[mythtv-users] Copying channel definitions from one instance of MythTV to another

[Anthony Giggins]

On 2 June 2015 at 13:30, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm playing around with moving my MythBackend to a new instance on a
> different machine. At this point I don't want to backup from one and
> restore to the other. Setting up the channels on the new MythBackend seems
> painful. For example, at the completion of the scan (Australian DVB-T) it
> says that there are duplicate channel numbers and asks me to enter a
> channel number for each and every one of the 90 or so channels it's found.
>
> Is there a way to export the channel information I have in the original
> MythBackend and importing that into the new one?
>
> I've looked around and I'm confused about the purpose of channels.conf.
>
> I also found this -
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Restore_xmltvids_after_a_channel_scan
> - but it appears that it will just UPDATE already-defined channels with
> XMLTV IDs. I'm trying to find a way of importing all the channel
> information. Is this possible?
>
> Hi Phil,

If your using shepherd it has a nice guided channel setup

http://svn.whuffy.com/

Regards,

Anthony
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