Isengard 15.2 and Subchannels

[ThaDoctor]

I've tried my best to search the forums for this answer, but either I'm not using the right words (atsc subchannel kodi), or the posts I found were outdated, so here's my question for 2016:

Does or does not Kodi 15.2 support sub-channel tuning using an ATSC digital tuner (in USA) with the NextPVR plugin? Specifically, I'm running Kodibuntu 14.04 LTS with the 15.2 Isengard release.
It doesn't seem to accept "." or "-", so I didn't know if that was a limitation of the frontend, or the addon. My NextPVR backend is Windows 10 LTSB on an old school XPS 420.

(I seem to remember sub posting YEARS ago that he had fixed the addon and was waiting for (then) XMBC to merge it)


BTW, since updating to 3.6.6 backend, all the channels all look great, and the recording feature works like a charm, and even names episodes correctly, if I can ever get a $^*@ing EPG update from the antenna.

[sub]

NextPVR itself, and the NextPVR addon for Kodi, both support major.minor numbers. I'm not sure if Kodi allows you to type a "." or "-" when entering a channel number (this would be core Kodi, instead of addon). Hopefully an ATSC in in North America will be able to answer that for you.

[dgeezer]

I tried this on my system. Npvr 3.6.6 and Kodi 15.2. If i go into the Kodi TV settings and check "Use channel numbers from backend" Kodi does display the channels correctly. I have 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 12.1 etc. I can go up and down in the list and play live tv. However, I can't figure out a way to jump to a particular channel. When I press a number button, on my remote or a keyboard, a window pops up for number input but it doesn't have any symbols like . - or ,

I think that this is a kodi shortcoming. Otherwise everything else seems to work fine using the major.minor numbering.

No joy here in NC with any OTA epg either.