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[mrocm]

I have a DM8000S and I recently found my way to OpenPLi. It has noticeably slower response than all other firmwares I’ve tried but I really like the look’n’feel of it as well as the configurability. There is one important thing that troubles me though and I hope someone can help me solve it because I’d really like to continue using OpenPLi

 

I have the two stock DVB-S2 tuners and I have added a Philips TU1216 DVB-T tuner to one of the two empty extra tuner slots (so not connected through USB). When I configure my tuners they are all recognized and all seems OK. However, when I scan the tuners there’s a problem. The DVB-S2 tuners are scanned without issue but when I try to scan the DVB-T tuner I get the message ”ERROR - failed to scan (error starting scanning)!”. Therefore I can’t view the channels that are only available through DVB-T. I can’t find any error logs indicating what has gone wrong. I also tried looking for drivers for the tuner but so far I haven’t found any.

 

Any ideas?

[goldeneye]

You needto enter the correct scanning credentials for DVB-T to work. Here in Holland you first configure the tuner for EU region. If necessary set the +5V active antenna to ON. Next select the beacon frequencyfor your provider. Next hit scan.... All should be OK then..

[mrocm]

The only configuration options I have is to enable the tuner, to select the terrestrial provider and switch the 5V on or off depending on whether or not I have an active antenna.

 

I enabled the tuner, selected the terrestrial provider "Europe, Middle East, Africa: DVB-T Frequencies" and switched the 5V on since I do have an active antenna. These are the exact same options and settings I have used for all other firmwares I have used. It has worked without any problem for all other firmwares so it's not a hardware issue and most likely not a configuration issue. However it still does not work for OpenPLi. I can't understand why.

[goldeneye]

Which provider are we talking about?

[mrocm]

I live in Sweden so it's the terrestrial network in Sweden I am trying to scan. However, provider is never specified further than the selection of "Europe, Middle East, Africa: DVB-T Frequencies". The other choices available in the default configuration, as I'm sure you already know, is "Europe, Middle East, Africa: DVB-C Frequencies", "Iceland: DVB-T Frequencies" and "Australia: DVB-T Frequencies". These options are the default options in the latest OpenPLi firmware and also the same as in all other firmwares I've tried. I suppose they all use the same terrestrial.xml file. The configuration I am using works perfectly with all other firmwares so why shouldn't it work with OpenPLi? 

[goldeneye]

Best to try a known frequency for a specific channel and use a manual scan...

[mrocm]

I actually didn't even think of doing a manual scan since I've tried more than half a dozen different firmwares and the auto scan has always worked without issue. After some investigation I located the information needed to do a manual scan for a single frequency and tried it. To my surprise it worked. It would be a lot more time consuming to scan each frequency manually but since I'm actually only interested in two DVB-T channels (which are not available via satellite) that single frequency scan gave me all I needed.

 

I still think there's something not quite right with the OpenPLi firmware since it was not able to do the same auto scan that all other firmwares seems to manage. However, now that I was able to get the DVB-T channels I wanted I think I'll keep the OpenPLi firmware.

 

Thanks for the help!   :-)

[ims]

Confirmed ...  It seems, this bug was added in some last month... on F1 too

 

Automati scan with enabled DVB-T only:  ERROR - failed to scan (error starting scanning)!

Manual scan - Complete , Predefined transponder:  Nothing to scan! Please setup your tuner settings before you start a service scan.

 

Only "User defined transponder" works.  "Predefined transponder" has empty Transponder list

Edited by ims, 3 August 2015 - 07:05.