[mythtv-users] How To Configure Channel Priorities

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Wed May 27 14:02:27 UTC 2020


On Wed, 27 May 2020 06:11:54 -0700, you wrote:

>On 5/26/20 8:17 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 May 2020 15:55:46 -0700, you wrote:
>> 
>>> I am using MythTV 0.28.  I would like to change the recording priority
>>> for one of my channels.
>>>
>>> For example, I have two different channels with the same call sign, and
>>> I would like to raise the priority on one of them to prefer using it
>>> instead of the other channel.
>>>
>>> I looked at the wiki
>>> (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scheduling_Recordings), but when I go to
>>> the Recording Priorities->Channel Priorities configuration, it does not
>>> show the associated channel numbers, only the call sign.  I cannot tell
>>> one channel from another.
>>>
>>> Is there some mysql query that I can use to manually configure this?
>>>
>>> Jay
>> 
>> You certainly could set the individual channel priorities using SQL
>> commands, but there is no need as they are available in the
>> mythtv-setup GUI.  You can adjust them without shutting down
>> mythbackend.  On Ubuntu, where mythtv-setup is a script that runs
>> mythtv-setup.real, go to a command prompt running as your frontend
>> user and run mythtv-setup.real.  When mythtv-setup.real asks to stop
>> mythbackend, tell it no.  Then on v30 I would do this:
>> 
>> 6. Channel Editor > select the channel you want > Enter > Channel
>> Options - Common > Scroll down to Priority (it is off the bottom of
>> the screen)
>> 
>> In 0.28 it will be a little different, but you can select the
>> individual channels by number and the Priority setting should be
>> there.
>> 
>Thanks,  This method seemed to work.  I ended up using the MythTV 
>Backend Setup to do this and I needed to stop the backend and restart it 
>to get it to reschedule using the changed channel priority.
>Jay

Getting the scheduler to run again is easy:

mythtutil --resched


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