SageTV enables more channels than are found on HDHomeRun

[PredatorVI]

I have a weird thing that I think is a recent thing, but I've messed around with it so much, I'm not sure now.

I've been getting "No Signal" on some channels and noticed that SageTV was detecting and enabling more channels than my HDHomeRun actually discovered. Sage detects around 88 channels via my ComCast Ext. Basic service, but only 40 or so are really available.

Any thoughts? I've not found anything on the forums yet that resembles this issue. It isn't a huge deal but makes me curious and makes channel lineup a pain to setup.

[tmiranda]

Are you disabling those "bad" channels in the HDHomeRun scan? When Sage scans on the HDHR it really doesn't scan at all, it simply looks at the config files created by the HDHR scan/setup program.

I'd take a close look at the HDHR setup to make sure I had that right.

[PredatorVI]

I realize the HDHR doesn't really scan and that it picks up the channels from the HDHR config/setup. This was the problem. I'm not sure what it was picking up.

I re-ran the HDHR setup, disabled all the channels I didn't want (shopping/spanish/etc.), then went to Sage, removed both HDHR tuner sources, then readded them. When I told it to scan, it said it found 88 channels, when in reality, the HDHR only had about 44. There were channels that SageTV showed after the scan that were enabled, that the HDHR utility didn't even list.

I had to manually go through the channel lineup in SageTV and compare the "found" channels side-by-side with the channels from the HDHR setup utility and disable the non-existant channels.

I left it this way since we went away for the weekend. When I got back, things were still not right. The sources were really off in STV... various channels were mapped to the wrong channel and some still showed "No Signal", even though the HDHR QuickTV could tune it.

So, I removed both tuner sources, shut down all SageTV Services and front ends. I then loaded the HDHR utility and rescanned everything again.

I then restarted the services for STV and readded the sources. I then rebooted the system. This time, things seemed to work.

I'm glad it worked, but I hate when things get so messed up for no logical or apparent reason.

Thanks for the input!