Wrong UK Transmitter selected
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:58 pm
Following changes to the UK lineup, I went into the EPG123 settup to select a new lineup.
The new lineup process presented the drop down country menu, and near the top was Great Britain which I selected,
I then entered the post code SL4 for Slough and selected Freeview from the list. This added the lineup which displayed DVB-T Name of "Freeview - South East" located in the South East.
Hovering over the Transport it showed the code GBR-1000083-DEFAULT The problem is the South East covers a lot of transmitters, and as there was no further options I assumed it had selected the correct transmitter for the Slough. And I did not know what GBR-1000083-DEFAULT was.
But no, it selected the transmitter for Dover which is about 100 Miles away and out of range.
Thanks to SchedulesDirect who provide a JSON file of the transmitters and this showed GBR-1000083-DEFAULT as being Dover. The correct transmitter for Slough is the London Crystal Palace transmitter GBR-1000014-Dafault.
It would be helpful if the Location field showed this actual transmitter (Dover) instead of just SouthEast and this would have alerted me to the problem.
The solution is to go back to the LineUp country selection and instead of selecting Great Britain, scroll all the way to the bottom and select Great Britain FreeView, and then select the transmitter. That worked, just in time for the Christmas recordings.
David
The new lineup process presented the drop down country menu, and near the top was Great Britain which I selected,
I then entered the post code SL4 for Slough and selected Freeview from the list. This added the lineup which displayed DVB-T Name of "Freeview - South East" located in the South East.
Hovering over the Transport it showed the code GBR-1000083-DEFAULT The problem is the South East covers a lot of transmitters, and as there was no further options I assumed it had selected the correct transmitter for the Slough. And I did not know what GBR-1000083-DEFAULT was.
But no, it selected the transmitter for Dover which is about 100 Miles away and out of range.
Thanks to SchedulesDirect who provide a JSON file of the transmitters and this showed GBR-1000083-DEFAULT as being Dover. The correct transmitter for Slough is the London Crystal Palace transmitter GBR-1000014-Dafault.
It would be helpful if the Location field showed this actual transmitter (Dover) instead of just SouthEast and this would have alerted me to the problem.
The solution is to go back to the LineUp country selection and instead of selecting Great Britain, scroll all the way to the bottom and select Great Britain FreeView, and then select the transmitter. That worked, just in time for the Christmas recordings.
David