Freesat channel mapping

[fausto]

I've just got round to updating to v1.3.7 and moving my Nova-S+ card over to my newer P4 machine. I've done a scan and now have to map the channels.
I can't get on with the drop down boxes in the tuning request table. They are not nice to work with. You can't see enough of the list at a time and the scrolling is too fast. I can't keep up with it. Coupled with the fact that the channel list name does not always agree with what should be on that freq/transponder, it's driving me mad . I don't even have any hair to pull out

Is there a slow but sure way of doing this by editing a text file somewhere maybe?? Suggestions please.

[martint123]

I don't think there is an alternative. I did make a request for a larger pulldown box for mapping but sub went walkabout.

What I often do is to manually edit the scan-?.cache file and get rid of the many odd channels that seem to be alternate languages, data or whatever, then if I feel like it, I sort the cache file on the channel name. Seems to help with the mapping.

[BigMoose]

Is it even possible to get it to ignore the encrypted ones so the list isn't as annoyingly long?

[martint123]

I must be possible from the scanning as dvbviewer can scan for only unencrypted channels. I see nothing in the scan cache file that would identify them though. Probably down to sub when the channels get scanned.

[sub]

There isnt a setting in GB-PVR to ignore the encrypted channels during the scan, but you can identify them in the scan results with the "~E:T" part of the tuning request.

[martint123]

Ah, cheers thanks for that - will save lots of time next time I have to do a full mapping.

[dennit]

Is there a slow but sure way of doing this by editing a text file somewhere maybe?? Suggestions please.

I modify gbpvr.db3 directly using SQL in a pair of batch files:
The first is:

:This is _set_tune4.bat and is called by _set4.bat file. It sets the tuning data for a source channel number
:You can use this directly by: 
: _set_tune4.bat "SOURCE_CHANNEL_NUMBER" "T:13274 etc. tuning data from scan4.cache file"
:the SOURCE_CHANNEL_NUMBER is the pid (usually)
:Always put parameters in quotes.
:It matches on the channel number for source id 4 
Echo UPDATE SOURCE_CHANNEL_MAPPING > _sqlscript.scr
Echo SET enabled="Y",tuning_request=%2 >> _sqlscript.scr
Echo WHERE capture_source_oid="4" and source_channel_number=%1;  >> _sqlscript.scr
SQLITE3 gbpvr.db3 < _sqlscript.scr

This is called by another bat file that lists all the channels I want mapped and the tuning data from scan-4.cache. Here are a few sample lines (the main file has over 250):

:This is _set4.bat
call _set_tune4.bat "104" "T:12370,V,20000,78~NID:4100~ONID:4100~TSID:11~P:104~V:7458~A:7459~L:eng~PMT:33~E:T~PCR:7458~N:>Unknown1"
call _set_tune4.bat "123" "T:12370,V,20000,78~NID:4100~ONID:4100~TSID:11~P:123~V:7458~A:7459~L:eng~PMT:33~E:T~PCR:7458~N:>Unknown2"
call _set_tune4.bat "137" "T:12370,V,20000,78~NID:4100~ONID:4100~TSID:11~P:137~V:6178~A:6179~L:eng~PMT:33~E:T~PCR:6178~N:>Unknown3"
call _set_tune4.bat "210" "T:12370,V,20000,78~NID:4100~ONID:4100~TSID:11~P:210~V:4898~A:4899~L:eng~PMT:33~E:T~PCR:4898~N:>Unknown4"
call _set_tune4.bat "212" "T:12370,V,20000,78~NID:4100~ONID:4100~TSID:11~P:212~V:5410~A:5411~L:eng~PMT:33~E:T~PCR:5410~N:>Unknown5"

I use UltraEdit to convert the scan.cache file into the second bat file. A macro grabs the PID from the tuning data (it's after "P:") and constructs each line in the second bat file. The whole process takes 5 minutes or so after scanning is finished. Make sure you spend lots of time getting familiar with the structure of GBPR.db3 (I used SQL Browser Lite) , and make lots of backups. You can screw things up badly doing this sort of thing.

[timh]

What I often do is to manually edit the scan-?.cache file and get rid of the many odd channels that seem to be alternate languages, data or whatever, then if I feel like it, I sort the cache file on the channel name. Seems to help with the mapping.

You can also create a custom scan-?.cache file using this utility, just including the channels you want:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/GBPVRPidGrab

You need to have a 3rd party viewer (other than GBPVR) working with your card.
Tim

[liteswap]

Struggling with this myself, as my Compro S350 is now up and running following the installation of a dish this morning. It tunes and everything fine but I seem to missing BBC 2 - it only has Scotland and Wales...so does anyone have a decluttered cache file I can start from, please? Thanks.

[martint123]

I have this in my list

T:10773,H,22000,56~NID:32~ONID:2~TSID:2045~P:6302~V:5100~A:5101~L:eng~PMT:263~TXT:5103~PCR:5100~N:>BBC 2 England