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

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:00 AM, evade. <evade at internode.on.net> 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?
>
> Note that there is a "menu theme" which is different than the interface or
visual theme. The menu theme controls what and where items are displayed in
the navigation menus; the visual theme controls the layout and appearance
of the recordings, videos, etc. screens. I'm not in front of my MythTV
system and I don't remember where you can select it, but it's
possible/probable that your new frontend is using a different menu theme
than your original frontend. Check your frontend settings.

Karl
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