[mythtv-users] Filtering non-subscribed channels

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/20/2009 01:11 PM, Bert Haverkamp wrote:
>> I don't know what channels are exactly in
>> my subscription. Ziggo sometimes adds a temporary extra channel. This summer
>> it was Netherlands 1-HD for instance.(I missed the Tour de France and
>> Olympics in HD :-(, The PVR wasn't ready then. ) Now it is Eurosport-HD.
>>
>> Also the channels need to be rescanned occationally, because Ziggo likes to
>> change frequencies around. That happened twice in the last 2 months now.
>>
>> So I'm looking for an automatic way (script?) to detect the watch-able
>> channels.
> Anyone? please? this must be a recognizable problem. How are other people
> solving this?

I use LiveTV and my eyes/ears to filter.  Note, also, that the frontend 
channel editor (not the mythtv-setup one) makes it easy to do this 
(IIRC, hit 'E' in LiveTV to bring it up with the default binding).

Mike