308: 9 Bravo PLUS 1
PROGRAM 1310: 11 ThreeLife
PROGRAM 1311: 14 ThreeLife+1
SCANNING: 554000000 (eu-bcast:31)
LOCK: none (ss=25 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 546000000 (eu-bcast:30)
LOCK: none (ss=19 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 538000000 (eu-bcast:29)
LOCK: none (ss=18 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 530000000 (eu-bcast:28)
LOCK: t8qam64 (ss=92 snq=100 seq=100)
TSID: 0x0022
PROGRAM 1501: 36 Apna Television
PROGRAM 1502: 16 Al Jazeera
PROGRAM 1504: 20 TVSN Shopping
PROGRAM 1505: 29 TV29
PROGRAM 1506: 27 Hope Channel
PROGRAM 1507: 50 Radio NZ Nation
PROGRAM 1508: 17 HGTV
PROGRAM 1509: 0
PROGRAM 6002: 25 Shine TV
SCANNING: 522000000 (eu-bcast:27)
LOCK: none (ss=38 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 514000000 (eu-bcast:26)
LOCK: none (ss=34 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 506000000 (eu-bcast:25)
LOCK: none (ss=37 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 498000000 (eu-bcast:24)
LOCK: none (ss=43 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 490000000 (eu-bcast:23)
LOCK: none (ss=42 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 482000000 (eu-bcast:22)
LOCK: none (ss=44 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 474000000 (eu-bcast:21)
LOCK: none (ss=43 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 226500000 (eu-bcast:12)
LOCK: none (ss=30 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 219500000 (eu-bcast:11)
LOCK: none (ss=33 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 212500000 (eu-bcast:10)
LOCK: none (ss=34 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 205500000 (eu-bcast:9)
LOCK: none (ss=33 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 198500000 (eu-bcast:8)
LOCK: none (ss=52 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 191500000 (eu-bcast:7)
LOCK: none (ss=58 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 184500000 (eu-bcast:6)
LOCK: none (ss=68 snq=0 seq=0)
SCANNING: 177500000 (eu-bcast:5)
LOCK: none (ss=52 snq=0 seq=0)
These are the channels that get detected by Mythtv

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SCANNING: 530000000 (eu-bcast:28)
LOCK: t8qam64 (ss=92 snq=100 seq=100)
TSID: 0x0022
PROGRAM 1501: 36 Apna Television
PROGRAM 1502: 16 Al Jazeera
PROGRAM 1504: 20 TVSN Shopping
PROGRAM 1505: 29 TV29
PROGRAM 1506: 27 Hope Channel
PROGRAM 1507: 50 Radio NZ Nation
PROGRAM 1508: 17 HGTV
PROGRAM 1509: 0
PROGRAM 6002: 25 Shine TV

Anyway - if anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help :-) Otherwise I will have to go remove 30 and install 0.29

Cheers
Don
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Re: Mythtv 30 with HomeRun - most programmes not showing.

Post by blm-ubunet »

You did a full scan (2 - 3 minutes duration) ?
It looks like you just scanned the existing transport or the transport already tuned (by external tool).
Mythtv-setup typically requires exclusive access/control of tuner & with mythbackend stopped.

Could run mythtv-setup from terminal & increased logging (-v chanscan)
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