[mythtv-users] Prime w/ CC + HDHR QAM adding channels

Tom Hayward esarfl at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 14:32:56 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> So it's been a couple of weeks, but I finally got around to writing the
> script that I had envisioned.  The script actually tunes each defined
> channel on the Prime, determines the QAM channel number and program
> (multiplex), and searches the channel table for a corresponding HDHR
> channel.  If it finds it, it simply copies all the channel "metadata" from
> the Prime channel.
..
> I went ahead and posted it on the Wiki:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Prime2qam  I would love to get some feedback.
...
> There is a "preview" option if you wish to test the script without actually
> writing the changes to your DB.  It simply outputs the SQL that it would use
> to update the table instead of making the change.

Very cool! I just ran it in PREVIEW mode and it was able to match all
the odd local access channels that I hadn't been able to identify.
I'll take a closer look at the output before running it in normal
mode.

You had capital P in Print on your last line, so I edited the wiki to fix.

Tom


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