Forget a channel "forever"

[BigMoose]

I haven't done a full rescan in years, well since installing npvr probably! I rescan individual TPs as needed. Do you actually need to do it as often as updating versions? That would drive me insane!!

[martint123]

And I have to untick every one. Even with ctrl and shift keys to select multiple channels to 'untick as selected' the process is very laborious

right-click and "deselect all" followed by selecting those that you want - new or moved.

I haven't done a full rescan in years, well since installing npvr probably! I rescan individual TPs as needed. Do you actually need to do it as often as updating versions? That would drive me insane!!

They don't seem to move as much as freeview channels, but I still find a rescan is needed more than I like it to be.

[BigMoose]

When one channel changes I notice when it doesn't work then rescan that TP, but I can live with that. Delete the channel in question, stick the TP at the top of the list, scan and stop. But rescanning the lot would be madness! Sometimes they do reshuffle few of them across a few TPs, but still I'd never do a full scan...

[steeb]

right-click and "deselect all" followed by selecting those that you want - new or moved.

Ah ha, this is why I love this forum, that is of course a simpler way, to choose only the 50-60 channels I want rather than discard the other 140 or so I don't. So of course silly me for not thinking of that That's the mathemetician in you Martin!

However still even better to not even have to undergo that process?

cheers

steeb

[steeb]

I haven't done a full rescan in years, well since installing npvr probably! I rescan individual TPs as needed. Do you actually need to do it as often as updating versions? That would drive me insane!!

Hiya BigMoose,

I just find it a natural thing to do when 'mucking about' under the hood as it were.

On what basis do you just rescan the TP's? i.e. what is your criteria for 'as needed'?

cheers

steeb

[BigMoose]

Mostly when I discover a channel no longer works - which typically means the PID or something has changed. Or when a new FTA channel is discovered by some clever folk (on here or digitalspy - like the C4HD test transmission). Usually someone posts the TP of what's changed so it's obvious what to scan. Sometimes have to look up on kingofsat or lyngsat to work it out. The thing I like about NPVR is when a channel changes something, say BBC HD goes from S to S2, just delete it, rescan that TP and it appears (plus some random crap you previously deleted) but it's easy to just select it. Setting up in the first place having to remove the enormous amount of crap was a nightmare - although very pleasant compared to GBPVR! At least all the encrypted only TPs weren't scanned.

[martint123]

May I bump the original request please? (and your hopeful reply )

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How would you picture it working from a user's perspective? What sort of things would it need in the UI?

[martint123]

I guess the only place where it would work is on device scan page after a scan.
Currently there is just tick box for newly discovered channels and ok/cancel at the bottom.

The sort of thing I'd imagine would be a "hide" box or button (or delete key on highlighted entry) that would flag that channel as hidden and it would then not be displayed again in a scan even if a transponder change occurred. Possibly a "unhide all" right-click may be needed though.

OK, it will be a bit tedious hiding all the unwanted channels the first time, but better than doing it each time a full scan is run. For me. there is a huge number of unwanted garbage shopping, slapper on a couch, religious and the like channels that outnumber watchable channels by about 7 to 1.

thanks for your consideration.