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Hi again David
Okay, that makes more sense - so you're trying just trying to get channels that work and that have EPG. Pretty reasonable.
According to this post you're not meant to tick that "automatically add..." box. You should let TV Server configuration find your QAM channels and let SD try to map the channels that you found with the channels it has guide data for.
Okay, that makes more sense - so you're trying just trying to get channels that work and that have EPG. Pretty reasonable.
That is pretty normal for North America. In other parts of the world EPG is actually broadcasted over the air. MP is mostly geared up to receive EPG that way. SchedulesDirect seems to be a pretty common way to get EPG if you're in the US...I had MP working (version 1.2) but could not get any EPG
I joined SchdulesDirect then downloaded the SchdulesDirect plugin.
Okay, so SchedulesDirect doesn't actually do any scanning. It knows what channels are theoretically available in your area and adds them MP. That is great because "scanning" is really quick, but it might not always be correct and it doesn't do any of the regular channel <--> tuner linking that MP does automatically when you do a scan using the actual tuners. In this instance the brown/red box with the crossed icon was telling you that the channels are not linked to a tuner. As you have found out, all that you needed to do to get the channels working was simply to map them to the appropriate tuner (again, this wiki link explains how to do that).After a day or so some channels were correct and some were mixed up.
I download MP1.1.3.0 in hopes it would clean up and it did not. I read a posts that said let SchedulesDirect find the correct channels. I deleted all the channels in setup and checked the box in SchedulesDirect to automatically add new digital cable/satellite channels with External Video Input for new channels: as "Tuner" I also checked the box, Include analog channels.
SchedulesDirect found all my channels but marked them all as analog. In MP channels and guides were present however after selecting "Channel" the channels had a brown box with a crossed circle in lieu of a green box with a check mark, therefore not viewable.
The results that you got there are to be expected. MP can't link the channels that you imported with SchedulesDirect to the channels that it found in the scan - the names would have to match, and so far as I know analog scanning can't pick up names. Again, all you would have had to do was to map the SD imported channels to your analog tuner.Back in setup (TV-server configuration) selecting "TV Channels" channels were listed and in the column marked "Mapped Cardtypes" the display showed "Channel not mapped to a card." I found in this post on an earlier comment that scanning would correct the problem.
I selected "TV Servers/office/Analog ATI AVStream" and selected "Scan for TV channels." The results were more channels in MP. I could watch the newly scanned channels without program guide and the channels with program guide were not viewable.
Yep, that is the easiest way to do things.I deleted all the channels again and started over letting SchedulesDirect scan.
Then in setup I selected "TV Channels/TV Mapping" and selected ATI AVStream Analog Tuner. I selected all the items on the left and selected ">>" to put them on the right. Low and behold I had program guides and viewable channels in MP but only for the analog channels.
Okay, so clearly SD is either not importing the digital channels, or it is setting them up as analog channels. That could be a problem...Back in setup I selected "TV Channels/TV Mapping" and selected ATI BDA Digital Tuner. The Available channels list was empty.
Yep, that is the right thing to do.Next I selected "TV Servers/office/ATSC ATI BDA Digital Tuner and selected "Scan for channels"
Back to "TV Channels/TV Mapping" selecting ATI BDA Digital Tuner and Available channels were visible. I selected all the channels and ">>" to move them to the right.
So here you have a problem with SchedulesDirect, *not* with MP. SchedulesDirect seems to be creating analog channels when it should be creating digital channels. MP won't let you map analog channels to a digital tuner.In MP the analog channels still worked, program guide was available and the channels were selectable and viewable. Programming guide for digital channels found by SchdulesDirect were not mapped and digital channels found by scanning in setup could be viewed in MP without program guides.
In all cases, in setup I could select "TV Channels" highlight a channel and select preview and see the channel in a box.
All this said, here is where it is left:
analog channels are viewable and have program guides.
digital channels are listed in the program guide as analog and are not mapped.
digital channels found by scanning in setup are not listed in the program guide but are viewable in MP.
Again, your problem is with SchedulesDirect. I'd say this part is wrong:I am sure I have done something wrong or in the wrong order, just can't figure out what.
...and checked the box in SchedulesDirect to automatically add new digital cable/satellite channels with External Video Input for new channels: as "Tuner" I also checked the box, Include analog channels...
According to this post you're not meant to tick that "automatically add..." box. You should let TV Server configuration find your QAM channels and let SD try to map the channels that you found with the channels it has guide data for.