<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 2:09 PM David Engel <<a href="mailto:david@istwok.net">david@istwok.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Enhance Channel Visibility with New Values<br>
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Gary Buhrmaster has a nice script for managing the channel.visible<br>
setting for HDHomeRun Prime users(*)(#). Unfortunately, the script<br>
doesn't and can't know things that only the user knows. Things like<br>
"even though I can receive the channel, I don't want it visible" or<br>
"the channel isn't receivable right now but I know it will be when I<br>
plan to use it".<br>
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To solve this problem, I intend to extend the meaning of<br>
channel.visible from simply no and yes values to also include values<br>
for "never" and "always". Gary's script could then be changed to know<br>
not to override those values.<br>
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(*)I can envision other, similar scripts and even functionality built<br>
into MythTV for periodically scanning and validating channel<br>
reception. This change would be useful for them too.<br>
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(#)Gary also has other scripts that are very useful for MythTV users.<br>
In fact, they are part of the inspiration for this series of changes.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am still with Directv (mostly because they cut my bill in half for the next 12 months when I went to cancel), and they do "free" weekends about once per quarter, where some subset of their "premium" (e.g. HBO) channels are free. I currently have a hacky patch I use to make those channels visible for a specific date/time range. Whenever <a href="https://www.freepreview.tv/">https://www.freepreview.tv/</a> indicates that such a weekend is coming up, I add the dates and times to a configuration file, which is used to override the visible flag for the specified channels.</div><div><br></div><div>The patch is hacky enough that I have never intended to commit it, but if you are re-working the core of how visibility works, it might be useful to take this scenario into account.</div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div></div></div>