On Sunday 20 November 2005 13:07, Bruce Markey wrote: > catfish wrote: > ... > > > Recently my cable company has changed my channel lineup (they moved > > SpikeTV to another channel number, missing my StarTrek!). > > Guys. Pay attention. > > catfish wrote: > > Ah ha Thanks! > > Mythtv-setup->Video Sources->Input Connections->Tuner 0 wasn't assigned > > to my video source. > > > > So for future reference does this sound like the right way to update a > > channel lineup: > > No. No, no. Absolutely not. Wrong, wrong, wrong ;-) No one in the > future should ever do this. > > > 1. Shutdown mythbackend (fc: service mythbackend stop) and mythfrontend > > 2. Run mythtv-setup > > 3. Leave card seting but delete channel settings > > 4. Video Sources->New Video source > > 5. Give source a name and enter in xmltv settings and get listings, > > finish 6. Input Connections->/dev/video0->Tuner0 (I assume this would > > slightly depend on the card > > 7. Set Video Source to name from #5 > > 8. Exit mythtv-setup > > 9. Restart mythbackend (fc: service mythbackend start) and mythfrontend > > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > When one channel changes it's channel number: > > 1. Do not shutdown the backend > 2. Do not run mythtv-setup > 3. Do not delete channel settings > 4. Certainly do not much with the video sources > 5. Don/t change any source name and if you're getting authoritative > data directly from a media service, don't refer to it as a third > party web page scraper. > 6. Don't change you input connections > > Generally if a new channel is added it should show up automatically. > In this case where the channel number changes, all should have been > well if you ran mythfilldatabase with this option: > > --do_channel_updates > When using data direct, ask mythfilldatabase to > overwrite channel names, frequencies, etc. with the > values available from the data source. This will > override custom channel names, which is why it is > off by default. > > If some channels change or are dropped, there can be old entries > left behind. The channels you no longer can be removed by following > the HOWTO: > > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.9 > > In any case, don't blow away your channel table and sources and > source names and input connections every time there is a callsign > change or whatever, okay =). > > -- bjm
Bruce, I stole your words, but gave you credit: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ChannelLineupChange?action=show -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
