[mythtv-users] Rescan channels

James Lawson james.lawson at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 17:21:36 UTC 2012


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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Thomas Boehm <mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net
> wrote:

> Stefan D wrote:
> > First i made a channels.conf file that worked with czap, got a lock on
> > my channels, and was also able to watch channels with mplayer. So i
> > imported that channels.conf file into Myth, but still couldn't tune any
> > channel in Myth.
>
> I can't remember when I fiddled around with a channels.conf the last
> time. Shouldn't be necessary.
>
> > Shouldn't it be possible to update existing channels, or do i need to
> > start all over every time there is a change on a channel?
>
> You could use the "database editing script" from
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script after doing a full
> scan. Once you edited it to your needs it saves you a lot of time. The
> lines in my script look something like this.
>
> update channel set
> visible=1,channum=1,xmltvid="london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk
> ",icon="/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/bbc_one_london.jpg",useonairguide="0",commmethod="-2"
> where callsign="BBC ONE" ;
>
> HTH
> Thomas
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