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2015-05-19, 13:49
(This post was last modified: 2015-05-19, 13:51 by afremont.)
Hello, I'm switching back ends from WMC to MythTV. I'm using Raspberry Pi as front end with Myth PVR addon with HDHomerun as tuner and Schedules Direct for guide data. How do I get the "real" channel numbers to show in the Channels and EPG listings? Right now I just have ordinal position numbers like 1, 2, 3... What I want is 2-1, 2-2, 8-1 etc. I get the call signs for a bunch of stations, but not all and I'm used to seeing the OTA channel numbers from using the WMC addon instead of ordinal positions. Is there a way to make that happen? I don't see any way to configure that thru the addon configuration. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I'm also running OpenELEC nightly on the RPi. Running latest MythTV (Mythbuntu) release with all updates applied.
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2015-05-19, 14:26
(This post was last modified: 2015-05-19, 14:26 by MikeB2013.)
The channel ordering is not done in mythtv pvr addon.
It is done in System>Settings>TV>General
Note Settings Level must be set to Advanced or Expert to see the option "Use channel numbers from backend"
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Okay, I changed it and had to reboot, but that fixed it. That's weird because the WMC PVR addon was showing the numbers the way I wanted without having that option checked. Must be the WMC addon doing it. Thanks.
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Channel numbers are pretty meaningless in a PVR system.
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I suppose my view tends to be from the point of view of someone who has adopted the purer PVR method of of use. "Record what you want to watch, watch it when you have time".
No live tv, no channel surfing.
I know I want to record "Grand Designs" - I care somewhat about what channel it is on, but I don't give a jot about what arbitrary number that channel is allocated by my broadcaster.
For the LiveTV watchers, and the surfers, I take your point.
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We watch some LiveTV and are used to the channel numbers. It also helps me find the channels that I want to use to record the programs we like. I'm migrating from WMC to MythTV and I have to reestablish the programming schedule that I had with WMC. Call Signs are useless to me.
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You don't even to know what channel a show is on to record it in mythtv. Sometimes shows change channels. "Record at any time on any channel" is my most common recording rule. Then if Channel X outbids Channel Y for this season of Blockbuster B, I don't need ot change anything.
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It's working fine. Just telling it to use the backend numbers fixed it. It now works the way I'm used to seeing it so no problems.
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