[mythtv-users] Anyone in UK - Don't forget to do your DVB-T retune today.

[Roy Lofthouse]

2009/10/8 Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net>:
> Neil Bird wrote:
>>
>> Around about 06/10/09 12:01, Paul Gardiner typed ...
>>>
>>> I don't quite get this. What is it achieving over and above just a few
>>> database updates, like e.g. the ones below? I thought you might be
>>> picking up the xmltvids or correct channel numbers automatically,
>>> but you still seem to have those hardwired.
>>
>>  It is using the updated scan data from tzap, and doing minimal updates to
>> the database from that instead of getting Myth to re-scan and potentially
>> stuff the channel, for all the reasons I've listed plus:  another post has
>> reminded me that Myth never managed to scan the channels properly for me
>> anyway, I had to do an import from a tzap channels.conf I'd made.
>>
>>  I'd rather see the small no. of changes that need to be made to get the
>> tuning right, than rely on Myth magic I know has failed me in the past.
>>
>>
>>  That said, I'm am aware that I may have to take the plunge again at some
>> point, and am considering putting some of my wishes to one side and setting
>> the callsigns to match the broadcast names (so that a scan has a chance of
>> matching up again later;  I can change my script to do that), so I can see
>> myself using a version of the script you listed to reset xmltvid/channum
>> values anyway.
>>
>>  But not yet.
>
> I was just wondering if you could make a simple mysql script that did
> both the renamings you mentioned, and the channel/xmltvid settings.
> Then you wouldn't lose anything in a complete retune. I could well
> be failing to understand all you've said, though.
>
> P.
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could you not even go one further and add the multplex and service
ID's??  That way you wouldn't have to do a retune at all...(well
someone would have to for each transmitter and every time a change
happened and then make it available etc).