EPG Users - Rescan Needed due to ABC rebranding!

[philzgr8]

Sorry to re-post this guys but I think a lot of people may have missed the significance of a post in the last couple of days warning about ABC's name change. The fact is if you are using an EPG you almost certainly have to go through the EPG "allocate guide to channels" process again otherwise your guide will most likely be broken.

P.S. The problem, as has been posted since this post seems to be that IceTV have changed more than just the ABC listings which has broken some of the HD listings as well. Personally I had to redo the whole guide setup which I suggest is the safest way but not everyone feels the need to do that.

[philzgr8]

Further to this as has been posted elsewhere, you will need to recheck all of your scheduled recordings afterward to make sure they are set to the correct channel. In my experience you either need to set them to "Any Channel" or delete and recreate them against the new channel.

[GlenR]

Phil, I didn't need to rescan just reassociate channels but HD suffered also. See my thread in the IceTV forum.

For the record, I have found that after a full rescan, reorder, reassociate you can only get away with not setting up all your recordings again IF you put all the channels in EXACTLY the same order. If the escan is a result of the channels playing silly buggers with their channel naming or such, you will ahve to set them all up again. It's a real pain in the butt, I have over 40 series records set up and one change like this can trash the lot - and since some of them may not be airing and are left there ready to pick up the next season, you can't always recreate them.

Can someone explain WHY the channels decide to make these fundamentally pointless changes?

[philzgr8]

Originally Posted by GlenR

Phil, I didn't need to rescan just reassociate channels but HD suffered also. See my thread in the IceTV forum.

For the record, I have found that after a full rescan, reorder, reassociate you can only get away with not setting up all your recordings again IF you put all the channels in EXACTLY the same order. If the escan is a result of the channels playing silly buggers with their channel naming or such, you will ahve to set them all up again. It's a real pain in the butt, I have over 40 series records set up and one change like this can trash the lot - and since some of them may not be airing and are left there ready to pick up the next season, you can't always recreate them.

Can someone explain WHY the channels decide to make these fundamentally pointless changes?

I agree it is a pain in the butt. In the end I think it winds up being a case of lowest common denominator and the catch-all method is to redo the whole setup. I figured I could just reallocate channels but I'm always conscious that the broadcasters do seem to make pointless changes and I felt more confident with rescanning (to be sure to be sure).

Frankly I think the broadcasters just like to pi$$ us MCE owners off!

P.S. Yes I saw your post which prompted me to fix some of the inaccuracies in mine! Thanks!

[logifuse]

I just had to re-associate my ABC listings (IceTV). I was suprised that my ABC series recordings changed to ABC1 automatically once I'd re-associated.

I'm guessing I'll eventualy have a problem with my ABC2 being on channel 21 (it's 22 now isn't it?).

Justin

[philzgr8]

Originally Posted by logifuse

I just had to re-associate my ABC listings (IceTV). I was suprised that my ABC series recordings changed to ABC1 automatically once I'd re-associated.

I'm guessing I'll eventualy have a problem with my ABC2 being on channel 21 (it's 22 now isn't it?).

Justin

Sounds about right. Anyway, I've decided that from now on I'm going to use "Any Channel" just so that when the broadcasters do decide to play funny buggers with channel Id's and names hopefully I don't have to go mucking around with all of my series recordings.

I still think it's safer to do the whole setup. I just don't trust the thing to be right otherwise.

[GlenR]

Originally Posted by logifuse

I just had to re-associate my ABC listings (IceTV).

You didn't need to reassociate any HD channels (aside from ABCHD)?

[logifuse]

Originally Posted by GlenR

You didn't need to reassociate any HD channels (aside from ABCHD)?

I had to re-associate 7HD on the weekend (Sunday maybe), but that was before the ABC listings disappeared. I assumed that it was unrelated..... I tested a Beyonwiz late last week & it called 7HD as 7SD, so I figured that it was someting to do with that (even though I have the "fixes" in place).

I dunno.

Justin

[dgaust]

I had to reassociate every listing... seemed like the whole thing got screwed up. Didn't need to do a rescan though.

[jgrouse]

I found that after the re-scan and re-doing the guide listing assignments the series recordings were all ok. The only channels which seemed to maintain their links to the guide were Seven - Sydney / HD. I did not change the order of the channels.

However, I had no problems receiving ABC2 before the rescan and now ABC2 can not be found. It found ABC1 and ABC HDTV ok.

Perhaps ABC2 sits at a different frequency now and the Hauppage V34 drivers do not cover this new frequency.

Then again it could be a simple case of the reception being poor last night when I did the rescan.

Hopefully SP1 won't totally stuff everything up. Bad memories of XP service packs applied to XP MCE come flooding back.

[logifuse]

Originally Posted by jgrouse

Perhaps ABC2 sits at a different frequency now and the Hauppage V34 drivers do not cover this new frequency.

It doesn't work that way - all ABC channels are on the same frequency.