[mythtv-users] updating out of date channels

[veehexx at zoho.com]

 ---- On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:39:35 +0100 Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote ---- 
 > Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote: 
 >  
 > > i think we all know the hassle it is to rescan and set the guide up manually. 
 >  
 > Yes indeed, which is why some of us are using some variant of the scripts described in the wiki : 
 >  
 > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script 
 > This is largely one I wrote with contributions from a number of people who have improved it, the page needs updating now Schedules Direct is providing listings, it now looks like : 
 > update channel set visible=1,channum=1 ,xmltvid="24325" where callsign="BBC ONE N West" ; 
 >  
 > Following the link on that page, you get to https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments where there are some other scripts that might give you inspiration. 
 >  
 > The script is a bit of a PITA to maintain as you need to update it every time something changes. However that's trivial compared with the problem of doing it all manually every time you re-scan - with the script you can re-scan as often as you want and just re-run the script. 
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got round to doing this tonight. turns out it was just an existing transport edit so no major changes or full rescans needed. digitalspys freesat changelog gave the new details and a simple cas of editing the FEC from 2/3 to 3/4 for both the transports of BBC one and BBC four channels.

I do use my own script based on the wiki, but i always find i edit in mythweb for the small changes, forget about the script and ultimately end up editing the script with the same changes when i do more major work.