[mythtv-users] Script for detecting copy protected channels on the hdhomerun

[James Roberts]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 14:14 -0600, James Roberts wrote:
> > At first I was going to set it to run after the mythfilldatabase and
> > have it automatically set any channel with the string "protected" in
> > it to not be visible, and I might still do that.  The problem is I
> > still need to remove the channel from both Myth and Schedules Direct
> > to keep the family from screwing up the front end.
>
> You might be able to avoid having to mess around with Schedules Direct
> if you run mythfilldatabase with --remove-new-channels. That will
> prevent it from creating or modifying a channel that appears in SD once
> you have removed it locally. The drawback is that genuine new channels
> in SD won't appear locally until you deal with it manually.
>
> --Greg
>
I'm hoping that one of the 2 better solutions will emerge,
1) Making a channel not visible, will make it not show when browsing the
up/down buttons in live
2) Tuning a protected channel will display a nice, can't view this message,
and let you change to another channel.

If either of those were the current state, I could have my script simply
make the channels not visible, and run it every night, updating visible/not
based on actual status, so as Charter makes changes I can enjoy as much of
the paid-for content as possible.
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