Re-initialising server (1 Viewer)

[PoBear]

Hi

I had a satellite card on my server, but it's blown, I can't find anyway to delete the card and all of the channels so I can setup the new Freeview HD card that I have bought.

How do I re-initialise everything so I can start from scratch? I've searched the forum but can't find any suggestions. I can't believe that my only option is re-install everything.

Thanks in advance

 

[mm1352000]

Hello PoBear

I can't find anyway to delete the card...

Removing a tuner is totally unnecessary from a functional perspective. If you insist on deleting it, do as per the wiki:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...rver_Configuration/02_TV_Servers#Remove_Tuner

Note that the tuner will just be re-added if it is still plugged into your computer, so it is somewhat pointless as well as unnecessary.

...and all of the channels...

Not hard. Go to the TV Channels section, select all channels, press "delete".

...so I can setup the new Freeview HD card that I have bought.

As above: it is not necessary to delete the previous tuner or channels in order to get the new tuner or channels working. If you want to keep your channel list tidy then that is fine and you can follow the instructions provided to delete all channels.

How do I re-initialise everything so I can start from scratch? I've searched the forum but can't find any suggestions. I can't believe that my only option is re-install everything.

You probably won't find suggestions because reinitialising and starting from scratch when adding a new tuner is just totally unnecessary.
If you absolutely insist on losing all (and I really do mean all ) your settings and starting over without reinstalling TV Server then you can follow the instructions below. I don't recommend or endorse this. Do at your own risk.

1. Stop the TV service and ensure TV Server configuration is closed.
2. Right click the TV Server configuration shortcut on your desktop and select "properties".
3. Change the "target" from ...\SetupTv.exe" to ...SetupTv.exe" /configure-db ... (note that the quotation marks are important).
4. Double click on the shortcut. You should now see the database connection popup that you would have seen when you first installed. All the fields should be set with your current database connection parameters.
5. Change the schema name to some other value (eg. MpTvDb2).
6. Click "test" and then "save".
7. Right click the TV Server configuration shortcut on your desktop and select "properties".
8. Remove the configure-db section that you added.

mm

 

[PoBear]

Thanks guys

I had already tried deleting the channels but I have 631 channels which will not delete for some reason, either as a group or individually, that's why I wanted to re-initialise

 

[mm1352000]

I had already tried deleting the channels but I have 631 channels which will not delete for some reason...

Please post your TV Server logs. This should never happen.

 

[PoBear]

Hi

I'm not sure it will be of any use, this is the only log produced on the day I had the problem with deleting the channels and before I re-initialised the db. There is also a TVService-Error-5 file which is empty.