how to figure out what channel a tuner is recording

[sub]

The channel icon, show name, and show description are all place holders. I can't find a way to get the currently tuned channel for a capture source.
sub, any suggestions?

Sorry, there just isnt APIs for that kind of stuff. That was also treat as 'internal' and not exposed to plugins.

[Wakalaka]

Any plans on adding this capability? All that is needed is exposing what channel, channel OID, and/or channel Name each capture source is recording. If not recording, return -1. Also would be nice to have a way to get any one of channel #, OID, and Name if you have one of those pieces of data.

[sub]

I can try to add some stuff like this in a future release, but I cant do anything for you in the short term, so you'll probably just need to come up with your own work arounds for now. (I'm pretty snowed under for the next release)

[Wakalaka]

I can try to add some stuff like this in a future release, but I cant do anything for you in the short term, so you'll probably just need to come up with your own work arounds for now. (I'm pretty snowed under for the next release)

I'll scan the EPG for a show name matching what is recording, which should work for 99% of cases. Is it possible to switch a tuner to live tv given an IRecordingSource interface? I was looking in the Object Browser for GBPVRBackendCommon, and I believe there was an API to do this.

[sub]

I'll scan the EPG for a show name matching what is recording, which should work for 99% of cases. Is it possible to switch a tuner to live tv given an IRecordingSource interface?

Yes, but only when watching live preview TV, and only when the thing that calls it is in the same process, and the live tv OSD would still think its on the old channel. The info passed to this call can also be very complex for digital device. Its another thing not really intended to be used by plugins... This is outside the scope of what the plugin API was intended to do.

[Wakalaka]

Yes, but only when watching live preview TV, and only when the thing that calls it is in the same process, and the live tv OSD would still think its on the old channel. The info passed to this call can also be very complex for digital device. Its another thing not really intended to be used by plugins... This is outside the scope of what the plugin API was intended to do.

Well then I'll solve my problem by not making my plugin, when you select a capture source, switch to live tv for that capture source. Problem solved! I wish all SW development was this easy