[mythtv-users] Changing cardid for tuners

[Bob O'Shaughnessy]

I think that the difference this time was that I did a Delete All on the
cards and then exited mythtv-setup, then re-ran and set them up.

On 2/3/07, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
>
> Rich West wrote:
> > Steven Adeff wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/3/07, Bob O'Shaughnessy <oshaug at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> This mostly a cosmetic issue, as everything seems to be working
> properly.
> >>>
> >>> I've got an 0.20-151 running on FC6 with a PVR-150 and a
> PVR-500.  After the
> >>> FC6 upgrade I removed and added the cards, and then had to do it again
> a few
> >>> times to play with prioritizing them.
> >>>
> >>> The result is that Myth lists the cards as encoder 15, 16, and 17, and
> that
> >>> has raised eyebrows from my wife, the main Mythweb user.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way to set these back to 1, 2, and 3?  From what I've
> read, I'm
> >>> expecting that the solution will involve editing the database.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> use "Delete All" and then add them new, this should restart the count
> at 1.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, that won't help.  The field in the database is set to
> > auto_increment.  So, yes, you have to edit some entries in the database.
> >
> > The only way around this is to update the entries in the "capturecard"
> > table and the corresponding entries in the "cardinput" table.  The
> > element you want to update is the "cardid" field in both tables.  It
> > does work, too.. I did this for one of my cards only because I was being
> > retentive about it. :)  ONLY make these changes with mythbacked stopped
> > (it is safest that way!).
> >
> > Truly, though, the numbering is entirely semantic.  It doesn't impact
> > the functionality.
> >
> > -Rich
> In reference to "Steven Adeff"s respond, Bob O'Shaughnessy wrote:
> > That did it.  Could have sworn that that I'd done that, but I guess I
> > hadn't.
> >
> > Thanks,!
>
> Well.. guess I was wrong. :)
>
> -Rich
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