[mythtv-users] Change startup channel

[Rob Davis]

On 04/03/12 04:11, Richard Morton wrote:
> surely this should be logged as a bug?
> Family came to visit the other day and turned on a childrens channel in
> livetv during the day. Later on in the evening they turned on livetv
> again and the channel was off-air. Mythfrontend just locked up. I had to
> kill it or wait a very long time for it to fail back to the menu. Surely
> it should be responsive and allow you to change channels at any time
> including while tuning.
>
> In mythsetup you can change the startup channel but this requires
> stopping the backend. You probably can do it through mythweb as well but
> I have never tried and cant see an obvious db setting name.
>
> I have found under the frontend that I had the above issue with
>   - DefaultTVChannel
> but I dont think that is it cause the channel it starts up at is not the
> set value.
>

In ended up going into phpmyadmin and changing the settings for 
DefaultTVChannel for all 3 of my frontends.  Changing the startup 
channel didn't work for me..

Definite bug..


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Rob Davis