I came home tonight to see that the tivo was recording the wrong channel. Since putting in a PAL tuner, that hasn't happened, so I knew that something a little bit out of the ordinary must have happened.

Checking in the mail, I saw this message.

The TiVo Service has detected a change in your lineup.
Moved:

From 2 to 5 TV2
From 3 to 11 TV3
From 4 to 2 C4
From 5 to 44 Maori
From 6 to 60 Prime
From 7 to 41 TriTV
From 8 to 56 TAB
From 8 to 58 TAB

If any channels have moved, the scheduled recordings on those channels have already been moved to the new channel for you. If any channels were removed, the scheduled recordings on those channels have been deleted. To browse your new channel lineup (and check "on" the new channels if you receive them), go to "Messages and Setup", then "My Preferences", and then "Customize Channels", and then "Channels You Receive".

Thank you for using the TiVo Service!

--The TiVo Team


A bit of background,

The tivo has been set up against the Wellington FTA postcode. As the headend has been set up, it works fine, except that channel 2 is on 5, 3 is on 11 etc. In order to have all of the channels in the “correct order”, the channels were moved around using the following commands.

dbset 2357/14 Number 2
dbset 2357/15 Number 3
dbset 2357/16 Number 4
dbset 2357/19 Number 6
dbset 2357/20 Number 5
dbset 2357/22 Number 7
dbset 2357/18 Number 8


Then, appropriate entries were placed in the palmod.conf to match the correct frequencies to each channel.

f_tune="2:182250,3:224250,4:55250,5:655250,6:78325 0,7:623250,8:751250"

I did it this way because it worked, however, given that headend changes resulted in programs being missed (actually, the wrong channel being recorded), I’m a little worried about the impact of any future changes.

So, my question is, is there a more appropriate way to get the channels in this order (well the first 3/4 channels, not concerned about the order of the rest, as long as they are sequential) that will not be shuffled by changes such as this?

Cheers