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<blockquote data-quote="clarkebelt" data-source="post: 1087655" data-attributes="member: 148422">I am having a really strange issue that occurs whenever I attempt to scan the channels on a staellite.&nbsp; Just for reference, I have a 4 port DiSEqC switch, and one port of the DiSEqC switch has a 22 kHz tone switch hanging off of it.&nbsp; At present I have three C-band dishes and one Ku-band dish, each pointed at different satellites.The problem is that each time I have added another dish to the mix, every time I try to scan the new satellite it invariably overwrites my good data in my existing channels with bad data from the satellite it is scanning.&nbsp; For example, today I added in a C-band dish on port 1 of the DiSEqc switch.&nbsp; When adding it to MediaPortal I only selected that single DiSEqC switch port, and selected C-Band.&nbsp; Yet when it scanned in the channels, it overwrote (or &quot;updated&quot;) several existing channels.&nbsp; It did this regardless of the fact that:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The channels it overwrote were on completely different satellites</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The channels it overwrote were on different frequencies 
</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">That it overwrote good in-the-clear channels with data for scrambled channels</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">That in one case, the channel was on a completely different band and frequency - it overwrote a Ku-band channel with data for a C-band channel!</li>
</ul>I just cannot understand why this happens, but it has happened often enough that I'd like to find a solution or workaround.&nbsp; I think it's probably related to an earlier issue I had, where good data on a single transponder on a satellite was being overwritten by data from a different transponder on the same satellite.Is there any way to tell MediaPortal that I am scanning a new satellite and that it should not be overwriting channels on any other satellite?&nbsp; I would think this should be how things work by default but apparently that's not the case.Alternately, is there any way to back up my channels and then restore them later if things go amiss?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clarkebelt, post: 1087655, member: 148422"] I am having a really strange issue that occurs whenever I attempt to scan the channels on a staellite. Just for reference, I have a 4 port DiSEqC switch, and one port of the DiSEqC switch has a 22 kHz tone switch hanging off of it. At present I have three C-band dishes and one Ku-band dish, each pointed at different satellites. The problem is that each time I have added another dish to the mix, every time I try to scan the new satellite it invariably overwrites my good data in my existing channels with bad data from the satellite it is scanning. For example, today I added in a C-band dish on port 1 of the DiSEqc switch. When adding it to MediaPortal I only selected that single DiSEqC switch port, and selected C-Band. Yet when it scanned in the channels, it overwrote (or "updated") several existing channels. It did this regardless of the fact that: [LIST] [*]The channels it overwrote were on completely different satellites [*]The channels it overwrote were on different frequencies [*]That it overwrote good in-the-clear channels with data for scrambled channels [*]That in one case, the channel was on a completely different band [I]and[/I] frequency - it overwrote a Ku-band channel with data for a C-band channel! [/LIST] I just cannot understand why this happens, but it has happened often enough that I'd like to find a solution or workaround. I think it's probably related to an earlier issue I had, where good data on a single transponder on a satellite was being overwritten by data from a different transponder on the same satellite. Is there any way to tell MediaPortal that I am scanning a new satellite and that it should not be overwriting channels on any other satellite? I would think this should be how things work by default but apparently that's not the case. Alternately, is there any way to back up my channels and then restore them later if things go amiss? [/QUOTE]

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