[mythtv-users] Snip! Snip! Cutting the cable.

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gary,

Friday, March 19, 2021, 5:32:39 PM, you wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 4:10 PM Stephen Baker
> <stephen at wildwood.baker.org> wrote:

>> Won't that remove all the channels with the same sourceid?

> Not if you are on the supported version of MythTV
> (i.e. fixes/31) where the channels are marked
> "deleted" (and removed/cleaned up when the last
> reference is deleted).  This was implemented by
> gigem for fixes/31 (it is buried in the release notes).

>> Marking each channel as not visible

> If you want to go that way, there is a 3rd party
> tool MythUtil-Channel-visibility (documented on
> the wiki) that uses the services API that can
> update all the channels in a videosource as
> (in)visible, but I think in your case you would
> want to just delete the videosource.
> _______________________________________________

I think disconnecting the videosource from your card will do the
trick. You then leave the source intact but inactive.


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