[mythtv-users] Cleaning phantom tuners from DB

Steve Heistand steve at heistand.org
Wed Aug 13 16:45:57 UTC 2008


> >>
> >> And direct editing of the DB data is always a recipe for
> >> disaster--unless you know everything about all the data you're  
> >> changing
> >> and all the data that references the data you're changing.  There's a
> >> user interface for fixing this stuff for a reason, you know.
> >>
> >
> > and is there a user interface for deleting just 1 capture device if
> > you have more then 1?
> 
> Yes, select the card and press "D" but it won't renumber what's  
> already there or change the cardinality. The user interface to restart  
> numbering and deleting cards is the delete all from all backends option.

this is good to know, I rarely use a keyboard so all I see is the "delete
all cards" option in mythtv-setup.
and Im quite happy seeing "encoder 7" as the card name so the renumbering
doesnt bother me.



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