<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">First of all, you probably want to read the list thread with the</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">subject "USA OTA FCC frequency rescan?", as it seems I was wildly</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">wrong about the importance of the callsign in the scan. Based on</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">replies there, new frequencies apparently WILL cause a new channel to</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">get created. That was news to me for sure. I was probably confusing</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">that with the roll of callsigns with recording rules, which is where</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">they become important.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">To be honest I can't answer either of those questions. If I ever used</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">that "fetch channels" it would have been 12 years ago when I first</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">built my system. I've never used the edit transport either and am not</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">even clear what it attempts to do.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These are the steps I plan on doing when 4 of our RF channels will be remapped on Sept 6, 2019 at midnight per the stations involved:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--------------------------------------------</div><div class="">NOTE that I have already performed step 1 below to preserve the xmltvids to be used for updating the channels table after the rescan in step 4.</div><div class="">--------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">1. mythconverg_backup.pl —backup_xmltvids — # Sometime between now and when channels change.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""> The created file contains two different formats, the first being a series of update statements using only callsign: e.g.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""> UPDATE channel SET xmltvid = '</span><a href="http://I17155.json.schedulesdirect.org" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">I17155.json.schedulesdirect.org</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">' WHERE callsign = 'Channel 4’;</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">The remainder of lines in the backup file are commented out. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">After the change has been made, do the following:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">2. Stop mythbackend </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">3. Start mythtv setup</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">3.1: Clear all the OTA channels currently setup.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">3.2. Rescan all OTA channels </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">3.3 Exit mythtv setup</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">4. Run the sql update statements generated above.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">5. Start mythbackend</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class="">6. </span><font color="#000000" face="Palatino-Roman" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Validate scheduling, and tuning work correctly by setting up testing schedules, and also, watching live tv to verify tuning is working correctly.</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Palatino-Roman" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Palatino-Roman" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Palatino-Roman" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Regards!</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Palatino-Roman" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>