[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.24 Live TV Returns to last channel/tuner watched - Not good for me!

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 11/12/2010 02:35 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
> On 12/11/10 19:11, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>  On 11/12/2010 02:06 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>>> On 12/11/10 18:56, Robert McNamara wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Dave Pearson  wrote:
>>>>> Although it is entirely logical for Live TV to start playing on 
>>>>> the same
>>>>> channel and tuner as was last watched, for me this is not so good 
>>>>> as it
>>>>> means my Sky + box is often tuned to a different channel when my 
>>>>> son is
>>>>> watching it in another room.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way I can return MythTV 0.24 to the old behaviour of 
>>>>> always
>>>>> starting on the last Tuner?
>>>> No.  Myth expects to have exclusive access to all equipment.
>>> Hmmm, I can understand it wanting exclusive access to internal 
>>> adapters, but exclusive access to external Set Top Boxes is not 
>>> always desirable - especially where the Set Top Box is shared with 
>>> other people.
>>>
>>> I definitely preferred the old behaviour in this instance - 
>>> everything else I've looked at in 0.24 is really good, so please 
>>> don't take this as a complaint. Who would I need to send a request 
>>> to to make this a user selectable option?
>>
>> Please explain this old behavior of which you speak.  Then I can tell 
>> you your options.  I don't understand what you're trying to do, and 
>> I'm pretty sure nothing has changed regarding input selection (in 
>> Live TV or otherwise).
>>
>> I need to know what behavior you're seeing and what behavior you're 
>> expecting.
> OK, here goes:
>
> Up until I upgraded to MythTV 0.24, whenever I started Live TV it 
> would always start on the last channel selected on the Last Tuner in 
> the list of Tuners.

Because you had selected "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled 
recordings."

> Since I've upgraded to 0.24, it now starts on the last channel that 
> was being watched on the last Tuner being used. For me, this is not so 
> good since it could be the Composite Channel on my PVR250, which means 
> the IR Blaster changes the channel on my Sky Box (and my son gets 
> cross with me!).

No, MythTV has always (before 0.24 and after) chosen the best-quality 
local input for MythTV /unless/ you specified, "Avoid conflicts between 
live TV and scheduled recordings," in which case it uses the default 
input on the last-defined card.

> I'd like to be able to change it back so that it always starts on the 
> last tuner (in my case a DVB-T card).

Set the setting.

Mike