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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 4543" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>Re inputting manually the channels for the Echostar receiver:</p><p></p><p>it depends exactly what you mean.</p><p>You can get new channels in using a variety of methods. </p><p>The simplest is to simply rescan the satellite (auto-search) or a particular transponder (TP-search) or a network of related transponders (Network-search) - functions available from the "program satellites" option of the "installation" menu.</p><p></p><p>Those functions will pull in any changes/new channels (the auto-search will completely wipe the slate clean for that satellite and repopulate the channel list). But they only work by scanning the transponders already defined in the database. </p><p></p><p>If you want to set up a new transponder (or change an existing one), you need to do that from either the edit-transponder function or else from the "edit/add TP/sat" function of the advanced installation menu.</p><p>Once the new tpx is added, you can scan it.</p><p></p><p>Adding or repositioning satellites can also be done from that same advanced menu.</p><p></p><p>The final option is to add a channel completely manually. IE not using the scan at all. To do this, you need to be in that advanced installation/add-tp-sat function again. Then select the transponder with which you wish to associate the channel, and go down to the channel-name and PID fields. Fill in the name and the video & audio PIDs by hand. This can be useful for setting up channels that do not get pulled in automatically via a scan (there are a few, such as Tara on intel601 with PIDS 32 & 33).</p><p></p><p>The Echostar manuals do leave much to be desired....</p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 4543, member: 174998"] Re inputting manually the channels for the Echostar receiver: it depends exactly what you mean. You can get new channels in using a variety of methods. The simplest is to simply rescan the satellite (auto-search) or a particular transponder (TP-search) or a network of related transponders (Network-search) - functions available from the "program satellites" option of the "installation" menu. Those functions will pull in any changes/new channels (the auto-search will completely wipe the slate clean for that satellite and repopulate the channel list). But they only work by scanning the transponders already defined in the database. If you want to set up a new transponder (or change an existing one), you need to do that from either the edit-transponder function or else from the "edit/add TP/sat" function of the advanced installation menu. Once the new tpx is added, you can scan it. Adding or repositioning satellites can also be done from that same advanced menu. The final option is to add a channel completely manually. IE not using the scan at all. To do this, you need to be in that advanced installation/add-tp-sat function again. Then select the transponder with which you wish to associate the channel, and go down to the channel-name and PID fields. Fill in the name and the video & audio PIDs by hand. This can be useful for setting up channels that do not get pulled in automatically via a scan (there are a few, such as Tara on intel601 with PIDS 32 & 33). The Echostar manuals do leave much to be desired.... 2old [/QUOTE]
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