[mythtv-users] updating out of date channels

[Simon Hobson]

Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:

> i think we all know the hassle it is to rescan and set the guide up manually.

Yes indeed, which is why some of us are using some variant of the scripts described in the wiki :

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script
This is largely one I wrote with contributions from a number of people who have improved it, the page needs updating now Schedules Direct is providing listings, it now looks like :
update channel set visible=1,channum=1 ,xmltvid="24325" where callsign="BBC ONE N West" ;

Following the link on that page, you get to https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments where there are some other scripts that might give you inspiration.

The script is a bit of a PITA to maintain as you need to update it every time something changes. However that's trivial compared with the problem of doing it all manually every time you re-scan - with the script you can re-scan as often as you want and just re-run the script.