DishGeek75
12-14-07, 09:23 AM
Good morning!
I've had this problem since 9-18-07 and since it's been almost 3 months with no resolution (or information about it) I decided to post incase there are others that could give me some info on how to push this along or if some engineer at Dish would love to figure this out....
Basically, it is just like many other OTA problems.... It's the guide info.
I have 5 local OTA channels that are supposed to have guide info, all do, one does not. All of the sub channels have guide info except the sub channel for the primary channel that doesn't.
WCOV is the local Fox affiliate and I've called the engineer and he stated they didn't change anything like the TSID or anything on the PSIP. The only thing that did happen on their end was the PSIP had an update applied that required a reboot and he said there was a little trouble getting it to boot up all the way, but said they got it back online and I believe him since I have guide info for my locals dish provides.
Dish on the other hand.... Can't tell me anything. I've emailed their tech support and was asked to provide information about my receiver and that it usually takes a software update to correct such things. Now, of all of the threads I've read about guide issues with OTA, I've never seen where it took a software update. I fail to see why it would. Since the receiver is the convergence point of both pieces of info, such as the guide info from Dish, and the actual programming and TSID and such info from OTA, I fail to see how a software update will fix one channel while there is proof that the piece of code responsible for providing guide info for OTA depending on matching the TSID info from the guide is working since I have OTA guide info for all my other local OTA channels. It doesn't make sense to me and that's why I'm fairly sure it won't be resolved anytime soon unless I get someone with the now how to correct it.
A little further background.
I chatted with a few others with Dish that are local on the avsforum for our area and there is only one of the four (including me) that gets guide info, but he hasn't rescanned his channels in a long time, so it seems to me he has matching info that enables him to get the guide for WCOV. I've come across a post while searching on Google about this where someone that apparently was using MythTV and a dvb-s tuner card to receive pirated tv, and was able to change the TSID of the OTA feed info he was getting to match the TSID of the dish guide and made his map down correctly. So, this tells me it's pretty simple, but Dish with all the red tape, takes too long to fix a very simple problem. I wish that on my 722, you had the option of changing the TSID as well as the name of the stations in the local scan in order to make them match, kind of an advanced setting, you know?
Thanks in advance for any help that is provided!
I've had this problem since 9-18-07 and since it's been almost 3 months with no resolution (or information about it) I decided to post incase there are others that could give me some info on how to push this along or if some engineer at Dish would love to figure this out....
Basically, it is just like many other OTA problems.... It's the guide info.
I have 5 local OTA channels that are supposed to have guide info, all do, one does not. All of the sub channels have guide info except the sub channel for the primary channel that doesn't.
WCOV is the local Fox affiliate and I've called the engineer and he stated they didn't change anything like the TSID or anything on the PSIP. The only thing that did happen on their end was the PSIP had an update applied that required a reboot and he said there was a little trouble getting it to boot up all the way, but said they got it back online and I believe him since I have guide info for my locals dish provides.
Dish on the other hand.... Can't tell me anything. I've emailed their tech support and was asked to provide information about my receiver and that it usually takes a software update to correct such things. Now, of all of the threads I've read about guide issues with OTA, I've never seen where it took a software update. I fail to see why it would. Since the receiver is the convergence point of both pieces of info, such as the guide info from Dish, and the actual programming and TSID and such info from OTA, I fail to see how a software update will fix one channel while there is proof that the piece of code responsible for providing guide info for OTA depending on matching the TSID info from the guide is working since I have OTA guide info for all my other local OTA channels. It doesn't make sense to me and that's why I'm fairly sure it won't be resolved anytime soon unless I get someone with the now how to correct it.
A little further background.
I chatted with a few others with Dish that are local on the avsforum for our area and there is only one of the four (including me) that gets guide info, but he hasn't rescanned his channels in a long time, so it seems to me he has matching info that enables him to get the guide for WCOV. I've come across a post while searching on Google about this where someone that apparently was using MythTV and a dvb-s tuner card to receive pirated tv, and was able to change the TSID of the OTA feed info he was getting to match the TSID of the dish guide and made his map down correctly. So, this tells me it's pretty simple, but Dish with all the red tape, takes too long to fix a very simple problem. I wish that on my 722, you had the option of changing the TSID as well as the name of the stations in the local scan in order to make them match, kind of an advanced setting, you know?
Thanks in advance for any help that is provided!