[mythtv-users] Trying to watch livetv on 0.28 is starting on an invalid channel

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:01:24 -0400, you wrote:

>On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 15:42 +0200, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Brian,
>
>Hi,
>
>> It does remember the last channel set,
>
>Yes.  It does.  But this is a problem when you watch tv on a digital
>tuner (for example) and then remove the digital tuner and then try to
>watch tv with an analog tuner.  The digital channel that was remembered
>as the last channel is no longer valid and live tv doesn't give you an
>opportunity to choose a new valid channel.  It just bails out.
>
>>  which obviously was before your
>> upgrade.
>
>The upgrade actually has nothing to do with it.  It was simply the
>removal of a tuner which then makes channels that were previously
>valid, no longer valid.  This is a totally possible and even probable
>use-case.
>
>> Possibly changing the start channel on all your tuners would do it?
>
>Nope.  As I mentioned in the follow-up message, one has to do surgery
>directly on the database.  :-(
>
>b.

Actually, there is a way to get the LiveTV to start on a different
channel.  Go to the Guide, choose a channel, then Menu => Watch This
Channel.