What is the physical channel for "49 5040 0" on the HDHomerun on Linux?

[kbyrd]

Running SageTV 6.6 on Linux with an HD200. All recording comes from an HDHR getting QAM from Comcast. I've been happy with this for over a year. When I first set it up, I used the HDHomerunGUI on my laptop to find the channels I wanted, then remapped everything so my guide data tuned the correct physical channel on the HDHR. Figuring out how to translate HDHomerunGUI's display of channel to SageTV's physical channel was a bit tricky. But the following worked for me:

If HDHomerunGUI had logical channel info (call letters, logical channel, etc.) then the rule was:
When HDHomerunGUI says:
Channel = "92", Program = "1 11.1 KNTV-HD"

Then SageTV physical channel remap is:
"92-11-1"

If HDHomerunGUI had NO logical channel info
When HDHomerunGUI says:
Channel = "110", Program = "3 0"

Then SageTV physical channel remap is:
"110-0-3" (the 0 and 3 are transposed intentionally)

This worked for all the channels I wanted. This morning, I tried to add BravoHD, which HDHomerunGUI shows unencrypted at:
Channel = "49", Program = "5040 0"
There is no logical info in HDHomerunGUI, so this should be "49-0-5040" in SageTV. Well, that doesn't work. For fun, I tried "49-5040" too. But that didn't work either. I've never seen a program number like 5040 before. Is it special somehow?

I did verify I can view the stream from HDHomerunGUI. That all works fine. I added several other ClearQAM channels this morning in Sage using the rules above. They all work fine. None of them have a program number in the thousands, though.

Any help?

[kbyrd]

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Is there another forum topic this should go under? I tried to redo the title of my post to "how to tune four digit programs with HDHR", but I'm not allowed to edit that.

[Ender]

With the HDHR setup program, after you do the scan, you can input the proper channel info. Just edit the Guide Number, and Name fields.

For example, if Bravo HD were unencrypted for me, I would edit the Guide Number to 828, and the Guide name to BRAVOHD. This way when I do a scan in Sage it will automatically remap the channels properly.

*Edit for clarification*

To get the proper Guide Numbers, and Guide Names, use the zap2it website for your location and television provider.

[kbyrd]

So you're saying I should do a rescan? Does that work on SageTV for Linux? I haven't had to do that before, I've just added the channel numbers manually and had it work.

[kbyrd]

Apologies in advance for the crosspost.

I posted this in the hardware forum:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=407589#

The short version is that with HDHomerunGUI on a Mac, I can see BravoHD as "49 5040 0", Normally that means in Sage I would remap the physical channel to "49-0-5040". This didn't work for this channel. Help?

* merged *

[kbyrd]

Ok, so crossposting isn't cool here, I guess. I would like to get the attention of some Linux heads, as I believe the channel setup process with the HDHR is different on Linux vs. Windows.

What's the right way to get the attention of those in a different forum?

[kbyrd]

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[kbyrd]

My problem is solved, just posting for posterity.

So it turns out that the '5040' is the program number. If I had done a rescan that setup a frq file, Sage would have picked this up for me. Because I didn't I have to figure out the phy-major-minor to give to Sage. 49 is the phy, 0 is the major, I just had to figure out the minor.

Support had me capture native.log. To do this, I created a file called "NATIVE_LOG.ENABLE" in my SageTV server directory (this is on Linux, not sure if it applies to Windows) and restart. Then, I tuned a channel that worked and my channel that didn't.

Looking at that log, I saw the following lines:


02/17/2010 14:21:31 tuneQAMFrequency std = 00200000, freq = 375000000, QAM_FREQ = {index 0, major 0, minor 0, prog 0, channel 49, freq 375000000, modulation 0, inversal 0, ctrl 0, name ""}
02/17/2010 14:21:31 Parser stopped, processed pkt:193402
02/17/2010 14:21:31 Set NetworkType:1
02/17/2010 14:21:31 pickup channel-> channel:5040 program:0 name:(reset:1)
02/17/2010 14:21:31 Parser started
02/17/2010 14:21:32 TS Program (total channel:3, tsid:11113 )
02/17/2010 14:21:32 Channel 01 PMT pid:0x0032 program:0x13b0 (5040) service:0
02/17/2010 14:21:32 Channel 02 PMT pid:0x0030 program:0x13b1 (5041) service:0
02/17/2010 14:21:32 Channel 03 PMT pid:0x0031 program:0x13b2 (5042) service:0


If you look carefully, you'll see "Channel 01" is program 5040. So I changed my physical mapping in SageTV to 49-0-1 and everything worked as expect.

Thanks to support for helping me through this!