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> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 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.
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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

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