[mythtv-users] Upcoming Channel Change by Rogers Cable
Tom Lichti
tom at redpepperracing.com
Wed Jan 10 01:19:14 UTC 2007
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> I have received a notice from Rogers Cable that it is dropping some
> channels which I receive, and replacing the feed on that channel number
> with a different channel feed.
>
> As an example, CNN Headline News, which I get as channel 37 will be
> dropped, and will be replaced by BBC World News. The actual channel
> frequency and all tuning parameters will remain the same, but the
> xmltvid for the feed will be changed.
>
> This will mess up my Mythtv setup. I have looked through the
> documentation and the wiki and found no particular information about how
> this should be handled.
>
> I think I need to do something like the following:
>
> After the changeover by Rogers:
> (1) modify my listing at zap2it to delete the old channels and add the
> new channels;
>
> (2) delete from channel where chanid = 1037;
>
> (3) delete from program where chanid = 1015; #clear old program data
>
> (4) If and only if zap2it labs has recognized the changeover and shows
> the new channel against the old frequency:
> mythfilldatabase --do-channel-updates #which should work...
>
>
> Have I missed anything? Any comments by anyone?
> Should (2) instead be:
>
> update channel set (callsign,name.xmltvid) values ("BBCW","BBC World
> News",'123456');
>
>
> This change will affect a large number of Rogers customers and will also
> affect the half dozen of us, (at least) who use Mythtv in the Greater
> Toronto Area.
>
> I would like to prepare a script which will take care of the database
> changes, so that it becomes as easy as running the script, updating the
> DataDirect listing, and running mythfilldatabase.
>
My problem with that is even bigger, since they are moving my favorite
channel (Speed) into the digital only tier, so I had to get an STB. Now
I have to convert one of my PVR cards to S-Video input, and get an IR
blaster working. Plus it's costing me $10 more a month, just to get one
channel...
Tom
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