This is part 3 of the MythTV freesat howto, following on from Part 1 and Part 2 posted earlier on this blog.
After you successfully added your capture card in part 2, you should have returned to the 5 option main menu in mythtv-setup. Next you should go into number 3, ‘video sources’ and select ‘new video source.’ In the new window, use the following values
- Name = 28.2
- Listings Grabber = Transmitted Guide EIT only
- Channel Frequency Table = default
<Tab> to finish and select it to take you back to the video sources list. 28.2 should now be in the sources list. Hit <ESC> to go back to main menu.
Select #4, Input Connections. On the next list, select your DVB adapter. Set the following values:
- Display Name = Freesat
- Video source = 28.2
- Quick tuning = never
- Dishnet = unticked
<Tab> to ’scan for channels’ and select it to open the channel scan window. In the channel scan window you should use the following values
- Desired services = TV+Radio
- Only free = ticked
- Test decryptability = unticked
- Scan Type = Full scan (tuned)
- Input Frequency = 11428000
- Polarity = Horizontal / H
- Symrate = 27500000
- FEC = Auto
- Inversion = Auto
Important: While other frequencies can be scanned initially, you MUST use 11428000 if you want to watch the ITV HD transponder. For some reason if tuning another transport initially, this transponder does not get picked up by MythTV.
<TAB> to next and select it to open the tuning scan and begin scanning the satellite for channels. Assuming all has gone well MythTV will start scrolling through found channels and transports on the screen. Go get a cup of your favourite beverage as this scan will take a while.
Once finished you will get a message that should look similar to ‘found 423 non conflicting DVB channels’ and another about SCTE channel. Select ‘insert all’ to both the DVB and SCTE channel insert request, then <Tab> to finish and select it. This should then bring you back to the input connection screen where you should change your starting channel to ‘6301′ (which is BBC 1 London). <Tab> to next and select it to take you to the ‘interactions between inputs’ screen where you do nothing but <tab> to finish and select it. You should now be back to the input connections screen with your DVB card linked to 28.2, where all that remains to do is press ESC to return to the main menu.
If you use a separate drive for myth (as mentioned in Part 1), then skip this bit and go to the next paragraph. If you do run a separate drive for myth, from the mythtv-setup main menu select option 6, ’storage directories.’ You should go into each directory and change the path to match your new drive. For example, on mine I changed all of them to my /media/store/mythtv directory, so under the ‘default’ directory I changed it from /var/myth/recordings to /media/store/mythtv/recordings. Once that is done you should be set up for MythTV to use your second drive, so just hit
Now, select
Watch TV!
At this point you are now ready to watch TV. Click applications->sound/video->mythfrontend. Select ‘watch TV’ and it should get a lock on BBC1 London. Mythtv keyboard shortcuts are here which will allow you to navigate while using TV/recordings. The imple ones are left/right arrows to rewind/fast forward as well as ‘p’ to pause. Up and down navigate through the channels and ‘m’ will bring up the menu (which includes the EPG).
If that all worked for you, congratulations! I highly recommend you implement my freesat-esque channel plan available here, if you want to use interactive content, you should follow my howto here and if you want to watch ITV High Definition, you should look at my howto here.
I hope you found this three part guide useful and that you get many hours of great TV and recordings from it
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