[mythtv-users] Copying channel definitions from one instance of MythTV to another

[Michael Watson]

On 2/06/2015 1:30 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
> I'm playing around with moving my MythBackend to a new instance on a 
> different machine. At this point I don't want to backup from one and 
> restore to the other. Setting up the channels on the new MythBackend 
> seems painful. For example, at the completion of the scan (Australian 
> DVB-T) it says that there are duplicate channel numbers and asks me to 
> enter a channel number for each and every one of the 90 or so channels 
> it's found.
>
> Is there a way to export the channel information I have in the 
> original MythBackend and importing that into the new one?
>
> I've looked around and I'm confused about the purpose of channels.conf.
>
> I also found this - 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Restore_xmltvids_after_a_channel_scan 
> - but it appears that it will just UPDATE already-defined channels 
> with XMLTV IDs. I'm trying to find a way of importing all the channel 
> information. Is this possible?
>
Whats your location?   Sounds like you are receiving from multiple 
locations.
Visit ozdigitaltv.com <http://ozdigitaltv.com>, select your location and 
remove any transponders that dont match your current location, remove 
all existing channels, and do a scan of "known transports only" rather 
than a full scan, this should pickup only your local stations.