[mythtv-users] Guidance for phase 9

[Allen Edwards]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:33 PM Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8/16/19, Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This may be a dumb question but why can't I edit the XMLTVID, Channum and
> > Freqid in MythWeb under Channel Info and have that work? That is pretty
> > much all the information needed.
> >
> > Allen
> >
>
> What needs to happen is a lot more complex than that, and my script
> addresses all of it. But before I get into that, I'm unclear as to why
> you'd be doing anything to the xmltvid in the first place. Assuming
> that's currently correct for the channel, that has nothing to do with
> any of this, as you're only trying the change the frequency of the
> existing channel. That aside, here's what you're missing there:
>
> The freqid is the numeric channel number, and my script does in fact
> change that based on the frequency. However I don't think that even
> serves much purpose when it comes to tuning the channel. That depends
> on two things:
>
> 1. The mplexid on the channel table, which must be assigned to the
> mplexid of the appropriate transport in the dtv_mulitplex table for
> the new frequency. Also note that you may not even have an entry in
> that table for the required frequency and my script can create that as
> needed.
>
> 2. The serviceid on the channel table needs to be set to the proper
> PID (that PROGRAM number in the hdhomerun_config scan) to cause it to
> use the correct program in the above transport. I don't think the
> channel editor would let you change that either.
>
> In fact, what you're describing probably wouldn't affect the channel's
> tuning behavior at all.
>
> So there's a lot involved there, but again, my script does make it pretty
> easy.
>
> Tom
>
> @Tom

My question was a bit rhetorical. I was not so much saying what fields
would need to be changed as saying why can't Myth stations/channels be
edited by changing the relevant values in the interface that is already
there. We know from comments that when there is a frequency repack that SD
gets tons of questions from MythTV users. Other programs must handle a
repack in a more straightforward way.

That said, your script and the example you give in your email look like a
great step forward in making this a painless process.  I look forward to
trying it out when the time comes.

As a final check, is there anything about what I am running that might give
me trouble in using your script?  Best I can tell from the Ubuntu
documentation the perl binding was part of that build. I am, however, not
at all sure of that.

Mythbuntu 14.04.1 LTS and MythTV fixes/0.28

Allen
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