[mythtv-users] Show the program guide when starting live TV

[evade.]

On 25 July 2017 7:56:38 pm AEST, Darac Marjal <mailinglist at darac.org.uk> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 07:28:14PM +1000, evade. wrote:
>>   Hello,
>>
>>   The option to show the program guide when starting live TV was
>>   available in the "Program guide" settings screen on the frontend in
>>   previous versions. It appears to have been removed from 0.28.
>>
>>   While I'd be curious to know why it was removed, I'm more
>interested
>>   to know if there's any way I could achieve the same result. Does
>>   anyone know?
>>
>>   It was an excellent way to avoid unnecessary slow channel changes
>>   when trying to find something worth watching.
>
>If you're just wanting to see what's on, what's wrong with going into
>the Programme Guide directly from the menu (obviously, where that is
>depends on what menu theme you have). I've recently found that you can
>press 'm' on a show and select "Watch this Channel", which will then
>transfer you into Live TV on that channel.


Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm trying to set up a new frontend to be as similar as possible to my old one for the sake of my family.

I don't think the theme we use has a guide option like that.

evade.