[mythtv-users] Tuning issues

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 23:36:21 UTC 2013


Hi

On 16 December 2013 10:03, Tony Sauri <hoiho.nz at gmail.com> wrote:

> So when I do a delete all capture card and re-add them and do a full scan I
> end up with twice as many potential channels as I need.
>
> Now when I go through the channel editor I have no way of discriminating
> between the real or phantom channel records or to put it another way of
> associating a channel record with a particular mux frequency.
>
> I have found that if you decide to just use the first channel record
> presented and add the xmltvid type stuff when you save it is rejected
> because of a duplicate channelids.
>
> So then it becomes a dance to make sure both phantom and real channel record
> have different chanids before being able to save a channel record
> successfully.
>
> The only way I have found to stay sane is to resort to a little sql. :-)

Thanks for giving an explanation of what's going on.

But there's no solution there..

What do you mean with resorting to a little SQL?

how do you know which channel to keep and which one to delete?


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