[mythtv-users] channel scan wiped user configured channel numbers

[Simon Hobson]

At 20:07 +0100 18/4/11, Tim Draper wrote:
>i've just done a channel rescan and it's wiped my user-set channel numbers.
>i doubt i can get them back so im going to have to re-set them, but 
>im wondering if there is a better way todo it so i wont have 
>re-assign channel number every time i rescan.
>
>the way mythtv detects the channels is in no logical order, aswell 
>as having a ton of blank or foreign channels i have no interest in 
>watching..

Where are you, what service(s) are you using ? It makes a big difference.

I'll copy and past from a posting I made on 6th April, in the thread 
"UK: managing Freeview and Freesat" :
>There's a script I wrote at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script
>
>There is a link from there to 
>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments which does 
>something similar-but-different
>
>And while looking for those, I came across 
>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_Sorting_by_Script which goes 
>about things in a different way.

One of these should offer you a starting point which you can edit to 
your requirements. My script was written for UK Freeview.

If scanning a service that provides channel numbers/callsigns (like 
UK Freeview), then the channel numbers will be those used by the 
broadcaster(s) - and yes, as you say for UK Freeview they are in what 
can best be described as a non-intuitive sequence ! I have no idea 
how Myth works on a service where such data isn't available (such as 
capturing analogue output from a cable STB).

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