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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ijourneaux" data-source="post: 791179" data-attributes="member: 114024">As always, appreciate your time and effort. I haven't had the time to digest your comments above. but will do so after this. Progress but still trouble.Following your guidance, I started over. 1. First I deleted all of the channels. 2. Since I have dual tuner digital HDHomerun, a dual analog Adaptec avs3610 and an HD-PVR, I first scanned the channels on the AVS-3610 (about 70 channels) that all come identified with the channel number. I doesn't appear as if I have to scan both tuners as they both have exactly the same lineup. I allocated the same channels to both tuners3. I scanned the channels on the HDHomeRun (15 channels). THese come acros with names that don't match Schedules direct so I renamed them to match the call sign in SchedulesDirect.  As with the previous tuner, I allocated the same channels to both tuners4. I had the SchedulesDirect plug set to match on channel number.5. I had Schedule Direct set up appropriately to generate the channels for the HD-PVR. I know how to do this now but this is less than obvious. My complaint here is not that it isn't obvious but it is difficult to locate the instructions on how to do this. (I promise will write I clear guide<grin>)6. Restart the TVServer. This triggers the generation of the HD-PVR channels from SchedulesDirect.7. Low and behold, as you described  a couple of posts ago, this causes all of the channels to be mapped to the channels in SchedulesDirect. Except not quite (as in life it seems there is always an exception)1. The first problem I noticed is that the channel on the HDHomeRUn I had identified as WAOWDT was renamed to 81 G4 TV. Based on the other HDHomeRUn Channels it should have been renamed to 9-1 WAOWDT. 9-1 WAOWDT is on HD channel 81 not channel 81 in the guide. I just edit the channel back to 9-1 WAOWDT. That seemed to work. I suspect the guide data though will be wrong and I nolonger have an entry for channel 81 that should be available on the AVS-3610 and the HD-PVR.2. More seriously though, when the guide information was associated with the HD-HomeRUn Channels the corresponding channels on the HDPVR were eliminated and not available to be selected. For instance on the HDHomeRun I originally renamed a channel to WHRMDT  that matched the guide channel 600-WHRMDT. When the channel was mapped, it was renamed to 8-1 WHRMDT and the guide information was correctly available. But Channel 600 WHRM is no longer available to be tuned on the HDPVR.A couple of steps forward and a step back. I am going to review your notes above and see if your comments address the problems I just observed. I think what is needed here is, if you have an HD-PVR that includes all of the channels you have available on all tuners, Let SD generate the channels for the HD-PVR and channel infomation and use a manual process to link the other tuner channels to the appropriate channel in SD. I can post the logs if you are interested.-------Is this functionality and thus complicated process strictly in the SD  plugin or in TVServer? There has to be an easier more reliable way to do this mapping. I can appreciate that there are lots of complications but BeyondTV and SageTV both make the process "relatively" painless but certainly more reliable. How can I help? Where can I start? I am reasonable comfortable with both C and C#.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Again</blockquote>

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