[mythtv-users] Hide encrypted dvb channels.

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jarle,

Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 10:14:02 PM, you wrote:

> Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Jarle Thorsen <jarlethorsen at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> So, any other way to hide encrypted channels? Not sure why the channel
 >> scanner has an option to test decryption, but does nothing to skip encrypted
 >> channels?
>  
>  Defined "hide".  There is a "visible" flag for a
>  channel, but it just makes the channel not visible
>  from the guide (and selection by the BUSQ, as
>  I recall).  Someone may still select it explicitly.
>  
>  btw, encryption (for any particular channel) may,
>  in some cases, come and go.  And while your
>  provider may always encrypt a particular channel,
>  that is not a universal implementation, so some
>  do what the channel to be available for future
>  access.
>  
>  As discussed recently in another thread, while
>  visible=0 is often adequate, there have been
>  some wishes (but no patches) for a more
>  complete "hide" capability (although apparently
>  no one actually wants it enough to invest effort
>  in writing/submitting any code).


> Setting visible=0 has always worked fine for me. The only thing I
> miss is an automatic way to test decryption and set visible=0 for channels not decryptable.
> Manually tuning channels and update the channels accordingly has kept me up many nights...

You can use the channelscan_channel table, but you have to filter it
on the scanid. This scanid links it to the channelscan table where
you'll find scandate, sourceid etc. It also links to the
channelscan_dtv_multiplex table.


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