No Channels Found: How I fixed it.

[notpeter]

Hi,

First some minor notes:

1. The links at the bottom each page of the website point to the old google groups name.  They point to https://groups.google.com/group/telly/ when they should point here: https://groups.google.com/group/instatv.

2. The download page still has some rambling about 'Telly Lite', whereas the app store accepted your 'InstaTV Lite' a while ago. You should edit that. 

3. In the settings tab under setup, the tuner selection drop down is too short.  It truncates my tuner name to 'SiliconDust HDHomeRun Tuner XXXX' instead of including the full 8 character device id and single digit tuner number (XXXXXXXX-Y). I assumed (correctly) that -0 was first -1 second, but you should probably still make the dropdown a bit bigger.

And now for something completely different:

If your Windows has been configured with any non-standard tuning spaces, specifically I had one left behind by another DVR app which I'd evaluated and uninstalled ('For the Record') the channel search will never work. Looking at the log files, was able to track down and fix the issue. (see below) I'm using QAM, so '6' for 'Local Digital Cable') but since there's an additional entry in there, that #6 points to the wrong tuning space.  I don't know if I would've caught this had the log file not specifically said "Uses tuning space at hard-coded index: 6", hard coded values are always subject to fuck-ups, so I looked closer and noticed "with friendly name: Local Analog Cable, unique name: Cable" was wrong too (should've been 'Local Digital Cable'). 

I contacted the developers of 'For The Record' so they can fix their uninstaller in the future, but all I had to do was delete the following key in regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\TV\Tuning Spaces\ATSC 8VSB TuningSpace (For The Record) #1

Otherwise, keep up the good work and +1 for detailed user accesible logging. :)  

Here's the relevant portion of the log file which helped me track this down.

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  I [18:45:17:786]             [tuner_driver.c:77] TellyTuner version: 1.4.0, build on: 2012_02_24____15_40_06_140

  D [18:45:17:786]             [tuner_driver.c:84] Starting Tuner TCP/RR loop and sleep forever. 

  D [18:45:17:786]               [tuner_web.c:225] web 2.8 started on port: 127.0.0.1:22203, serving directory: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\TellyServer-1.4.0\bin'

  D [18:45:18:786]               [tuner_web.c:169] Process request: 14(KY_PARCEL_TYPE_TUNER_SCAN), buffer size: 4, total handler(s): 8

  I [18:45:18:786]                [tuner.cpp:2166] Setup graph

  D [18:45:18:786]            [tuner_scan.cpp:749] Getting cable frequency(IRC or Standard) for channel: 1

  I [18:45:18:786]                [tuner.cpp:1556] Setup graph with physical channel: 1, signal source: 'Cable-QAM256-Standard', frequency: 73250

  I [18:45:18:786]                 [tuner.cpp:369] Running on platform: 'Windows 7 Family (ver:6.1, sp:1, type:1)'

  D [18:45:18:786]                 [tuner.cpp:375] Initialize DS Pin info for Windows Vista or 7

  D [18:45:18:786]                [tuner.cpp:1587] Load Cable TuningSpace.

  D [18:45:18:786]               [utility.cpp:214] Create turning space..

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:240] Tuning space container count: 13

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 1), friendly name: 'Local Analog Antenna', unique name: 'Antenna'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 2), friendly name: 'Local ATSC Digital Antenna', unique name: 'ATSC'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 3), friendly name: 'ATSC 8VSB TuningSpace (For The Record) #1', unique name: 'ATSC 8VSB TuningSpace (For The Record) #1'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 4), friendly name: 'Local ATSC Digital Cable', unique name: 'ATSCCable'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 5), friendly name: 'Analog Auxiliary Input #1', unique name: 'AuxIn1'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 6), friendly name: 'Local Analog Cable', unique name: 'Cable'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 7), friendly name: 'Local Digital Cable', unique name: 'Digital Cable'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 8), friendly name: 'Default Digital DVB-S Tuning Space', unique name: 'DVB-S'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 9), friendly name: 'Local DVB-T Digital Antenna', unique name: 'DVB-T'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 10), friendly name: 'Local Analog FM Radio', unique name: 'FM Radio'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 11), friendly name: 'Default Digital ISDB-S Tuning Space', unique name: 'ISDB-S'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 12), friendly name: 'Local ISDB-T Digital Antenna', unique name: 'ISDB-T'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:265] 13), friendly name: 'Freestyle generic tuning space for STB', unique name: '{adb10da8-5286-4318-9ccb-cbedc854f0dc}'

  I [18:45:18:802]               [utility.cpp:283] Uses tuning space at hard-coded index: 6 with friendly name: Local Analog Cable, unique name: Cable

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For reference, I'm running  TellyServer-1.4.0 under Windows 7 x64 with a dual tuner HDHomeRun (version 20120405, the current stable) connected to unencrypted QAM cable.

[InstaTV Support]

Hello, notpeter :)


1) and 2) are fixed. There are still some references to TellyServer and those will be renamed when next version of TellyServer is released

3) Will be fixed in next release

We have seen a few cases where other applications' modification to Windows system caused similar problem you described.
So for next release, we are trying to use filter's name instead of the hardcoded index.


Thanks for the feedback