[Solved] 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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[Solved] 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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I recently upgraded from 0.28 to 31 (including migration from SD DataDirect to XMLTV...)

Everything seems to have gone fairly well, but I noticed on the frontend that I can't "go left" on the Watch Recordings screen anymore.

It's not an IR remote issue, because pressing the Left Arrow key on a keyboard connected to the frontend doesn't work either.

In other words, when I select Watch Recordings, the highlight starts on the list of programs. I can navigate up/down as expected, and then press Right Arrow to move to the episodes for the selected show. With 0.28, I could press Left Arrow to go back to the program list. This is a "no-op" in 31. I have to press Escape to go back to the menu and select Watch Recordings again.

The other thing I've noticed is that when a show is finished being watched, instead of going back to the main Watch Recordings screen like 0.28 did, 31 goes directly to the All Programs episode list.

For reference, pressing Left Arrow works fine in other areas.

Any suggestions on what to check?
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Re: 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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In other words, when I select Watch Recordings, the highlight starts on the list of programs. I can navigate up/down as expected, and then press Right Arrow to move to the episodes for the selected show. With 0.28, I could press Left Arrow to go back to the program list. This is a "no-op" in 31. I have to press Escape to go back to the menu and select Watch Recordings again.
I'm not seeing this with the Mythbuntu theme. If I hit left, the focus goes back to the list of programs.
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Re: 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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Just to be sure, in the frontend->Setup->Edit Keys->Global->LEFT expect
Left in one of the four boxes at the bottom (typically the leftmost one).

Works fine with the Steppes theme. As does returning from watching
a recording.
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Re: 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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This should not happen. Check these settings. Perhaps some combination is causing your problem. Try different values for the various check boxes and see if that helps.
mythfrontend->setup->video->playback->view recordings
mythfrontend->setup->video->playback->view recordings->recording groups
mythfrontend->setup->video->playback->view recordings->recording groups->change recording group using the arrow key
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Re: 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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Which theme are you using?

It might be nothing to do with what you are seeing but some themes override the LEFT and RIGHT actions on some screens. For example sometimes LEFT can act as ESCAPE or RIGHT can act as SELECT depending on how the themer wants things to work. There has been some discussion about changing this behaviour since it can be very confusing to the user.
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Re: 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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Thanks for the ideas of things to check!

Other than upgrading to 31, I haven't made any settings changes that I'm aware of.

For reference, some version info:

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tv@myth2:~$ uname -a
Linux myth2 5.8.0-63-generic #71~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 15 17:46:08 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and the Mythbuntu theme hasn't been updated in... years:

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tv@myth2:~$ ls -l ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/themeinfo.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 tv users 741 Feb  1  2017 /home/tv/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/themeinfo.xml

tv@myth2:~$ perl -ne 'print if m{ver}..m{/ver}' ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/themeinfo.xml
    <version>
        <major>28</major>
        <minor>21</minor>
    </version>
  • I just tried something: I switched themes from Mythbuntu 28.21 to MythCenter-wide 1.7 and the Left key works as expected in MythCenter-wide.

The "Left" key is definitely defined (and as I mentioned, works in other menus to "go back"):
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Any suggestions about where to poke around to see what is "different" about the Mythbuntu theme?
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Hmm... it appears there is a newer version of the Mythbuntu theme on GitHub.

Not sure why an update wasn't listed as being available in the frontend? (It's one of the first places I went.)

I'll update and report back...
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First go to Setup->Theme Chooser. See if there's a new theme available. The
28.21 looks too old for v31. I believe v31 is using

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  <version>
    <major>30</major>
    <minor>1</minor>
  </version>
If you don't see a new version, press m (for menu) and then use the
refresh option.
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Re: 0.28 → 31 upgrade, Left key doesn't work on Watched Recordings screen

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I did indeed need to use the Refresh Downloadable Themes menu option.

Which made me remember something — after I upgraded to 31, I now remember getting an error about not being about to connect to themes.mythtv.org. I wonder if that error prevented it from detecting that a new version of the Mythbuntu theme was available?

In any case, I selected Mythbuntu 30.1 (which now appeared separately, with a "green dot", from Mythbuntu 28.21) and indeed, the Left button now works again on the Watch Recordings screen. :D

Apologies for it being as something as simple as "update to the latest"!
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