[mythtv-users] Odd Live TV channel completion / tuner change behavior

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 01:35:59 UTC 2018


I'm running 29.1 currently. Recently while testing my OTA signal
strength using the hdhomerun_config utility I about thought I was
loosing my mind until I figured out what was happening, and it's some
seriously strange behavior I've never noticed before. Here's what I
was doing:

1. Go into Live TV and from the menu I used "Switch Input" to switch
to one of my HDHomeRun tuners.

2. Entered a channel number I wanted to test...in this case entering
11.1 and hitting the Enter remote button.

3. From the command prompt using the hdhomerun_config utility to test
that tuner.

Simple enough...however here's the strange part that had me about
loosing my mind. In #2 above, if I entered 111 on the remote and
waited a few seconds which causes it to automatically find that same
channel, it did in fact tune in 11.1, but it also switched to a
different input! OMG...I can't tell you how that screwed me up before
I figured that out. Expressly entering the channel and hitting Enter
always stays on the current tuner.

Is this the expected behavior? At least I know how to avoid it not but
wow...did that ever have me going.

Tom


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