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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 1 May 2013 00:19:56 +1200, you wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:12:27 +1200, you wrote:
>>
>> >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.
>>
>> I thought the channel adding options in mythfilldatabase only applied
>> to using datadirect.  The options have changed a bit over the last
>> couple of versions, but that is still what the mythfilldatabase --help
>> output seems to suggest.
>>
>
>--update is the option in question. "Stops the addition of new channels and
>the changing of channel icons." I am using a pretty old version, however
>the wiki seems to indicate that this has not changed.

OK, thanks for that.  The mythfilldatabase --help output for me just
says:

--update                        Run non-destructive updates

which does not really explain that very well.

>> Anyway, I just checked and I am running mythfilldatabase without any
>> options, so I just need to fix my two *.xmltv files to get it to
>> filter for the current channels for both sources and I should get rid
>> of those extra channels appearing.  They would probably be gone anyway
>> from my updating to use the new epgsnoop channels.conf I created.
>>
>
>My person opinion (though I believe it is shared by the devs) is that the
>better solution is to simply set those channels to not be visible.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve

Making any newly created channels not visible seems like a good idea
to me, but ideally I would like to be notified somehow that there are
some new channels, so I could decide what to do about them.