[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct subscriptions

[David Rees]

On 8/25/07, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote:
> When you are ready to switch, it should be fairly simple.
>
>   Key point: Do not delete your existing sources or add new
>   video sources. Simply update the grabber and login info
>   for your current video sources.
>
> 1) Go to SD and create lineups from the identical provider with
> the identical set of channels as your existing labs account.
> [Hint: if you see channels you would like to add or delete, keep
> them the same for now and fix those problems after converting].
>
> 2) Shutdown all myth process.
>
> 3) Backup you mysql database as described in the HOWTO.
>
>    http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.5
>
> 4) Run mythtv-setup. Select your existing video sources to
> change the grabber and login info, "Retrieve Lineups", select
> the corresponding lineup name then "Finish".
>
> 5) Run mythfilldatabase checking the log to see that things
> worked correctly.
>
> 6) Restart myth processes.
>
> 7) After updates work correctly for your existing set of
> channels then consider making changes to your lineups.

Thanks for the step-by-step guide. I just upgraded to 0.20.2 on Fedora
7 using RPMs from ATrpms (thanks, Axel!) and everything seems to have
worked perfectly.

I would note that the mythtv-setup process seemed to have some lag -
when updating the lineup it actually queries the existing Zap2It
servers which appear to be responding slowly right now, so be patient.
If it appears to get stuck you can kill the wget pulling data from
Zap2It which should speed things up.

-Dave