[mythtv-users] Cleaning phantom tuners from DB

Steve Heistand steve at heistand.org
Wed Aug 13 14:46:37 UTC 2008



> Apparently I dorked around enough when I first set up my myth system  
> that I have a couple "phantom" tuners somewhere in the database.
> 
> My active tuners are labeled "1" and "2" in various places in the  
> frontend interface and the mythweb interface. Whenever I go into  
> mythtv-setup, and exit, it tells me that "non-existent tuner "0" is  
> set to channel 2, do you want to fix this?"
> 
> I've been telling it "no, I know what I'm doing", and things are  
> working, but how do I clean this up?  I'd like to surgically remove  
> anything pertaining to tuner "0".  If it would make things happier,  
> I'd like to remove all the 0 stuff, and then update the db so that 1 - 
>  > 0 and then 2 -> 1, so the DB looks like it was set up right the  
> first time.

bring up your favorite sql database editor (mysqlnavigator is mine) and
go into the table database->mythconverg->capturecard and delete the
entries you dont want.
with mythbackend not running at the time of course.



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