Cannot scan with analog TV/FM-Tuner any more (1 Viewer)

mm1352000

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    Hi Roger

    I can certainly update the wiki. :)
    The issue could not be caused by a driver update. The question would be: when did you last start with a clean *database*. Do you remember when you last tried to scan for analog channels?

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    Hi mm,

    as far as I remember I only did one scan and that was directly after I last made a clean install of my whole system when changing to an SSD (as explained in my last post; about 2 years ago).

    At that time I scanned all DVB-S/S2, analog TV and analog FM-channels sequentially.

    After that I never touched the scan-buttons anymore because I have a horror of channel-testing and sorting :)

    Only lately, after upgrading to MP 1.2 final, I thought it was time to do a complete new scan and detected the problem with the unavailabla analog tuner scanning.

    So I can't tell the point in time when the strange behaviour of the analog tuner-card started because MP itself ran so flawlessly in between and I hadn't have to deal very much with the TV-server configuration :)

    But there is one thing I do remember from the past 2 years.
    My system was at some time broken for a few months because of a mysterious hardware error.
    I took it all apart, found out that it was a defective graphics-adapter that was blocking the hardware and put everything together again.

    At that time I think I put the 2 tuner-card into their old PCI-slots in the wrong order and had issues with the correct recognition of the tuner-cards in the hardware manager and the drivers. (yellow question-marks and so on)

    There was a lot of fiddeling with de- and reinstalling of the tuner-card drivers in the right order which is notoriously complicated with the Hauppauge drivers.
    Finally I got everything working again.
    Perhaps at this point the error crept in.
    The TV-server must have been quite confused by what I was doing at that time and perhaps it was too much for him :)


    Sorry that I can't give more detailed info (or logs) from that time :)

    Kind regards

    Roger
     

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    Hi again Roger

    Thanks for the explanation. :D

    After that I never touched the scan-buttons anymore because I have a horror of channel-testing and sorting :)
    Hopefully this area is at least a little improved (with features like the channel search function)? :)

    So I can't tell the point in time when the strange behaviour of the analog tuner-card started because MP itself ran so flawlessly in between and I hadn't have to deal very much with the TV-server configuration :)
    I think that is a compliment! :D

    But there is one thing I do remember from the past 2 years...
    ...Perhaps at this point the error crept in.
    The TV-server must have been quite confused by what I was doing at that time and perhaps it was too much for him :)

    Sorry that I can't give more detailed info (or logs) from that time :)
    Perhaps this was it, but of course we can't confirm without examining the database at the time. I will keep this issue in the back of my mind in case anybody else reports any similar problem in the next few months. I've also updated the wiki as I said I would (link) - I'll try to provide a screenshot this evening like for the "edit tuner settings" section.

    Thank you for reporting and sorry that we can't do anything to investigate further. I hope this "solution" is acceptable to you.

    Best regards,
    mm
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    Hi mm,


    Thank you for reporting and sorry that we can't do anything to investigate further. I hope this "solution" is acceptable to you.

    The solution was already "acceptable" for me after you gave me the decisive clue how to get the scanning to work again :)


    Kind regards

    Roger
     

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