Locals - Boy! have I messed things up

[ThreeIees]

I have followed the instructions in the sticky section "Thanks Zoo!", but I must have done someting wrong. Here's my story.

I own a Hughes DTivo. I have installed the 25xtreme, enabled fixsub for lifetime and am emu'ing with a 333MHz PC. I live in Central IL. so I created a channel.dat with ST, MI, CH, IN and also added NY and LA since I'm able to receive them on my 3rd gen in a different room. I placed all channels in their 900's with the exception of the NY channels which I placed in their 1-99 location (i.e. changed the "2" to a "1" in the channel.dat file.

After creating my channels file I ran it throught dos2unix and then transfered all three files to the Tivo per zoo's instructions. To make a very long story short. I have followed the instrutions multiple times with multiple different channels.dat files and each time I have gotten a different but unwanted result. So here are my questions.

1) How do I completly back out what I have done? I want to start from square one.

2) What do I need to do to get ST, MI, CH, IN and LA in the 900's and NY in the 1-99 channels. I have tried everything I know how and have failed.

I'm sure my failure is due to me not following instructions properly. When I do a search on locals I get several different methods from several different people. Each one uses a different set of commands and some use different files. I have tried several times and am now unsure how I get back to a "clean state" so I can try again. If someone can tell me how to reverse what I have done and what instructions and files to use, I'm sure I can follow this through and make the proper changes.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

ThreeIees

[genericuser]

0)
Read the documentation that came with the product you are using to create video. There is some VERY important stuff in there about locals.

1)
cd /var/hack
./mvchannels.tcl reset
restart

^ Assuming you have mvchannels.tcl version 1.34 in there. This will 'hide' everything you have exposed.

2)
you will NEVER get the MI locals. you are not in that spotbeam. Refer to step 0 above.

As for the other channels. Take the virgin channels.dat file from the mvchannels 1.34 pack. Edit it and remove all the channels that you do not receive. The LA locals will only have like 938-943, not all of them. I do not know if you will get all of the NY locals, or only the big 4.

Anyway, edit the file down to the stations that you KNOW you are in the spot for. Change the last number on each line to a '2' to put them in the 900 range, or a '1' to put them in the 2-99 range.

Save the file as a unix file. Download it to /var/hack. From your bash prompt:

cd /var/hack
./mvchannels.tcl reload

Now, to test it:

./mvchannels.tcl -file=./channels.dat

After it gets done running, verify channels are where you want them.

If everything is ok, edit your rc.sysinit and add:

/var/hack/mvchannels.tcl -loop=0 -sdelay=4 -file=/var/hack/channels.dat > /dev/null &

At the end of it. then:

restart

to reboot. You should be fine. If you have not edited version 1.34 of mvchannels.tcl so it uses less CPU time, look at this post:

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=24102#post24102

for how to fix the script

Let us know how you do

[ThreeIees]

genericuser,

Thanks for the quick reply genericuser. I will follow your steps when I get home tonight.

Can anyone tell me (through a PM only) on what to change in Tweakcor to be sure I get the locals properly?

Thanks again genericuser - I do appreciate your help!!

ThreeIees

[ThreeIees]

genericuser pointed out an error in my original post. I ment to say that I want to get the following channels:

ST, ML, CH, IN and LA in the 900's and NY in the 1-99 channels

Not:

ST, MI, CH, IN and LA in the 900's and NY in the 1-99 channels



MI would be very hard to get from my area:rolleyes:

ThreeIees