[mythtv] Request: please fix channel up/down and watch live TV defaults forDVB:HD tuners

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Thu Jun 2 17:38:37 UTC 2005


On Thursday 02 June 2005 01:34 pm, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> At 12:37 PM -0400 6/2/05, Isaac Richards wrote:
> >If people are having problems with the starting channel, they're not
> > bothering to go through the setup program properly.  Nothing I can do
> > about that.
>
> Even people who go through the setup can get stuck here later, since
> the "starting channel" gets reset to the last channel tuned (or
> attempted to tune).  If you tune to a weak ATSC signal, crash, and
> then restart, you have to know to re-run setup or to run dtvsignal
> separately from the command line to restart on a working channel.  I
> know this caused me lots of frustration as I was starting up.  Would
> it be possible to add an option not to reset the starting channel?

Sure, be easy enough for someone to do that.  It'd make a lot more sense to 
simply have it tune to a different channel if it can't tune to the starting 
one, though.

Isaac


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