[mythtv-users] Easier way to reset live tv start channel?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 20:45:34 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> Every now and then someone in our house will be watching live tv when
> the signal gets screwed up (ie: bad signal sent by the cable company).
> For instance, right now, PBS has been screwed up for a half hour. The
> problem is, when the channel goes bad, it kicks you out of live tv.
> When you then go to re-enter live tv, it tries to resume the last
> channel, but since that channel is broken it just kicks you out to the
> menu again in about 5 seconds. In the mean time, the frontend is
> unresponsive, so you can't change the channel to try and select a new
> one before it kicks you out.
>
> The only solution I've found to this is to go into mythweb, edit the
> settings table, and change the host-specific value for DefaultChanid
> (which, of course, requires knowing a valid value for another channels
> chanid), and then restarting the frontend. This is doable for me
> (though not exactly convenient), but is obviously out of the question
> for my wife when I'm not around.
>
> Does anyone have a better way to deal with this problem (and no,
> avoiding live tv isn't a valid answer)? About the only thing I can
> think of is to create a new menu entry in my menu theme (I use a
> custom menu theme, so that's not an issue) which executes an external
> script that modifies the database settings table directly and then
> restarts the frontend. Not very elegant, but is there another option?
>

How about putting the SQL to do this in a script and tie the script to
a menu item.


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