[mythtv] Channel changing Bugs...

[Andy Davidoff]

This is the original problem, AFAICT from the month or two I've been
following/working-on tuning.

Why don't we rename or at least divorce chanid from its current
role and use it as the second layer of indirection that the folks
in Europe have been asking for.  I realize that chanid is currently
being used in this capacity (sort of) by some people.  I'm suggesting
that we make this the only behavior world-wide, for consistency and
simplicity.

We'll sort on chanid and take inputs from the remote against the
values of that column.  For N. America, this means chanid == channum
by default.  For Europe, chanid == sort-order-of-channels.  The chanid
values would be arbitrary, so everyone could renumber them to values
that are more familiar or easier to input via remote.

It seems to me that this simplifies the code and gives everyone new
functionality without breaking anything.


On Apr 12, at 17:50, Leandro Dardini encoded a 1.0K recording:
> > In europe people select a channel on their TV by chanid which is
> > mapped to channum when the TV is tuned.  The channum is never used
> > except for tuning in a TV or Video or MythTV box.  Forcing all
> > MythTV users to use channum is counter-intuitive and a backward
> > step to what MythTV was like in September before Isaac added the
> > chanid to the database.
>
> I am using mythtv from about three months and still I am discovering
> new features. I live in Europe too, and I use the chanid
> ordering. Is there a way to select a channel by its chanid with the
> remote? I'd like to press 1 and watch chanid 1.