[mythtv-users] Trying to watch livetv on 0.28 is starting on an invalid channel

[Jim]

On 7/18/2016 11:16 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 09:40 -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> I can't comment on how the wrong channel ID got set as the default,
> I can.  It's exactly as I described.  LiveTV on a given FE was used and
> it was watching a digital channel on a digital tuner.  LiveTV was
> exited and that channel was saved into the DefaultChanid row of the
> settings table for that FE.  The digital tuner was then deleted and the
> digital channel that was saved in DefaultChanid was no longer valid as
> there was no tuner that could tune it.
>
>> Run mythtv-setup and it's there in the Input Connections settings,
>> under
>> Starting Channel.
> No.  This does not work, as I believe I have stated previously.  I
> specifically tried this and it does NOT affect the channel that LiveTV
> tries to start on.  The DefaultChanid setting in the settings table in
> the database does.
>
> Cheers,
> b.

I believe you can select a channel in the program guide to watch and it 
should go to that channel. On exit it will reset the last channel 
watched. No db poking required.

Jim