[mythtv-users] Custom channel ordering ?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Thu Jan 1 14:13:16 UTC 2009


On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:

> Just installed MythTV this week, awesome package. Big thanks to
> everyone that made it happen.
>
> But, I'm either missing something obvious, or there's an important
> feature missing. It seems I can only order channels by name or number
> - neither make any sense for me as every other TV product I've used
> has supported custom channel lists of some sort and either method of
> sorting currently available gives a very odd order.
>
> For now I've manually renamed channels to add leading spaces &
> numbers - eg "MORE 4" is now " 14 MORE 4". It does the job, but it's
> a bit of a faff and not really ideal.
>
> If it's not already in the list, can I make a feature request to add
> user-specified sort order to channels ? Ideally, and this could be
> the mechanism I suppose, I'd also like to see sensible channel
> numbers - eg "1" for BBC 1, and so on. "4168" is not exactly
> instantly memorable !

This isn't a problem for U.S. folks who use Schedules Direct and  
handles the numbering correctly. A quick search revealed some scripts  
to help UK users with this like:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=497488

Someone also recently posted a patch to fix up Freeview channel  
numbers on a rescan (not sure what you're using, but it might help):
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/363755

If you're seeing something that is clearly out of sorts, chances are  
someone else has seen it and has a fix for it. Doing a google search  
or looking through the archives is bound to lead to some help. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/

-Brad



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