<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I know myth devs who would shoot you down for playing with the mysql rather than using the tools provided (mythtv-setup). <br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps. I had a look at the channel editor and I couldn't see where to enter the service id or multiplex id, although the latter might have been correctly set if I had been able to guess that the frequency meant freq id.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The channel table is, as far as I can see, near the 'leaf' of most relationships, although it is obviously related to the program and recorded tables. I would not try to add a card via sql though...</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you meant run a scan on a working system, that's something I won't do again (I don't remember exactly why, I just remember I won't do it again).</div><div><br></div><div>Mythtv is a great system which has actually changed the way I record and watch tv. But it is quite complicated. I made quite a few wrong decisions when originally setting up my systems, which are not all that easy to correct because of all the recordings I now have (and the space they take).</div>
<div><br></div><div>So the way that I do things is not necessarily the correct way, but the way that I am happy makes the minimal alterations to my working system, and that I am confident I can reverse if I want to... :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Brendan</div></div>