[mythtv] idea: channel groups

[henri]

i wrote a simple "favorites" setting for mythweb and a link
that lets you display all the listings or just the favorites. 

it saves the settings in the session (which i've been trying
to maintain for a longer period of time, i think i found the
right entries for php.ini to keep them around for ever)

i cheated and just added a column to the chanel editting
page (not really the right place for it)

works pretty well (and since it's session/cookie based my
wife and i don't have to have the same favorites). but it's
for a just-post-16 cvs snapshot.... been meaing to update my
box and post the patch but been waiting for cvs to calm down
a bit.

henri





On 09 Dec 2004, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote: 

> I just noticed that zap2it added another huge block of channels to my 
> list, and I came up with the idea of channel groups (which is kind of 
> similar to what Dish does with their onscreen stuff).  The idea would be 
> that you could set up groups of channels (say "broadcast", "kid-safe" 
> etc) and choose between them.  It would really help with large listings, 
> or work better with special channels (like the 60 or so Sirius music 
> channels that Dish has) I don't want to see in my normal listings, but 
> might want to occasionally check out.
> 
> With stuff like kid-safe, you could also use the group stuff as a 
> parental lock, to keep kids out of channels they're not allowed into.
> 
> It would also allow myth to notify users when new channels show up, and 
> set them to be ignored (Dish gets a bunch every few weeks that I don't 
> actually get with my subscription), or added to certain groups (would be 
> even cooler if mythbackend could check those channels for content, but I 
> wouldn't keep my hopes up for that).
> 
> I don't know if most people are like me or not, but I tend to watch a 
> very small subset of the channels I get with my subscription, and it'd 
> be nice to be able to hide those channels most of the time, but still 
> search/browse them when I want to.  Would help keep mythweb page load 
> times down a bit, too.
> 
> Just brainstorming..
> 
> -Chris
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