Where are the channels stored

steve parry

Hi all,

Im a software engineer and I'm looking for a way bulk sorting my channels.

I'm thinking of accessing the config files and editing them, I found the channel tags folder but im cant seem to find where the actual channels are stored. can anyone help?

Baum K

Hi Steve,

For example ,if you're using an Openelec distrib, you will find channels in

//openelec/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.tvheadend/dvbtransports

Each service is stored in a file.

When the service is mapped, file is updated with fields :
- channelname

- mapped

Hope this helps

steve parry

Baum K wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> For example ,if you're using an Openelec distrib, you will find channels in
>
> //openelec/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.tvheadend/dvbtransports
>
> Each service is stored in a file.
>
> When the service is mapped, file is updated with fields :
> - channelname
> - mapped
>
>
> Hope this helps

> :)

Thanks for the info. Although I still cant seem to find where the tagging is stored.

e.g.
Channel Tag : "MyTag"

TV Channel : "MyChannel"

I add the tag "MyTag" to the channel "MyChannel" but I cant see where that has been stored

ProfYaffle

/home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/channels

This folder contains a series of numbered files, each one corresponding to a channel; each file includes references to the tags, e.g.


hts@Server:~/.hts/tvheadend/channels$ more 406
{
	"name": "BBC ONE HD",
	"tags": [
		3,
		5,
		1,
		7
	],
	"dvr_extra_time_pre": 0,
	"dvr_extra_time_post": 0,
	"channel_number": 141
}

and changing to ../channeltags then gives the corresponding tag files:


hts@Server:~/.hts/tvheadend/channeltags$ more 3
{
	"enabled": 0,
	"internal": 0,
	"titledIcon": 0,
	"name": "",
	"comment": "",
	"icon": "",
	"id": 3
}
hts@Server:~/.hts/tvheadend/channeltags$ more 5
{
	"enabled": 1,
	"internal": 0,
	"titledIcon": 0,
	"name": "BBC HD",
	"comment": "",
	"icon": "",
	"id": 5
}
hts@Server:~/.hts/tvheadend/channeltags$ more 1
{
	"enabled": 1,
	"internal": 0,
	"titledIcon": 0,
	"name": "TV channels",
	"comment": "",
	"icon": "",
	"id": 1
}
hts@Server:~/.hts/tvheadend/channeltags$ more 7
{
	"enabled": 1,
	"internal": 0,
	"titledIcon": 0,
	"name": "HDTV",
	"comment": "",
	"icon": "",
	"id": 7
}
hts@Server:~/.hts/tvheadend/channeltags$

Akos Sz

Hi,

I was also looking for a tool which makes possible mass editing of channels, mappings, favorite list, etc. I am not a software engineer, however I decided to write an application for myself. It is almost finished and I think it is quite powerful in comparision with TVH GUI.

If you are interested I can share it.

ProfYaffle

Please do so - why not - I'm sure folks here can help if you're concerned about licence/legalities. But there are a couple of tvheadend "companion applications" (tvhguide, the mobile GUI) and more must always be good. You never know - maybe it could be incorporated as an official application!

Baum K

Sure ... please share it ! :)

steve parry

Would be great, also it would save me some time creating my own lol :)

Akos Sz

Ok. I have to finish some missing things an add a small help then I will upload here during the weekend.

Akos Sz

Hi,

Here it is:

https://tvheadend.org/d/1416-tvheadedit-tool