[mythtv-users] does scte65scan output need to be merged ?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:32:32PM -0700, JS Boyd wrote:
> The way I got around this was in 2 steps. First set the visible database 
>  field in the channel table to 0 on all the channels that no longer 
> exist.
> 
> You can also do this the via the 
> "Utilities/Setup->Setup->TV_Settings->Recording_Priorities->Set_Channel_Recording_Priorities" 
> menu entry. You can select channels from the list and then just uncheck the 
> [X]Visible box on the channels you don't want to be visible to MythTV.
> 
> Then edit the schedules Direct channel list, so the data for those 
> channels no longer downloads. That should do that what you want.
 
That's useful to know, thank you.
 
Now I am left with this:
> >
> >Problem #2:
> >How can I manually add channels that hdhomerun/mythtv does not thing I have
> >without doing a full rescan/remap/rename in mythtv-setup?
> >For instance, I scanned my QAM channels by hand on my QAM capable TV, and 
> >it
> >gets 86.9, but mythfrontend doesn't have any such channel to tune. What
> >gives? (similarly, it won't let me tune 85.13 (SciFi argh Syfy). I suppose
> >the channels weren't there when I last did a full scan in May, I'm just 
> >kind of scared of doing a mythtv-setup full scan and wipe the channel 
> >mappings I hand entered.

What's the story on this, do I really need to do a full rescan for channels
that are now missing, losing all the mappings I made by hand?

> >Question #3:
> >If I manually fix channels in the channels DB, do I really need to do it
> >twice, once for each of my 2 hdhomerun tuners?

What did you have to do? Do you really need to do everything twice for an
hdhomrrun?

> >Question #4:
> >Is my answer just to effectively delete all my hdhomerun channels in the
> >channelsdb and somehow refeed them through scte65scan's output?
> >http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Comcast_Users_And_scte65scan
> >(does that output just take care of fixing channel to xmlid mappings, or
> >does it actually recreate the channels if I remove them all?)
> >Does scte65scan even include all my channels or just the ones it knows 
> >about (which would mean that deleting all my data does not guarantee I'll 
> >get it
> >all repopulated properly)

That's my biggest unknown: what should I do here?

Marc
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