[mythtv-users] cable frequencies changing - scripting

Chris Rouch chris.rouch at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 16:57:45 UTC 2007


On 2/26/07, Chris Rouch <chris.rouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Next week my cable provider is changing all the channel frequencies.
> Normally I'd use the mythweb interface to update them, but this time
> I'll be on holiday. What I plan to do is dump the channel table into a
> file, update this file to the new frequencies, and then set an at job
> for the appropriate time to do
>
> mysql mythconverg < newchannel.sql
>
> I have some questions:
>
> Should this work?
> Will I need to restart the backend afterwards?
> Or is there a better way to do this?
>

Obviously not an interesting question. In case anyone wonders the answers are

yes
did it anyway
don't know.

Chris


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