Scan not picking up most HD Channles on 28.2 Sat

[ezzony]

A satellite scan is not picking up most of the HD channels, all the BBC and ITV's ones. I get SportystuffHD QVCHD GBNews and a handful of others.

I have updated the 0280.ini transponder list to the lastest from kingofsat.

I have DVBviewer and Mediaportal installed that have no problem picking up any HD channles or ever had any signal strength issues. I've disabled both of those apps while I scan in case they were interfering.

My server is a Win7 PC with a Technotrend DVB-S2 sat card with BDA driver.

[mvallevand]

Send the zipped logs. from the main settings page and we can try to help you.

Martin

[ezzony]

Logs attached!

[mvallevand]

It looks like your tuning file is not in NextPVR format. Maybe integer only?

Code:

2023-08-21 17:53:49.016    [DEBUG][9]    Tuning:
<tuning>
  <type>DVB-S</type>
  <locator>
    <frequency>11426</frequency>
    <polarity>V</polarity>
    <symbol_rate>29500.50</symbol_rate>
    <fec>89</fec>
    <diseqc_type>0</diseqc_type>
    <lnb>1</lnb>
    <lowosc>9750</lowosc>
    <highosc>10600</highosc>
    <switch>11700</switch>
    <modulation>QPSK</modulation>
  </locator>
</tuning>

2023-08-21 17:53:49.017    [DEBUG][9]    StartStream(): c:\temp\test.ts
2023-08-21 17:53:49.018    [ERROR][9]    Unexpected error: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
   at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
   at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
   at System.Int32.Parse(String s)
   at Native.DigitalRecorderDVBS.Tune(String tuning)
   at DeviceHostWindows.Devices.DigitalDevice.StartStream(String tuning, String target, String& reason)
   at DeviceHostWindows.Program.HandleRequest(HttpListenerContext context)

Is that the missing frequency?

As for your DVB-T tuner is the antenna OK and is your tuning file ok, it doesn't seem to find anything.

Martin

[ezzony]

That was me experimenting, I added a .50 to just one of the transponders in the transponder list, just to see if that would make a difference.

You can see here 11426 has a .50 value. https://en.kingofsat.net/contribution.php?f=1042

When I added that that into the .ini file it just caused an error as as you say that's not the right format.

It's a dvbs not dvb-t. The dish is fine and as I said in the OP other DVBS apps work fine for all HD channles. I've double checked this.

There are multiple transponders not picking up anyting including 11426.

[mvallevand]

Could you fix that and rescan and then send the logs. Don't bother with the EPG update.

Martin

[ezzony]

Sure

[mvallevand]

There appears to be 533 channels scanned. Did you select the ones you wanted when it finished?

Martin

[ezzony]

The unencrypted channels were automatically selected, encrypted channels unselected. I saved that default state. I scanned the list before saving and saw that the HD channels which should be detected were not present.

[mvallevand]

Can you give an example of a frequency where you expect channels?