[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.24 Live TV Returns to last channel/tuner watched - Not good for me!

[Dave Pearson]

On 13/11/10 13:03, George Galt wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Dave Pearson<lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>  wrote:
>> On 12/11/10 20:04, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>   On 11/12/2010 02:35 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>>>> On 12/11/10 19:11, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>>   On 11/12/2010 02:06 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/11/10 18:56, Robert McNamara wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Dave Pearson  wrote:
>>>>>>>> Although it is entirely logical for Live TV to start playing on the
>>>>>>>> same
>>>>>>>> channel and tuner as was last watched, for me this is not so good as
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> means my Sky + box is often tuned to a different channel when my son
>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>> watching it in another room.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there a way I can return MythTV 0.24 to the old behaviour of
>>>>>>>> always
>>>>>>>> starting on the last Tuner?
>>>>>>> No.  Myth expects to have exclusive access to all equipment.
>>>>>> Hmmm, I can understand it wanting exclusive access to internal
>>>>>> adapters, but exclusive access to external Set Top Boxes is not always
>>>>>> desirable - especially where the Set Top Box is shared with other people.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I definitely preferred the old behaviour in this instance - everything
>>>>>> else I've looked at in 0.24 is really good, so please don't take this as a
>>>>>> complaint. Who would I need to send a request to to make this a user
>>>>>> selectable option?
>>>>> Please explain this old behavior of which you speak.  Then I can tell
>>>>> you your options.  I don't understand what you're trying to do, and I'm
>>>>> pretty sure nothing has changed regarding input selection (in Live TV or
>>>>> otherwise).
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to know what behavior you're seeing and what behavior you're
>>>>> expecting.
>>>> OK, here goes:
>>>>
>>>> Up until I upgraded to MythTV 0.24, whenever I started Live TV it would
>>>> always start on the last channel selected on the Last Tuner in the list of
>>>> Tuners.
>>> Because you had selected "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled
>>> recordings."
>>>
>>>> Since I've upgraded to 0.24, it now starts on the last channel that was
>>>> being watched on the last Tuner being used. For me, this is not so good
>>>> since it could be the Composite Channel on my PVR250, which means the IR
>>>> Blaster changes the channel on my Sky Box (and my son gets cross with me!).
>>> No, MythTV has always (before 0.24 and after) chosen the best-quality
>>> local input for MythTV /unless/ you specified, "Avoid conflicts between live
>>> TV and scheduled recordings," in which case it uses the default input on the
>>> last-defined card.
>>>
>>>> I'd like to be able to change it back so that it always starts on the
>>>> last tuner (in my case a DVB-T card).
>>> Set the setting.
>>>
>>> Mike
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>> I still have "Avoid conflicts between Live TV and scheduled shows" set,
>> unfortunately it doesn't seem to have any effect any more. There is, what a
>> think is, a new option - "Allow Live TV to move scheduled shows", but
>> disabling this seems to have no effect on the startup Tuner/Channel.
>>
>> I have thought of a possible way around this - if there is a way of getting
>> the channel change script to detect if the channel change is being called by
>> Live TV or by a Scheduled Recording, I could tell the script to only change
>> channel if it is for a recording (If I am watching Live TV I can use the
>> Sky+ remote to change to the channel I want). Do you have any ideas as to
>> how I can achieve this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave.
>>
>>
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> Dave,
>
> I'm not sure if this will work, but you might have a look at Myth
> Events, which allows an action to be taken in conjunction with an
> event, such as the end of a recording (these were added in 0.23 I
> believe).  I'm not sure if there is a defined event associated with
> Live TV, but if there is, you could have it set an environmental
> variable that your channel changing script could check.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> George
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Yes, that looks promising as there are events for "Live TV Started" and 
"Recording Started". If I remove the channel change script from the 
PVR250 Card and add a slightly modified version of it to the "Recording 
Started" Event I should be able to get the script to detect the cardid 
and, if it is the PVR250 send the IR Blaster commands. For "Live TV 
Started" I don't need to do anything and the channel will not get changed.

If/when I get this working I'll post the script back here as there may 
be others who would find it useful.

Regards,
Dave.