Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 29 May 2009 21:26:39 Christopher Rutter wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
> greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> 
> > A recent Mythtv user, I have been going through a lot of effort to get
> > my (Comcast) channel lineup associated with the program data that I
> > get from SchedulesDirect.  Now there is help for people like me.  Due
> > to the fact that Comcast is distributing little Digital to Analog
> > converters (along with their switchover to DTV broadcasts), they are
> > now distributing the channel info in-band which makes it available to
> > us.
> >
> > More specifically, there is a project on sourceforge with the tools
> > for grabbing this info and putting it into your Mythtv database.
> >
> > See http://scte65scan.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > >From the website:
> > Scans for in-band SCTE 65 tables. Allows automatic mapping of virtual
> > channel numbers to callsigns and physical channels. Useful for the
> > transition from analog CATV to digital CATV. Comcast is one such cable
> > provider making these tables available.
> >
> > p.s. You'll see the acronym 'POD'.  I had no idea what that stood for,
> > so I looked it up.  POD stands for Point Of Deployment and is an
> > actual ANSI standard in the world of Cable Television
> > ANSI/SCTE 28 2007       Host-POD Interface Standard
> > http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=59 for gory details on that.
> 
> 
> Very interesting...
> I've been trying to get my MythTV setup off the ground and the reason for my
> procrastination has been this (getting my channel lineup configured).  I
> have a HDHomeRun connected to comcast basic cable (no boxes), I read on the
> SilconDust forums [1] a while back that someone has figured out a way to get
> the lineup from SilconDust's resources website [2], I never pursude it
> because I thought it was a sloppy solution, and a few people on the forums
> said to avoid it if possible.
> 
> After re-reading the forum thread it looks like SilconDust has built an API
> for their lineup server [3], so that we might be able to use that instead of
> the python scripts.
> 
> Just curious Greg, are you using a HDHR?
> Anyone out there using a HDHR?

Yes.

> If so have you tried setting up your channel
> lineup using this solution [1]?

Nope, wasn't even aware of it.

> or the solution Greg mentioned? Results?

I just use SchedulesDirect with MythTV. Hunt-n-peck to manually line up
anything that doesn't have station identifiers in the stream. Dunno if
fios does the scte65 thing, will have to take a peek... But once the
manual mapping is done once, you're pretty much done (haven't had to
do that in ~2+ years).

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com