[mythtv-users] New frequency for NY NBC OTA channel 4

[Tom Dexter]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/2018 02:23 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>
>> The ugliest part was that all my recording rules and recording history etc
>> had the wrong chanid and station (callsign). The station in my case is
>> important because I've used the "this channel" filter a lot. The callsign
>> had changed to WNBC and it was WNBC-DT before. Obviously it also had a new
>> unique chanid. I manually updates both chanid and station on the tables
>> record, record_tmp, and oldrecorded to the new values.
>
>
> This is why the channel call sign is a user-editable field.  It is meant as
> a user-specifiable channel uniqueness identifier--so you can assign the same
> call sign to all your various channels that are the same channel (whether
> that's due to changes over time or due to variations across different
> inputs).  All you had to do was change the call sign on the new channel to
> WNBC-DT and all your rules would have worked, even though you used the "this
> channel" filter, without your having to do any direct manipulation of
> recording tables (including ones you edited that didn't need editing, but
> that's another story).
>
> Mike
>

Ahhh...thanks. I should have thought to do that. In any case, what
I've done probably means that future scans (which will likely also
pick up WNBC) will actually be correct.

Thanks!
Tom