[mythtv-users] Can I setup xmltv before changing grabbers in mythtv-setup?

[Ian Evans]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 11:30 AM Mark Goldberg, <marklgoldberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:06 AM Mark Goldberg <marklgoldberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I still have the next two questions.
> >
> > >
> > > For this lineup I ran the tedious channel selection and they are
> > > selected, but for the Dish lineup, we get a small subset of the
> > > available channels and it would be really tedious. In addition, I
> > > don't want new channels to be added automatically with the Dish
> > > lineup, as we don't subscribe to them. Do I select
> > > 2: Set future new or updated lineup channels as unselected
> > > in manage channels or will the mythfilldatabase option
> > > --omit-new-channels keep it from adding new channels.
> >
> >
> >
> > > When I create $HOME/.mythtv/DISH.xmltv do I use the same database at
> > > /home/mythtv/SchedulesDirect.DB? Can those channels be in the same
> > > database?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark
>
> One more issue. With the two lineups, there may be duplicate callsigns
> or at least similar ones from OTA and Dish. The python script gives me
> all of them. It would be much easier to get channel numbers. The Dish
> channels are in integer format. The OTA channels are in the X.1, X.2
> etc format so they can be distinguished.
>
> Dish has 1052 channels, most of which we don't get, and they assign
> the same channel to more than one channel number, and the same channel
> number to both SD and HD versions of a channel, so only callsigns is
> not so helpful there. Channel numbers and callsigns, sorted
> numerically by channel number would be much more useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
I've considered doing this remotely. What is the average time to make the
xmltv transition and would you recommend coffee or whiskey to go along with
the process?

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