[mythtv] idea: channel groups
henri
henri at qais.com
Fri Dec 10 03:09:59 UTC 2004
i wrote a simple "favorites" setting for mythweb and a link
that lets you display all the listings or just the favorites.
it saves the settings in the session (which i've been trying
to maintain for a longer period of time, i think i found the
right entries for php.ini to keep them around for ever)
i cheated and just added a column to the chanel editting
page (not really the right place for it)
works pretty well (and since it's session/cookie based my
wife and i don't have to have the same favorites). but it's
for a just-post-16 cvs snapshot.... been meaing to update my
box and post the patch but been waiting for cvs to calm down
a bit.
henri
On 09 Dec 2004, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> I just noticed that zap2it added another huge block of channels to my
> list, and I came up with the idea of channel groups (which is kind of
> similar to what Dish does with their onscreen stuff). The idea would be
> that you could set up groups of channels (say "broadcast", "kid-safe"
> etc) and choose between them. It would really help with large listings,
> or work better with special channels (like the 60 or so Sirius music
> channels that Dish has) I don't want to see in my normal listings, but
> might want to occasionally check out.
>
> With stuff like kid-safe, you could also use the group stuff as a
> parental lock, to keep kids out of channels they're not allowed into.
>
> It would also allow myth to notify users when new channels show up, and
> set them to be ignored (Dish gets a bunch every few weeks that I don't
> actually get with my subscription), or added to certain groups (would be
> even cooler if mythbackend could check those channels for content, but I
> wouldn't keep my hopes up for that).
>
> I don't know if most people are like me or not, but I tend to watch a
> very small subset of the channels I get with my subscription, and it'd
> be nice to be able to hide those channels most of the time, but still
> search/browse them when I want to. Would help keep mythweb page load
> times down a bit, too.
>
> Just brainstorming..
>
> -Chris
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