[mythtv-users] Responsiveness of zap2it to lineup discrepancies?

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

    Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:05:22 -0400
    From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

    On 07/04/2006 02:09 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
    > I've been reporting the same lineup discrepancy to DataDirect
    ...
    > (Failing that, is there some way I can convince my Myth that the
    > listings for one lineup on channels 84 and 85 should -actually- be
    > taken to be for channels 71 and 72 instead?  [E.g., "even though
    > zap2it claims these are channels 84 and 85, they're actually 71 and
    > 72".]  I'm still using 0.18.1 for the moment.)

    Using mythtv-setup's channel editor, change the freqid for channels 84 
    and 85 to 71 and 72 and delete channels 71 and 72 from the lineup, if 
    they exist, or at least change their freqid's to the appropriate channel 
    numbers.  If you really want to, you can even change the channel 
    numbers.  As long as you don't change the xmltvid and do /not/ pass the 
    "--do-channel-updates" option to mythfilldatabase, it should continue to 
    update the listings without problems.  If you ever need to use 
    "--do-channel-updates", you'll have to edit your channels, again--unless 
    TMS has updated the lineup by then (and, of course, they will update it 
    within a week of your fixing your channels ;).

Heh.  No doubt. :)

Tnx; I'll give that a try.  Should have asked months ago, but figured
it would be a temporary condition.

(Actually, I'll give it a try in a few hours, -after- Myth has
unconfused itself on another issue with manual recording on a
different channel.  I started one, stopped it after a while, scheduled
another one and let it run for a while, stopped it---and the FE UI
claims it's still recording, whereas Mythweb's status claims it's not,
and trying to schedule a third manual recording claims it's
conflicting with the one I can't kill.  I'm assuming it will all get
sorted out after the end time of the one I couldn't kill, but that's
a ways in the future.  I was -trying- to record a couple things with
unknown start/end times, but hadn't counted on Myth being so totally
flaky re manual recordings.  I dunno if this is any less flaky in 19
or SVN.)