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Satellite Astra 19,2 (Europe)

DVB-S bring a lot of channels, and their channel numbers are not in a useful order for daily use. You can change the channel numbers in MythWeb for some of your favourite programs, but as soon as you re-scan the channels (which you need to do every year or so, when the satellite provider re-positions one of your favourite programs), you will end up again in entropy.

Here is a solution, derived from a scenario for U.K. [1], for two receivers, one DVB-S for Astra 19,2 and one DVB-T. First, be sure, that you have scanned all your channels (see the german MythTV community page [2]).

Create a file chan_numbers_update_AT.sql with an SQL statement in each line like this:

USE mythconverg;
UPDATE channel SET channum=1 WHERE name='ORF1';
UPDATE channel SET channum=2 WHERE name='ORF2';
UPDATE channel SET channum=3 WHERE name='ORF2E';
UPDATE channel SET channum=4 WHERE name='GoTV';
UPDATE channel SET channum=5 WHERE name='ATV+';

Extend as you like. For spelling the channel names correctly, you may want to look up your channels.conf file.

Open a terminal and enter

mysql -uroot -p mythconverg < chan_numbers_update_AT.sql > output.tab

You will be asked for the mySQL root password, which you have set at the MythTV installation process.

That's it. I needed to restart the MythTV backend and frontend and then LiveTV allowed me just to enter a number like 4 + Return to switch to GoTV.

Cable Provider Chello in Vienna

 frequencies: europe_west
 FREQ_CCIR_I_III,
 FREQ_CCIR_SL_SH,
 FREQ_CCIR_H,
 FREQ_CCIR_H2,
 FREQ_UHF