[mythtv] Channel management

[Tako Schotanus]

ramon.roca at xcombo.com wrote:

>mythchannels will have a way to "delete" a channel, I wasn't planning for
>a "hide". At this point, not "massive", just channel per channel. My
>suggested tip at this point, is that if yoy don't want a channel list with
>everything available, you must import only the channels that you are
>interested and then, assign it to groups. Not sure how much available
>group editing features I'll include at this point.
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Hmmm, but that would mean that I would have _no_ access at all to the 
deleted channels. Thing is that on an average day... hmmm let's make 
that 99% of the days, I watch only a very specific subset of channels. 
But I don't want to lose the possibility to watch any of the other 
channels if I really want to.

So a hide option would be nice. Or a way to change the order of channels 
so I can at least put all those channels together so I can easily browse 
them. Right now there's just too much "noise", too many channels I 
hardly ever watch (but "hardly ever" is the key word here).

>I'm doing in that way certainly for being able to be included in the CVS.
>But I don't know, those kind of discussions sometimes looks more something
>like "what has to be first, the egg or the hen?"
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Any idea what it would take to convince Isaac to include your channels 
module? (Isaac? :-)

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>Ramon.
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>>I wonder if there are any ideas on how one could manage the channels
>>stored in the database.
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>>I know there is some way to make XMLTV not import the channels you don't
>>want (or receive), but I don't mind having the data I just normally
>>never watch a Chinese or Turkish channel so I would like to be able to
>>hide them. Another thing I would like do is change the order of the
>>channels as they appear in the GUI: we Dutch like to group all Dutch
>>channels close together.
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>>So I'd like to know if is there already a way to do this manually just
>>changing things in the database? Or would we need to add an order field
>>and a "hide" flag?
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>>I know that Ramon was working on a way to manage channel settings, does
>>this include the options I just described? Wasn't there a problem with
>>the preview which made Isaac decide not to include it? What's the status
>>about that? Any solution yet?
>>
>>-Tako
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