[mythtv-users] Time-Warner Cable/upcoming top-to-bottom channel reorg

[Bob Sully]

Hi all -

I recently received a notice from Time-Warner Cable (Los Angeles area) 
that they are planning a complete channel line-up re-org in about four 
weeks.  I don't think any of their hundreds of channels will retain the 
same numbers.

I am running 0.26-fixes on Ubuntu 12.04, with an HD-PVR (any channel 
recordable, of course) and an HD-HR Prime with CableCard (which I can 
only record the local networks and a few other channels with).  I use 
Schedules Direct.  My Myth system has been humming along nicely to this 
point.  I haven't had to do a full channel re-scan in years.

My question is - what's the best way to go about dealing with this - 
delete all channels and do a full re-scan vs. doing mythfilldatabase 
with do-channel-updates?  From what I've seen in a brief search of the 
archives, the latter doesn't always work; manually entering the channel 
IDs and figuring out which channel is which after a scan doesn't look 
like much fun either (will take a lot of time).  I didn't mind doing it 
for individual channels when a few were moved around, but this total 
shakeup will take a while (perhaps it's a good excuse for not keeping 
any of the SD channels in the DB, since I very rarely record anything 
from them anyway).

What's the consensus here as to the best way to deal with this?


Thanks VERY much, in advance.
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