EyeTV channel numbers smaller than 10?

[nelly22]

I managed to arrange all EyeTV channels to custom order using instructions from below url, but now smallest channel number is 10.

http://help.elgato.com/customer/portal/articles/1496395-how-do-i-sort-the-order-of-my-channels-in-eyetv-

How i can change channel numbers to start from 1?

Year ago i used EyeTVChannelListUpdater (EyeTVCLUpdater) which i found from net. It fixed this problem, but for some reason this app don't work in Yosemite. Maybe some one can recreate this app? This is all i know about this app. I think it's by Daniel Knippers:

Re: Channel numbers
by knippers » May 1st, 2008, 11:51 am

I think the issue of renumbering the channel list should be fixed by Elgato. And I know for sure one of the old versions had that functionality.
For now I created a little Java application (source code included) to automate the workaround suggested by Michael (msdemott). I have used that workaround for quite some time now (for EyeTV 2.x and 3.x). It's not that much work if you have to do it once a year. However my cable provider keeps adding channels and even reorganizes them sometimes.
So here is my workaround:
- Download and unzip the attachment added to this post.
- Using EyeTV's Channels view, reorder the channels the way you want them
- Close EyeTV
- Again to make sure you don't miss it, close EyeTV
- Go to the folder that contains the extracted files from the attachment
- Double click the Terminal alias
- At the prompt (host:~ user$ ) type cd<space>
- Drag&Drop the folder name where the attament files are to the terminal window
- Hit enter
- type java EyeTVCLUpdater<enter>
- start EyeTV and enjoy the result.

The program will first convert the property list containing the EyeTV channel info to the XML plist format. It will then read the XML and select all channel nodes that are active and have a logical channel number (this are all the channels you see in the channels list, also the ones not checked). All the matching nodes are reassigned with a new sequence number starting with 1.

Note that the program creates a backup of the original plist file (com.elgato.eyetv.plist.bak) in case something should go wrong.

Disclaimer: use it at your own risk. the procedure is not that hard, but I guess you should have played around with plists and terminal to feel comfortable to use it.

Feel free to make suggestions or comments.

Daniel
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EyeTVChannelListUpdater.zip
EyeTV Channel List updater program
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