mythtv switzerland / schweiz setup wanted / gesucht

[roberto99]

Hi all

I am living in switzerland and trying to setup mythtv with a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE in linuxmce 710
The problem is that I get only about 4 different channels. This might come from that I dont understand settings like "pal , pal-bg , channel frequency table (cant choose switzerland !! maybe default or europe-west?) . Anybody has a hint for this kind of problem?
Thanks in advance!
Roberto

[pigdog]

Hi,

Don't know if this'll help but I thouight Switzerland had switched to DVB-T. 

Some history here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T

[roberto99]

when i run mythfilldatabase i get this (maybe it helps):


[sudo] password for linuxmce:
dcerouter_80637:/home/linuxmce# mythfilldatabase
2008-06-28 22:49:49.191 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-06-28 22:49:49.205 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-06-28 22:49:49.209 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-06-28 22:49:49.213 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-06-28 22:49:49.213 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-06-28 22:49:49.214 Source 1 configured with no grabber. Nothing to do.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.214 Source 2 configured to use only the broadcasted guide da
ta. Skipping.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.216 New DB connection, total: 3
2008-06-28 22:49:49.216 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-06-28 22:49:49.220 New DB connection, total: 4
2008-06-28 22:49:49.221 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-06-28 22:49:49.222 New DB connection, total: 5
2008-06-28 22:49:49.223 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-06-28 22:49:49.224 Data fetching complete.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.224 Adjusting program database end times.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.225     0 replacements made
2008-06-28 22:49:49.225 Marking generic episodes.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.225     Found 0
2008-06-28 22:49:49.225 Marking repeats.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.226     Found 0
2008-06-28 22:49:49.226 Unmarking new episode rebroadcast repeats.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.226     Found 0
2008-06-28 22:49:49.227 Marking episode first showings.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.227     Found 0
2008-06-28 22:49:49.227 Marking episode last showings.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.227     Found 0
2008-06-28 22:49:49.228
===============================================================
| Attempting to contact the master backend for rescheduling.  |
| If the master is not running, rescheduling will happen when |
| the master backend is restarted.                            |
===============================================================
2008-06-28 22:49:49.229 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.80.1:6543 (try 1 o                                                                                                         f 5)
2008-06-28 22:49:49.230 Using protocol version 31
2008-06-28 22:49:49.244 mythfilldatabase run complete.
2008-06-28 22:49:49.245 DataDirect: Deleting temporary files
dcerouter_80637:/home/linuxmce#

any idea?

[roberto99]

Hi

Thanks su much for your help

I have the frequenzy list, now I wonder where and what I exactly have to do (finetune in the myth backend).
Where is this? And do I have to do the standard channel scan first (with settings europe-west and Pal BG) and then fine tune the resulting list with the frequency list? Or just enter the  channels with the frequency list...but where exactly?
I know, a lot of questions, but I already invested a lot of time and did not get very far. Now I can see some light at the end of the tunnel!

I would really appreciate pointing me in the right direction :-)

cheers
Roberto

[roberto99]

Ok, my frequency table is the following:

Nr.  Sender Frequenz [MHz] Band Kanal
1  SF 1 189.25 VHF Band III K07
2  SF zwei 273.25 VHF OSB S17
3  Tele Züri 210.25 VHF Band III K10
4  Star TV 217.25 VHF Band III K11
5  VIVA 126.25 VHF USB S04
6  ARD Das Erste 196.25 VHF Band III K08
7  ZDF 203.25 VHF Band III K09
8  ORF 1 175.25 VHF Band III K05
9  PRO 7 266.25 VHF OSB S16
10  SAT 1 252.25 VHF OSB S14
11  RTL 287.25 VHF OSB S19
12  RTL 2 238.25 VHF OSB S12
13  Super RTL 423.25 UHF ESB S36
14  VOX 335.25 UHF ESB S25
15  kabel eins 431.25 UHF ESB S37
16  3sat 133.25 VHF USB S05
17  Tele Top 224.25 VHF Band III K12
18  Eurosport (d + e) 231.25 VHF OSB S11
19  DSF 154.25 VHF USB S08
20  HSE24 154.25 VHF USB S08
21  KiKa 375.25 UHF ESB S30
22  3+ 182.25 VHF Band III K06
23  Arte 375.25 UHF ESB S30
24  NICK 599.25 UHF Band IV K37
25  MTV 599.25 UHF Band IV K37
26  BR 140.25 VHF USB S06
27  SWR Fernsehen BW 259.25 VHF OSB S15
28  TSR 1 245.25 VHF OSB S13
29  TSR 2 503.25 UHF Band IV K25
30  EuroNews 280.25 VHF OSB S18
31  France 2 168.25 VHF USB S10
32  TV5MONDE EUROPE 327.25 UHF ESB S24
33  TSI 1 399.25 UHF ESB S33
34  RAI UNO 161.25 VHF USB S09
35  ORF 2 319.25 UHF ESB S23
36  CNN Int. 294.25 VHF OSB S20
37  TSI 2 119.25 VHF USB S03
38  SF info 471.25 UHF Band IV K21
39  cablecom infochannel 551.25 UHF Band IV K31

Now it looks like after a normal scan (europe-west and pal-bg) i automatically can see the channels with a "Kxx" at the end of its line in the frequency table (for example K39; the last one in the list).
The point is that for example for channel 34 if i choose the channel in channel editor and i want to check the frequency, the frequency is set correctly (in this case of channel 34 its set to 161250, as for channel 38 ist set to 471250). So what should i fine tune here?

If i just start mythtv i can see channel 34 in the list with the name set to "SE9" while the working  channels have a simple number as name (for example a "21")

in the above frequency list channel 34 has at the end of its line written "S09", in mythtv it has automatically been named "SE9"


On a Windows XP machine I have a different tv card and I can see "channel 34".

Any idea?

If no ideas, I have a different idea but i dont know if its possible: if I choose to scan with something other then europe-west, I DO get some OTHER channels, so is there a possibilite to combine channels found scanning different frequencies?

I really apreciate the help found in this forum

cheers
Roberto

[roberto99]

Thanks all for your help, I will keep on trying
cheers
Roberto