[mythtv-users] adding a single channel

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 23:16:29 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> says:
>> I just realized that my cable provider has added a new HD channel to
>> its lineup and schedules direct is also showing this channel.  I would
>> like to add this channel so I can capture it via firewire.
>
> [...]
>
>> I looked at the database and was going to add an entry for this
>> channel manually, but have no idea of the xmltv id; plus, i figured
>> I would screw something up by doing that.
>
> Don't manually fiddle with the database. Create an entry for the new
> channel in mythtv-setup. The XMLTV ID can be retrieved from Schedules
> Direct (tooltip over the channel), or Zap2It (look at the URL). Look
> at existing channels for help on how to fill in the blanks. Make sure
> the channel is enabled on your SchedulesDirect lineup, of course.
>
> This way, the next time mythfilldatabase runs normally, the guide data
> for the new channel will be populated. (Or, just run 'mythfilldatabase
> --remove-new-channels' if you can't wait.)
>
I actually just ran "mythfilldatabase --sourceid 2" and that populated
the new channel into my sourceid #2 (firewire) without adding it to #1
(PVR-350), and it seemed to work out.


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