[mythtv] Question for frontend experts: implementing a CAM menu, where do I need to hook things up?

[Ivar Eriksen]

Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am looking how I can implement a real CAM-menu inside mythtv.
>
>   

Ahh, I've been longing for something like this for quite some time :)

Just let me know if you need help with testing

> The reason behind this is that the current implementation only writes
> to the log-file, and makes some assumptions on the choices to be made.
> Also the CAM provides very useful messages towards the user, like "no
> card inserted", or "no access". On a no-access error the player now
> starts to behave very annoying and displays a no-video-stream error,
> and even assumes that tuning has succeeded, and when we go back into
> the viewer it restarts tuning into this wrong 'last known good
> channel'. This loop is that annoying that my wife gets stuck on it,
> and eventually reboots the system... (with a lot of complaining ;-)
>   
I've had friends over that have gotten stuck in this loop too :)

Also I have some channels named EPG*, and some channels that are used 
for updating firmware for various decoders. If I tune to any of those 
channels, mythtv will display a "bad-video-stream" error (if i remember 
correctly), jump to the menu, and tune back into the same channel when 
watching live tv again. 

Would be nice with a pop-up that ask you to change channel, remove it 
from the channel list or something when this error appears.


-Ivar