[mythtv-users] Converting scripts to not use the database directly

[Mike Rice]

Over the years I've developed the bad habit of changing things in the
database directly or using scripts to do it.  After the recent discussion
about using an embedded database I decided to try to get rid of these
scripts and refrain from editing the database.

So far I've replaced a recording_started bash script with a perl script
using the bindings.  That went pretty well but I was only accessing data
and not updating anything.

Next problem: I have channels that I need to toggle the visibility of at
certain times of the year.  These are channels that show hockey part of the
year and baseball other part.  Assuming I only subscribe to one and not the
other I need them to go away for awhile.

I assume this can be done manually with the channel editor but I don't
normally have a keyboard attached and rather do it with a script.  Looks
like I can do it with mythweb too.  A nice script I can run a few times a
year would be easier to me.

Anyone have a script to do this that doesn't modify the database directly?
Or can someone point me to an existing script that can change the
attributes of a channel?  Or some info on how to do this in general?
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