Filter available Live TV channels by user

[Jdiesel 1242]

It would be nice to specify what channels are available/visible on a per user basis. This could be used as a parental control to only allow access to a few channels for kids or as a way to only show favorite channels to other users to help speed up scrolling through unwanted channels. Why show hundreds of channels if a certain user only watches a dozen or so?

Edited December 10, 2016 by Jdiesel

[Luke 38811]

There is no easy checkbox list such as that, but if you use the editing functions to assign parental ratings to channels then that is already supported.

[Jdiesel 1242]

That may work but is not idea for my scenario. For example, I want sports channels in my guide but my girlfriend doesn't. We both don't want news channels but my brother does. Finally my nephew only needs access to five kids channels. I could use parental ratings as a filter but it would work as more of package system with the highest rating being everything.

 

The tag system may work exactly for what I have in mind as I see there is the option to block content with certain tags. Can a tag be applied to a channel?

[Luke 38811]

Yes it will.

[Jdiesel 1242]

I see the option for tags in my local media but not under the info menu of my channels.

[Luke 38811]

It's probably just not exposed in the editor. I'll have to look at that. thanks.

[Jdiesel 1242]

I was just reporting that commit 8828957 didn't expose the tags for channels. My apologies if you are still in progress with it.

Edited December 11, 2016 by Jdiesel

[Jdiesel 1242]

The option to assign Tags to channels in now available however it does not work like I had hoped. Assigning an Tag to a channel and blocking that Tag using the parental controls does not remove that channel from the channel list and guide but instead only block playback from starting.

[Luke 38811]

Ok, thanks, will go through it and make sure it's filtered out.

[Jdiesel 1242]

My apologies, after a forced guide refresh the channels with blocked tags are no longer shown. This works perfectly for customizing the live TV guide for each user. Thank you very much.

[Luke 38811]

Hmm, thanks. I'll have to look at why that was required. Thanks.