[mythtv-users] Channel Change Problem - Request fix

[Jeff Wormsley]

When you change the channel via firewire (and others as well), the 
channel you change to is stored in the database so that when you go back 
to LiveTV, you start on the channel you left off with.  However, at 
least on firewire, if the channel you change to is invalid, that value 
is already in the DB, so after it kicks you back to the menu, when you 
go back in, it is still there, so you are now stuck.  You have to exit 
all of the way out of the frontend, load mythtvsetup, reset the channel, 
then load up the frontend again.  Wouldn't it be better not to change 
the last channel field unless you get a successful video signal, not 
just a successful channel change?

BTW, yes I know its a Doctor, Doctor* situation.  I ran into it recently 
when my local Comcast decided all those channels I used to get on 
firewire are now to be restricted, so when I went from ABC-HD to INHD, 
whammo, I'm locked out.  Took me a while to find the mythtvsetup setting 
to reset it.

Anyway, it's just a thought.  I'll fix my DataDirect lineup to only 
valid channels and won't run into it anymore (I hope).

Jeff.

* Patient: Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this.
Doctor: Then stop moving your arm like that.