[mythtv-users] Lost Scheduled Recordings after channel lineup change

[Steve Adeff]

On Sunday 20 November 2005 13:07, Bruce Markey wrote:
> catfish wrote:
> ...
>
> > Recently my cable company has changed my channel lineup (they moved
> > SpikeTV to another channel number, missing my StarTrek!).
>
> Guys. Pay attention.
>
> catfish wrote:
> > Ah ha Thanks!
> > Mythtv-setup->Video Sources->Input Connections->Tuner 0 wasn't assigned
> > to my video source.
> >
> > So for future reference does this sound like the right way to update a
> > channel lineup:
>
> No. No, no. Absolutely not. Wrong, wrong, wrong ;-) No one in the
> future should ever do this.
>
> >  1. Shutdown mythbackend (fc: service mythbackend stop) and mythfrontend
> >  2. Run mythtv-setup
> >  3. Leave card seting but delete channel settings
> >  4. Video Sources->New Video source
> >  5. Give source a name and enter in xmltv settings and get listings,
> > finish 6. Input Connections->/dev/video0->Tuner0 (I assume this would
> > slightly depend on the card
> >  7. Set Video Source to name from #5
> >  8. Exit mythtv-setup
> >  9. Restart mythbackend (fc: service mythbackend start) and mythfrontend
> > Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
> When one channel changes it's channel number:
>
> 1. Do not shutdown the backend
> 2. Do not run mythtv-setup
> 3. Do not delete channel settings
> 4. Certainly do not much with the video sources
> 5. Don/t change any source name and if you're getting authoritative
> data directly from a media service, don't refer to it as a third
> party web page scraper.
> 6. Don't change you input connections
>
> Generally if a new channel is added it should show up automatically.
> In this case where the channel number changes, all should have been
> well if you ran mythfilldatabase with this option:
>
> --do_channel_updates
>    When using data direct, ask mythfilldatabase to
>    overwrite channel names, frequencies, etc. with the
>    values available from the data source. This will
>    override custom channel names, which is why it is
>    off by default.
>
> If some channels change or are dropped, there can be old entries
> left behind. The channels you no longer can be removed by following
> the HOWTO:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.9
>
> In any case, don't blow away your channel table and sources and
> source names and input connections every time there is a callsign
> change or whatever, okay =).
>
> --  bjm

Bruce, I stole your words, but gave you credit:

http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ChannelLineupChange?action=show

-- 
Steve