Need QAM channel list for Cox OKC

[awhiteguy]

Is there anyone on Cox OKC with a HDHR that can provide me with a QAM channel list? They changed some of the physical channels and I have a HVR-1600 that has to be set up manually. Since silicondust no longer provides channel lists for cable on their website, I can't find the mapping from logical channel to physical channel anywhere. Unless someone knows another way to get this info...

Thanks,
Austin

[JustFred]

I have a similar setup. I run the HDHomeRun Setup utility and let it scan for channels, then use those results to do the mapping for the HVR1600.

[Taddeusz]

Just did print screens from my HDHomeRun Setup utility. I scanned last week.

[rkulagow]

If you have one of the newer model HDHR's and you go to

http://ip.add.re.ss/lineup.json

does it return anything? If yes, would you mind sending me the output?

Alternatively, if there's some mechanism to dump the QAM scan (within SageTV?) with channels, frequencies, major/minor's then I can add that information into the map for a lineup.

Here's what a QAM map could look like (this is from Verizon FIOS in NYC)

{
    "map": [
        {
            "stationID": "80665",
            "channel": "001",
            "frequencyHz": "471000000",
            "modulationSystem": "QAM256",
            "serviceID": "1002",
            "providerChannel": "65.1002",
            "providerCallsign": "FiOS TV 1",
            "logicalChannelNumber": "1",
            "matchType": "providerCallsign"
        },
        {
            "stationID": "11331",
            "channel": "002",
            "frequencyHz": "459000000",
            "modulationSystem": "QAM256",
            "serviceID": "1001",
            "providerChannel": "63.1001",
            "providerCallsign": "WCBS",
            "logicalChannelNumber": "2",
            "matchType": "providerCallsign"
        },

So if it's possible to scan in SageTV and then dump to a text file I can import and correlate on the server.

[Taddeusz]

Sorry, both of mine are older models. Not the new fancy ones with built-in transcoding.

[stanger89]

I think that's got more to do with firmware than the age of the HDHR. My "old" HDHR pics up the QAM channel map from my provider just fine. However it appears Sage doesn't provide a way to deal with it.

[JustFred]

My experience is that HDHR's channel scan seems to work just fine, and Sage correctly picks up those results when it scans the HDHR tuner.

The problem comes with QAM and the HVR1600 (or 2250, or any internal tuner card). For Sage to use the internal tuner, Sage needs to do a channel scan of it. But the QAM channel scan in Sage7 (and Sage9) is broken and unreliable (on some cable systems, e.g. Suddenlink). Sometimes the scan skips entire physical channels, leaving you unable to tune them with the HVR tuner. It also frequently fails to correctly identify the channel name, reporting "DTV-x-y" instead of "HTN", so you're forced to manually remap all those channels (which often gets clobbered by a subsequent re-scan). A huge hassle.

To cope with this (w/Suddenlink), I scan all internal tuners and make sure all the channels are found. Then I look at the HDHomeRun Setup utility's scan results and go in to Sage and manually remap a single Hauppauge tuner's channels (just needs to be done once for all tuners using the same lineup). Luckily, SL hasn't required a massive remap for a couple of years.

With any luck, we can fix this issue in Sage9 now that it's open source.