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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1164019" data-attributes="member: 82144">Okay, thanks for the clarification. I think I understand now.I can only assume that this is related to the SD plugin and/or your SD account configuration, both of which are completely outside our (MediaPortal's) control.Are the local Tampa channels actually part of your SD DirecTV lineup?If not, I guess that explains why the SD plugin would not add them. Presumably you'd need a second OTA lineup associated with your account in order to get the SD plugin to create those channels. If you do in fact have a second lineup, it is also possible that the SD plugin has been designed to only automatically create MP channels for satellite (eg. Dish, DirecTV) and cable lineups. The configuration option does say &quot;automatically add new digital cable/satellite channels&quot; - no mention of terrestrial/OTA - so I wouldn't be particularly surprised.Presumably you're modifying the Channel table ExternalId column?The SD plugin uses that column to link SD guide channels to MP channels. Manually creating channels/stations will not populate the column; that's entirely expected. If the column is ever to be populated, either the SD plugin has to do it (when it automatically creates channels based on your configured SD lineups, or when it links existing OTA scanned-in channels to guide data)... or otherwise you'd have to do it manually as you're doing.In short: I'm saying that what you're seeing/experiencing seems to be as expected/designed, and if you want separate/duplicate local channels with SD guide data then the only way to achieve it could well be to do what you're doing now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1164019, member: 82144"] Okay, thanks for the clarification. I think I understand now. I can only assume that this is related to the SD plugin and/or your SD account configuration, both of which are completely outside our (MediaPortal's) control. Are the local Tampa channels actually part of your SD DirecTV lineup? If not, I guess that explains why the SD plugin would not add them. Presumably you'd need a second OTA lineup associated with your account in order to get the SD plugin to create those channels. If you do in fact have a second lineup, it is also possible that the SD plugin has been designed to only automatically create MP channels for satellite (eg. Dish, DirecTV) and cable lineups. The configuration option does say "automatically add new digital [B]cable/satellite[/B] channels" - no mention of terrestrial/OTA - so I wouldn't be particularly surprised. Presumably you're modifying the Channel table ExternalId column? The SD plugin uses that column to link SD guide channels to MP channels. Manually creating channels/stations will not populate the column; that's entirely expected. If the column is ever to be populated, either the SD plugin has to do it (when it automatically creates channels based on your configured SD lineups, or when it links existing OTA scanned-in channels to guide data)... or otherwise you'd have to do it manually as you're doing. In short: I'm saying that what you're seeing/experiencing seems to be as expected/designed, and if you want separate/duplicate local channels with SD guide data then the only way to achieve it could well be to do what you're doing now. [/QUOTE]

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