[tunefix-update] Automated Freeview channel updates

[MymsMan]

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.

That is something that Schedchk might have handled, If programmes were already scheduled on Channel 4+1 HD after the cutoff it would attempt to move those episodes to alternate channels but it wouldn't attempt to move series recordings because, normally, the seires crid differs across channels

 

[/df]

Maybe not, but it could have a setting for the user to declare when he's prepared to have the box reboot.

Such as, when auto-schedule-restore, by installing which consent has already been given implicitly, runs.

And if the box is otherwise always on, the informed user could change the configuration of tunefix-update so that anacrontab runs the modified auto-schedule-restore instead.

 

[prpr]

1.0.101:

Mux. move for CCXTV​

Mux. move for Hochanda​

 

[prpr]

1.0.102:

LCN change from 58 to 97 for ITVBe+1​

LCN change from 34 to 58 for ITV3+1​

Add Merit on LCN 34 (COM4)​

 

[prpr]

I think I have said this before: it would be nice if (somehow, somewhen) tunefix-update was able to force a reboot when needed.

The next version of tunefix will do this, if necessary, overnight if not busy.

Then another reboot after it had done its job.

What's that for? It's in danger of triggering the crash-disable stuff.

 

[Black Hole]

What's that for?

Dunno. I can't vouch for clarity of thinking all the time.

I might have been thinking a reboot was necessary post-tunefix-update, like auto-schedule-restore.

 

[prpr]

I can't vouch for clarity of thinking all the time.

Fallibility?

 

[prpr]

1.0.103:

Mux. move for Merit​

 

[MikeSh]

1.0.103:

Mux. move for Merit​

Nice alliteration

 

[prpr]

1.0.104:

Mux. moves for 700 MHz clearance at:​

Winter Hill (Old PSB1, PSB2, PSB3, COM4 and COM5)​

Moel y Parc (COM4)​

(The previous problem with the upload server has now been resolved.)

 

[Wallace]

Thanks for this. Manual update completed and all appears well.

 

[pkb4809]

Hi @prpr

I'm sure your instructions would have worked, had I not been so incompetent as to misname the file tunefix-update.config ... and not realise until after I'd given up and done a manual retune, after which tunefix has resorted things impeccably. For which I truly Thank You!

Anyone got a suggestion as to how to delete a superfluous /mod/boot/tunefix-update.config file ... via the webif, ideally?

Cheers, Phil

 

[prpr]

Oh, Braman!

Go to Command Line on the Diagnostics page, enter the system PIN, select the cli option and then enter the command:
rm /mod/boot/tunefix-update.config
followed by exit then x.

 

[pkb4809]

Go to Command Line on the Diagnostics page,

... there's no Command Line on the Diagnostics page of my webif, version 1.4.8-8

Cheers, Phil

 

[Black Hole]

there's no Command Line on the Diagnostics page of my webif, version 1.4.8-8

Install the webshell package, reboot, then there will be.

Alternatives are to use FTP from whatever file manager you use on your PC (assuming you have betaftpd installed), the Telnet command prompt, or network file sharing such as SMB (samba package) or NFS (nfs-utils package).

The only way to do it with CF installed but nothing else is Telnet, and then you need to provide a Telnet client at the PC end... so wouldn't it just be easier to have installed the web command console (webshell) in the first place?

 

[pkb4809]

Install the webshell package, reboot, then there will be.

... thank you, that's got me sorted

... so wouldn't it just be easier to have installed the web command console (webshell) in the first place?

... erm, is that intended as a rhetorical question, explaining why you'd started with that advice? Or are you genuinely asking why I'd not installed it? You do appreciate that most people out here don't just have ALL packages installed, as a matter of course

Anyways, thanks for your help ... the Winter Hill retune event is now a thing of the past for me
Cheers, Phil

 

[Black Hole]

... erm, is that intended as a rhetorical question, explaining why you'd started with that advice?

Yes

You do appreciate that most people out here don't just have ALL packages installed, as a matter of course

Of course. But an appreciation of what they all do (and why), so "most people"* can make a considered decision what to install (and what not), would be a good idea.

https://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Custom_Firmware_Package_Notes#Webshell
https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/quick-start-guide.1301/post-28409

* I would normally take issue whether any individual can know what "most people" do or don't do, but in this case this is a reasonable assessment because some packages are mutually exclusive, and it would be tedious to go through the list and install everything willy nilly.

 

[prpr]

1.0.105:

Remove Merit​

Remove Pick+1​

LCN change from 11 to 34 for Pick​

LCN change from 68 to 55 for BBC FOUR in Scotland​

LCN change from 57 to 56 for Smithsonian Channel​

LCN change from 88 to 87 for Together TV​

LCN change from 89 to 88 for Together TV+1​

Add Sky Arts on LCN 11 (COM5)​

 

[/df]

Apparently all LCNs from 24 to 55 (ish) are being increased by 1 (4 Nov) so that BBC4 can slot in below in Scotland, which for some reason has two separate regional BBC channels and is required by OfCom to allocate a low-numbered LCN to BBC4. This solution was chosen rather than moving all shopping channels to a genre block around 240 as anyone with tunefix probably does already.

 

[prpr]

Is there anyone in Northern Ireland reading this who would be able to send me a copy of their tuning database please?
(Extract the raw file /var/lib/humaxtv/channel.db from the Humax via whatever method suits you, zip it up and send it on a Conversation/Private Message to me.)
Thanks.