[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase adds back deleted firewire channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/09/2011 09:08 AM, Josh Rosenberg wrote:
> So I was able to set up a Firewire tuner through my Comcast box, and
> to my surprise and fortune, it's able to tune every channel I receive
> through the box normally!  Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.  Great
> complement to my HDHR.
>
> I went into the channel editor and deleted all of the SD versions of
> the channels that the firewire tuner can get in either HD or SD.  I
> wanted to do this to clean up the guide listing, and to make sure it
> never recorded SD shows when HD was available.  (The guide seems to
> lie sometimes about which shows are HD, so raising HD priority by 4 or
> 5 points didn't help.  And I didn't want to delete the channels from
> my lineup in Schedules Direct, because I don't yet know how often
> Comcast changes the copy flags on the HD channels, and I might want
> Schedules Direct to be a faithful list of my actual channel lineup for
> other reasons.)
>
> The problem is, whenever mythfilldatabase runs, it adds the channels
> back in!  I even added the "--update" flag in Setup so that the
> backend would use that flag when running mythfilldatabase, but it
> still adds the channels back in.  Is there any way for them to stay
> deleted?  Or am I doing something else wrong?
>
> Thanks for your help!

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/474252#474252

Note that the 2nd solution is rather broken because it's not the way 
MythTV was designed to be used, so Bad Things can happen.  
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6714

Mike