OTA the CW in Phoenix

[gilded07]

Recently, local CW affiliate put out this message:

Your Phoenix CW, Phoenix’s CW affiliate, is changing transmission frequencies on November 30, 2018. Viewers who watch TV with an over-the-air antenna will have to re-scan their TVs to continue watching the station. Viewers will not need to purchase new equipment or services, and those who watch Your Phoenix CW through a cable or satellite service do not need to re-scan – your service provider will do it for you.


The breakdown:

• Re-scan your TV only if you use an antenna
• No need to re-scan if you watch via cable or satellite
• Phoenix CW will remain on channel 6 and 61.1
• Change happens on November 30th

I'm having some trouble with my HDHRs and viewing the CW since this change.

First pic attachment: In video sources, the channel preview works fine. 100% signal strength and video looks good, small screen notwithstanding.

Second pic attachment: However, when I go into the guide and select the same station (the CW) to watch it, I get the No Signal message.

Before running the HDHomeRun setup utility on the SageTV server I stopped the sagetv service. I ran the scan on both dual tuners. Applied the changes, hit OK to exit the utility. Then rebooted the sagetv server after finishing the HDHR setup scan. Then I went into sagetv and into video sources and rescanned inside sagetv and that’s where I got the preview that looked good but no signal when viewing through the watch TV / Guide.

With the upgrade from v6 to v7, I thought the developers got away from having to remap channels. Is it possible that due to this change by the CW I have to do some manual mapping inside SageTV?

Here's the channel info I see:

The Preview
61-1 KASWDT [27-61-1]

Guide
61-1 KASWDT

HDHR
Tune - 27-1
Guide # - 61.1
Guide Name - KASW-HD

I've rebooted the server and the HD300 at least a half a dozen times with no success. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Tiki]

Did you rescan every tuner in Sage?

[wnjj]

When I had a similar channel move here last summer, I cheated and simply edited the .frq files. It's a bit clumsy in that you have to calculate the frequency (in Hz) based upon the channel numbers. I figured it out based upon the other channels that were already there.

To Tiki's point, I think there are files for each tuner. Compare them and see which frequency they have for the channel in question.

[JustFred]

The EPG sends down the new logical & physical ATSC channel info and Sage automatically knows how to deal with it, so it's rarely necessary to manually rescan. OTA channels in the SF bay area have been shuffling for several months without my intervention. However...

The problem you described most typically occurs when there are multiple tuners and one or more of them is using a COPY of the EPG lineup. In that case, it's necessary to manually tell Sage to do a channel scan on each tuner that uses a copy of the EPG. Using the Channel Guide for testing tends to be confusing, since it's nearly impossible to tell which particular tuner it's using at any given time. Best to go into Setup for each tuner to check.

On the other hand, when there are several tuners using the same EPG lineup (not a copy), manually running a Sage scan on one tuner will update all tuners using that lineup.

Regardless of the above, with ATSC, it's not necessary to use HDHR Setup to do an update scan for any of the ATSC tuners.

With the great FCC channel repack underway, expect to see more OTA stations on the move over the next year or so.

[gilded07]

Rescanning the other 3 tuners solved the problem. I assumed that if I rescanned one, the others would 'inherit' the updated properties. I see now they don't.

Will I have to rescan like this each time a local OTA affiliate changes frequencies?

Thank you.

[SHS]

Originally Posted by gilded07

Rescanning the other 3 tuners solved the problem. I assumed that if I rescanned one, the others would 'inherit' the updated properties. I see now they don't.

Will I have to rescan like this each time a local OTA affiliate changes frequencies?

Thank you.

No that way you can custom each tuner for different situations