[mythtv-users] Q: Hide channel in guide but allow to use with "Watch TV"?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/12/2013 10:01 AM, Dale Quigg wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> I'll look into channel guides (although I don't see how this works at 
> first glance) and remember that I can input the numbers manually.

It's Channel Groups.  The idea is that you group together some set of 
channels and give it a human-readable/-identifiable name.

For example, you create a Channel Group with the channels you watch most 
often and call it, "Favorites."  You create another with the sports 
channels and call it "Sports" and another with movie channels called 
"Movies" and ...

While MythWeb's guide doesn't support/respect Channel Groups (but it can 
be set to show only the channels in the Favorites Channel Group), the 
mythfrontend guide will use Channel Groups (allowing you to toggle which 
one is shown in the guide).  Live TV channel browse mode will also use 
groups if you enable:

Browse/change channels from Channel Group
If enabled, Live TV will browse or change channels from the selected 
channel group. The "All Channels" channel group may be selected to 
browse all channels.

There are also settings:

Remember last channel group
If enabled, the EPG will initially display only the channels from the 
last channel group selected. Pressing "4" will toggle channel group.

Default channel group
Default channel group to be shown in the the EPGPressing GUIDE key will 
toggle channel group.

And thanks for asking about Channel Groups, which prompted me to quote 
the settings for you, which allowed me to see that we have 2 serious 
problems in the setting help text that need to be fixed:  1) we're 
missing a space/period between "EPG" and "Pressing" in the text for 
"Default channel group" and, far more importantly, 2) we have a problem 
with the key bindings mentioned in the "Remember last channel 
group"/"Default channel group" text.

Mike