OTA heads up for Southern Ontario - Western NY

[wayner]

The Buffalo CBS affiliate - WIVB is going to be changing physical channels next weekend. They are moving to channel 32 to share with WNLO. I think they will now be 32-2.

[will]

Thanks for the notification.

I'll have to keep an eye on WIVB and see if Spectrum's ClearQAM mappings change.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by will

Thanks for the notification.

I'll have to keep an eye on WIVB and see if Spectrum's ClearQAM mappings change.

I think you will be ok if you are on cable, it is just OTA tuners that get affected.

[Lester Jacobs]

Originally Posted by wayner

I think you will be ok if you are on cable, it is just OTA tuners that get affected.

Thanks for the heads up. I did have to rescan, and SageTV correctly remapped the channels, however I am having issues with the WIVB secondary channel, Laff. It scanned as 32-4-2 but has Station Id 109, which I don't think is a valid Station Id for Schedules Direct. I wasn't getting any EPG listings for Laff (just the usual 'No Data' entries). I disabled Laff and remapped the old 4-4 WIVB secondary channel (i.e. the 'old' Laff) to 32-4-2 (i.e. the same as the new Laff) and now get the proper EPG listings. So, problem solved, but it is curious that I had to use manual intervention. Perhaps the Schedules Direct feed has not yet been updated to reflect the WIVB switch?

Cheers
Lester

[wayner]

I was going to change the channel mapping over the weekend but I forgot to do this. I better take care of it before next weekend's golf coverage!

The StationID is normally a bigger number than 109 - the ones that come from SD usually have 5-6 digit numbers. So I am guessing that you were never getting SD data for Laff, maybe you were just getting a bit of EPG data from the OTA signal. And the SD EPG data should be tied to the StationID and the physical or channel number shouldn't matter - at least that is the way that I thought it works.

[wayner]

I was able to remap the channels - WIVB is now 32-4-1 and Laff is 32-4-2. For me the guide data came across. The ID number for Laff appears to be 106013 but I don't think you can manually set that. Try scrolling through the list of channels to look for Laff - but that is painful as they don't seem to be sorted.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by wayner

I was able to remap the channels - WIVB is now 32-4-1 and Laff is 32-4-2. For me the guide data came across. The ID number for Laff appears to be 106013 but I don't think you can manually set that. Try scrolling through the list of channels to look for Laff - but that is painful as they don't seem to be sorted.

If you are talking about the Remap Channel screen then the default is to sort by Channel Number but I always change the Station List Sorting Method to Station Name so that I can find them. That screen is reached by the Options button from Channel Setup screen. If that is not what you were talking about then ignore this post.

[wayner]

That's exactly what I was talking about - thanks Bob!

[Lester Jacobs]

Originally Posted by wayner

I was able to remap the channels - WIVB is now 32-4-1 and Laff is 32-4-2. For me the guide data came across. The ID number for Laff appears to be 106013 but I don't think you can manually set that. Try scrolling through the list of channels to look for Laff - but that is painful as they don't seem to be sorted.

Hmmm... Not sure why Laff wasn't setup when I did my scan then since it worked for you. I may try a rescan this weekend and see if Laff auto corrects. Otherwise my manual override is working fine so I'm not too bothered.

Cheers
Lester