When manually Adding Digital CHannels

rickyman · 2008-05-31, 22:06

I'm wanting to manually add some Clear QAM digital channels that were missed in the scan. When I do a preview, it says Unable to start graph but I can preview the channels that were found during the scan. And I did map the channel to a card. Has anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it??

mizzourob · 2008-06-06, 05:49

I've got the exact same problem as you do...

I've used GB-PVR to scan my cable and then noting the channels it found that MediaPortal didn't, I was hoping to use the listing of QAM frequenices found here which triggered this problem. So then I tried to create a copy of an existing working channel using the add channel option in the TV server setup. I copied line for line each of the details in the ATSC tab into a new channel and if too failed, leading me to believe there's a bug here somewhere that's been missed so far...?

So with this problem I dumped my working lineup to the xml export, then cleared the lineup, then re imported it and it worked which showed me that it seemingly would be possible to try to add these channels by tinkering with the XML file, so then I opened up the xml file in notepad and I see that there are a bunch of other fields in the XML that don't match the add channel tab which left me confused...Perhaps one of the developers can chime in about this??

Of course all this could be resolved if MediaPortal could reliably find all the clear QAM channels in the first place, somehow gb-pvr does, and so too does sage tv but I digress...

-Rob

mizzourob · 2008-06-06, 18:55

after more review it appears that the issue in the XML file is the PmtPid attribute. This is not present in the ATSC (QAM) Add Channel box, but seems to be critical issue when trying to recreate a known working channel. Anyone know how to correlate that to the QAM frequencies or to a GB-PVR log entry? Here is the entry from the GB-PVR scan that found my missing ESPN (clear QAM, non-hd) that I'm trying to get to work with MediaPortal.

Unknown9* (000(AC3)))
2008-06-05 22:58:13.922 INFO physical channel 63 mapped to frequency 457250
2008-06-05 22:58:13.922 INFO Setting CarrierFrequency(457250)
2008-06-05 22:58:14.212 INFO SetTuningRequest() finished
2008-06-05 22:58:20.311 INFO SetTuningRequest(T:70,70,2~P:2~V:54~A:52~PMT:53~PC R:54~N:>70.2

2008-05-31, 22:06	#1 (permalink)
rickyman Portal Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 129 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts My System	When manually Adding Digital CHannels I'm wanting to manually add some Clear QAM digital channels that were missed in the scan. When I do a preview, it says Unable to start graph but I can preview the channels that were found during the scan. And I did map the channel to a card. Has anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?? Last edited by rickyman; 2008-05-31 at 22:51.

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2008-06-06, 05:49	#2 (permalink)
mizzourob Portal Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 13 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	I've got the exact same problem as you do... I've used GB-PVR to scan my cable and then noting the channels it found that MediaPortal didn't, I was hoping to use the listing of QAM frequenices found here which triggered this problem. So then I tried to create a copy of an existing working channel using the add channel option in the TV server setup. I copied line for line each of the details in the ATSC tab into a new channel and if too failed, leading me to believe there's a bug here somewhere that's been missed so far...? So with this problem I dumped my working lineup to the xml export, then cleared the lineup, then re imported it and it worked which showed me that it seemingly would be possible to try to add these channels by tinkering with the XML file, so then I opened up the xml file in notepad and I see that there are a bunch of other fields in the XML that don't match the add channel tab which left me confused...Perhaps one of the developers can chime in about this?? Of course all this could be resolved if MediaPortal could reliably find all the clear QAM channels in the first place, somehow gb-pvr does, and so too does sage tv but I digress... -Rob

2008-06-06, 18:55	#3 (permalink)
mizzourob Portal Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 13 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	after more review it appears that the issue in the XML file is the PmtPid attribute. This is not present in the ATSC (QAM) Add Channel box, but seems to be critical issue when trying to recreate a known working channel. Anyone know how to correlate that to the QAM frequencies or to a GB-PVR log entry? Here is the entry from the GB-PVR scan that found my missing ESPN (clear QAM, non-hd) that I'm trying to get to work with MediaPortal. Unknown9* (000(AC3))) 2008-06-05 22:58:13.922 INFO physical channel 63 mapped to frequency 457250 2008-06-05 22:58:13.922 INFO Setting CarrierFrequency(457250) 2008-06-05 22:58:14.212 INFO SetTuningRequest() finished 2008-06-05 22:58:20.311 INFO SetTuningRequest(T:70,70,2~P:2~V:54~A:52~PMT:53~PC R:54~N:>70.2