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Webif: Channel Group for EPG - empty

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SunnysideUK

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After a completing a Wizard event my EPG was empty. Checking Settings|EPG Settings, the Channel Group for EPG setting only shows: "-None-"
with no others listed. I was expecting "Humax 4" or "Favourite 4" to be listed.
My remote EPG is listing OK and is set to "Favourite 4", renamed "Humax 4" as shown on the remote EPG,
I've rebooted but problem persists.
Any ideas how best fix this malfunction?
 
Your favourites no longer exist after the Wizard. You will have to set them up again.
 
prpr said:
Your favourites no longer exist after the Wizard. You will have to set them up again.
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Understood, but doesn't a schedule backup restore them? (its rename is listed).
Regardless, webif settings pull down only showed -empty-
I was unable to screen catch the pull down so didn't post the grab,
However see later,,,,
 
This morning greeted with the Wizard again!
Having completed it the Channel Group for EPG pull down is now OK,
I don't know why its changed now.
 
Additional: Return problem.
During the Wizard retune I was given the new option of selection the region (West or South-West).
I'm South-West on Stockland Hill. I assume it's picked up signal from Mendip transmitter.
Has this transmitter increased it's power or changed it's channel assignment?
I understood it picked up at least Ch,34 (Stockland is 22-29). My signal strength remains the same on the Stockland transmitter.
On first retune, I left it to it while I got my breakfast. On return and a little later I realised I had no LCN.4 & 5 (and others not checked).
I did manual retune after checking the aerial!
This time it appeared to pickup the wrong transmitter as Ch.4 signal was breaking up badly.
I fixed by retuning manually again, but stopping at Ch,29 (the HD mux). Now its OK.

I've never had this region option come up before.
Any ideas on this and why a poorer signal mux was chosen over the better one?
 
SunnysideUK said:
Understood, but doesn't a schedule backup restore them? (its rename is listed).
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I don't know. I've never tried it with favourites as I don't use them.
SunnysideUK said:
Has this transmitter increased it's power or changed it's channel assignment?
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No. (And there's no apostrophe in possessive "its".)
It's probably down to the high pressure and the time of year.
I've never had this region option come up before.
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It happens if you see multiple transmitter regions. Sometimes having a selection of attenuators you can temporarily insert in the aerial feed whilst tuning is useful, to drop the unwanted signals below threshold without affecting the wanted ones too much.
Any ideas on this and why a poorer signal mux was chosen over the better one?
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Humax wrote a crap algorithm.
 
prpr said:
Sometimes having a selection of attenuators you can temporarily insert in the aerial feed whilst tuning is useful, to drop the unwanted signals below threshold without affecting the wanted ones too much.
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Or do a manual tune of just the desired UHF channels, or use tunefix...
 
Black Hole said:
Unusual propagation conditions.

Some reason you're doing all this manually instead of fixing it with a reboot? Restoring User Settings after Restore Factory Defaults
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Understood. I do reboot to apply the restores and saved preferences but I hadn't noticed the miss-tuning.
A reboot won't fix that!
Additionally I have found my schedules/favourites not always being restored automatically. I have to do this manually and reboot.

Still don't know why the manually saved IP address gets changed on reboot.
 
SunnysideUK said:
A reboot won't fix that!
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It can, with tunefix.

SunnysideUK said:
Additionally I have found my schedules/favourites not always being restored automatically. I have to do this manually and reboot.
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Agreed it's not always reliable, don't know why. auto-schedule-restore should detect an empty schedule post-reboot and use that to trigger restoration of the most recent backup (and reboot itself in the process). It is vital never to have an empty schedule deliberately, because the backup will then be empty and...

SunnysideUK said:
Still don't know why the manually saved IP address gets changed on reboot.
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Won't get changed on reboot unless you have a fault. Will get cleared on Factory Reset.
 
Favourites and/or, especially, custom Favourite group names may need 2 restores, or in the latter case may never stick.
 
Did you ever work out what the problem is with this? I guess not?
Is it not just database entries like everything else?
 
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