[mythtv-users] Upcoming Channel Change by Rogers Cable
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Jan 11 05:57:17 UTC 2007
Tom Lichti wrote:
> 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...
Don't know if you saw the reply. Apparently all we need to do, is wait
for the zap2it change to propogate, and run mythfilldatabase --refresh-all..
Hope that is all we need to do.
Geoff
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