[mythtv-users] MythArchive: what am I doing wrong?!
Andrew Sayers
andrew-mythtv-users at pileofstuff.org
Sat Jan 12 12:04:40 UTC 2008
So far as I know, the only thing you should need to do before the new
backend will accept the XML file is change the values of the <chanid>
elements. MythTV gives each channel a unique ID, which is decided
more-or-less at random, so it's unlikely that a channel will have the
same chanid in two different databases.
If you had thousands of recordings and a copy of the old backend's
database, it would have been worth working out how to automate the
process. Since you only have a few recordings though, you're probably
best off doing this by hand.
I suggest you make a backup of the XML file, load the file in your
favourite text editor, then replace every instance of
<chanid>foo</chanid> with the correct channel ID for your new database.
You can get a list of correct channel IDs by running the following
command in a terminal:
. /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt && \
mysql "-u$DBUserName" "-p$DBPassword" "-h$DBHostName" mythconverg \
--exec 'SELECT chanid, callsign, name FROM channel'
- Andrew Sayers
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