[mythtv-users] Inputting a bad channel leads to problems

Rob Rosenfeld rob+mythtv-users at rosenfeld.to
Sun Nov 26 02:45:28 UTC 2006


Owen Mehegan wrote:
> I just accidentally tried to change the channel, while watching live  
> TV, to 1. There is no channel 1 in my cable network, so what seems to  
> happen is that Myth tries to change to that channel (using the  
> 'channel' program over serial; DCT-2000 cable box), fails three  
> times, and then drops back to the UI. Now every time I try to watch  
> live TV, I get stuck in that loop and can't actually feed it a valid  
> channel to change to. Even if I change the channel manually on the  
> cable box, when I go to watch live TV, Myth just keeps trying to set  
> the channel to 1. Help?
> 

I believe there are settings for

1)  Remember the last channel I watched
2)  Tune to channel X when started

I think you could disable #1 and set #2 to not be channel 1 to get out 
of the loop.


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