[mythtv-users] Myth .27 no longer has pre-tune channel setting.

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 10/23/2013 10:01 AM, Stefan Jones wrote:
>
>> **
>> Thanks, I'm glad I wasn't just imagining this, or that importing and
>> updating my database had broken something.
>>
>> I did search the list archives on the Wiki and the bug database, but
>> "pretune" didn't seem specific enough.
>>
>>
> Well, you'll find a lot more if you use the proper terminology for
> searching.  As shown in my previous e-mail, the setting is called, "Preset
> Tuner to Channel".
>
>
>> Unless someone has another suggestion, I will manually record on channel
>> 3 and set the STB's channel manually until this gets fixed.
>>
>
> A better approach would be to change your external channel change
> script--that you need anyway--to issue the appropriate v4l2ctl commands to
> a) set the TV format (NTSC or PAL), and b) tune channel 3 on the PVR-150
> before it does its normal work of changing the STB channel.
>
> Mike
>

Is there a good reason not to just restore the "Preset Tuner to Channel"
field? Suggesting that people put a workaround in the channel change script
is not user-friendly. This is a basic function for analog tuner cards that
has worked flawlessly for possibly the entire lifetime of Myth, and is even
more important now that analog cards are useless as actual tuners other
than as endpoints for set top boxes, which require tuning a fixed channel.

Karl
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