[mythtv-users] Channel Management in the UK

[veehexx]

---- On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:22:54 +0000 Simon Hobson  wrote ---- 

>You might also want to look at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script which is how I deal with it. 
>Or http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments 
> 
>And you are correct, it's a bit of a faff to get it set up the first time - and update it every time a channel comes or goes. Once you have something set up, it does make like a lot easier. 
> 
>Still could be worse, I've yet to tune a TV or STB that has an option to keep your existing channel numbering while rescanning. And some of the UIs for renumbering channels are "interesting" to use - with the Chinese curse use of the word ! 
> 

Thats the script i use, with TV channel numbers taken from the http://www.freesat.co.uk/channels site, Freesat start at 101, freeview (pretty much Dave; freesat covers the rest) is in the <100 channels.
I use the xmltv_rt feed for actual listings which is ran on cron every night/2nd night.