As a Verizon FIOS TV customer myself, I just noticed several channels changed on me. A run of:<br><br>mythfilldatabase --do_channel_updates<br><br>seemed to fix things up quite nicely, though.<br><br>[MjS]<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 3/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Tsai</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@tsaiberspace.net">mythtv@tsaiberspace.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:28:05PM -0500, Kurt Yoder wrote:<br>> Verizon recently changed their channel numbers. Now some of my<br>> channel numbers no longer match the XML channel id. I could fix this<br>> by deleting all my channels and allowing mythfilldatabase to re-fill
<br>> them. However, then the previous recordings using the old channel<br>> numbers would show incorrect channels. Is there any way around this,<br>> or do I just have to accept incorrect channel numbers for old
<br>> recordings?<br><br>Recordings are keyed by chanid (channel number) and starttime. The<br>original channel name/callsign/etc. are not stored for each recording.<br>Bascially, MythTV doesn't "move" very well between TV areas or channel
<br>lineups.<br><br>xmltvids only affect listings information (if you use DataDirect) and<br>will not affect your frontend display. So you're talking about a few<br>different things at once.<br><br>I have recordings from before I moved, where I had a different channel
<br>lineup, with chanids that don't exist anymore in my new location.<br><br>--Rob<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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