Yapi2xml poisoning db3 ?

[rmorein]

I previously got good service out of Yapi2xml with one tuner. Naturally, so many things have changed, including possibly the performance of the Yahoo server, that I really have no idea what's going on. Now I have two tuners, a 1250 OEM(885), and a 1250MCE. Both have identical reception characteristics.

The program guide wasn't working. My thoughts vacillated between something wrong with the Yapi2xml local data, or a damaged db3 file. Except for the blankness, the guide was arranged logically, with apparently correct channel mappings.

Faced with a persistently blank program guide, today I deleted the db3 file. I then reinstalled the tuners and scanned both, ATSC only, picking up an identical set of stations. Yapi2xml appears to have delivered data to the disk, though I have no way of checking for validity.

I then proceeded to "map digital channels", and this is where things went kaflooey. It seems that those stations which were actually scanned were automatically assigned channel numbers. But the analog channels, for which there is no tuner, were all brought in as channel zero. In order to tidy things up, I deleted each analog channel and reinstalled it with a digital channel number. For example, Channel 3, an analog channel, was reinstalled with Channel Number 301, for which I already have an appropriate Yapi2xml mapping.

Then I began to have the "but I thought I..." experience. Under the tab "Channels", I discover that the re-added channels now have numbers incrementing from 4401. Coincidentally, there is a digital station with channel number 4401.

I kept working at it, and continued to have "But I thought I..." experiences. I deleted the mis-configured channels, and added them again. Once again, they show up in the "Channels" tab, and "Remove unreferenced channels" has no effect. The program guide remains blank.

The more I work at it, the worse it gets. Eventually, my thinking tilted toward the idea that maybe something in the EPG is poisoning the database.

Has anyone found that, perhaps, Schedules Direct is a solution to the above?

[whurlston]

Possibly a duplicate channel? Zip and post your logs showing an EPG update.

[rmorein]

I would be happy to, except I impatiently switched to Schedules Direct. After struggling with Yahoo, it's remarkable how it simply worked.
But is it possible to easily reorder the channels in the guide display? Schedules Direct apparently orders the display according to the actual frequencies, which inconveniently separates the streams of several stations. For example, "WCAUDT" and "WCAUDT2" appear towards the top and bottom of the listing, respectively.

[whurlston]

I think you can edit the channel numbers in the "Channels" tab in config.

[rmorein]

The "Channels" tab numbers are read-only. I gather this is unavoidable because the tab actually displays the combined information from every tuner in the system. The only way I have found so far to change a channel number is to delete the channel and re-add it, with the desired number, from the capture device channels panel.
Suggestion to Sub: In the capture device channels panel, it would be nice if, since one can define a channel number there, it would also be displayed there. As it is, one types in the channel number, double-checks for a mistake, hits "OK", and the knowledge of what one entered disappears forever from that panel, accessible only from another tab. It strains the memory

[whurlston]

I don't mean in the capture source. When you open config.exe, there are some tabs along the top ending with Channels, Misc and Misc 2. In that tab, you can change the channel number. I just tested mine to make sure it still worked.

[rmorein]

This was understood. It doesn't work for me, or, I should say, with Yapi2xml, and two tuners, it didn't work. The channel numbers could be highlighted, and, I think, backspaced over, but no change could actually be made; once unhighlighted, they reverted.
I will check this again, with Schedules Direct, soon, when I can stop the recording service.