[mythtv] 4 digit channel support

[Jeff Artz]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Chris Weiland <hobbiticus at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good question - I didn't think about that.  The only problem I see
> there is if the channel lineup does not include any channels >= 1000
> but the cable box still expects 4 digits.  For example, the user may
> not care about the channels >= 1000 (doesn't want to waste the
> time/storage grabbing listings, maybe can't tune them anyway due to
> those channels being encrypted), so he removes them from his lineup.
>
> Personally, I would still make it an option and default it based on
> the channel lineup like you suggest.  In my mind, properly defaulted
> options aren't a bad thing.  In this particular case (firewire cable
> box setup), I think that there are only 5 or so options anyway (I
> don't have the configuration screen in front of me), so one more isn't
> a big deal in my opinion.
>
> However, even if I don't get my configuration option, I'll still shut
> up about it  :)
>
> If I make the modifications necessary to support 4 digit channels, I'd
> still appreciate help with the supporting logic for determining the
> correct number of channels (i.e. querying the channel list and getting
> that info into the firewire device class).
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Chris Weiland <hobbiticus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Yes, sorry, I do mean Myth's internal firewire channel changer.  I'd
> >> love to avoid a configuration option, but I don't see a way around it.
> >>  I believe that the number of digits in the channel depends on your TV
> >> provider company, which I doubt that Myth can detect.
> >
> > What's wrong with using a four-digit path if the max length of freqid
> > in the DB is four digits?
> >
> > Robert
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Chris,

  I too have FiOS, but I use the 6200ch script with the -4 flag instead of
the internal channel changer, and it works perfectly.

  It's on the wiki at  http://mythtv.org/wiki/6200ch   and at the bottom of
the page is an example of my channel-change script.

  I have FiOS HD with two Motorola QIP7100 HD boxes that feed HD-PVRs.  I
have not had any problems with this script at all.  (Been super-stable since
I switched to FiOS about 5-6 months ago).  You might have to play around
with the inter-digit delay if it's too fast (my example script sets it to
10ms, which works perfectly for my boxes, but you may need to increase it.)

J-e-f-f-A
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