[mythtv-users] How To Configure Channel Priorities

[Jay Foster]

On 5/26/20 8:17 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 15:55:46 -0700, you wrote:
> 
>> I am using MythTV 0.28.  I would like to change the recording priority
>> for one of my channels.
>>
>> For example, I have two different channels with the same call sign, and
>> I would like to raise the priority on one of them to prefer using it
>> instead of the other channel.
>>
>> I looked at the wiki
>> (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Scheduling_Recordings), but when I go to
>> the Recording Priorities->Channel Priorities configuration, it does not
>> show the associated channel numbers, only the call sign.  I cannot tell
>> one channel from another.
>>
>> Is there some mysql query that I can use to manually configure this?
>>
>> Jay
> 
> You certainly could set the individual channel priorities using SQL
> commands, but there is no need as they are available in the
> mythtv-setup GUI.  You can adjust them without shutting down
> mythbackend.  On Ubuntu, where mythtv-setup is a script that runs
> mythtv-setup.real, go to a command prompt running as your frontend
> user and run mythtv-setup.real.  When mythtv-setup.real asks to stop
> mythbackend, tell it no.  Then on v30 I would do this:
> 
> 6. Channel Editor > select the channel you want > Enter > Channel
> Options - Common > Scroll down to Priority (it is off the bottom of
> the screen)
> 
> In 0.28 it will be a little different, but you can select the
> individual channels by number and the Priority setting should be
> there.
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Thanks,  This method seemed to work.  I ended up using the MythTV 
Backend Setup to do this and I needed to stop the backend and restart it 
to get it to reschedule using the changed channel priority.
Jay