[mythtv] LiveTV start channel

[John P Poet]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:38 PM R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

> On 01/18/2016 05:08 PM, John P Poet wrote:
> > While testing some new stuff, I was doing a lot of deleting/creating of
> > 'recorders'.  During this process I ran into an issue starting LiveTV
> > because of recorder/channel miss-matches.  The attached patch fixed it
> > for me.  However, I am assuming that the code was written the way it was
> > for a reason.  Can anyone that uses LiveTV take a look at this and see
> > if this is the correct solution?
>
> The intention is that the invocation of LIveTV will return you to the
> last channel watched... which may not actually be a good channel. I'm
> not sure that your patch will do the trick.
>   To fix that I wrote a little script some years ago which just pokes
> 'good' values into the cardinput table, Just keep a console open and
> reset things as needed, then open LiveTV
>
> ##############################
> #!/bin/bash
> #reset-channel: to poke a good value into startchan
> #Two inputs: tuner to be re-set and channel to set to, defaults are allowed
> if [ $1 = '' ];
> then
>    Tuner='5'
>    Channel='43.1';
> fi
>
> if [ $1 != '' ];
> then
>    Tuner=$1;
> fi
>
> if [ $2 = '' ];
> then
>    Channel='43.1';
> elif [ $2 != '' ];
> then
>    Channel=$2;
> fi
>
>
> #  Tuner='5'
> #  Channel='43.1';
> #
> echo "update cardinput set startchan = $Channel where cardid = $Tuner;"
>  > tempfile
> echo "exit" >> tempfile
> mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg < tempfile
>
> rm -f tempfile
> ********************
>

Thanks Geoffrey.  My patch does seem to work, but might not give you the
last channel you were on.  It does seem to always return a /valid/ channel,
though.

John
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