[mythtv-users] scheduler doesn't run ?

[Per Jessen]

Karl Newman wrote:

> 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

I don't want to dismiss it immediately, but it seems limited to UK
channels only. 


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