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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/9/2016 9:20 PM, Robert Watson
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Thanks <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?user=24670;list=mythtv"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">colonelguf
at
gmail</span></a> for the response. <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:36pt"><span
style="font-family:wingdings">Ø<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"times
new roman""> </span></span><span
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I'm
still
using .27, "c" displays the current input here</span><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">First I need to ask you if you
multiple input
connections? If you only have one *and* you change channel,
and end back up on
the same channel *and* 0.27 displays the ‘display name’
correctly, you might just
end up with the display name. Just want to make sure. See
below for more details but for me with my tuners, it takes two
presses of "C" to change input connection.</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">I had a vague recollection that
“C” was what I used to display
the display name in 0.27 but perhaps I was changing ‘stream’
as well which is
*not* what I want if I can avoid it. But according to <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings#Watching_TV_or_a_recording"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings#Watching_TV_or_a_recording">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings#Watching_TV_or_a_recording</a></span></a>,
“C” means “change inputs on TV Tuner card”. Looking at the
history of the above
Wiki page, “C” has *always* had this meaning. I am confused!</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">The rest of this is about the
difference between “C” and “Y”.
I suspect this is unrelated to the original post but I don’t
see the point very
much of these two separate key bindings.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Each time I press “C” in 0.28,
screen goes black for one
seconds, then ‘info’ section appears in bottom third of the
screen as the
tuning process takes over. This continues for one second or so
and then the
video you expect for TV appears. At no time did I see the
input connection
display name.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">When I press “C” again and again,
the tuner selected rolls
around in a sequence. Keep in mind that the last 3 bytes in
general appear to
be difficult to predict, but one you have a sequence it
doesn’t appear to
change until you disturb the sequence buy recording some
channel, or changing a
channel on some channel through live TV. That is, it generally
doesn’t change very
often.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">The device numbers are for me at
the moment are 13,12,4,3,2,1<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">I have 6 input connections each
with ‘Max recordings’ set
to 2 so I have an upper limit of 12 concurrent recordings.
Because of the lack
of display name, I am using option (2) from my original post
and taking the
first 4 or 5 bytes (i.e. up to but not including) the
underscore in the
filename and using that to determine which input connection is
in use. Keep in
mind that this is the concatenation of the ‘device number’ (my
term as I don’t
know the correct MythTV term) and a logical channel number
which means
something only in my location (Sydney) and can repeat
depending on what each ‘stream’
(again my terminology). Logical channel number is 3 characters
long right-adjusted
zero-filled.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">The sequence just now for example:
13002, 13001, 12003, 12003, 4007, 4007, 3003, 3003,
2002, 2002, 1007, 1002, and then back to 13002 and repeat.
This is a sequence
of length 12 – which makes some sense.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">A simpler way of putting this is
that “C” is going through
the device numbers in the order of live TV preference for each
of the possible
inputs on each device number.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">According to <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings#Watching_TV_only"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings#Watching_TV_only">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings#Watching_TV_only</a></span></a>,
“Y” means “switch between multiple capture cards. NOTE: you
lose your LiveTV
buffer on your current card. Useful for different-sourced
cards (such as Dish
Network on one, HDTV over-the-air on another card.)”<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">From these explanations from “Y”
and “C”, I didn’t understand
the difference between “C” and “Y” so I have done some
experiments (below) for “Y”
also. The sequence is 13007, 1007, 2002, 3003, 4007, 12003 and
then back to 13007
and then repeat. This is a sequence of length 6 – which again
makes some sense.<br>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Differences between “C” and “Y”:
(1) Both start with the
preferred tuner for live TV but after that, “C” and “Y” go in
opposite
directions. “C” goes in the direction that agrees with the
configuration of
live TV preference. “Y” (for me) goes in the reverse order to
configure
preference. (2) “C” goes through every ‘stream’ (2 per input
device) while “Y”
skips from input device to input device only ever using one
‘stream’.<br>
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Yes, I have 3 different sources, with 8 tuners. When I press "C", I
get the name of the tuner at the top center of the screen.
Subsequent presses of "C" don't do anything else. "Y" locks up the
frontend and I have to restart it. Again, I'm on .27.<br>
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