Customizing the Channel Guide Questions

[nikleb]

As a result of the not working guide source switch I had to go through the TV setup again. Thus I ended up with all channels again. I previously disabled many channels.
Is there a better way to edit the channels outside of MC. e.g. with a file edit?

[nikleb]

I found some pictures on google that show more guide liens. But all howto links are dead.
Does anyone know how to do this?

[Moderator note: topics merged]

[stuartm]

I use My Channel Logos and it has some options to increase the number of lines of guide data. I don't know how to do it outside of using that though.

[nikleb]

Great! Thanks.

Any known issues combining this with AmazonMCE Plugin? Can I install MCL after AmazonMCE?

[stuartm]

I'm afraid I don't have AmazonMCE installed. I doubt they interfere with each other. However, you could always image your disk before trying MCL and restore back if you encounter ptoblems.

[nikleb]

yes. It works. Glad if found MCL (and AmazonMCE).

Is there a better way to edit the channels outside of MC (to disable unwanted channels). e.g. with a file edit?

[docluv01]

Use Guideditor

yes. It works. Glad if found MCL (and AmazonMCE).

Is there a better way to edit the channels outside of MC (to disable unwanted channels). e.g. with a file edit?

[DavidinCT]

Use Guideditor

yes. It works. Glad if found MCL (and AmazonMCE).

Is there a better way to edit the channels outside of MC (to disable unwanted channels). e.g. with a file edit?

Are you talking about Guide Tool, or is this another product your speaking of ?

Still, there is a backup in Guidetool, but, it can be flakey, If you back it up on your current system and change things, yea it works good but, if you back up and rebuild, it can be hit or miss.

I know it sucks but, I keep an excel spreadsheet of all the channels I get and time to time I compare my list with Comcast (to see if anything was added or removed), so when I have to re-run TV setup, I "clear all" and number by number, I type then check. I use the guide took to change 1008 to 8.1 etc with all the local channels (I prefer the OTA channel numbers). It's a pain but, normally takes about 20 min or so and it's done.

I do weekly backups on my HTPC, so if I do some tuner changes that I didn't change any hardware (and no new DRM based recordings), I can just restore the system and get everything back the way it was (just backing up the OS drive, that is JUST the OS)