Hi,
today I noticed a quite strange behaviour when I wanted to program Radio Horeb into my channels.
I took an arbitrary channel entry and started editing it: Freq. 10832 Pol. H Srate 22000 FEC 5/6 Sid 61960 APid 64
Then I saved and tuned to it. I heard the sound of Radio Horeb... for two seconds. That's what happened:
Oct 30 13:59:08 lascala user.debug vdr[1500]: changing transponder data of channel 1563 from S19.2E:10832:h:22000:5 to S19.2E:11739:v:27500:3
Well everything I edited was set back to the original values (the arbitrary entries I tried were NICKELODEON FRANCE and CANAL ALGERIE) except for APid and Sid. And this is reproducible. Any idea on how to debug this?
VDR is 1.3.33 but I couldn't find related entries in the 1.3.34 ChageLog.
Greetings, Sascha
Sascha Volkenandt wrote:
The problem is that if you take an existing channel and change the values in the "Edit channel" menu, you can't change the NID and TID values.
Just use this entry:
Radio Horeb;Eurociel:10832:hC56:S19.2E:22000:0:64=deu:0:0:61960:1:1057:0
I'm not sure if it makes much sense to offer the NID and TID in this menu, because normally the user only knows the transponder frequency. Maybe these values should simply be set to 0 when saving an edited channel record, because then VDR will automatically update them the next time this transponder is tuned to. I guess I'll make it so.
Klaus
In the new year, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Are you saying here you physically can't change it or you shouldn't change it?
I'd like to request this change not go into effect. I think it would have unforseen impact on an already-stable codebase. I can even innvision somehow duplicate channels being added in some race condition because the nid and tsid are part of the channel id. I believe the correct solution is to have the user set it right the first time and forget about it. If they don't know what it is they should set -1 or something that violates spec so that vdr understands this was deliberately set to "I don't know"
Or
you could add a bool to channels.conf to say whether you believe the sid, nid, tsid, frequency, and other bits are accurate, but then again I think that's a bit overkill.
_J
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 08:20 -0500, Jeremy Hall wrote:
I have thought a bit about this issues (eg a flag in channels.conf).
There are a number of channels in my channels.conf where the autoscan information does not work - ie the provider has incorrect information or NID and TID are the same as another frequency on that sat.
The 'solution' is to use RID. Unfortunately that does not work either, as the autoscan will still change the entry.
Here is what I have to do: have two copies of the channel, one with RID=0 and one with RID=1. The RID=0 one gets autoscaned to the 'incorrect' values, and the one with RID=1 keeps the 'correct' values.
IMHO, the functionality should be changed so if RID!=0, don't update this channel at all.
This would implement the flag, but not require the channels.conf format to change.
What about having a wizard when you try to edit the channel? It will show you a list with all stations on that frequency (all possible combinations) and you can choose which one you want from there.
It won't give you the option to set NID, TID but the option to choose the right settings from a list. I suppose if the entry is correct it won't be changed by the autoupdate code.
Regards, Ilariu
On 11/2/05, Malcolm Caldwell malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au wrote:
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