[mythtv-users] Automatic channel scans

[Piotr Oniszczuk]

> Wiadomość napisana przez Jeff <jffry at posteo.net> w dniu 08.08.2017, o godz. 20:01:
> 
> It seems to me that there are changes to the channel line-up on Astra
> something every couple of weeks. Mostly I don't notice until recordings
> start failing, and then I don't have the necessary block of couple of
> hours to do anything about it, and so I end up running mythtv-setup
> perhaps every 18 months.
> 
> Would it not be possible to achieve something like automatic channel
> updates by having a job run, say once a week or once a month, which
> performs a scan when the backend is not being used (e.g. in my case,
> before it is shutdown), compares the results to the previous scan, and
> then presents the differences to the user?
> 
> e.g. 'New channel "XYZ" found on Input 1. Add/Ignore?'
>     'Channel "XYZ" moved to frequency/sid/... Update?'
> 
> Is this feasible?
> 
> Does anyone else think this is a good idea?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jeff
> 

Jeff,

You may look (and also devs) on LVR patch for more-or-less such functionality.
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