[mythtv-users] MythTV Web Front end channel editor options...

Peter Bennett pb.mythtv at gmail.com
Sat May 23 13:42:44 UTC 2026


On 5/22/26 23:31, Douglas Peale via mythtv-users wrote:
> Is it possible to have the channel editor sort by frequency ID?
>
> I have three antennas aimed in three different directions connected to 
> four HD Home Run tuner boxes.
>
> The result is that there are several hundred channels in the channel 
> editor.
>
> Sometimes a channel is picked up on the back of one of the antennas, 
> so it has a much weaker signal than the signal from the antenna aimed 
> directly at the transmitter. I'd like to disable those weak channels, 
> but given that I have only been able to sort by the "chan num", that 
> means the group of channels from a specific frequency ID is scattered 
> through the hundreds of channels. It would be much easier to do if the 
> list was sorted by frequency ID so all the channels from the same 
> frequency/transmitter were grouped together.
>
>
> Also, when attempting to scan channels, I found that the ATSC 3.0 
> HDHomeRun would not scan channels. I went to the web interface for 
> that tuner and scanned the channels that way, and imported the 
> results, but, I'm finding that some of the channels it found do not 
> have a frequency ID.
>
>
Certainly I can do that. I can also add sort on any other column or all 
columns while I am there. Please create an issue in 
https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues and I will do that next time I 
am working on the web app, probably soon.

Peter



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