Combine Channels

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Hi, I read somewhere that the combine function in the TV channel config was designed to allow you to merge an analog and digital channed together so that only 1 is shown.

I scanned my analog channels which picked up the TV1 channel with the correct settings etc.

I then added another channel called TV1a for use with my Sky box. I actually had to set this up as a different name first and then rename it to TV1 afterwards (looks like you can't create multiple channels initially with the same name). I configured it as an external source for use with my composite input, and I specified the Sky channel code.

After renaming it to TV1, so that I now had 2 channels of the same name, but different sources, I highlighted them and pressed combine.

This resulted in 1 channel which appeared to be a combination of both - editing it showed that it had a frequency and was set to the external box.


When I press OK and exit the config application and start it up again to check the settings, it now shows 2 instances of TV1 - the combined one and another one. I try deleting the one I don't need, but it doesn't let me.

I read somewhere that MediaPortal tries to read the channel names that are specified in the scanning setup, so I deleted these as my new combined channel had the info it needed, but it still doesn't seem to work.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.


Is there more information on the way the combination function works? The documentation doesn't seem to elaborate on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated