[mythtv-users] Ignoring certain channels from certain inputs

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Oct 20 08:26:11 UTC 2012


Mark Greenwood wrote:

>OK thanks. I may just buy another Realtek stick instead, I've no 
>wish to go through the agony of tuning and setting channel numbers 
>again. I get signals from 3 transmitters and sorting out the mess of 
>duplicates, weak channels, and unwanted stuff took me literally all 
>afternoon.

Script it. You need to go through the effort of setting up the script 
once (and updating it every time they mess about with channels), but 
it makes rescans a lot quicker.
There are several pages on the Wiki for channel editing scripts - one 
of them should give you a base to start from.

As to ignoring the weak transmitters - don't do a full scan, but 
either from a clean start scan a specific frequency and tick the box 
(whose name escapes me) to find related transports. Once you have all 
the transports you want, then do a "Scan existing transports" and it 
will only pick up the channels you want from your main transmitter.

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