[mythtv-users] 'Upcoming Recordings' screen: tuner identity

[David Engel]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:19:33PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 12/11/2019 22:13, David Engel wrote:
> > For the recording status/tuner number column in Upcoming Recordings,
> > Myth-Center-Wide uses the theme element called "card".  That element
> > shows a single letter for non-recording statuses or the tuner number
> > for recording statuses.  There is a similar, theme element called
> > "input".  Instead of showing the tuner number, the input element shows
> > the short display name for the tuner for recording statuses.  The
> > short display name is simply the last two letters of the display name.
> > You are also to put the full display name in your theme if you like.
> > 
> > I use the input element in my custom, Blue Abstract theme.  My tuner
> > display names HDHR1-A[0-2], HDHR2-B[0-2] and Ceton-C[0-5].
> > Consequently, for recording statuses, I see A[0-2], B[0-2] or C[0-5]
> > on my Upcoming Recordings screen.  I no longer know nor care what the
> > actual tuner numbers are in most cases.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> Thank you, David, for the explanation.  I will investigate.  I had often
> thought that letters and numbers would be better than what I currently see,
> which is just numbers in both places.
> 
> I was also puzzled recently on finding that what was, IIRC, a new git-based
> installation on another box wasn't showing the editor's audio output graph,
> and then that appeared after a let's-just-try-it theme download;  so perhaps
> I really ought to pay more attention to theme updates.

The line isn't always clear what should be a configurable setting and
what should be controlled by the theme.  We've tended to lean toward
the latter in recent years.  One problem with that, though, is useful
features can more easily be missed or forgotten.  Another problem with
short display name is that we don't currently make mythtv-setup
require or at least warn about unique, input, display names.

David
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David Engel
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