On Friday 19 Aug 2011, Stuart Morris wrote:

> Hi

> I too have just acquired a 290e and I am having difficulty getting it

> to work with VDR. Apart from the flakey driver at the moment,

> 'seeding' VDR's channel.conf is difficult. I tried using w_scan like

> this:

>

> w_scan -c GB -o 7 -I my_init_tune_file

>

> My tuning file (UK Sandy Heath) contained 1 line like this:

> T 474166670 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM256 32k 1/32 NONE

>

> w_scan produced this:

> BBC

> HD;BBC:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:101:0:0:0:17472:0:0:

> 0 BBC One

> HD;BBC:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:6601:0:0:0:17540:0:0

> :0 ITV1

> HD;ITV:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:201:0:0:0:17603:0:0:

> 0 Channel 4 HD;CHANNEL

> FOUR:474166670:I999B8C23D0M998T999G32Y0:T:27500:301:0:0:0:17664:0:0:0

>

> However, VDR uses the first available tuning device when one of these

> channels is selected, which happens to be a DVB-T device and not the

> 290e DVB-T2 device.

>

> Is this a problem with channels.conf or do I need to use a later

> version of VDR? I am currently using VDR 1.7.15.

>

> Laz how exactly did you 'seed' your channels.conf?

I did have a go at modifying the output from w_scan and appending it to my channels.conf but it kept choking on it (probably my fault!).

What I did was go to the channel list from within vdr and created a new channel with the correct frequency for the HD mux. I think the only other thing I changed was to set QAM256 and as many things as possible to auto.

I then switched to that channel. Shortly afterwards, vdr had picked up the proper channels and added them to channels.conf. All I then had to do was delete the fake channel I created.

This was with vdr-1.7.19 (currently running happily with 1.7.20): don't ask me whether anyhting drastic has changed since vdr-1.7.15 but you could check dvbdevice.c to see if QAM256 is defined in it.

My 290e doesn't seem to want to tune to anything but the HD mux if I use scan, w_scan, etc. I will try again from withing vdr later on this evening. It's not really a problem for me if it refuses to tune to a DVB-T mux and only the DVB-T2 HD one: I've got another 4 DVB devices for the DVB-T channels!

:-)

I've just installed the eepg plugin and updated my config files for tv_grab_uk_rt to include the HD channels.

It might be time to seriously consider a new output device...

Cheers,

Laz