[mythtv-users] Lineup changes coming

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/10/2008 09:36 AM, Anthony R. Baker wrote:
> Yesterday I informed schedulesdirect (through the website) Spike TV moved 
> from ch.325 to 241 on Directv in my area. Within 15 min. I received a reply 
> from Robert Kulagowski saying  "I've submitted this to TMS". I checked just 
> before I wrote this and it hasn't changed yet. I'll reply back when it does. 
> A little O.T. though, my kids like the old Star Trek DS9 shows that come on 
> at 2A.M. I was able to get around the problem by starting the recording 
> early and setting the Directv box to auto tune on time. It made me wonder if 
> it could be automated running a mysql statement changing the channel number 
> after the database update via cron. Its not worth it for this but maybe for 
> someone who's STB doesn't auto tune.

You know, the freqid (i.e. the "channel number" that Myth tunes) is 
editable in mythtv-setup...  As long as the xmltvid specified in 
mythtv-setup for the channel matches the one that SD uses, you'll get 
the right data in the right place.  The channel number, channel name, 
channel callsign, channel description, freqid are irrelevant when it 
comes to matching up listings with channels in the DB.  They are only 
used to match up the xmltvid the first time.  So there's no reason to 
wait for SD to fix it or to put workarounds in place.

Mike