[mythtv-users] Change startup channel

[Steven Adeff]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Rob Davis <rob at davis-family.info> wrote:
> On 04/03/12 04:11, Richard Morton wrote:
>> surely this should be logged as a bug?
>> Family came to visit the other day and turned on a childrens channel in
>> livetv during the day. Later on in the evening they turned on livetv
>> again and the channel was off-air. Mythfrontend just locked up. I had to
>> kill it or wait a very long time for it to fail back to the menu. Surely
>> it should be responsive and allow you to change channels at any time
>> including while tuning.
>>
>> In mythsetup you can change the startup channel but this requires
>> stopping the backend. You probably can do it through mythweb as well but
>> I have never tried and cant see an obvious db setting name.
>>
>> I have found under the frontend that I had the above issue with
>>   - DefaultTVChannel
>> but I dont think that is it cause the channel it starts up at is not the
>> set value.
>>
>
> In ended up going into phpmyadmin and changing the settings for
> DefaultTVChannel for all 3 of my frontends.  Changing the startup
> channel didn't work for me..
>
> Definite bug..

I just ecountered this as well with one of the NBA league pass channels.

Would this be considered a bug, or would it get marked as a feature
request w/out patch?

Ideally a default "known good" channel could be set that in this
situation the tuner would attempt to tune before kicking back out.


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