[mythtv] Q regarding "GUI: Enhance Playback to allow change of recording group with arrow keys"

[Peter Bennett]

On 04/17/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:28:09 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> Really nice work with „GUI: Enhance Playback to allow change of recording group with arrow keys"!
>>
>> Is it possible to extend this with small additional functionality:
>>
>> Kodi has nice feature for browsing list of recordings:  when user is on title with multiple episodes, right arrow on such title displays list of all episodes of this title.
>> This behavior is like virtually browsing directories tree where dir is title and within dir we have episodes.
>> This is IMHO very nice feature.
>>
>> myth has already option to show all episodes of given title so implementing such functionality is just discover in PBB that selection is on title with multiple episodes and call „list recorded episodes” when right arrow is pressed.
>> When title hasn’t episodes - right arrow can show pop-up menu like today with Your enhancement.
>>
>> IMHO such way of browsing with Your recent playback enhancement will make almost perfect solution!
>>
>> What you think?
> Have you found the menu item that does what you seem to want?  From a
> recording in All Programmes, M(enu) > List Recorded Episodes.  That
> takes you to the list of all episodes with that title.  From any
> episode in that list, M(enu) > List All Recordings takes you back to
> where that episode is in the All Programmes list.  Right arrow also
> brings up the same menu.
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>

Thank you Stephen for that information. I was not aware it was already 
there.

Piotr - You can do this on your own with no program change -

Edit the recordings-ui.xml for your theme. For mythcenter or terra the 
theme is in /usr/share/mythtv/themes, for downloaded themes it is in the 
.mythtv directory.

In recordings-ui.xml, look for  <buttonlist name="recordings" ,
Look for the triggerevent line
<triggerevent context="Global" action="MENU">RIGHT</triggerevent>
change it to this
<triggerevent context="TV Frontend" 
action="LISTRECORDEDEPISODES">RIGHT</triggerevent>
If there is no triggerevent, just add the line.
Then go into Setup, Edit keys and assign a key to LISTRECORDEDEPISODES 
in the TV Frontend section. It does not matter what key you assign 
there, but there has to be one or this will not work.

Now the right arrow will bring up the recorded episodes.

To preserve your theme change from being overwritten make a copy of the 
theme in .mythtv/themes with a new name. Also edit the themeinfo.xml 
file and put the new theme name in there. Now you should be able to 
select the new theme name in the theme chooser.

Peter