[mythtv-users] 0.28 MythTV frontend does not display ‘input connection’ ‘display name’ when changing input connection

[Al Esch]

On 12/9/2016 2:04 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> Hello MythTV mailing list. This is my first time asking a question 
> through this mailing list so please tell me if/where I am in breach of 
> etiquette – but gently please. ;-} I have looked for this problem in 
> the existing mailing list but haven’t found a match.
>
>
> Reading the “What They’ll Need To Know” in 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Diagnosing_Problems, it seems 
> to me that I can skip a lot of machine level details ‘cause this 
> worked according to the documentation in the previous release and a 
> little different in the next. Only the release of MythTV and the 
> version of Ubunutu has changed, not the hardware.
>
>
> Very simple question. This is something that was working correctly in 
> 0.27 and after migrating to 0.28, it doesn’t quite work the way it 
> did. This is a nuisance for me. Certainly not a major problem.
>
>
> In 0.27, when watching live TV, the ‘Input Connection’ ‘Display Name’ 
> used to work as described in 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_Input_Connections which says that 
> the Input Connection ‘Display Name’ is ‘…displayed on screen when Live 
> TV begins and when changing the selected input or card. If you use 
> this, make sure the information is unique for each input.’ That is, 
> when I started live TV, I saw the display name at the top center of 
> the TV window. When I changed input source (with the ‘y’ key). The 
> name input connection display name was then re-displayed at top center 
> of the TV screen. At least that is my recollection – it was some time ago.
>
>
> Several weeks ago, I migrated to 0.28 (fixes/0.28 (v0.28-2-g15cf421)) 
> as I upgraded Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04. Since then I have noticed 
> that the behaviour is different to 0.27 in that the initial display 
> behaviour is as before, but when I use the ‘y’ key to change tuner, 
> there is no indication of what input connection is in use. I currently 
> have 6 separate input connections so it is easy to lose track of which 
> input connection is in use.
>
>
> So my problem is the lack of ‘display name’ on the live tv window 
> after pressing the ‘y’ key. Can anyone verify that they do or do not 
> have this problem? Anyone still on 0.27 confirm my recollection of the 
> behaviour of 0.27?
>
>
> As a work around, is there a way to display the current display name 
> when in live TV? That would be a good work around. I have two ways at 
> the moment of achieving this but both are clumsy. (1) See what tuners 
> are in use using another frontend to look at Information 
> Center->System Status->Tuner Status and work out which one is in use 
> by live tv (2) Use ‘m’ key->playback->Playback Data and use the 
> filename to extract the device number and use that to determine the 
> input connection.
>
>
> Rgds,
>
> Rob Watson
>
> GMT +11
>
>
I'm still using .27, "c" displays the current input here
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