[mythtv-users] scheduler doesn't run ?

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Per Jessen <per at computer.org> wrote:

> Karl Newman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Per Jessen <per at computer.org> wrote:
> >
> >> There's plenty of unnecessary channels, thousands. I could delete some,
> >> but they'll come right back on the next channel scan :-(
> >>
> > Thousands seems like a lot more than the "hundreds" of channels that
> > probably most MythTV users have.
>
> Anyone with a satellite dish will have something on that order I suspect.
> My old Nokia 9902, the predecessor recorder, had about 3500 channels since
> 2001.
>
> > If you mark them as invisible instead of deleting them, does that survive
> > a channel rescan? I don't know if that would help the scheduler run
> > faster, but I do know that invisible channels
> > are excluded from scheduling, so it's possible it could help.
>
> I have not experimented with invisible/deleting channels, but I suspect the
> next scan will obliterate any changes I do.  Editing thousands of channels
> using the GUI is also not something I'd look forward to :-)
>
>
> /Per
>

One UK user wrote a nice script for managing channels through a scan, which
would probably help in your situation. Check it out here:
http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html

Karl
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