auto scan fails - no usable channels in channels.conf

[swdFrog]

In order to rescan I deleted the channels.conf file. On starting Me-TV the message "no channels.conf file would you like one created". Answer yes and hit next then select satellite, astra 28.2 in this case. The app then crashes with the message no usable channels in channels.conf. An empty channels.conf is created.

Ta
  Simon

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

It's not a crash, it's called a graceful exit. This is not a bug, this is what Me TV is designed to do when it doesn't find any channels.

[swdFrog (simon-robert-frogtec)]

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 00:31 +0000, Michael Lamothe wrote:
> It's not a crash, it's called a graceful exit. This is not a bug, this
> is what Me TV is designed to do when it doesn't find any channels.
>
> ** Changed in: me-tv
> Status: New => Invalid
>

OK, but the exit is instantaneous, it hasn't had the time to scan
anything. The channels should be there, they are if I use the dvb-utils
scan. So the bug, if there is one, is the failure to find channels. Or
is there something else I should re-set in order to run an auto scan ( I
tried to scan eurobird 28.5 as well as astra 28.2 as the card, skystar 2
picks up channels from both).

Simon

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

What type of device do you have, DVB-S? I really don't understand the networks/devices/setup that you described.

[swdFrog (simon-robert-frogtec)]

The setup is

PC running latest Ubuntu - 8.1
PCI Card for satellite reception - Skystar 2
connection from a BskyB type satellite dish to the plug on the skystar 2
card

The stuff about eurobird 28.5 is a distraction, it's just that astra and
eurobird are so close together that any satellite reception device not
specific to one provider, like a sky digibox or the new, to the UK
freesat boxes, will pick up stations from both satellites, it doesn't
matter which satellite one chooses to scan. I used to have a non sky
box, a technomate, and this does the same as the internal card. Infact
one can add eurobird channels to a bskyb box by fiddling with the add
channel options and putting in all the details by hand.

Shouldn't have mentioned it as it has nothing to do with the problem. I
dunno maybe it is the same satellite, but chucking a different range of
scan parameters at it, but I seem to recall that the technomate digibox
showed the different sat's in its' listing. Whatever, you end up with
the same stuff.

Anyhow Me-TV works fine with one of the channels.conf generated as
below, but it'd be nice to have autoscan.

root@frog2:/usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s# scan -x 0
Eurobird1-28.5E > channels.conf
scanning Eurobird1-28.5E
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 11623000 H 27500000 2
initial transponder 11224000 V 27500000 2
initial transponder 11527000 V 27500000 2
>>> tune to: 11623:h:0:27500
0x0000 0xc6b2: pmt_pid 0x0105 BSkyB -- Abu Dhabi TV (running)
0x0000 0xc6b3: pmt_pid 0x0109 BSkyB -- Horse & Country (running)
0x0000 0xc6be: pmt_pid 0x0101 BSkyB -- PCNE Chinese (running)
0x0000 0xc7c9: pmt_pid 0x0107 BSkyB -- BabyTV (running, scrambled)
0x0000 0xc7cc: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- FriendlyTV (not running)
0x0000 0xd2f9: pmt_pid 0x0104 BskyB -- Diva TV +1 (running, scrambled)
0x0000 0xd2fb: pmt_pid 0x010d BSkyB -- SCI FI +1 (running, scrambled)
0x0000 0xd327: pmt_pid 0x0102 BSkyB -- Tron Direct 1 (running)
0x0000 0xc695: pmt_pid 0x0103 BSkyB -- Wired Ocean (running, scrambled)
0x0000 0xc69f: pmt_pid 0x0117 BSkyB -- Russia Today (running)
0x0000 0xc6a3: pmt_pid 0x010a BSkyB -- InTune (running)
0x0000 0xc6a8: pmt_pid 0x010e BSkyB -- Kiss (running)
0x0000 0xc6a9: pmt_pid 0x010f BSkyB -- Smash Hits! (running)
0x0000 0xc6aa: pmt_pid 0x0110 BSkyB -- Kerrang (running)
0x0000 0xc6ab: pmt_pid 0x0111 BSkyB -- The Hits (running)
0x0000 0xc6ac: pmt_pid 0x0112 BSkyB -- Magic (running)
0x0000 0xc6ad: pmt_pid 0x0113 BSkyB -- Q (running)
0x0000 0xc6ae: pmt_pid 0x0114 BSkyB -- MOJO (running)
0x0000 0xc6af: pmt_pid 0x0115 BSkyB -- Heat (running)
0x0000 0xc6b1: pmt_pid 0x0100 BSkyB -- PTV Prime (running)

root@frog2:/usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s# scan -x 0
Astra-28.2E > channels.conf
scanning Astra-28.2E
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
initial transponder 10773000 H 22000000 5
initial transponder 11778000 V 27500000 2
>>> tune to: 10773:h:0:22000
0x0000 0x18af: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- BBC THREE (not running)
0x0000 0x18bb: pmt_pid 0x0106 BSkyB -- BBC 1 NI (running)
0x0000 0x189d: pmt_pid 0x0105 BSkyB -- BBC 1 London (running)
0x0000 0x189e: pmt_pid 0...

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

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