[mythtv-users] Custom channel ordering ?

Robert RobertCL at iname.com
Thu Jan 1 14:27:54 UTC 2009


On Thu, January 1, 2009 1:34 pm, 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 !

I find that just manually (via MythWeb) changing the numbers works for me
- eg set "1" to be BBC1, etc.  I'm not sure what happens if/when you
rescan your channels though...

Robert.



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