Summary of Regional Channels with missing guide data

[DavidKeegel]

Today I fixed a problem that meant S3-Mildura-Nine and S3-Griffith-Nine were missing.
(See http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread....8783#post18783 and two previous posts)

There are 4 other channels with similar problems:
Broken Hill - SC10
Central Coast - NBN
Central Coast - PRIME7
Darwin - 9Life
and some other Darwin channels (Education TV, Larrakia TV, TV NT, Tourism TV) with possibly similar-ish problems.

Can anyone in NSW Central Coast or Darwin comment on whether those are channels you are missing but care about?

[DavidKeegel]

There are 4 other channels with similar problems:
Broken Hill - SC10
Central Coast - NBN
Central Coast - PRIME7
Darwin - 9Life

I looked further into this, and I have added Broken Hill SC10 and Darwin 9Life, so they will be visible from tomorrow (March 26).
I think those Central Coast stations may be duplicates of Newcastle stations.
And it turns out I don't have useful guide information for those extra Darwin stations (like Education TV), just 4 hour blocks which say "Local Programming".

We (OzTiVo S3) currently don't have any guide info in the database for:
* Lismore NSW
* Mandurah WA (GWN7 only)
* Regional NT
* Remote and Central ???
* Riverland SA
* South Coast NSW
* South East SA
* Spencer Gulf SA
* Wide Bay Qld

Are there known people with TiVos in any of those areas? If so, I can investigate whether we can get guide data for that area.

[ggc]

Hi David, My parents have a modded Tivo in the Wide Bay area. They're technically challenged, but I should be able to walk them through it. What information do you need?

[DavidKeegel]

Hi David, My parents have a modded Tivo in the Wide Bay area. They're technically challenged, but I should be able to walk them through it. What information do you need?

Does Wide Bay get the same TV broadcasts as Maryborough?
(Bonus question: what about Sunshine Coast and Maryborough?)

David, I've just joined up and my local transmissions (Port Lincoln, SA) are missing epg too, how can I help?

Does Port Lincoln get the same TV broadcasts as Spencer Gulf?

If so, I think I can configure some more channels (& stuff) and then you can see whether guide data starts appearing after that.

PS: If there is someone around Sunshine Coast with a tivo reading this, can you remind me whether Sunshine Coast guide data works? Also (if so) keep an eye on whether your Sunshine Coast guide data keeps working over the next few days, because there is a chance I might mess with Sunshine Coast as part of this and it would be good for me to know if there is a problem before all your guide data expires.

[ggc]

Maryborough is right in the middle of Wide Bay, fairly sure it's serviced from Mt Goonaneman. I suspect Sunshine Coast will be receiving from a different location.

[DavidKeegel]

Maryborough is right in the middle of Wide Bay, fairly sure it's serviced from Mt Goonaneman. I suspect Sunshine Coast will be receiving from a different location.

For complicated reasons, I have set up Wide Bay channels as derived from Sunshine Coast, so Wide Bay will always see the same guide info for a given channel as Sunshine Coast does (if oztivo thinks Wide Bay gets that channel).
Given what ggc said, this is not ideal, but I expect it to be 99% right (assuming Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay rarely get different TV scheduling).

I also set up Spencer Gulf for Port Lincoln.

If you have a tivo in Wide Bay and/or Port Lincoln/Spencer Gulf please
(1) wait until after 2am April 21
(2) connect to TiVo Service (under Network Settings), or just wait for your tivo to do that itself about every 25 hours
(3) wait a few hours after that for program information to load, and indexing to happen
(4) report back whether you can see guide data for all/most/some/no channels (excluding radio channels, home shopping channels and SBN). Ideally tell us which channels you do/don't have guide data for.

[ggc]

Preliminary results from Wide Bay; ABC, SBS, Nine look correct. 7 and 10 appear to be showing Wednesday's schedule, but 70 is correct.
Should have more detailed response tomorrow.

[Janjan]

Hi David,
Darren King has contacted me to assist if possible. We are in Buderim on the Sunshine Coast and if I interpret this correctly you are wanting someone to monitor our TiVo?s channel reception capability.

We currently receive programming for Brisbane?s Chanel 7, 9, 10, 2, and 3sbs, then there?s 73,73, 76, 78, 80,81, 82, 93 & 94.
Any other Channels say to be anounced.

Does this answer your question?
Happy to help

[Ewan Hoozami]

Hi David

I'm a complete TiVo newby who got one modded yesterday and tried to set it up. I'm at Sippy Downs which is just south of Buderim and as I understand it gets local channels from the Bald Knob transmitters and Brisbane relay from Mudjimba.

I tried setting it up with local postcode 4556 and got "Were sorry, no information exists about antenna channels in your area". I then tried 4558, with the same result. I then tried 4000, which populated (but took 3 and a half hours-is this normal?).

Should I be using Wide Bay instead. and if so, what is the postcode? Or should I try 4558 again, maybe it was down last night?

Your advice appreciated, many thanks.

[DavidKeegel]

Hi David

I'm a complete TiVo newby who got one modded yesterday and tried to set it up. I'm at Sippy Downs which is just south of Buderim and as I understand it gets local channels from the Bald Knob transmitters and Brisbane relay from Mudjimba.

I tried setting it up with local postcode 4556 and got "Were sorry, no information exists about antenna channels in your area". I then tried 4558, with the same result. I then tried 4000, which populated (but took 3 and a half hours-is this normal?).

Should I be using Wide Bay instead. and if so, what is the postcode? Or should I try 4558 again, maybe it was down last night?

Your advice appreciated, many thanks.

All of Queensland should use postcode 4000 (for Guided Setup on series 3).
See https://www.oztivo.net/twiki/bin/vie...oKeepUsingTiVo or https://www.oztivo.net/twiki/bin/vie...WrongGuideData where it says which postcodes to use.
If/when that changes (other postcodes outside state/territory capitals are supported for series 3), I will update those twiki pages.
Rest assured, the guide data your tivo sees depends on what comes in from the antenna, it does not depend on the post code in guided setup at all (that might change in future, but not until after non-capital postcodes are supported).

It takes a very long time to do the initial download of guide data, and a fairly long time each day (although that is not so noticeable since it normally happens automatically).