TV Server: How to save changes? (1 Viewer)

[Alan Honeyman]

Ok, I must be missing something here. Trying to capture the new frequency for SBS here in Melbourne, I run TV Server Configuration as Administrator and in TV Servers > DVB-T Hauppauge WinTV-7164 BDA DVBT Tuner, I scan and it returns:

Total radio channels updated: 2, new: 0
Total channels updated: 24, new: 0

Then I click ok which exits me from the configurator. If I go back in and run the same thing again, I get the same results, so what do I do to save the results?

 

[mm1352000]

The results are saved automatically.

 

[Alan Honeyman]

That had been my thinking but it doesn't explain why I get the same results when I re-run the scan. I would expect no changes.

 

[mm1352000]

Were you expecting 0 channels updated? If so, that is incorrect. Any channel that is found and not new is an update, even if nothing about the channel has changed.

 

[Alan Honeyman]

Ok, then something's not working. If I run the win7 program and look at the frequency for SBS, it is not the new frequency - still the old one. The current frequency finds no signal.

 

[mm1352000]

Alan, I'm sorry but I'm confused. I don't understand what you're trying to do and I don't know anything about WinTV. Please can you explain with a little more detail, including which version of MP you're using, which region you're selecting when scanning etc.

 

[Alan Honeyman]

Apologies for the confusion, I'll try again. MP 1.4 and I'm scanning the Melbourne region trying to pick up SBS on it's new frequency. Following a scan, I go into MP's TV and SBS shows as "no signal". When the Hauppauge 22xx card was installed, it came with an app called WinTV v7 which uses the card to browse TV stations and is a useful reference if one is having problems with MP TV, as I am. It also gets no signal for SBS and it shows SBS's frequency as 536.5MHz instead of the new frequency of 184.5MHz.

 

[mm1352000]

MP 1.4 and I'm scanning the Melbourne region trying to pick up SBS on it's new frequency.

Okay, so you're using MP 1.4. The frequency list included with that version of MP is bound to be out of date, and the frequency list is not updated when you scan. Hence the problem. The scan is finding channels... but it won't be finding SBS, and therefore you continue to get "no signal" when you try to view SBS in MP. To fix this problem you have to fix the frequency list. There are at least three ways to do that:

1. Do a manual scan of 184.5 MHz (ie. go to scan page, tick "use advanced...", select scan type "single transponder", enter frequency 184500 and bandwidth 7, then scan).
2. Update to MP 1.7.x which has an updated frequency list for Melbourne, then just rescan as you've been doing.
   
3. Edit the tuning details for Melbourne. Assuming you're using Windows Vista or newer (7, 8, 8.1 etc.), they're stored in c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TuningParameters\dvbt (note: I did say ProgramData - that's a hidden folder, so copy + paste the path into the address bar in Windows Explorer if you can't see it). The file you'd need to edit is Australia.Vic - Melbourne.xml. You can open that file in any text editor (notepad, wordpad, word etc.). Simply add a section:

<DVBTTuning>
<Frequency>184500</Frequency>
<BandWidth>7</BandWidth>
<Offset>125</Offset>
</DVBTTuning>

...save, then reopen TV Server and rescan.

Make sense?

 

[Alan Honeyman]

Great explanation and thanks for sticking with me on this!

 

[Alan Honeyman]

SOLVED: Updating to 1.7.HOTFIX gave me back my SBS. Thank you!