Re: [tvcontrol-api] Why retrieve a list of tuners instead of just one tuner?

Hi @stevem-tw,

> Some TVs from major manufacturers will contain more than one type of
 tuner 

Understood, thanks! That answers the first part of my question: there 
are products out there with multiple tuners. I'm still not clear what 
a Web app can do with such a list in practice, without meaningful 
information to display to the user. Is it going to parse the list of 
channels that each tuner exposes to select the tuner it wants to use? 
How would it know?

> The list of tuners seems to be the only entry point to getting a 
channel list or EPG data, so unless that is made available in another 
way then a web app has no choice but to use  getTuners .

Right, note that I was not suggesting to only drop the function, but 
also to replace it with a `getTuner` function that would return only 
one `TVTuner` instance. The `TVTuner` instance is the one that 
provides access to a list of channels and EPG data (through another 
`TVSource` level).

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Received on Monday, 11 July 2016 13:16:17 UTC