[mythtv-users] how to set xmltvid to unknown and keep it there?

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Sat Jul 9 01:09:20 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes.  The user can and must assign a correct XMLTVid for every channel
> they wish to have listings for.  They should leave every other channel
> alone, and not change a thing.

But that's exactly what I did!  I scanned, I ignored the community
access channels (not caring about getting listings for them) then
mythfilldatabase ran and saw that during the scan, freqid was set to
128, and 128 is the virtual channel number for the history channel, it
set the xmltvid based on that, and the next time it tried to record
Modern Marvels I got an hour of cheesy elevator music with a slow
slide show of upcoming events at the local high school.

> This is *not* par for the course, and I daresay somewhere in some
> lineup for your area (or an adjoining one), it is correctly in two
> different XMLTVids.  HD and SD versions of channels are meant to be
> different XMLTVids, and if Schedules Direct doesn't have them as such,
> you should open a lineup ticket with them to get them to fix it.

Hmm.  They're coming up different now.  They were the same last
weekend.  It must have been a temporary problem.

>>  I want to just
>> put the channel on hold and figure it out later, but there's no clear
>> way.
>>
>
> Put *nothing* in.  If you manipulate nothing else, then
> mythfilldatabase will do nothing to them.

I can conclusively say that that doesn't work.

I'll contact Schedules Direct about the missing channels once I have a
complete list.

Eric


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