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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:88%;color:#364f67" dir="auto">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Jim <lists@morton.hrcoxmail.com> <br>Date: 10/24/17 9:44 AM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org <br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase keeps adding channels from a
different source <br><br>On 10/24/2017 8:08 AM, fairlane wrote:<br>> I've been working to setup 0.29 due to my old install no longer <br>> working. I'd been using data direct for several years after the last <br>> xmltv support e00nded.<br>><br>> I have a fairly unconventional setup i believe, I am using Dish <br>> network for most of my HD feeds, and also have a local cable feed that <br>> supplies local HD channels along with SD channels on the same line.<br>><br>> The dish is attached to an HD-PVR and has it's own schedules direct <br>> lineup.<br>><br>> The local cable i had to separate into HD and SD lineups, edited <br>> manually in mythtv-setup in past.<br>><br>> I feed both of those lineups into 4 cards, 2 PVR-250's and 2 PCTV 800i <br>> hybrid cards. Those can do HD and SD both.<br>><br>> This worked great on my 0.27 setup. Now with 0.29 i can't get it to <br>> stop adding all the HD/SD channels to the dish lineup every time i run <br>> mythfilldatabase. I spent a couple hours last night manually editing <br>> the dish lineup only to have it all return back when i ran <br>> mythfilldatabase. I then spent a while setting up mythweb to be able <br>> to edit channels easier and found i couldn't edit channels out <br>> manually. So now i have duplicate channel entries in all my feeds.<br>><br>> Any suggestions for what the problem is, and maybe a better way to <br>> edit channels and sources ? In the past i had used a web based mysql <br>> editor, webmin? maybe? Been a while though.<br>><br>> Any ideas? I do normally use the switch like this:<br>> mythfilldatabase --remove-new-channels<br>><br>> Initial setup is probably my issue. Should i try moving to the JSON <br>> setup or stick with DD? I'm confused on that one too.<br>><br><br>By "data direct" I'm assuming you mean "Schedules Direct"...<br>I have a very similar setup to yours and I have new channels come from <br>SchedDir. They keep adding new Dish channels (that I don't even get) and <br>they just appear on the guide in Myth which I then have to remove.<br>You should be able to edit that lineup on SchedDir and disable those <br>channels. Make sure when you are done that you scroll all the way to the <br>bottom and hit "Save". That is what I do every week or 2 and it works <br>for me.<br>I see where you did this but maybe you did not save it?<br><br>-- <br>Jim<br><br><div>No, i have edited schedules direct lineups page with the channels i get and hit save. It's accurate as it's going to get. There are errors, but i work around them.</div><div><br></div><div>I think i read somewhere that JSON doesn't even use the lineups on SD anymore. Not sure what changes there.</div><div><br></div><div>You can prevent your channel updates by using the switch in mythfilldatabase --remove-new-channels</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></body></html>