Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital
On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hoping someone out there can help me. I've got MythTV receiving input from a Sky Digital STB, via a Hauppauge PVR-350. The signal is coming via S-video into the S-video IN on my PVR350. Everything appears to be working correctly except for one small problem - changing channels. Running tv_grab_uk_rt does not populate any freqids in the database (wait, I know you're going to say mythfilldatabase --manual) but in actuality I don't need Myth/ivtv or whatever to tune to the selected station, it simply needs to send 3 numbers to the box and the box changes it. Right now when I press the arrow keys to go up or down a channel it just pauses for a while and then comes back with the same channel information. I understand from the debugging output that this is because there are missing freqids from the europe-west freqtable I am using (e.g. SE11, E8, etc). If I run ptune.pl -f pal-europe-west --list-channels I get a list of known frequency IDs. I *could* use these freqids to populate the database manually, but the problem there then is that there are only 109 known freqids, and I have - from memory - at least 160 channels in the database. All I basically want Myth to do when I type in a channel number, or press up/down on the cursor keys is to adjust the program guide and OSD accordingly. I don't need it to try and *tune* anything, since ultimately I will have to get it set up so it sends the necessary numbers down an IR Redeye or similar bit of kit to change it. Any ideas? I can't believe I'm the first person to hit this problem, and yet I couldn't find any specific info anywhere in the archives. Regards, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You need to set the freqid to the channel number and use an external channel change program, which will need an ir or rf blaster, to get the sky box to change the channel. You also want the chanid to be set to the same as freqid. I think I saw an sql script on the list a while back which had the channels freqid's set up. Ant. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel Sent: 08 July 2005 11:29 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hoping someone out there can help me. I've got MythTV receiving input from a Sky Digital STB, via a Hauppauge PVR-350. The signal is coming via S-video into the S-video IN on my PVR350. Everything appears to be working correctly except for one small problem - changing channels. Running tv_grab_uk_rt does not populate any freqids in the database (wait, I know you're going to say mythfilldatabase --manual) but in actuality I don't need Myth/ivtv or whatever to tune to the selected station, it simply needs to send 3 numbers to the box and the box changes it. Right now when I press the arrow keys to go up or down a channel it just pauses for a while and then comes back with the same channel information. I understand from the debugging output that this is because there are missing freqids from the europe-west freqtable I am using (e.g. SE11, E8, etc). If I run ptune.pl -f pal-europe-west --list-channels I get a list of known frequency IDs. I *could* use these freqids to populate the database manually, but the problem there then is that there are only 109 known freqids, and I have - from memory - at least 160 channels in the database. All I basically want Myth to do when I type in a channel number, or press up/down on the cursor keys is to adjust the program guide and OSD accordingly. I don't need it to try and *tune* anything, since ultimately I will have to get it set up so it sends the necessary numbers down an IR Redeye or similar bit of kit to change it. Any ideas? I can't believe I'm the first person to hit this problem, and yet I couldn't find any specific info anywhere in the archives. Regards, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You need to set the freqid to the channel number and use an external channel change program, which will need an ir or rf blaster, to get the sky box to change the channel. You also want the chanid to be set to the same as freqid. I think I saw an sql script on the list a while back which had the channels freqid's set up. Ant. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hi Ant, Thanks for that info. I did try doing that originally, but when I had the freqid the same as the channum (e.g. 106 for Sky One) whenever I tried pressing up/down on the cursor keys, or indeed any channel navigation I just got a load of CheckChannel() error messages saying things like No such channel 'E9', etc. Obviously it's looking for frequencies in the europe-west frequency table as this was how I set it up originally, but how can I get it to just accept the channel numbers as freqids (e.g. 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 124, 127, etc) without complaining about missing channels? Thanks, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital
