[mythtvnz] Prime => Sky Open

Paul paulgir at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 22:33:26 BST 2023


On 24/08/23 09:16, Fritz Hildebrand wrote:
> Thanks for that Stephen. It does look, however, that the DVB-T epg I 
> get using do_mhegepgsnoop.sh still show PRIME, so have left the 
> xmltvid at 'prime' for now.
>
> On 23/08/2023 3:35 pm, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> The renaming of Prime has happened on DVB-T, DVB-S and DVB-S2.  The
>> only change is the name, all other settings remain the same:
>>
>> "Prime" => "Sky Open"
>> "Prime HD" => "Sky Open"
>> "Prime +1" => "Sky Open +1"
>>
>> The channel table "name", "callsign", "xmltvid" and "icon" fields need
>> to be updated, and the record table "station" field.
>>
>> New icons can be downloaded from here:
>>
>> http://freeviewnz.tv/nonumbracoimages/ChannelsOpg/SkyOpenlogo_RGB_1280X1280.jpg 
>>
>> http://freeviewnz.tv/nonumbracoimages/ChannelsOpg/SkyOpen_Pluslogo_RGB_1280X1280.jpg 
>>
>>
>> Note that rescanning will change the channel table fields, but will
>> not change the record.station field to match, so all the recording
>> rules that use the "station" value will still need to be manually
>> changed.  I am just manually editing the channels in mythtv-setup >
>> Channel Editor and then using SQL to change the record.station values
>> to match.  For example (it may not exactly match your database):
>>
>> select recordid,chanid,station,title from record where station like
>> '%prime%';
>>
>> update record set station='Sky Open' where station='PRIME';
>>
>> After making a change like that, restart mythbackend.  Then re-fetch
>> your EPG data so it will match the changed database.


My system is still recording this channel as usual.

I use OTA data for scheduling

-Paul




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