[mythtv-users] Really hiding a channel

[James Orr]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 08:59, Kyle Rose wrote:
> I want a way to tag a channel in the database as "never record from
> this channel."
> 
> I have two different sources that share channel listings, but don't
> have access to some subset of the channels on one source and a
> different (overlapping) subset of the channels on the other source.
> E.g., my setup is something like:
> 
>     source 1   source 4
> 2      X          X
> 3      X           
> 4                 X
> 5                 X
> 6                  
> 7      X           
> 8                 X
> 9      X          X
> 
> where "X" indicates a channel is available.
> 
> However, even with the recording preference set to -1000 on the
> channels/sources that are not available, myth will occasionally
> schedule a recording on an unavailable channel, in which case I'll get
> 60 minutes of "Channel unavailable-please call to pay us more money
> for it".
> 
> I've tried actually deleting the channels, but mythfilldatabase just
> resurrects them during the next database fill (myth CVS internal
> DataDirect).  I also don't mind having the programming information, I
> just don't want myth ever to record from them, though removing the
> channel entirely is an acceptable alternative.

> Any suggestions?

You have different channels available on each source, so you could setup
two different sources for them in mythsetup.  If you're using 0.14
though, you will see duplicate channels.  I believe this is fixed in
CVS.

To stop mythfilldatabase from bringing back channels you removed, go to
the ~/.mythtv/sourcename.xml file and find the line that says ...

channel nnn

where nnn is the channel number, and replace it with ...

not channel nnn

-- 
James Orr <james at orrwhat.net>