[mythtv-users] scheduler doesn't run ?

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Per Jessen <per at computer.org> wrote:

> Karl Newman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Per Jessen <per at computer.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Karl Newman wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Per Jessen <per at computer.org>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> There's plenty of unnecessary channels, thousands. I could delete
> >> >> some, but they'll come right back on the next channel scan :-(
> >> >>
> >> > Thousands seems like a lot more than the "hundreds" of channels
> >> > that probably most MythTV users have.
> >>
> >> Anyone with a satellite dish will have something on that order I
> >> suspect. My old Nokia 9902, the predecessor recorder, had about 3500
> >> channels since 2001.
> >>
> >> > If you mark them as invisible instead of deleting them, does that
> >> > survive a channel rescan? I don't know if that would help the
> >> > scheduler run faster, but I do know that invisible channels
> >> > are excluded from scheduling, so it's possible it could help.
> >>
> >> I have not experimented with invisible/deleting channels, but I
> >> suspect the next scan will obliterate any changes I do.  Editing
> >> thousands of channels using the GUI is also not something I'd look
> >> forward to :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> /Per
> >>
> >
> > One UK user wrote a nice script for managing channels through a scan,
> > which would probably help in your situation. Check it out here:
> > http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338243.html
>
> I don't want to dismiss it immediately, but it seems limited to UK
> channels only.
>

That's how it appears from the description, but I recall that other users
outside the UK were able to easily adapt it as a general purpose channel
management script. I'm surprised some of the users haven't jumped in here.

Karl
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