[mythtv-users] useonairguide

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/13/2014 12:34 PM, Johan Van der Kolk wrote:
> I may not be understanding this, so a hint to how this works is welcome.
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> I set my sources to use only EIT data
> I set my channels to use onairguide
> works as expected - getting EPG data from the signal on all channels.
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> I set my sources to use only EIT data
> I set some channels not to use onairguide
> All channels still receive EPG data (and show it in the guide) from the signal, including the ones where I set the useonairguide switch to off.
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> I set my sources not use only EIT data, nor any other source.
> I set my channels to use onairguide
> Not getting EPG data on any channel.
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> Conclusion: The useonairguide switch does not do what I expected.
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> I expected to be able to enable EIT in general for the source, but exclude channels using the useonairguide switch.
> For those channels I would run a mythfilldatabase using external xmltv data (the —file option).
> Now the EIT data overwrites the xmltv data.
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> Between tests I ran MySQL query: "delete from program” to clear the EPG data..
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> Thanks in advance for any advice on how I can achieve a mixture of EIT data and xmltv data on one source, choosing per channel which EPG data source I would like to use.

How are you setting the value for "useonairguide"?  You need to shut 
down (all) mythbackend (instances on all hosts) and run mythtv-setup and 
change the "Use on air guide" setting, then restart your mythbackend.  
If you're poking values directly into the database using, for example, 
the mysql tools or MythWeb's channel editor (which I'm guessing you're 
doing based on your calling it "useonairguide"), changing it won't have 
any effect.  At minimum, you must restart every single mythbackend instance.

Mike