On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel Sent: 08 July 2005 11:29 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hoping someone out there can help me. I've got MythTV receiving input from a Sky Digital STB, via a Hauppauge PVR-350. The signal is coming via S-video into the S-video IN on my PVR350. Everything appears to be working correctly except for one small problem - changing channels. Running tv_grab_uk_rt does not populate any freqids in the database (wait, I know you're going to say mythfilldatabase --manual) but in actuality I don't need Myth/ivtv or whatever to tune to the selected station, it simply needs to send 3 numbers to the box and the box changes it. Right now when I press the arrow keys to go up or down a channel it just pauses for a while and then comes back with the same channel information. I understand from the debugging output that this is because there are missing freqids from the europe-west freqtable I am using (e.g. SE11, E8, etc). If I run ptune.pl -f pal-europe-west --list-channels I get a list of known frequency IDs. I *could* use these freqids to populate the database manually, but the problem there then is that there are only 109 known freqids, and I have - from memory - at least 160 channels in the database. All I basically want Myth to do when I type in a channel number, or press up/down on the cursor keys is to adjust the program guide and OSD accordingly. I don't need it to try and *tune* anything, since ultimately I will have to get it set up so it sends the necessary numbers down an IR Redeye or similar bit of kit to change it. Any ideas? I can't believe I'm the first person to hit this problem, and yet I couldn't find any specific info anywhere in the archives. Regards, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You need to set the freqid to the channel number and use an external channel change program, which will need an ir or rf blaster, to get the sky box to change the channel. You also want the chanid to be set to the same as freqid. I think I saw an sql script on the list a while back which had the channels freqid's set up. Ant. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hi Ant, Thanks for that info. I did try doing that originally, but when I had the freqid the same as the channum (e.g. 106 for Sky One) whenever I tried pressing up/down on the cursor keys, or indeed any channel navigation I just got a load of CheckChannel() error messages saying things like No such channel 'E9', etc. Obviously it's looking for frequencies in the europe-west frequency table as this was how I set it up originally, but how can I get it to just accept the channel numbers as freqids (e.g. 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 124, 127, etc) without complaining about missing channels? Thanks, Darren Fro what I understand of what you saying, your missing the bit about setting up an external channel changer. Without the channel changer script, the tunner will attempt to change by returning the coax input, as you've got a s-video input, from and external box, you need to setup myth to call a channel change script, this also requires a blaster (ir/rf) to actually change the box (i.e. send the infrared signal for the channel) Additionally, you will want mythfilldatabase to populate your scehdule from Radio Times, or you'll be missing the advantages of Myth. Ant. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel Sent: 08 July 2005 14:23 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel Sent: 08 July 2005 11:29 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hoping someone out there can help me. I've got MythTV receiving input from a Sky Digital STB, via a Hauppauge PVR-350. The signal is coming via S-video into the S-video IN on my PVR350. Everything appears to be working correctly except for one small problem - changing channels. Running tv_grab_uk_rt does not populate any freqids in the database (wait, I know you're going to say mythfilldatabase --manual) but in actuality I don't need Myth/ivtv or whatever to tune to the selected station, it simply needs to send 3 numbers to the box and the box changes it. Right now when I press the arrow keys to go up or down a channel it just pauses for a while and then comes back with the same channel information. I understand from the debugging output that this is because there are missing freqids from the europe-west freqtable I am using (e.g. SE11, E8, etc). If I run ptune.pl -f pal-europe-west --list-channels I get a list of known frequency IDs. I *could* use these freqids to populate the database manually, but the problem there then is that there are only 109 known freqids, and I have - from memory - at least 160 channels in the database. All I basically want Myth to do when I type in a channel number, or press up/down on the cursor keys is to adjust the program guide and OSD accordingly. I don't need it to try and *tune* anything, since ultimately I will have to get it set up so it sends the necessary numbers down an IR Redeye or similar bit of kit to change it. Any ideas? I can't believe I'm the first person to hit this problem, and yet I couldn't find any specific info anywhere in the archives. Regards, Darren ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users You need to set the freqid to the channel number and use an external channel change program, which will need an ir or rf blaster, to get the sky box to change the channel. You also want the chanid to be set to the same as freqid. I think I saw an sql script on the list a while back which had the channels freqid's set up. Ant. