[mythtv-users] LiveTV attempts to tune unavailable channel when entering LiveTV

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Wed Apr 19 03:14:09 UTC 2017


On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:18:53 -0700, you wrote:

>So I've got an interesting situation that I haven't quite been able to
>figure out.
>
>My parents system has two HDPVR connected to cable boxes, and an
>HDHomeRun connected to an antenna. So both have different channel
>sources.
>
>I have the system set up so that when selecting Live TV the backend
>will first try the HDPVR since they have more channels available to
>them, then fall back to the HDHR if both are recording.
>
>However, sometimes when both HDPVR are recording the backend will try
>to enter live tv on the HDHR on a channel that is not in the source
>channel lineup for the HDHR, which causes live tv to fail. My mom is
>not a fan of that.
>
>I used to be able to go into the cardinput table and change the start
>channel number to one the HDHR can tune and that would fix the issue.
>
>Since I recently upgraded their setup to 0.28 I'd like to see if I
>can't resolve the issue of the backend trying a channel that source
>can't use and having to do some SQL intervention to fix it. If anyone
>has figured out how and why to fix it?
>
>I also now need to see how to fix the startchan issue in 0.28...
>
>thanks!

You can still change the startchan with SQL - it is now a column in
the capturecard table.  And you can go to the Guide and use M > Watch
This Channel to avoid having to use the SQL fix.  But it would be nice
to have a real fix in the code as this is a very longstanding problem.


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