[mythtv] Channel Management Ideas and Plans

[David Engel]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 11:07:16AM +0100, Piotr Oniszczuk wrote:
> > Wiadomość napisana przez David Engel <david at istwok.net> w dniu 27.01.2019, o godz. 22:09:
> > 
> > Here's a brief description of some of the things relating to channel
> > management that I hope to work on.  I'll likely start on some of them
> > soon.  I'll get to the others when/if I get to them.  Please provide
> > comments or other suggestions here.
> > 
> 
> David,
> 
> Maybe You will be interested in idea of automatic channel updates where DVB channels & muxes are auto detect added, moved and removed.
> 
> Attached patch is LVR work and maybe can be good starting point to include into channel management?
> 
> Patch description:
> 
> TV: Auto detect added, moved and removed DVB channels and muxes
> 
> When used in conjunction with the EIT scanner then most changes
> in channel line-up can be automatically added to the database without
> manual re-tuning.

Piotr, for the near-term, I don't intend to address anything like
this.  After tackling the things I've already identified, we'll see.

> In addition, the changes are sent to all frontends where they are
> shown as on-screen notifications.

That seems excessive.  I think the messages feature I outlined would
be a better choice.

David
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David Engel
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