[mythtv-users] Multiple tuner types with single Schedules Direct account

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/10/2007 12:51 AM, Marc wrote:
>>> This does not work for the NTSC channels.. The I deleted the channels
>>> that I cannot receive on the NTSC tuners using the same method as I
>>> did for the ATSC tuners.. However the next time mythfilldatabase is
>>> run the channels I deleted get added back. This some of my recordings
>>> on the high def channels attempt to record on the tuners that cannot
>>> receive those channels.
>> If not--if you're actually using only one SD lineup--you need
>> --remove-new-channels in mythfilldatabase arguments.  See the end of
>> http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss24.4 .  The 'F' (full) in
>> RTFM.  :)
> I read the --help wrong for mythfilldatabase. 
> --remove-new-channels
>    When using DataDirect, ask mythfilldatabase to
>    remove new channels (those not in the database)
>    from the DataDirect lineup.  These channels are
>    removed from the lineup as if you had done so
>    via the DataDirect website's Lineup Wizard, but
>    may be re-added manually and incorporated into
>    MythTV by running mythfilldatabase without this
>    option.  New channels are automatically removed
>    for DVB and HDTV sources that use DataDirect.
>
> I understood this as it would remove channels from the lineup on the schedules direct site. Now that I reread it, it makes more sense.

It actually did with Z2L (and the help hasn't been updated since then,
so you didn't read the help wrong ;).  I don't think it does now with
SD.  And, even if it's updated to do so with SD, it won't do so when the
channels are being used for another video source that uses the same lineup.

Mike