[mythtv-users] Tuning issues

[Stuart Morgan]

On Monday 16 Dec 2013 10:36:21 Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 16 December 2013 10:03, Tony Sauri <hoiho.nz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So when I do a delete all capture card and re-add them and do a full scan
> > I
> > end up with twice as many potential channels as I need.
> > 
> > Now when I go through the channel editor I have no way of discriminating
> > between the real or phantom channel records or to put it another way of
> > associating a channel record with a particular mux frequency.
> > 
> > I have found that if you decide to just use the first channel record
> > presented and add the xmltvid type stuff when you save it is rejected
> > because of a duplicate channelids.
> > 
> > So then it becomes a dance to make sure both phantom and real channel
> > record have different chanids before being able to save a channel record
> > successfully.
> > 
> > The only way I have found to stay sane is to resort to a little sql. :-)
> 
> Thanks for giving an explanation of what's going on.
> 
> But there's no solution there..
> 
> What do you mean with resorting to a little SQL?
> 
> how do you know which channel to keep and which one to delete?

Go into 'Edit Transports' and delete (D) those transports you don't want, it 
will remove all channels on those transports at the same time.
-- 
Stuart Morgan
MythTV