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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2018 07:57 AM, Richard Shaw
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 10:00 AM Peter
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<div dir="ltr">I'm finally getting tired of
getting incomplete information, especially
season and episode data, from DD. It's causing
quite a few recordings to not show up in Plex
which we're using on Roku TVs instead of having
to build mini-frontends.
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<div>I'm following the directions from the
wiki[1] but I'm not sure I'm getting the whole
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<div>So i'm pretty much at the point of deleting
and re-adding channels since the IDs are in a
different format. If I was just doing OTA I
would see if I could manually translate them
but with Cables 200+ channels, I'm not going
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Another advantage to re-adding them is that you get
icons for all the channels.<br>
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<div>So far the side effects are:</div>
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<div>1. Existing recordings will show the wrong
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This may or may not happen. By default the chanid is set
up as a number with format xyyy where x is the source id
and yyy is the channel number. Sometimes this scheme can
get messed up by manual additions, duplicate channels
etc. If your existing channels follow this scheme, they
should be the same after re-adding and then existing
recordings will show the correct channel.<br>
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<div>2. The wiki doesn't mention if I'll have to
re-setup all my recording rules...</div>
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That should not be necessary unless you have channel
specific rules. If the chanid and station id stay the
same these should also be ok. Personally I never use
channel specific rules. Regardless, you should check
upcoming recordings to see if they are still working
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<div>I currently have two sources</div>
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<div>[1] OTA</div>
<div>[2] Comcast</div>
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<div>Is it possible to setup a 3 & 4 with
tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite and have both until
everything that was recorded on 1 & 2
expire?<br>
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I cannot see that this would work or any benefit to it.
You may be able to leave the old sources in place
unconnected to any capture card in case you want to
switch back, but I am not sure whether this will work.</div>
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<div>I only mentioned that due to #1 above, if that's not a
problem then there is no reason, however, the wiki does
not appear to be up to date. It tells me that I need to
delete and re-add my channels, but in the specific
instructions under "Deleting and re-adding channels" it
says to go into the channel editor (which would be too
slow) and in the next sentence says to select video source
and delete.</div>
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In mythtv-setup, from the menu option 6 is channel editor. Inside
the channel editor is a selector called "Video Source". In there you
can left-arrow or right-arrow and select your source name. Once you
have done that the channels for that source will be visible. Then to
the right of the source name is a button called "Delete". If you
click that button it asks if you are sure you want to delete all the
channels. Does trhis not work? Is it slow in some way?<br>
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<div>Then it says to un mythfilldatabase but after I did
that it refused to run saying there were no video sources
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The idea was not to delete the source, but just to edit it and
change the details from North America Schedules Direct to
Mulitinational whichever one you are using. Then the video source
would still be there.<br>
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<div>I used mythtv-setup to set them up but its very
"clunky" the way it works but per the instructions I
thought this the sqlite grabber had to be setup from the
command line but nothing in the instructions seemed to
actually insert the video sources.</div>
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I agree it is a very clunky process. I did the set up entirely from
the command line. If you do it from inside mythtv-setup it also
invokes a command line program with a clunky interface. The worst
part is selecting the channels one at a time by answering yes or no
to each one.<br>
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<div>I'm a pretty experienced linux user, been running
MythTV for 10 years, and a Fedora packager for 8. If this
doesn't make sense to me I can't be the only one confused
by this process.</div>
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<div>Also I've been doing this all as root because the
backend user mythtv doesn't have a shell. I'm assuming
I'll have to move the resulting .xmltv and .SD files to
/etc/mythtv when complete.</div>
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I ran it from a normal user id and then copied the .xmltv directory
to the mythtv home directory. /etc/mythtv does not get used unless
there is a link to it from /home/mythtv/.mythtv. <br>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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If there is something specific you are struggling with I can try to
help. I wrote that wiki page based on my own experience but there
are obviously different ways to do it.<br>
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Did you see David's response? He pointed out that some of the
information in my first reply was incorrect. <br>
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Peter<br>
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