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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/16 14:38, Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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> One UK user wrote a nice script for managing channels
through a scan,<br>
> which would probably help in your situation. Check it
out here:<br>
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href="http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html"
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I don't want to dismiss it immediately, but it seems
limited to UK<br>
channels only.<span class="HOEnZb"></span><br>
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<div>That's how it appears from the description, but I
recall that other users outside the UK were able to easily
adapt it as a general purpose channel management script.
I'm surprised some of the users haven't jumped in here.<br>
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<div>Karl<br>
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It's basically a perl script to synchronize the Db channels to a
text file that acts as your personal channel settings and scan
history.<br>
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Workflow is:<br>
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1. Rescan<br>
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2. Export Db so that the text file is updated with any new and
removed channels.<br>
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3. Edit the new channels in the file to change the channel number,
name, xmltvid or icon path. Also mark channels as unwanted or
invisible.<br>
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4. Import the file to update the Db with the file settings. Unwanted
channels will be automatically deleted or marked invisible.<br>
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As the file persists you only need to set your preferences once.<br>
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The UK-specific stuff relates to an additional feature whereby it
will also run an XMLTV grabber and assign xmltvids automatically by
callsign matching. This is complicated because UK channels have
regional variations. For you this feature is irrelevant so just turn
it off by using the --no-grabber option.<br>
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It identifies channels in your Db by the source/service id. Service
ids are unique in the UK but may not be elsewhere. If your channels
don't have service ids or multiple channels use the same one, then
you would need to modify the script, as Karl mentioned.<br>
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There's another under active development too.<br>
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_Editor">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_Editor</a><br>
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