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Re: MCE not fnding all channels that ComproDTV does
Yes sbucko me hearty, aye (dons eyepatch)
I have the same problem as scottb721 since I added a 3rd tuner. They are all on the one antenna loop (the first two tuners in the chain have pass-through). No booster.
It did work fine with two tuners. The 3rd tuner seems to have dropped the signal threshold below that which MCE finds 'acceptable'. Hence I do get the dreaded no signal blue screen on some channels. And the channel scan doesn't always find all the channels.
But I think it is a signal issue, not the DVICO USB driver issue, although two of the devices are DVICO USB. And they are connected to a powered hub.
Of course, the Fusion software can tune all the channels.
I have been thinking about this over the past couple of weeks, and I guess that there is a signal threshold set somewhere in MCE, and when the signal is below that, MCE displays the no signal blue screen.
Whether it be signal level, quality or BER that MCE evaluates, I don't know. But it does seem to me that there is some software threshold in MCE that determines if channels are found during channel scan and whether the no signal screen is shown.
Actually when I put a booster between the antenna point and the first tuner, nothing changed. The booster would have increased the signal. So maybe MCE looks for a certain quality factor or BER?
??? Of course I could be talking nonsense. It would be nice to know one way or the other.
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