[myth-ie] adding Virgin1, and which install?

[Brendan Kehoe]

Hi folks,

These are the steps I did this morning to add the Virgin1 channel which
has appeared on NTL Digital.

Instead of mythtvsetup, I went in through the web interface and looked
in the "MythTV channel info" for a channel I'd unmarked as visible (aka
not visible because it'd been dropped).  I found the channel for ITV3
which didn't have 'visible' marked, and replaced its info with the
xmltvid (virgin1.virginmedia.com) and channel 129.  A run of
mythfilldatabase the replaced the listings to have the correct info.

I'm way behind on upgrading anything, but it would sure be cool if the
web configuration interface let you do most of the stuff below instead
of having to do them by hand.  Instead of finding an X display to be
able to run mythtvsetup, anyway. :)

        Add Virgin1 on channel 129.
        * /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt/channel_ids: Add
                virgin1.virginmedia.com:2049:Virgin1
        * .mythtv/NTL Digital Dublin.xmltv: Add
          channel virgin1.virginmedia.com
        * In db via
          http://sc/mythweb/settings/channels
        change entry 19 from disabled itv3 to enabled with
        virgin1.virginmedia.com on channel 129.
        * wget http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/logo/tv/vv/virgin_1.jpg
        * mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
        use mythconverg;
        update channel set
icon='/usr/share/mythtv/icons/tv/virgin_1.jpg' where
xmltvid='virgin1.virginmedia.com';
        * mythfilldatabase


I'm again pondering a setup from scratch again cuz I've got an idle
500gb disk which could replace the 250gb it's currently using.  Is there
now a great all-in-one MythTV package which would be easier than doing
Jarod's Fedora instructions?  (Assuming they're similar to what they
were last year or the year before.)  Is something like KnoppMyth
reasonably correct in what it creates?

I've also been considering populating the channels database with a 1:1
match to the list of NTL channels.  This just means I'd have lots of
channels not visible, like for channel 201 and 204, I'd mark 202 and 203
as not visible.  (Random number selection, not necessarily correct. :)
)  It'd be a question of creating a script to feed into mysql, probably.

B