[mythtv-users] Satellite users and DataDirect Lineups (was Re: Scheduled Recordings Vanished)
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Sep 17 06:31:42 UTC 2006
On 09/17/06 00:43, Michael Halcrow wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:21:12AM -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote:
>
>
>>>TMS said they would try to get a user-preferences feature that
>>>allowed users to specify how to handle new channels, but haven't
>>>done so, yet (2 years later I still have hope). I know what you're
>>>going through, though. As a DISH network subscriber, I've had to
>>>change my lineup literally hundreds of times over the last 2 years
>>>(every time any local channel from any market area in the country is
>>>added to DISH, it's added to my lineup--even though the FCC won't
>>>let me subscribe to a non-local "local" channel). IMHO, it's a
>>>small price to pay for the quality of data I get from TMS. :)
>>>
>>>
>>Sounds like a job for WWW::Mechanize! :-)
>>
>>
>My annoyance level has finally reached a point where I just hacked out
>something that works.
>
(Sending to the list for others' benefit--and thanks, Mike H., for the
reminder to let users know of another great reason to upgrade to 0.20)
As of MythTV 0.20, you can just pass the argument
"--remove-new-channels" to mythfilldatabase and any new channels
provided by DataDirect will not be added to the MythTV database and will
be removed from the DataDirect lineup (meaning data for those channels
is not sent in future downloads). To see how beautifully it works,
after running mfdb with the argument for a couple of weeks, search your
mythfilldatabase log file for "Not adding channel". (Summaries of how
many channels are removed can be found by searching for "channel(s) from
lineup".).
Examples:
2006-04-26 18:48:03.275 Not adding channel Inter Plus (DISH) (INTERPL).
2006-04-26 18:48:22.031 Removed 1 channel(s) from lineup.
where the first message is "Not adding channel <channel name>
(<callsign>)." (DISH actually has "(DISH)"--with parens--in that
channel's name.)
Specify the argument in the frontend settings under General somewhere
around page 5:
mythfilldatabase Arguments
Any arguments you want passed to the mythfilldatabase program.
I use the options "--no-delete --remove-new-channels" (to keep 7 days of
past listings data and to ensure I don't get new channels added to my
database).
I've been happily using th "--remove-new-channels" since April 24 and
haven't had to manually change my DataDirect lineup a single time--in
spite of DataDirect's trying to change it many 10's of times in those 5
months. :)
Mike
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