[mythtv-users] ProgramInfo, Error: - should be local, but it can not be found

[Mike Perkins]

Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm curious - is there no way to determine before I lose recordings
>> that Comcast has moved things? That seems sort of weak. Or is no one
>> using Myth concerned about that?
> 
> 
> People are *very* concerned about it-- there's just little to nothing
> we can *do* about it, as lineup changes are transmitted to boxes in a
> proprietary fashion, and aren't something we are able to get at.
> Shuffling of channels, and subsequent scrambling to fix, is the plight
> of free DVR hobbyists everywhere.
> 
Perhaps a small "confidence" script which can be run at a quiet time each night?

I don't know that it would need to do much apart from produce a file a Mk 1 
eyeball could check each morning, unless there's a straightforward way (does not 
use the word "simple") to quickly cross-check channels against the database and 
flag differences. Or is this something that scte64scan can do?

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Mike Perkins