- From: Paul Higgs via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:58:29 +0000
- To: public-tvcontrol@w3.org
We probably need to keep some notion of "tuner" in the specification, even if from an application or API level we are not binding channels directly to it. The "dynamic tuner model" was added primarily to support USB type tuner devices (which is something we need to continue to support). When a tuner is added, a channel scan may need to be performed depending on when that tuner was last used. Consider a STB with some built in tuner (s). The user would have initiated a channel scan at some times and have a channel list in NV memory. If a USB tuner that has never been used is connected, then there would be no change to the channel list. A scan could be initiated through a native menu/application, but that beaks the uniformity and consistency we look to solve. I am not sure how other W3 specs handle dynamic hardware, such as the attachment and removal of peripherals. Perhaps we need some peripheral category (i.e. "broadcast-tuner") that triggers some capability change notification in our API. -- GitHub Notification of comment by paulhiggs Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/tvcontrol-api/issues/4#issuecomment-277267925 using your GitHub account
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