[mythtv-users] Where is the last used channel for live tv stored?

[Mark Lord]

On 11-07-15 10:16 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:13:15AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 11-07-09 05:35 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote:
>>> Well, changing this value does not work for me. If the startchan has the
>>> value 2 and this is the channel used for the last live TV, then changing the
>>> value to 1 does not work. Live TV is still channel 2 and the value in the
>>> database has changed back from 1 to 2.
>>> I even stopped the backend and the frontend before I changed the values.
>> Is "1" a valid channel number ?
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
>> I've forgotten where you are trying to go with this.
> 
> In my version of mythtv I can’t switch live TV channels. So I thought, I could
> do some „low level programming” to tell mythtv what channel to tune in live TV
> to without changing the channel within the live TV session.
> 
>> With mythtv-0.24-fixes (latest git) on my systems here,
>> LiveTV does not correctly save the most recently tuned channels.
>> It only updates the saved channel number for the first channel
>> tuned on each specific tuner card.
> 
> So how does mythtv know which channel to open if I start live TV?

Dunno.  It always seemed to just pick the lowest numbered channel
before I hacked my copy.

Older versions of Mythtv (prior to 0.24) worked correctly
without the need to be hacked.

-ml