Move to new apartment, cannot pick up any TV channels

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Here is the log of the all regions scan
I don't think it will be much help though.

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There is no obvious sign of any errors there. It looks like it's going through the motions, but the device fails to find a signal to lock on to.

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arg. This is doing my head in.
I give up!

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Yikes. this is unbelievable, a rival product successfully scanned and found all 6 TV networks with 38 Channels in total, so I had to make a new ini file and input all the frequencies by hand. Surely there should be a better way to do this from within nextPVR? why was this other product able to detect the signals that NextPVR has so much trouble finding?

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Yikes. this is unbelievable, a rival product successfully scanned and found all 6 TV networks with 38 Channels in total, so I had to make a new ini file and input all the frequencies by hand.

So what exactly were different about the frequencies in the ini file you created vs the 'all regions' file? Were they entirely differernt, or all a consistent amount away from existing frequencies listed? (ie +/-166Khz or +/-125Khz)

why was this other product able to detect the signals that NextPVR has so much trouble finding?

I'm not aware of a single other Australian user that has been unable to find their channels with the 'all regions' search, so it must be something quirky with the way your device operates. I've never heard of a 'kaiser baas USB TV stick', so not aware of anything odd about it.

Did you try ticking that 'Scan Offsets (required by some devices in UK and Australia)' check box before scanning? I haven't heard of anyone requiring this for years, but your device may need it if it's drivers dont support broad locking as used in those two countries.

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So what exactly were different about the frequencies in the ini file you created vs the 'all regions' file? Were they entirely differernt, or all a consistent amount away from existing frequencies listed? (ie +/-166Khz or +/-125Khz)

I'm not aware of a single other Australian user that has been unable to find their channels with the 'all regions' search, so it must be something quirky with the way your device operates. I've never heard of a 'kaiser baas USB TV stick', so not aware of anything odd about it.

Did you try ticking that 'Scan Offsets (required by some devices in UK and Australia)' check box before scanning? I haven't heard of anyone requiring this for years, but your device may need it if it's drivers dont support broad locking as used in those two countries.

Yes I tried using scan offsets, but it didn't work.
I don't think the brand of my TV card matters in this case, I still think if I was using any of the other mainstream brands in the new apartment , I would face the same problem.
Here are the frequency settings for my old house.
1=1,177500,0,0,7
2=2,184500,0,0,7
3=3,191625,0,0,7
4=4,219500,0,0,7
5=5,226500,0,0,7
6=6,557625,0,0,7
Here are the settings for the new apartment
1=1,529500,0,0,7
2=2,536500,0,0,7
3=3,543500,0,0,7
4=4,550500,0,0,7
5=5,564500,0,0,7
6=6,571500,0,0,7
The scanning engine that nextpvr uses is only as good as the person who creates the ini files for it. It seems to me like nextPVR doesn't scan the surrounding frequencies on either side for anything unusual, like other software does, it just relies on the fact that someone has used a 3rd party app to obtain the correct numbers.
I think this is a really messy way of doing things.

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Those frequencies are already scanned with the 'Australia / All Regions' scans, so your custom ini frequencies shouldn't have resulted in anything different.

16=16,529500,0,0,7
17=17,536500,0,0,7
18=18,543500,0,0,7
19=19,550500,0,0,7
20=20,557500,0,0,7
21=21,564500,0,0,7
22=22,571500,0,0,7

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ah. a slight misunderstanding, sorry about that. I thought the all regions option you were talking about was under "all countries, all regions"
So I scanned with Australia, all regions, and it worked. now I have all my channels back. Thanks heaps!