[mythtv-users] Deleted channel keeps coming back

[Tom Harris]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 03/14/2013 02:00 AM, Tom Harris wrote:
>
>> For some reason, I have two versions of Comedy Central HD in my channel
>> listings: CCHD and CCHDP.  The second one is the correct one, Comedy
>> Central HD Pacific.  I think my cable company may have switched from CCHD
>> to CCHDP in the past.
>>
>> In any case, CCHD should not be there.   It doesn't exist in my schedules
>> direct channel listing.   I have deleted it with the mythtv-setup channel
>> editor,which didn't work.  I deleted it in mythweb, which didn't help.  I
>> even deleted it directly in mysql to no avail.
>>
>> It just doesn't go away.  I get two channel 745s, and mythtv picks the
>> wrong one to record from so I'm always getting the wrong program.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can kill it so that it stays dead?
>>
>
> 1) Go to Schedules Direct website and re-add your lineup with the button
> to do so, then go to the lineup and verify channels (and be very careful to
> look for the one that's re-appearing).  This is either a problem with your
> lineup on Schedules Direct (that should be fixed by a re-add), or (and this
> happens a lot) you're just not seeing the channel on your lineup, even
> though it's actually there (because it's not always using the same
> name/call sign as MythTV does, so you may be looking for the wrong thing).
>
> 2) Delete the unwanted channel from MythTV using mythtv-setup (as there's
> more to it than just an entry in channel, and if you don't delete it
> properly, you'll leave garbage in the database that will cause problems).
>
> 3) Enjoy.
>
> Note, too, if you run mythfilldatabase with the current configuration
> (that includes that channel in the Schedules Direct lineup) and then fix
> it, properly, as above, then re-run mythfilldatabase without waiting long
> enough, it will use the previously-downloaded data, which contains the
> channel, so it will get re-added.  Then, you'll have to re-delete the
> channel from mythtv-setup (but, as long as you've actually removed it from
> your lineup on Schedules Direct by that time, and you wait long enough to
> run mythfilldatabase, again, it won't come back).  So the best idea is to
> do the above, then just let MythTV run mythfilldatabase for you at the
> scheduled time.
>
>
Thanks for the responses.     I had not seen the re-add option on
schedulesdirect, so I did that (I had previously verified and re-verified
my channel selections were correct, and the offending channel does not even
exist in my schedules direct list of channels).    But, unfortunately the
channel came back after one of the automatic mythfilldatabase runs.

I then tried what David suggested, and set the channel to non-visible.
That appears to work, and it is recording the correct programs now.
Thanks!
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