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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 780028" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi again amphibemOkay that is clearer, and your goal should be easily achievable.You don't need to concern yourself with how you select the channel from within the MP interface. For all intents and purposes that is a completely separate concern to getting blasting working. What you *do* have to do is match the channel numbers in the TV Server tuning details with the channel numbers used on the Sky box. That is the critical link.All that the Sky remote is doing when you change channels is sending the numbers or arrow keys that you key in to the box. If you're pressing up and down then the box handles the smarts that are required to figure out which channel to tune. Otherwise the box simply selects the channel by the number that you key in on the remote. MP/TV Server is the same - MP handles the smarts required to figure out what channel you're wanting to watch, but you still need to specify the Sky channel number in the TV Server tuning details so that TV Server can communicate correctly with the Sky box (behind the scenes).The critical things:1. TV Server is sending commands.2. TV Server is sending the right commands.From what you've said, you have (1) working because the &quot;test&quot; function in the TV3 Blaster plugin works. Yes?Now all that you have to do is tell TV Server which channel numbers the Sky box uses for each channel.PART 11. Open TV Server configuration.2. Go to the &quot;TV Channels&quot; section.3. Select any Sky channel.4. Click &quot;edit&quot;.5. Select the analog tuning detail row.6. Click &quot;edit&quot;.7. Enter the Sky channel number in the &quot;channel&quot; field.8. Click OK.9. Click OK.At this point you might want to test that switching to that channel works.PART 21. Use the Sky remote to put the Sky box on a different channel.2. Restart TV Server.3. Start MP.4. Start viewing a Freeview channel.5. Switch to the Sky channel any way you like.If that works, then all you need to do is repeat steps 3-9 in part 1 for each of the Sky channels that you've added to TV Server.mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 780028, member: 82144"] Hi again amphibem Okay that is clearer, and your goal should be easily achievable. You don't need to concern yourself with how you select the channel from within the MP interface. For all intents and purposes that is a completely separate concern to getting blasting working. What you *do* have to do is match the channel numbers in the TV Server tuning details with the channel numbers used on the Sky box. That is the critical link. All that the Sky remote is doing when you change channels is sending the numbers or arrow keys that you key in to the box. If you're pressing up and down then the box handles the smarts that are required to figure out which channel to tune. Otherwise the box simply selects the channel by the number that you key in on the remote. MP/TV Server is the same - MP handles the smarts required to figure out what channel you're wanting to watch, but you still need to specify the Sky channel number in the TV Server tuning details so that TV Server can communicate correctly with the Sky box (behind the scenes). The critical things: 1. TV Server is sending commands. 2. TV Server is sending the right commands. From what you've said, you have (1) working because the "test" function in the TV3 Blaster plugin works. Yes? Now all that you have to do is tell TV Server which channel numbers the Sky box uses for each channel. PART 1 1. Open TV Server configuration. 2. Go to the "TV Channels" section. 3. Select any Sky channel. 4. Click "edit". 5. Select the analog tuning detail row. 6. Click "edit". 7. Enter the Sky channel number in the "channel" field. 8. Click OK. 9. Click OK. At this point you might want to test that switching to that channel works. PART 2 1. Use the Sky remote to put the Sky box on a different channel. 2. Restart TV Server. 3. Start MP. 4. Start viewing a Freeview channel. 5. Switch to the Sky channel any way you like. If that works, then all you need to do is repeat steps 3-9 in part 1 for each of the Sky channels that you've added to TV Server. mm [/QUOTE]

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