Me TV

starting on specific channel

Asked by RedSat

Using your great software to wake me up, I would like to know if I could use an option to launch me-tv on a specific channel.
Thank you,

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Best Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

There's no built-in solution for that but there's a hack if you're technically minded. I'll assume that you are using 1.3.X.

First, work out the channel ID from the Me TV database,

  sqlite3 ~/.local/share/me-tv/me-tv.db "select * from channel"

should give you the list of channels starting with the first column being the channel ID.

Second, set the last_channel in Me TV's gconf settings with something like,

  gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/me-tv/last_channel 5

When Me TV is next opened it will start on channel 5.

Good luck!

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Please note that those instructions are from memory, I haven't tested them.

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RedSat (redsat) said : 		#3

Thank you for your help.
Should be INT not STRING but working.
I am launching a Bash script that first rewrite the gconf and then run me-tv.
It is working even if me-tv is already running.
Cheers,

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RedSat (redsat) said : 		#4

Thanks Michael Lamothe, that solved my question.