[mythtv-users] channel 4 partially broken - RESOLVED

[Marc Williams]

Nope it wasn't a channel scan issue.  Likewise, there was nothing wrong 
with the channel numbering.  It turns out that this might be a bug.  Two 
separate observations led me to a workaround.

1) Myth seems to be able to "understand" that when I press "99<Enter>" 
on a keyboard or remote (meaning I want to go to channel 9.9), I'm 
really telling it to go to 9_9.  Same thing with other channels.  e.g 
31.3=313=31_3.  This is pretty nice since most remote controls don't 
have an underscore.

2) When I've done a channel scan in the past, I would simple mark my 
unwanted channels as "invisible" in the channel editor.  This seemed to 
work fine.

Now, back to my channel 4 problem.  I found that Myth seems to have 
trouble differentiating between my channel 4.1 and channel 41.1 (or any 
of the 41 series - 41.2, .3, .4, etc).  I discovered that when I hit 
"41", myth was always waiting for another integer.  Indeed, if I would 
hit 411, Myth would dutifully change to 41.1.  It just so happens that I 
don't watch any of the 41 series channels which is why I had marked them 
invisible initially.

I've now deleted the entire channel 41 series from the channel editor 
and now when I hit 41 Myth takes me straight to channel 4.1 like it's 
supposed to.  Problem solved.  It's a good thing I don't watch any of 
the 41 series of channels, I guess.

I'm not sure this is a bug but I think I'll report it anyway.  I just 
think that if I hit 41<Enter>, Myth should go right to 4_1 instead of 
assuming that it should wait for additional integers.

On 01/01/2017 07:50 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Sunday, January 1, 2017, 2:08:11 PM, you wrote:
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>> On Dec 31, 2016 4:28 PM, "Marc Williams" <marcjw53 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/31/2016 04:42 PM, Marc Williams wrote:
>>   
>>   My channel 4 (4.1) is only accessible from CHANNELUP,
>> CHANELDOWNDOWN, and PREVCHAN.  Typing in the channel number on a
>> keyboard or the remote control keypad doesn't work.  It doesn't
>> matter if I type in 4 or 41, the number appears on the screen but
>> nothing happens - the channel doesn't change.  Pressing Enter after
>> the number entry does nothing as well.  I have 38 other channels
>> that all work fine.  It's just channel 4 that doesn't. Any ideas?
>>   
>>   
>>   Sorry, I should've mentioned that the same issue exists on all 3
>> of my Myth FEs.  Running .28 on Ubuntu 16.04.
>
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>> Is 4.1 a new addition to your channel lineup? Maybe a rescan will enable the functionality you seek
> 4 or 41 is not the same as 4.1. Maybe edit the number in the
> channeleditor?
>
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