[mythtv-users] Extraneous channels in guide

[Andrew]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> I finally bit the bullet and got digital cable. Updated my Data  
> Direct listing, hooked up a serial cable, compiled the channel change  
> script and all was well except 2 small issues.
> 
> In mythtv-setup I set my tuner to channel 3 but I only get static.  
> I've overcome this with a startup script to force my PVR-350 to  
> channel 3 with ivtv-tune -c 3. Works ok, but not sure why it didn't  
> work when I told it to do it in setup.
> 
> So now I had all these channels I'll either never watch or don't  
> subscribe to. So I go back into data direct and uncheck the channels  
> I don't want. I update in mythtv-setup and it only displays the  
> channels I wanted. Great! I run mythfilldatabase and everything seems  
> good there. I restart my frontend and look at the guide data. The  
> channels are all still listed, but the ones I unchecked show Unknown  
> (Unknown).
> 
> I guess I could go into the database and remove them manually, but is  
> there a step I missed that would have done it for me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad
> 
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I am not sure the of the proper way to do it, but I went to the channel editor in myth-setup and did a remove all 
channels.  Then I ran mythfill and viola.