[mythtv-users] multiple identical channel numbers?

[Ben Bucksch]

Chris Petersen wrote:

>I have a number of channels listed with the same number
>(eg. channel 57 is both SHOP and TNN).  As far as I can tell, there is
>no easy way to tell them apart.
>
>Does myth have anything to help locate duplicate channels?  It really
>behaves weirdly in this instance...
>
The (eh, my) long-term idea is to use chanids instead of channums to 
reference channels, and that's what you should do in mythweb. There 
can't be 2 channels with chanid 1015 (unless I am missing something), 
because chanid is a primary key.