[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase confusion

[Simon]

Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I used to reuse grabber data for multiple sources, but recently moved to
>> having one source. That's what led to my experimenting. It's exactly 
>> that automatic adding of channels with which I was trying to experiment.
>> I don't think it is going to work in my case. I haven't yet understood
>> in what scenario that feature is supposed to be used.
> 
> It is for grabbers that contain lineup information, like I understand
> schedules direct does. As far as I know it is the only one. Lineups
> can differ extensively especially with OTA and a lot of different
> transmission towers that do not use the same frequencies. It is
> difficult to maintain.

If you use the JSON service and grabber, then SD doesn’t use lineups - you specify the channels you want data for (by xmltvid) in the control file for the grabber when you call it.

Simon