MythTv Scheduling
HPC — Sat, 03/14/2009 - 16:00
For more than a month I was having issues getting my channel schedule to match up with the channels. It was a pain in the ass to get the system to recognize one with the other. So I did what I always do, I figured out how to do it manually and now it works great.
The trick was getting the XMLid from my guide host Schedules Direct and matching it up with the channels my Hauppauge 1800 scanned.
Once I had the XMLid I went into myth-setup, the backend interface, and in the channel listing I associated the channel with the XMLid. I'm sure there's some automated way to do this with XML TV, which I played around with and got some listing information; however, the documentation I found for using the project with MythTV was sparse. Thankfully I'm just dealing w/ free OTA channels, I would've had to take a different approach with a full cable line-up.
Next project: Setting up a user job to transcode some shows into iPod format w/ commercials stripped out.