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<blockquote data-quote="longjohn119" data-source="post: 1134725" data-attributes="member: 107900">I fixed most of it by imaging my Win7 drive, reloading the March backup image and exporting the tuner XML file which I moved to a backup drive and then I loaded the image I made today back in and imported the tuner .... I'll still have to delete a couple of (sub)channels, change the subchannel on another and add one new (sub)channel to bring me back up to date with the new cable changes but I'll do that manually and skip fighting that tuner scan which has always been hit and miss for me with 3 different QAM/ATSC tuners on 4 different computers running 3 different versions of Windows&nbsp; .... Works fine for OTA ATSC on a USB Pinnacle but that also has QAM which I used for cable before I got this dual PCIe card 18 months ago and it didn't scan QAM right either but I just figured it was because it was just a USB tuner .... guess not .... Let me guess, you are using Microsoft's .NET or C# example source code for TV tuners as a base for this tuner scan ..... Frankly C+ or even better Assembly does a much better job with embedded uController devices like these for things like scanning or any direct hardware functions .... .NET and C# is OK for fancy GUI's and decoding and graphing of digital streams but not so much for actual control of embedded hardware. That's exactly why Android devices use Embedded Linux (Straight C and some C+) for all the hardware functions and Android itself is just a GUI written in a modified version of Java .... Which is basically what C# is too, a modified version of Java to get around IP rights and patentsOh yeah I've now scheduled a monthly export and backup of the tuner when I do my backup image ..... Any changes in the channels/subchannels will be done by hand unless it's a major 20 channel change or something which I doubt is going to happen</blockquote>

[QUOTE="longjohn119, post: 1134725, member: 107900"] I fixed most of it by imaging my Win7 drive, reloading the March backup image and exporting the tuner XML file which I moved to a backup drive and then I loaded the image I made today back in and imported the tuner .... I'll still have to delete a couple of (sub)channels, change the subchannel on another and add one new (sub)channel to bring me back up to date with the new cable changes but I'll do that manually and skip fighting that tuner scan which has always been hit and miss for me with 3 different QAM/ATSC tuners on 4 different computers running 3 different versions of Windows .... Works fine for OTA ATSC on a USB Pinnacle but that also has QAM which I used for cable before I got this dual PCIe card 18 months ago and it didn't scan QAM right either but I just figured it was because it was just a USB tuner .... guess not .... Let me guess, you are using Microsoft's .NET or C# example source code for TV tuners as a base for this tuner scan ..... Frankly C+ or even better Assembly does a much better job with embedded uController devices like these for things like scanning or any direct hardware functions .... .NET and C# is OK for fancy GUI's and decoding and graphing of digital streams but not so much for actual control of embedded hardware. That's exactly why Android devices use Embedded Linux (Straight C and some C+) for all the hardware functions and Android itself is just a GUI written in a modified version of Java .... Which is basically what C# is too, a modified version of Java to get around IP rights and patents Oh yeah I've now scheduled a monthly export and backup of the tuner when I do my backup image ..... Any changes in the channels/subchannels will be done by hand unless it's a major 20 channel change or something which I doubt is going to happen [/QUOTE]

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