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[tunefix-update] Automated Freeview channel updates
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4ndy
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My Panasonic TV has been nagging about new channels for a few weeks and the RS EPG has been showing a retune instruction on channel 40 Sony Movies Action, though this now seems to have disappeared.
Could RS have been using EPG data from a box not using tune-fix update or not been otherwise retuned until very recently? I am in the Anglia region Tacolneston.
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Could RS have been using EPG data from a box not using tune-fix update or not been otherwise retuned until very recently? I am in the Anglia region Tacolneston.
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prpr
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Possibly? Probably? Who knows?
As far as I'm aware, the only thing pending at the moment is the removal of Now 70s.
I'm not aware of any change on that channel. The last thing was a rename from movies4men last September.
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prpr
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1.0.100:
Remove NOW 70s
Remove Pick+1
Remove 5STAR+1
Remove 5USA+1
Remove CBS Reality+1
Remove CBS Justice+1
Remove Channel 4+1 HD
Remove 4seven HD
Remove TJC HD
LCN change from 71 to 67 for CBS Drama
Mux. move for Shopping Quarter
Mux. move for FreeSports
Mux. move for NOW 80s
Mux. move for Together TV+1
Mux. move for PBS America +1
Mux. move for Forces TV
Mux. move for BBC FOUR HD
Mux. move for QVC HD
Mux. move for QVC Beauty HD
Mux. move for QUEST HD
Mux. move for CBeebies HD
Remove COM8 mux.
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prpr
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You've either misinterpreted what it says, or it's wrong.
Owen Smith
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It may well think he can't receive COM8 at all, that's what the databases say about my parents.
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prpr
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In areas that can't receive either COM7 or COM8, there is still a change that adds Shopping Quarter to PSB3. Oh the joy...
When does this happen? What channel so that I can delete it
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prpr
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It already has.
https://hummy.tv/forum/link-forums/freeview-channel-listings.34/
74 Shopping Quarter
65 TBN UK
https://hummy.tv/forum/link-forums/freeview-channel-listings.34/
74 Shopping Quarter
65 TBN UK
Well it seems update worked OK for this change. 
BBC Four has moved to 55 and a few other things shifted elsewhere. It also deleted 56 which I hadn't expected (I was going to check the signal to see when it actually got turned off, but I'll have to use the manual tuning menu if I want to now).
The only 'problem' was the moved ones got deleted from favourites and recording schedules but not a biggy as it happened. Still much easier than a retune.
BBC Four has moved to 55 and a few other things shifted elsewhere. It also deleted 56 which I hadn't expected (I was going to check the signal to see when it actually got turned off, but I'll have to use the manual tuning menu if I want to now).
The only 'problem' was the moved ones got deleted from favourites and recording schedules but not a biggy as it happened. Still much easier than a retune.
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prpr
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It works OK for every change.
There's nothing useful left on 56, so in order to prevent having to do another update to remove it, I decided to do it all in one go.
That's what WebIf backup and restore is for. I've never really investigated if this can be incorporated into tunefix.
My auto-schedule-restore didn't work though on the box I had to retune to get the data for the update, and I expected it to. Nor does WebIf Schedule Restore seem to use Real-Time Scheduling. I kind of expected it to do that as well. Had to reboot.
Black Hole
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Yes.
I'd hoped it would do that but wasn't surprised when it didn't.
However, I now realise the boxes possibly didn't go through a reboot between whenever update worked and me next going in to set up recordings, etc.
Presumably update gets installed whenever the auto system detects a new one. Does it then run as soon as it is installed or at some other time like next boot?
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prpr
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The update package gets installed automatically, either just after 2am for boxes on at that time, or just after the next boot (standard anacron stuff).
It then gets implemented after the next reboot.
Black Hole
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I think I have said this before: it would be nice if (somehow, somewhen) tunefix-update was able to force a reboot when needed. Then another reboot after it had done its job.
Although the restore procedure handles services (channels) that have changed details while keeping the same name, it doesn't deal with something like "Channel 4+1 HD" disappearing, where one might want to substitute plain "Channel 4+1". A further step could be added to check for a channel with " HD" removed (or added, if it wasn't there), but (a) although that would be straightforward for favourites, it would be quite tricky for events (which SD show corresponds to a certain HD show?) and (b) the horse has bolted.
It not only doesn't use RTS, it disables it, presumably because RTS could only handle the event restoration and not the favourites and favourite group names. And the same would apply to auto-schedule-restore which uses the same mechanism.
It's not really safe to force a reboot whenever tunefix-update runs, but perhaps auto-schedule-restore could (optionally?) run tunefix-update and also reboot if that results in changes?
Something like this logic:
- if tunefix-update is enabled, run tunefix-update
- if changes
- if schedule backup exists, delete schedule
- reboot
- if schedule is empty and schedule backup exists
- restore auto-schedule backup
- unless schedule is (still) empty, reboot
Currently the auto-schedule-restore script does the last block only.