[mythtv-users] Getting Rid of Input

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Ray Olszewski
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:51 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Getting Rid of Input
>
>
> At 01:04 PM 8/21/2003 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> >On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:49 pm, Colin Armstrong wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to get rid of one of the signals that you defined
> > > in mythtvsetup?
> >
> >Say 'yes' to the first question it asks when you run the setup program.
>
> Do you really mean, Isaac, that the only way to get rid of *some* of the
> "signals" (not actually sure which of several things the original
> poster is
> referring to here)  is to delete *all* of them ( and, presumably,
> reinstall
> the ones you still want)? If so, you might want to consider improving the
> functionality here.

I think we have a mis-communication here...

Isaac, I think what he wanted to know was 'how do I suppress a channel that
was automatically configured through XMLTV when I ran the backend setup?'

Ray, what you need to do is find the XML file for your video source.  It
should be in ${HOME}/.mythtv/<sourcename>.xmltv (where ${HOME} is for the
user that runs mythbackend and mythfilldatabase).

Simply open up that file and comment out ('#' character) any channel you
don't want.  It will no longer get program data for that channel.  Now, to
keep the empty channel from showing up in your EPG, you need to drop it from
the database.  Try the following:

	% mysql mythconverg
	mysql> select chanid, channum, name from channel;

This will list all the channels in your database.  Note the 'chanid' value
for the channel(s) you want to remove.  Suppose the chanid is '1050' (FYI,
that's channel 50 on video source 1).  You would then do:

	mysql> delete from channel where chanid = 1050 ;

Now the channel won't show up in your EPG, and since you commented it out of
your XMLTV file, it won't get re-added next time you run mythfilldatabase.

Good luck!

-JAC