[mythtv-users] Channel listings for one channel don't show up in mythweb

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:17:16 +0000, you wrote:

>On Wednesday, 9 December 2020, Chris H <hoffchris at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I had a similar issue recently when I migrated from dd to xmltv.  Looking
>> at the ‘channel’ table in the database, I noticed that the deleted channels
>> were still there, but the ‘deleted’ column now had a date.  It seems like
>> mythweb pays no attention to this column, which causes confusion with
>> listings and scheduling recordings.  I suppose the proper fix would be to
>> update mythweb to not select deleted channels.  But instead I just used sql
>> to remove the deleted channels from the channel table.  The only negative
>> side-effect I’ve noticed from this is all my old recordings no longer
>> indicate the channel they were recorded on.  This is probably because the
>> ‘chanid’ no longer exists in the database (I also replaced my sources in
>> this migration, so the ’same’ channels would have a different chanid).
>>
>
>That explains my 8 zombie channels.  They must be the ones I have
>recordings from.
>
>If I watch and delete those recordings perhaps the channel's will disappear?
>
>Seems the backend's being quite clever, but mythweb isn't.

It looks like mythweb has not been updated for the changes done in v31
to keep old channels when there are still recordings.  Since mythweb
is no longer really supported, that is not surprising.  So someone who
understands PHP needs to take a look at fixing it.  I would be
surprised if it was very difficult.