On Jan 11, 2008 12:12 PM, Jonno <<a href="mailto:jonnojohnson@gmail.com">jonnojohnson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 11, 2008 9:13 AM, Jonno <<a href="mailto:jonnojohnson@gmail.com">jonnojohnson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I am using EIT data for my program guide and I can only see program<br>> information for 3 of the 6 channels I receive.
<br>><br>> I saw this Tip in the EIT wiki:<br>> Tip: In the U.S. some digital stations may not appear in the program<br>> guide even though they are broadcasting program information. This may<br>> be due to a "hidden guide" bit that is transmitted by the stations. To
<br>> see if this is the case run mythbackend with the --verbose<br>> important,general,eit option. After some time passes check the output<br>> or check /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log for "is hidden in guide"
<br>> output. One way to get the data to be included in the EPG is to "hack"<br>> the atscstreamdata.cpp file in libmythtv/mpeg/. Delete the code below<br>> from atscstreamdata.cpp and then reinstall mythtv from source.
<br>><br>> So before I go hacking anything, what exactly does "reinstall mythtv<br>> from source" mean? I installed Mythbuntu from a LiveCD.<br>><br></div>Ok I went into the Channel Editor in Mythtv-Setup and found that the
<br>channels with no guide data from EIT did NOT have the box checked to<br>"Use On-Air Guide", (I had never gone into the channel editor during<br>initial install). So I went through and enabled this for all channels.
<br>I also changed the Channel Names to something more intuitive like NBC.<br>I then exited mythtv-setup and ran mythfilldatabase when prompted. I<br>then went back to Watch Live TV and took a look at the guide but still<br>
no program info for those channels! What is interesting is that the<br>channel names have also not changed to what I typed (either in the<br>Guide or the OSD).<br><br>Something did not carry through from mythtv-setup to the frontend as I
<br>expected. Any ideas?<br><br>I also tried restarting the backend with the options described above<br>and took a look at the backend but there is no mention of "hidden" in<br>the log. There are lines like this for 2 of the 3 channels where I do
<br>get guide info:<br>2008-01-11 09:59:02.889 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on<br>multiplex of channel 54_1<br><br></blockquote><div>Try to refresh today's database: mythfilldatabase --refresh-today <br></div>
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