[mythtv-users] ATSC Channel numbers

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/07/2010 08:58 PM, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> No, my problem was that I tried using a hyphen and a dot for the
> channel separators and neither worked.  When I looked more closely at
> the channel numbers, I saw that the separator character was an
> underscore.
>
> Brent Bolin said "I thought there was an option when setting up the
> backend to specify "-", "." or none for channel separators".  I've
> been poking around looking for that setting, but have been unable to
> find it.  Can anybody point me in the direction of where it is
> defined?  (Is it a compile-time constant perhaps?)
>   

It was removed in the as-yet-unfinished channel-scanner rewrite.

> It looks I could use MythWeb to change the channel numbers for all of
> my channels to use a hyphen or a period for the separator, but now I'm
> thinking that's probably not worth it, although I like Brent's idea of
> making all of the "N_1" channels be listed simply as "N" and using the
> channel up button to scroll to the "N_2", "N_3", etc... channels.
>
> Now that I see that the channel numbers are configurable via MythWeb,
> that kinda argues against the possibility of there being a single
> configuration item that I could change to magically make the separator
> change for all of the channel numbers.  Perhaps the configuration item
> would only apply when defining new channels.
>   

Yep, specifically when scanning--or it will when the scanner is finished
(unless it's decided it's unnecessary :).

Mike