naming/renaming Groups

[shellykantrow]

I have 2 providers with some groups with the same name.
when I add one group in and can see the channels in that group in the guide.
then I add the second group and the group in tvGuide shows only the channels in the 2nd group.
all of the channels in both groups show up in a search for a program on channel(s) in both groups.
So I figure if I could rename the first group before bringing in the groups for another provider would sollve the problem.

So my question(s) is(are)
1) how can I rename a group?
2) what else that I haven't thought of can I do?

[sub]

Unfortunately there is no easy way to rename a group at this stage. Strangely, no one has ever asked about doing that.

[Tunes0710]

How about if you imported both in to xTeve and then filtered the list that way? and then imported the xTeve m3u in to npvr

[mvallevand]

For me the simple way to merge would be to use sqlite3 on npvr.db3

Find the too and from group_oid

Code:

select * from channel_group_name;

and enter them here.

Code:

update channel_group
set group_oid = #too_group_oid, sort = rowid
where channel_oid not in (select channel_oid from channel_group where group_oid = #too_group_oid)
and group_oid = #from_group_oid;

Martin

[shellykantrow]

Thanks for your replies.
I haven't used xTeve or SQLite.
maybe I'll look into them at some point.
Meanwhile, I found a work around by going into the db3 file with a hex editor and finding the group name and changing it, (making sure it didn't change the file size which i figure could be problematic), and then updating the group that didn't show up in Settings/Devices.
Now there are 2 separate groups, one from each provider.

[mvallevand]

There are many sqlite database GUI manager for Windows and other platforms and editing with them is much safer than using a hex editor. You could enter sql command lines in them.

Martin

[shellykantrow]

There are many sqlite database GUI manager for Windows and other platforms and editing with them is much safer than using a hex editor.  You could enter sql command lines in them.

Martin

noted.