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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1264632" data-attributes="member: 141969"><a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/TV+Channels" target="_blank">This page</a> in the Wiki says the following about &quot;renaming by SID&quot;:This only makes sense if the channel names are inconclusive or non-existing.Two ways to recover from your current situation:(1) Manually edit every channel name to return it to what it was originally.&nbsp; If you expand the &quot;TV Channels&quot; window in &quot;TV Server&quot; horizontally, the channel numbers should appear on the right.&nbsp; Use these channel numbers to identify each channel (e.g. if I did this in the UK, might see channel &quot;101&quot;, which I know is &quot;BBC1 HD&quot;).(2) Rescan your tuners.&nbsp; If you enable &quot;channel movement detection&quot;, TV Server will retain the erroneous existing channel names (the SIDs), so you must disable that option. Unfortunately, this means that you will lose your recording schedule, since the recording schedule will refer to the old channels (I think; I am not 100% sure about that).To retain your recording schedule, I think that the best that you can do is to export the recording schedule before rescanning the tuners, and then edit the XML export file to change the channel names to what they should be. Finally import the modified XML file.So, you can bang your head against a rock, or you can bang your head against a hard place. The choice is yours.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1264632, member: 141969"] [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/TV+Channels']This page[/URL] in the Wiki says the following about "renaming by SID": [I]This only makes sense if the channel names are inconclusive or non-existing.[/I] Two ways to recover from your current situation: (1) Manually edit every channel name to return it to what it was originally. If you expand the "TV Channels" window in "TV Server" horizontally, the channel numbers should appear on the right. Use these channel numbers to identify each channel (e.g. if I did this in the UK, might see channel "101", which I know is "BBC1 HD"). (2) Rescan your tuners. If you enable "channel movement detection", TV Server will retain the erroneous existing channel names (the SIDs), so you must [B]disable[/B] that option. Unfortunately, this means that you will lose your recording schedule, since the recording schedule will refer to the old channels (I think; I am not 100% sure about that). To retain your recording schedule, I think that the best that you can do is to export the recording schedule before rescanning the tuners, and then edit the XML export file to change the channel names to what they should be. Finally import the modified XML file. So, you can bang your head against a rock, or you can bang your head against a hard place. The choice is yours. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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