any more epg news ?

[gaz_az]

Originally Posted by maw123

Gaz, for the channels above 1000, have you merged the listings for the +1000 channels with the VMC guide? eg when you 1st do a scan all the S*y Movie channels will not appear as 401, 402 etc (because naming is slightly diff and VMC cannot match), they will appear as +1000 (and only download 3 dyas worth of guide in stream).

However, if you go to Edit Channels, select a channel above 1000, then edit listings, you can then merge that channel with the correct Virgin listing so that it picks up the full 14 day VMC guide data (tip - when merging type 1st 3 letters of name to search rather than scroll through all the channels - is a lot quicker) Recordings/series then are a lot more stable.

if you have already done this then apologies, wasnt clear from your post if you had done this step.

maw123 - No I didn't merge the channels, I just kept them as they were !! Can you explain exactly what I am supposed to do !

I tried with one e.g. "S*y1" this was scanned to channel 1060 in thr floppyDTV range. In the analogue range this was channel 123 I think, and named "S*y One". After the autoselect, channel 123 was disabled by default.

I went into TV settings/guide/edit channel and selected 1060, renumbered it to 123 and it asked me to "swap" or "shift". I chose swap which moved channel 1060 to 123. I then renamed 123 to "S*y One" so it was the same as the original guide, and ran a guide update. I can view the channel ok, but it still only has a guide for 3 days. How exactly do I get it update using the analogue epg ??


By the way all my recording issues appear to be fixed following the recent microsoft update, so if I could fix this everything would be perfect !!

gaz

[maw123]

Hi, there was no need to renumber or rename the channel - what you should have done in the case of S*y One was:

- Go to Settings, Guide , Edit Channels
- Select Channel 1060
- click on 'Edit Listings' on left hand side of screen
- it will then give you the option to map channel 1060 to a different listing, and below will list all the channels you receive
- scroll down to S*y One 123 listing (or if you type 'Sky' will take you to channels starting with Sky to save you scrolling) - then select that listing
- it will then give you the option to combine the 1060 and 123 listings, and remove 1060 from the guide - select this option (the 1st one on the screen)
- Save! Then repeat for any other +1000 channels - prob was about a 15 min exercise on my setup, but well worth the effort.

Once you have done this S*y One will pick up the VMC guide data rather than the data in stream (and the channel numbers are a hell of a lot easier to remember as identical to those used on the set top boxes)

Hope that makes sense, if not give me a shout. Cheers

[gaz_az]

awesome ! Tried it with s*y1 and it worked fine !! Now I just have to find the time to sit down and do all the other channels

Is there any way yet to back up the listings, so if I do a reinstall I don't have to do this again !?

gaz

[TwinTown]

Originally Posted by gaz_az

awesome ! Tried it with s*y1 and it worked fine !! Now I just have to find the time to sit down and do all the other channels

Is there any way yet to back up the listings, so if I do a reinstall I don't have to do this again !?

gaz

just redone mine because of the recent transponder change - setanta etc changing frequency and v*m have changed a lot of the channel numbers with the new sly channels.

the best way i found is print out the current list from

h**p://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayepg.php?platform=digitalplus

go to channel 1000 and scroll downward through and renumber the channels u use...use remote click on name edit channel number and save and it returns to the position u were....took me about 1/2 hour with the help of my boy, he knows most of the numbers already lol - photographic memory i think.....

[gaz_az]

Originally Posted by TwinTown

just redone mine because of the recent transponder change - setanta etc changing frequency and v*m have changed a lot of the channel numbers with the new sly channels.

the best way i found is print out the current list from

h**p://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayepg.php?platform=digitalplus

go to channel 1000 and scroll dpwnward through and renumber the channels u use...use remote click on name edit channel number and save and it returns to the position u were....took me about 1/2 hour with the help of my boy, he knows most of the numbers already lol - photographic memory i think.....

Thanks - do you go through all the channels with autoselect first ??

[TwinTown]

Originally Posted by gaz_az

Thanks - do you go through all the channels with autoselect first ??

follow maw123 advice of mapping the channels as just changing the number in line with v*m only gives u the 3 day epg.....as maw123 states by mapping u get the full 14-day....

[gaz_az]

Thanks all - spent an hour or so mapping the channels. Now all have 14days of guide, and after the recent VMC update the recordings work. Back to normal again PHEW

[idbeholdl]

Gaz_az or anyone else who has done this methord, how many channels did you get when you did a scan?

As I mentioned before I'm missing quite a few channels. I've changed my postcode to a few places around the country to get the different headends but I still only getting the same amount.

If I scan without doing this methord I get all the channels but not in order.

and no there not in the 1000's I've gone through the entire channel list and ticked them off.

Is there a way of manually adding the channels? Some of the ones that I'm missing are

Sky 2, Sky 3, GOLD, GOLD +1 and about 30 odd more (inc radio channels)

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Confused Stu]

Do you mean you're missing the channels themselves, or are you missing the EPG for that particular channel?

If you're missing the EPG, try looking in a few odd places - I found GOLD at the start of "G" as it was down as G.O.L.D. and found Sky 2 at the end of "S" as it was Sky Two, etc. Some channels I couldn't find an EPG for - Watch, Watch+1, Sky Movies Screen 2, some of the +1 channels and several of the radio channels.

If you're missing the channel itself then it sounds like your transponder list is missing one (or two). I had that problem and eventually solved it by finding my Net ID frequency for the area and manually altering a FloppyDTV file to go from this frequency upwards in steps of 8000, then again going down until I almost hit zero. I'm sure I've got several frequencies with nothing on them, but I did then find all the channels I was supposed to have.

[Cafe.Rcaer]

Also, don't just scan once, try it a couple of times.

AND, if any channel is "Not Broadcasting" at the time you scan (GOLD?), it won't get picked up...