[mythtv] LiveTV start channel

[R. G. Newbury]

On 01/18/2016 06:42 PM, John P Poet wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:38 PM R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
> <mailto: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--

my workaround is not intended to return to the last channel: that is 
likely the bad one you do not want! It allows you to start on a known 
good channel. If your patch always returns a valid channel, we have both 
reached the proper result.

Geoff





              R. Geoffrey Newbury