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Windows => Television => Topic started by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 11:54:47 am

Title: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 11:54:47 am

I have Media Center 23.0.104

It recognizes my media card (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2255). I can manually add a channel and watch that channel in Media Center 23.

However, channel scan finds 0 channels. I have attached the log files.

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually dded channel works
Post by: Matt on January 16, 2020, 11:58:42 am

Please try the latest version of MC26.

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 12:01:20 pm

I moved to a new machine. It worked fine with that card and version of Media Center on the old machine. Why would it stop just from the move?

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: JimH on January 16, 2020, 12:10:09 pm

A missing driver for the TV tuner?  Did you install software for it?

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 12:13:53 pm

Is there a way to grab the channel list from the install on the old computer?

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 12:15:30 pm

I did install the driver for the tuner. And I can watch the manually installed channel with no problems. So the card works with Media Center 23. The channel scan does not at present.

Manually adding channels is slow and tedious, so that does not seem like a good option.

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 02:09:47 pm

From the old system, File>Library>Back Up Library   tehn File>Library>Restore Library on the new machine restored all my channels.

Installing Media Center 26 and re-scanning the channels also works.

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: Yaobing on January 16, 2020, 04:12:18 pm

Most likely it is Windows 10 breaking things.  TV channel scanning in older versions of MC would not work with the latest Windows 10 anymore due to changes made in Windows 10.

Title: Re: channel scan fails, but a manually added channel works
Post by: gossett on January 16, 2020, 04:28:54 pm

Ok. I haven't tried a channel scan for a few updates of Windows 10, so that may be the case.

At any rate, I am up and running now.
Thanks.