Re: Channels getting deleted on new scan

"Timothy D. Lenz" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.vdr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Welllll, it gets better. Tonight I see VDR is grabbing guide data for 9x 
and using it for 58.x. So 58.x data is now being lost. grrrr

On 3/9/2018 2:29 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> On 08.03.2018 22:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> On 08.03.2018 22:13, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>>> I was hoping it was something simple I could fix in the conf. I 
>>> haven't worked on it or in linux in a long time and don't have the 
>>> free time to figure it all out again. I'll have to look at this some 
>>> other time. I am in the U.S. and these are ATA channels. They each 
>>> have their own freq. and my guess is that they can use what ever 
>>> numbers they want since they are on there own freq which they bought.
>>
>> Well, it's funny though that they use exactly the same IDs ;-).
>>
>> Sure they can do whatever they want, but there are a few basic rules that
>> should be followed in order to guarantee a reasonable coexistance. One of
>> them is that channels that are broadcast in the same area (like from the
>> same terrestrial transmitter, on the same cable or the same satellite)
>> should use unique IDs, even if they are on different transponders. One
>> of these IDs is the "transport stream id", which in your case is 207 for
>> both channels. This should be different.
> 
> For testing I added your new channel list to my channels.conf.
> Here's what my VDR reported upon startup:
> 
> Mar  9 10:21:46 raspi4 vdr: [3134] loading ../cfg/channels.conf
> Mar  9 10:21:46 raspi4 vdr: [3134] deleting duplicate channel 
> KWBA-HD,KWBA-HD:653028615:M10:A:0:49=2:0;52=eng@106,53=esl@106:0:0:3:0:207:0 
> 
> Mar  9 10:21:46 raspi4 vdr: [3134] deleting duplicate channel 
> LATV,LATV:653028615:M10:A:0:65=2:0;68=eng@106:0:0:4:0:207:0
> Mar  9 10:21:46 raspi4 vdr: [3134] deleting duplicate channel 
> ThisTV,ThisTV:653028615:M10:A:0:81=2:0;84=eng@106:0:0:5:0:207:0
> 
> With your old list I get no such log entries. So I guess somebody messed up
> with the TIDs, and the problem should be fixed there.
> 
> Klaus
> 
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