====== Configuring MythTV for Australian Digital TV ====== ===== Author(s) ===== Bill Giannikos (bill2 at giannikos.com.au) ===== Introduction ===== This guide will help you get Australian digital TV working on your MythTV box. This guide assumes you already have a MythTV box up and running. ===== Configuring MythTV ===== Here we are assuming you have already done the basic MythTV installation. You can use something like [[http://g-ding.tv|MythDora]] to get you to this stage quickly. Before continuing make sure the backend is stopped. ''/etc/init.d/mythbackend stop'' As root, load up the 'mythtvsetup' program. Select option '2. Capture Cards' and then select 'New capture Card'. Now change the card type to read 'DVB DTV capture card (v3.x)' and set the 'DVB Card Number' to 0. You should have something like this: {{:mythtv-dvb-1.jpg}} If you have more than one capture card you can now configure these cards as well. The settings are the same as above except you need to increment the 'DVB Card Number' value by 1 for each card you add. Now head back to the main MythTV setup screen and select '3. Video Sources' and then select 'New video source'. Configure this screen to look like this: {{:mythtv-dvb-2.jpg}} You can also turn on the 'Perform EIT Scan' option, but it is not always reliable. Do the same thing as above for the any other DVB cards you have. Now head back to the main MythTV setup screen and select '4. Input Connections'. You will likely get a error message about the channel list not being retrievable while doing this. This can be ignored. Now select the first DVB option on the list. On this new screen change the 'Video source' to FTA-Oz and then select the 'Scan for channels' option. Now make sure that 'Scan Type' is set to 'Full Scan' and 'Country' is set to 'Australia' and select the Next option. MythTV should now scan for channels. Now head back to the main MythTV setup screen and select '5. Channel Editor'. You should see a list of channels which were just scanned. You can remove channels which you will not be using (such as the tv guide channels). To do this select the channel and delete the channel number. This causes MythTV to ignore the channel completely. Finally we need to set the XMLTV IDs so MythTV known which tv guide data belongs to which channel. To do this select the channel you which to have tv guide data, untick the 'Use on air guide' option and add the appropriate guide option to the XMLID TV section from the list below. You will need to do this for every channel you wish to have a TV guide for. Here is (I hope) a complete list of XMLTV IDs for FTA stations available in Australia. You add the first part (eg 'ABC-Vic' for ABC in Victoria) to the 'XMLTV ID' option. By using these XMLTV IDs it will be easier for you to use the [[http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/TVGuide/|OzTivo TV Guide]] data with MythTV. 31-Adl - Ch31 Adelaide 31-Mel - Ch31 Melbourne 31-Per - Access 31 31-Syd - Ch31 Sydney 7CEN - Seven Central ABC-Can - ABC Canberra ABC-CLS - ABC Classic FM ABC-LOC - ABC Local Radio ABC-NR - air: ABC NewsRadio ABC-NSW - ABC NSW ABC-NT - ABC NT ABC-Qld - ABC Qld ABC-RN - ABC Radio National ABC-SA - ABC SA ABC-STAT - ABC State Radio ABC-Tas - ABC Tas ABC-Vic - ABC Vic ABC-WA - ABC WA ABC2 - ABC2 ABC_RadioNSW - News Sport Weather BRIZ - Briz 31 GWN-WA - Golden West Network NBN - NBN NSW NBN-GC - NBN Gold Coast Nine-Mel - Nine Melbourne Nine-NT - Nine NT Nine-Qld - Nine Qld Nine-SA - Nine SA Nine-Syd - Nine Sydney Nine-WA - Nine WA Prime-Can - Prime Canberra Prime-GC - Prime Gold Coast Prime-Vic - Prime Victoria PrimeN - Prime North PrimeS - Prime South SBS-AM - air: SBS AM SBS-Can - SBS Canberra SBS-FM - air: SBS FM SBS-NEWS - SBS News SBS-NSW - SBS NSW SBS-NT - SBS NT SBS-Qld - SBS Qld SBS-SA - SBS SA SBS-Tas - SBS Tas SBS-Vic - SBS Vic SBS-WA - SBS WA SBSWN - SBS World News SC-Tas - Southern Cross Tas SC10-GC - Southern Cross Ten Gold Coast SC10-NSW - Southern Cross Ten NSW SC10-Qld - Southern Cross Ten Qld SC10-Vic - Southern Cross Ten Victoria Seven-Bris - Seven Qld Seven-Dar - Seven Darwin Seven-Mel - Seven Melbourne Seven-Qld - Seven Regional Qld Seven-SA - Seven SA Seven-Syd - Seven Sydney Seven-WA - Seven WA Ten-Can - Ten Capital Canberra Ten-NSW - Ten NSW Ten-Qld - Ten Brisbane Ten-SA - Ten SA Ten-Vic - Ten Melbourne Ten-WA - Ten WA WIN-Can - WIN Canberra WIN-NSW - WIN NSW WIN-Qld - WIN Qld WIN-Tas - WIN Tas WIN-Vic - WIN Victoria WIN-WA - WIN WA One last thing to note, if you will be using Foxtel as well you should change the FTA channel numbers which have three digits to have just two. This will ensure there is no conflict between the Foxtel and FTA channel number. ===== Conclusion ===== MythTV should now have all the Australian channels in your area listed and ready to function. You can now follow the [[Australian TV Guide Data for MythTV]] guide to get your tv guide listing.