If it works for other people, I wonder what I could be setting up wrongly.
I've set it up twice: once using the default OSMC installation in NOOBS_v2_8_2.zip and once in the default Rasbian Stretch installation in same file, in the latter case using instructions in https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=201982
The build of TVheadend is Build: 4.2.6-34~g81717d98d (2018-09-15T02:11:25+0000) (from the About tab).
From memory, I think the operations I performed were:
Configuration | DVB Inputs | Networks
Add network: Type DVB-T
Give it a name (292e - the type of decoder)
Choose pre-defined muxes - UK-Bilsdale
Configuration | DVB Inputs | TV adaptors
Choose the DVB-T rather than DVB-C device
Enabled - tick
Choose the network 292e that I created above
Over the air EPG (this may already have been ticked)
Configuration | DVB Inputs | Muxes
Wait for the scan status to change to IDLE | OK
(+I also had to add an extra mux for COM8 on 602 MHz which was missing from the predefined list - maybe someone needs to check the list+)
Configuration | DVB Inputs | Services
Confirm that list includes all channels that I would expect
Map Services - Map All
Services dropdown seems to include all channels, including HD ones
Now when I go to
Electronic Program Guide (top level tab)
I see events for most DVB-T channels but only very occasional ones for channels in any of the DVB-T2 muxes.
The events are listed but have no title etc filled in. Compare image3 and 4: for BBC One HD and BBC One NE&C (SD) - they should have identical events.
It really is a nuisance that TVHeadend is badly let down by a naff list of events (programme, time, channel) in the EPG, rather than a proper grid of time-versus-channel. It should not be necessary to use Kodi (etc) as a front end to see a usable EPG list. It makes it very difficult to do a scan to see if the EPG is fully populated.
I've checked in Configuration | DVB Inputs | Services for a channel such as BBC ONE HD which should have full EPG entries and the Edit button shows the following (images 1 and 2, attached - scrolls of the same config page).
The
Is there anything else I should check or have done differently?