[mythtv-users] Changing how numbers function in Program Guide

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 13:20, Jim Nickel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to MythTV - but I love it so far.
>
> One thing I am having problems with is the Electronic Program Guide
> (EPG). The number buttons on the remote act like page-up/page-down -
> this is helpful, but I have other buttons I could move those
> functions to.  I would like to be able to punch in a channel number
> and jump straight to it in the Guide.  I looked at the Keybindings
> table in the database and I am somewhat familiar with lirc (and it's
> conf files), but I am not sure how to get MythTV to use the numbers
> as numbers to change channels instead of what it is doing now.
>
> Anybody know how to accomplish this?

Last time a looked (and I'll admit it's been a while), there were no 
actions in the code to accomplish this, so you can't just bind a key.  
You'd need to write the code to handle numeric input in the EPG, and 
code to handle "jump to specific channel number" as well.

-JAC