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

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 09/12/16 07:04, 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.
> 
> 

And the patch you wrote to fix this has been committed. Thanks!

Regards
Stuart