Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#1223 closed patch (fixed)
TV listings should group by channum, not chanid
| Reported by: | Robert Tsai <rtsai1111> | Owned by: | xris |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | mythweb | Version: | head |
| Severity: | low | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
Grouping by chanid is strictly the most correct way to display TV listings, since it implicitly depicts which source will be recording which programs. However, this is overly verbose when different sources have overlapping channels (which I have assigned the same channum and callsign). For example, I have two separate antenna sources that overlap with some channels. The attached patch groups the TV listing by channum instead to help reduce the verbosity.
Grouping by channum effectively picks a random chanid for each channel, however, which means that some scheduled recordings will be hidden, since the $Scheduled_Recordings structure is keyed by chanid. So this patch changes $Scheduled_Recordings to be keyed by channum.
Upcoming Recordings, TV listings both now work as expected; clicking on a recording or timeslot will still direct the user to a page that references the true chanid.
I chose channum as the new key rather than callsign; I think that is slightly more unique (and appropriately so). For example, in my area, there is an analog "WBZ" and a digital "WBZ-DT" (for broadcast HDTV).
To clarify my comment; "channum" is more likely to be different between the digital and non-digital versions of a channel. The callsigns could be the same (I've stripped out the "DT" suffixes from all my digital channels).