Mapping OTA channels

[Mike Young]

I have a number of channels that I can tune that do not show up on the Washington/Baltimore OTA Digital Guide.
How do I map these channels in Sage ? one set of channels is 54.1 54.2 54.3

if I put any of these in the mapping I get 'no signal'
If I do a channel scan in Sage they do not show up but I can pick them up fine with my reciever.
I have heard I may need the station id in order to get EPG data - How do I find this ?


mike/

[Opus4]

In the v4 manual, check out the Channel Setup section starting on p. 158 -- see the info for "Add Channel to Lineup".

Regarding the Station ID, see this post.

As for the 'correct' channel number to enter for HD channels, I'm not entirely sure.

- Andy

[Mike Young]

Ok, I did figure out that it wants the frequency for the channel # .

I did read the post you refer to last night, but I was missing something, I was clicking on the link, but then I re-read the post and realized that the station id is in the URL !

thanks!

[Thomas Wischgol]

Mike,

Did you manage to get the EPG data? I am trying this for several weeks now. I looked up the station ID and put it in while adding the channel. I can watch the digital channel just fine, but the EPG still shows "No Data". Opus mentioned in the other thread that the channels would need to be listed in another line-up in order for the EPG data to be retreived. I do not really understand as to why that is but I assume that this is the problem in my case which is quite unfortunate.

Thomas

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Thomas Wischgol

Opus mentioned in the other thread that the channels would need to be listed in another line-up in order for the EPG data to be retreived. I do not really understand as to why that is but I assume that this is the problem in my case which is quite unfortunate.

What that meant was that the channel needs to be part of some lineup/provider that is available to SageTV via their data source. (It doesn't have to be a lineup that is in-use on your system.) If the data is not available to SageTV (the company) _somewhere_, then they don't have a way to pass the listings on to you.

- Andy