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<blockquote data-quote="The Doctor" data-source="post: 1121581" data-attributes="member: 62974"><p>Ok, what I meant with user unfriendly is for example this:</p><p></p><p></p><p>1) Last week or so CanalDigitaal changed transmission details for some transponders like the setting symbol rate, and the modulation type. Everything else stayed the same. I did a rescan and tv-server did not detect the channels with the new settings. That's fine because (maybe) tv-server does not scan the transponders in every possible combination. I guess that's why you need to refresh the satellite list which is never up to date or correct.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The only option you have is to edit every channel that has changed and that process is not user friendly, To many menu's and you have to do it outside mediaportal.</p><p></p><p></p><p>2) An other big problem is when you have multiple tuner cards (like me three) and you need to assign channels to the cards which are able to receive those channels.</p><p>That's absolutely stupid because tv-server should know which channels can be received by which card as it did the scanning. (of course manual entries do not count). In my situation I cannot even see the difference between the cards because tv-server detects all the cards with exact the same name. It would be nice if I could rename the cards.</p><p></p><p>Card1 and Card 2 is for Astra 19,2/23,5 Card3 is for Astra 28,2 When I scan Astra 19,2/23,5 and then scan Astra 28,2 I end up with a massive list of channels and it is impossible to assign the channels from Card1 to Card2 which can receive the same channels because all the channels are in the same list and you cannot see which channels are tuned by which card.</p><p></p><p>The work around is to scan channels with every card even if Card1 and Card2 are only receiving the same channels on the same satellites. You need to have this sorted correctly else it will be impossible to watch and record different channels at the same time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mediaportal is very user-friendly in daily use (my wife, kids, nanny and neighbors) everyone is able to use it after a few button presses of the remote. But I don't see them retune channels when suddenly providers decide to move channels to different transponders or different tuning details.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Best solution would be: When you tune to a channel that cannot be received anymore, let the tv-server rescan the channel with an (auto) updated satellite list and if it still fails to tune present in Mediaport the option to set every tuning details by hand. (with the message to find the details at sites like <a href="http://nl.kingofsat.net/" target="_blank">http://nl.kingofsat.net/</a> or <a href="http://www.lyngsat.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lyngsat.com/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Tuning details are changed on an almost monthly bases at least with CanalDigitaal. So it's really a pain in the ass.</p><p></p><p></p><p>What I will try this weekend is the option to scan for a transponder list and see if tv-server can cope with it. (it never did but I didn't try it for at least 2 years)</p><p></p><p>Edit : the transponderlist scan does work. Altough I am not sure where the tv-server stores the update tuning details.</p><p></p><p>Best Regards,</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Ferry Bervoets</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Doctor, post: 1121581, member: 62974"] Ok, what I meant with user unfriendly is for example this: 1) Last week or so CanalDigitaal changed transmission details for some transponders like the setting symbol rate, and the modulation type. Everything else stayed the same. I did a rescan and tv-server did not detect the channels with the new settings. That's fine because (maybe) tv-server does not scan the transponders in every possible combination. I guess that's why you need to refresh the satellite list which is never up to date or correct. The only option you have is to edit every channel that has changed and that process is not user friendly, To many menu's and you have to do it outside mediaportal. 2) An other big problem is when you have multiple tuner cards (like me three) and you need to assign channels to the cards which are able to receive those channels. That's absolutely stupid because tv-server should know which channels can be received by which card as it did the scanning. (of course manual entries do not count). In my situation I cannot even see the difference between the cards because tv-server detects all the cards with exact the same name. It would be nice if I could rename the cards. Card1 and Card 2 is for Astra 19,2/23,5 Card3 is for Astra 28,2 When I scan Astra 19,2/23,5 and then scan Astra 28,2 I end up with a massive list of channels and it is impossible to assign the channels from Card1 to Card2 which can receive the same channels because all the channels are in the same list and you cannot see which channels are tuned by which card. The work around is to scan channels with every card even if Card1 and Card2 are only receiving the same channels on the same satellites. You need to have this sorted correctly else it will be impossible to watch and record different channels at the same time. Mediaportal is very user-friendly in daily use (my wife, kids, nanny and neighbors) everyone is able to use it after a few button presses of the remote. But I don't see them retune channels when suddenly providers decide to move channels to different transponders or different tuning details. Best solution would be: When you tune to a channel that cannot be received anymore, let the tv-server rescan the channel with an (auto) updated satellite list and if it still fails to tune present in Mediaport the option to set every tuning details by hand. (with the message to find the details at sites like [url]http://nl.kingofsat.net/[/url] or [url]http://www.lyngsat.com/[/url] Tuning details are changed on an almost monthly bases at least with CanalDigitaal. So it's really a pain in the ass. What I will try this weekend is the option to scan for a transponder list and see if tv-server can cope with it. (it never did but I didn't try it for at least 2 years) Edit : the transponderlist scan does work. Altough I am not sure where the tv-server stores the update tuning details. Best Regards, [B]Ferry Bervoets[/B] [/QUOTE]
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