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users Hi Ant, Thanks for that info. I did try doing that originally, but when I had the freqid the same as the channum (e.g. 106 for Sky One) whenever I tried pressing up/down on the cursor keys, or indeed any channel navigation I just got a load of CheckChannel() error messages saying things like No such channel 'E9', etc. Obviously it's looking for frequencies in the europe-west frequency table as this was how I set it up originally, but how can I get it to just accept the channel numbers as freqids (e.g. 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 124, 127, etc) without complaining about missing channels? Thanks, Darren Fro what I understand of what you saying, your missing the bit about setting up an external channel changer. Without the channel changer script, the tunner will attempt to change by returning the coax input, as you've got a s-video input, from and external box, you need to setup myth to call a channel change script, this also requires a blaster (ir/rf) to actually change the box (i.e. send the infrared signal for the channel) Additionally, you will want mythfilldatabase to populate your scehdule from Radio Times, or you'll be missing the advantages of Myth. Ant. I've already got mythfilldatabase populating the schedule from RT, with the correct channel numbers and even some icons. I'm not too fussed about MythTV actually changing the channel at the moment because I know this will involve scripts and an IR blaster. I'm more concerned by the fact that when I type in the channel number, or press up or down on the keyboard - it just pauses and then shows me the same on-screen information. I don't know if I'm making much sense or not - basically since the feed from the Sky Digital box is just a video feed Myth will have no way of knowing what channel, frequency or whatever
Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital
On 7/8/05, Darren Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ant Daniel Sent: 08 July 2005 14:23 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Freqid and Sky Digital Fro what I understand of what you saying, your missing the bit about setting up an external channel changer. Without the channel changer script, the tunner will attempt to change by returning the coax input, as you've got a s-video input, from and external box, you need to setup myth to call a channel change script, this also requires a blaster (ir/rf) to actually change the box (i.e. send the infrared signal for the channel) Additionally, you will want mythfilldatabase to populate your scehdule from Radio Times, or you'll be missing the advantages of Myth. Ant. I've already got mythfilldatabase populating the schedule from RT, with the correct channel numbers and even some icons. I'm not too fussed about MythTV actually changing the channel at the moment because I know this will involve scripts and an IR blaster. I'm more concerned by the fact that when I type in the channel number, or press up or down on the keyboard - it just pauses and then shows me the same on-screen information. I don't know if I'm making much sense or not - basically since the feed from the Sky Digital box is just a video feed Myth will have no way of knowing what channel, frequency or whatever the Sky box will be running. I do not need Myth or my PVR card to do any tuning at all, the coax connection is not even used - I just want the OSD and TV guide to reflect the change in channel (in other words, if I type in 301 - I want it to switch to Sky Sports 1 on the OSN and TV guide, irrespective of whats being shown on the screen (as that's a separate configuration issue imo). Perhaps you need to use a dummy script that MythTV can innocently run when trying to change channel. If the channel change script value is populated with a script the exists, Myth will not try to tune automatically to the freqid. I think that if there is no script being called, the channel change will fail, and myth will remain on the same channel it was on before. If Myth thinks the channel change script returned OK, it will probably then update the OSD with the new channel info. Does browse mode work though when watching the feed from the Sky box? I.e. just getting the different channel info but not trying to actually change channel? Hope I'm being clear - I know it's a slightly confusing scenario. It would probably be easier if I was using a DVB card, with the Sky signal being fed directly into the card in the PC - but then I would only be able to view Free-to-Air channels (all premium Sky channels are encrypted and require the STB to decrypt). Only if the DVB card was a DVB-S card probably. I'm not sure if the Sky box would provide a DVB-T version on the channels and not DVB-S as it's coming from satellite and not OTA. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
