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

[Peter Bennett]

On 07/25/2017 08:00 AM, evade. wrote:
>
> On 25 July 2017 9:51:59 pm AEST, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:38:40 +1000, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>> The menus do not change between themes.  Just how they are displayed.
> Ok, thanks for the confirmation. I don't have it in front of me.
>
> Is anybody able to help with my original question?
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In MythTV version 29 the default menu that you get when pressing enter 
or select in the guide also has the "watch this channel" option.