[mythtv-users] V31, switching to xmltv on fedora

[DaveD]

On 4/14/20 12:11 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 4/14/20 1:37 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 5:12 PM DaveD <mythtv at guiplot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/12/20 10:53 AM, Calvin Dodge wrote:
>>>> I saw this message for a couple of channels that I _do_ receive.  So I
>>>> manually set their xmltvid values to that format, using the XML TV ID
>>>> shown by Schedules Direct.  That worked - the schedule for those
>>>> channels was updated, and I was able to record shows using that
>>>> updated schedule.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't scanned channels in forever because I thought I didn't have 
>> to. I
>> can log into SD and select or de-select any channel I want. Does that no
>> longer work with the xmltv method?
>
> From the SD web site, after logging in and looking at the list of 
> channels
> I'd selected in the past:
>
>   Schedules Direct offers two data services. With the new SD-JSON 
> service, lineups are managed within the application. The legacy SD-DD 
> (XML)
>   service (still used by most applications) requires you add a lineup 
> below.
>
> The on/off switch seems to be the selected column in one's SQLite DB.

Don't know about where you are, but last year we had three times when 
our OTA channels changed.  Some channels changed frequencies and a 
re-scan was required to get them back.  Some didn't come back, and we 
gained some we didn't get before.

Dave D.