[mythtv] Channel management

[Tako Schotanus]

Another thing: the XMLTV source I use for The Netherlands is 
tv_grab_nl_wolf. There is also a tv_grab_nl which just leeches a lot of  
HTML pages from a tv-guide website and parses into XML. This is a very 
slow process so somebody decided to the work for us and put the result 
on his website for others to download, this is what tv_grabl_nl_wolf 
does. Problem here is that you can configure which channels you want and 
which you don't, you just get all possible channels (there aren't that 
many anyway).

Frequencies being different almost per city here you have to fill in the 
channel numbers manually in the channels table. Of course you can't fill 
in the numbers for the channels you don't have so I have left them empty.

So what I would like to know is if it would be possible to make the EPG 
ignore channels that don't have their channel number set? (Well, of 
course it's possible and I wouldn't mind doing the patch myself, I just 
want to know if there is a reason not to do it? Isaac?)

-Tako

Tako Schotanus wrote:

> Ah, didn't know that you could only show favourite channels in the EPG.
> Does myth remember the setting? Anyway, if mythchannel is able to 
> show/manage that setting as well it would be perfect.
>
> -Tako
>
> Isaac Richards wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:42 pm, Tako Schotanus wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> ramon.roca at xcombo.com wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> mythchannels will have a way to "delete" a channel, I wasn't 
>>>> planning for
>>>> a "hide". At this point, not "massive", just channel per channel. My
>>>> suggested tip at this point, is that if yoy don't want a channel 
>>>> list with
>>>> everything available, you must import only the channels that you are
>>>> interested and then, assign it to groups. Not sure how much available
>>>> group editing features I'll include at this point.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Hmmm, but that would mean that I would have _no_ access at all to the
>>> deleted channels. Thing is that on an average day... hmmm let's make
>>> that 99% of the days, I watch only a very specific subset of channels.
>>> But I don't want to lose the possibility to watch any of the other
>>> channels if I really want to.
>>>
>>> So a hide option would be nice. Or a way to change the order of 
>>> channels
>>> so I can at least put all those channels together so I can easily 
>>> browse
>>> them. Right now there's just too much "noise", too many channels I
>>> hardly ever watch (but "hardly ever" is the key word here).
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Mark the channels as favorites.  The program guide has an option to 
>> only show favorite channels.
>>
>> Isaac
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