[mythtv-users] restoring some channels to get back EIT functionality

Mike Holden mikeholden99+mythtv at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 00:39:13 UTC 2017


On 1 January 2017 at 07:03, UB40D <ub40dd at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 31 December 2016 at 16:16, James Miller <gajs-f0el at dea.spamcon.org>
> wrote:
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>>
>> I'm no kind of MythTV adept, but mightn't it have been a better option to
>> hide rather than to delete those channels? This just occurs to me since I
>> recently hid certain Spanish-language channels that appear in my line-up.
>> Perhaps that would have allowed guide data to remain available? Just a
>> thought.
>
>
> Yes, perhaps; and, with hindsight, the probability of this being the
> better choice seems higher.
>
> I did not do it then primarily because there were hundreds of unwanted
> duplicates and the UI for deselecting them was already cumbersome enough
> for deletion. It required a lot more keypresses per entry for hiding. How
> much nicer it would be if you could just mark or unmark channels with a
> single click per selection, and then globally say "I want these deleted, or
> hidden, or whatever". I would have tried hiding if it had been less awkward.
>

The channel editor in MythWeb is much more user-friendly. It's what I
always use for tasks like this.
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