[vdr] Re: What about a channel logical number ?

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Carsten Koch wrote:
> > Cyrille Grange wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >>I was thinking about an other columns in the channels.conf file to
> >>attribute a logical number for each channels.
> >>This logical channel number should match with those of the TV's channels
> >>books.
> >
> >
> > I believe that the PNR (AKA service ID) mostly solves that problem.
> > At least I use it in epg2timers to match the http://tvtv.de channel
> > names with vdr channel numbers. Works good enough.
> > The PNR is already part of channels.conf (last field).
> >
> > Carsten.
> >
> 
> This also could be used for the timers. Instead of the channel-number
> the timer.conf could use the PNR. And we won't have to change
> channel.conf-format.

I am not exactly sure about that.
The subject has been discussed here before and some people
argued that the PNR is not always unique. Within one
satellite, that would seem illogical to me, but I guess
among more that one satellite this can be true. So for
a unique value, you would at least need PNR and DISEQC.

Carsten.