How do I scan for Irish channels? (1 Viewer)

[Ciaran]

In the TV Server it finds my DVB-T device but in the list of countries Ireland isn't there. I've tried scanning UK - All Regions (for geographical not political reasons!) and Europe - All Countries (which doesn't even seem to scan at all) but with no luck. How do I set up MediaPortal for Irish tv?

 

[Owlsroost]

Do you definitely have dvb-t where you live ? - according to Television in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DTT in Ireland is still in a state of flux....

Tony

 

[Ciaran]

Yeah I read that too which is why I bought a hybrid card. So I plugged it into my laptop and looked for the analogue channels in Media Centre. It found about 1 or 2 channels and the reception was really bad so I was about to give up when, out of curiosity, I tried scanning for channels using the DVB-T tuner in the card and lo-and-behold it found all four terrestrial channels, the RTE digital test channel, 4 radio stations and the EPGs for all of them!! I don't know how that is possible especially as I live in the very west of Ireland which has very bad analogue reception nevermind digital!

So it works on my laptop but I really want to get it going on my desktop computer which is running Windows XP which is why I installed MediaPortal. Is there any way I can manually scan for channels?

 

[Owlsroost]

If you can get the transmitter frequencies from the software on the laptop, you can add them to the 'dvbt.xml' file which contains all the dvb-t transmitter channel information (it's buried in the TV-server install directory somewhere - for MP 1.0.2 at least, haven't tried 1.1.0 yet).

Which TV card etc are you using ?

Tony

 

[darkside40]

Did you get any manufacturer software with youre Tuner Card?

Maybe you can try this first and see how many Channels it will find.
For DVB-T sometimes a stronger antenna (maybe you got an old one on the top of youre house) dows wonders.

I live in a part of Germany where we have a very good DVB-T signal quality, but also here you find more channels when you got a better antenna.