[mythtv-users] Adding channels to database

[Chris Petersen]

> My cable company has added several channels and I am trying to figure out
> how to make MythTV add these channels to the database.  How do I go about
> adding this channel?   I have not found anything in the documentation for
> this.  I am running Myth 0.11 and XLMTV 0.5.17.  Thank you in advance.

I ran into this last night..  Basically, you just rerun your xmltv
script (tvgrab_na in my case) to find out the channel number and station
ID, and then add those into your ~/.mythtv/xxxx.xmltv file, replacing
the channels that were there with old names (in my case, as is with most
of north america, TNN got renamed to SPIKEP).  The next time you run
mythfilldatabase, it'll add in what it needs.  Then comes the annoying
part of going in and deleting any channels that no longer exist (or in
my case, since I liked my chanid set similarly to the channum, setting
the xmltvid field on the old channel data to its new value and deleting
the new record).

I don't know if there's an easier way to do this, but this is what
worked for me when I didn't know what I was doing.

-Chris