[mythtv-users] DirecTV lineups/channels changed

[John P Poet]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Kevin Wambsganz <wambs at verizon.net> wrote:
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Wambsganz
>                Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:07 AM
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>                Subject: [mythtv-users] DirecTV lineups/channels changed
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>                Hi,
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>                Looks like DirecTV channels have changed over the last 2
> months.
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>                I thought mythfilldatabase would update the channels if they
> changed I guess
>                not. Or at least indicate somehow that channels change.
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>                I noticed that the channels weren't changing to the correct
> channel. It
>                stayed on the same channel.
>
>                The STB will not allow the channel change to an invalid
> channel and will
>                keep it on the same channel.
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>                I stopped the backend, and I'm trying the retrieve lineups
> and then
>                mythfilldatabase, to try to get the correct channels.
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>                Is this how you normally fix this problem? Doesn't seem very
> user friendly.
>
>                Kevin Wambsganz
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> Well, Itlooks like that didn't work either. I had previously search for this
> issue on google and found nothing. Just lots of stuff about channel changing
> scripts. Maybe if I delete the channel from MythTV and run mythfilldatabase.
>
> This is bad!
>
> Kevin

First thing I had to do, was fix the line-up on
http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ .  To get the channels to show up
properly on the new channel numbers, I actually had to delete the
line-up and recreate it from scratch.  I don't know why this was
necessary, but it was.

Once SD is correct, then Myth should pick it up.  To be sure, I
manually ran mythfilldatabase with  --do-channel-updates --soruceid X,
where X is the Directv lineup number.

John
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