[mythtv-users] Feature Request: Force external channel changer to always change channel

Justin Mayfield mayfield at mc702.org
Tue Jul 1 16:08:45 EDT 2003


I agree.  Same boat.

JM

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:31, John Klimek wrote:

> I'm not sure how many people have this problem, but I use my satellite
> receiver to watch TV and then when I'm not home, MythTV records off of it
> (using my external channel changer [rca.pl]).
> 
> The problem is that sometimes I will turn off my satellite receiver and it
> will be on channel 309 (for example).  However, MythTV thinks the receiver
> is still on channel 354 because that is what it last changed it to.
> 
> Would it be possible to add a "Force external chanel changer to always
> change channel" option to the mythtv setup?
> 
> As far as the code, I'm fairly sure that I found where the problem is...
> channel.cpp, line 376.  (inside of void Channel::SwitchToInput).
> 
> The first statement,  if (newcapchannel == currentcapchannel)  return;
> 
> I've patched my source so that it doesn't check anymore (always changes the
> channel), but everytime I update to the new CVS I have to re-patch the code.
> The change is super easy, but I just thought that maybe other people have
> this same problem and it could be added to cvs permanently.
> 
> 
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