[mythtvnz] Sky is renumbering its channels on 1-May-2013

[Steve Hodge]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:

> On 30/04/13 20:08, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>
>> It must be something else then, as the five bad* channels in my old
>> channels.conf.sky get added back into the database every day.  I have
>> not checked exactly when it happens, but I am betting that it is when
>> I do my EPG updates at 15:10 each day.  Maybe it is mythfilldatabase?
>> Or tv_grab_nz-py?
>>
>
> mythfilldatabase will add channels it finds in the data you feed to it.
> That's one of the reasons to use tv_grab_nz-py - filtering out the channels
> you don't want so this doesn't happen.
>

You can also use the correct argument to mythfilldatabase to prevent it
adding channels. Or you can let it add them and then set them as not
visible. Between those 3 options it's not hard to avoid mystery channels
appearing.

Cheers,
Steve
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