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<blockquote data-quote="BGonaSTICK" data-source="post: 88195" data-attributes="member: 176912"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">If anyone is interested, here’s the answer.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Please let me know if you find this useful, as I'm never sure whether it's worth my while writing all this stuff up. May be of general interest as well.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">This relates to channel listings by satellite. Instead of listing the satellite name, it lists 'removed service'.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I'm pretty sure that this is the answer to the 'removed service' channel problems as well.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">OK from the top.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Fact - Your satellite configuration is defined in one of two places. It’s either in 'file x' (whatever it’s called, and which I can't be bothered to track down ATM) OR it's in /var/etc/satellites.xml.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">If you have both, I don't know which will take preference, though I suspect it's satellites.xml.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Base 1.08.2 Enigma does not have a satellites.xml file. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">If however, you were to have this image in flash, and add another image to USB with FWP4.5 etc. and check the option 'SmartSettings Copy from active image’ it can cause a problem, as it did for me. </span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">FWP will generate a bouquet/channel list from the active image (base Enigma, in this case), but it will not rebuild a matching satellites.xml file, which is pre-existing in both Zeus and Gemini (for example).</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">‘Removed Service’ appears when you have scanned a transponder which does not point to a valid satellite definition in the satellites.xml file (if it exists at all).</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I suspect that you will also get this if you have a channel with no matching transponder in satellites.xml, but I don’t want to get into this. Go play if you’re interested.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">OK, here’s where it got out of step for me, and why.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Base Enigma in flash, v1.08.2. Scanned all my favourite sats, including Intelsat 707 (10-02), Thor 2 and Thor 3 co-located at 0.9W.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Added Zeus to USB, and checked ‘SmartSettings’ in FWP4.5b.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Everything was cool, except no Intelsat/Thor satellite listed.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Angry.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">All Intelsat/Thor channels listed under ‘removed service’ which equated to 0.9W.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Investigated. Found satellites.xml file in Hydra’s /var/etc/ to be out of step with scanned channels 'SmartCopied' across (the satellites.xml file was loaded as part of the Hydra image, and not rebuilt by FWP).</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">It had Intelsat 707 listed at 1.0W, and Thor2 and 3 at 0.8W! No reference to 0.9W!</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Merged and de-duplicated the two lists of transponders at 1.0W and 0.8W, and redefined them as being at 0.9W and FTP’d it back. FIXED!</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Also had a similar problem with Gemini in USB. Here I did not use SmartSettings copy. I had deleted 7W from the satellite list when I first set the image up (and this was obviously used to build Gemini’s initial satellites.xml file), but then later on I wanted to scan it. Couldn’t do an auto transponder scan, as no 7W listed in drop-down! Did a manual transponder scan. Cool. Got channels. Went to channel listing by satellite. ‘Removed Service’. ArrrGGGGhhh.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Same problem. No 7W in Gemini’s satellites.xml file.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Copied it from another .xml file I had, and pasted it in. Patched it up and FTP’d back. Sorted.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">The list of satellites displayed when you hit the up/down button, then green, has it’s names taken from the labels defined in satellites.xml, so you can rename them there with no ill effects. Also, regardless of which order they are in the satellites.xml file, the channel/sat list on the Dreambox is dynamically sorted in alphabetical order, so you can rename them in a specific way to have them ordered as you like.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Hope this makes some sense.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Take a backup via FTP. Get an xml editor and have a play. FrontPage works fine.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: black">STICK</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: black">P.S. I'll 'unstick' this thread after a couple of weeks. Just wanted to give folks a chance to read it.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BGonaSTICK, post: 88195, member: 176912"] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]If anyone is interested, here’s the answer.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Please let me know if you find this useful, as I'm never sure whether it's worth my while writing all this stuff up. May be of general interest as well.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]This relates to channel listings by satellite. Instead of listing the satellite name, it lists 'removed service'.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]I'm pretty sure that this is the answer to the 'removed service' channel problems as well.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]OK from the top.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Fact - Your satellite configuration is defined in one of two places. It’s either in 'file x' (whatever it’s called, and which I can't be bothered to track down ATM) OR it's in /var/etc/satellites.xml.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]If you have both, I don't know which will take preference, though I suspect it's satellites.xml.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Base 1.08.2 Enigma does not have a satellites.xml file. [/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]If however, you were to have this image in flash, and add another image to USB with FWP4.5 etc. and check the option 'SmartSettings Copy from active image’ it can cause a problem, as it did for me. [/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]FWP will generate a bouquet/channel list from the active image (base Enigma, in this case), but it will not rebuild a matching satellites.xml file, which is pre-existing in both Zeus and Gemini (for example).[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]‘Removed Service’ appears when you have scanned a transponder which does not point to a valid satellite definition in the satellites.xml file (if it exists at all).[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]I suspect that you will also get this if you have a channel with no matching transponder in satellites.xml, but I don’t want to get into this. Go play if you’re interested.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]OK, here’s where it got out of step for me, and why.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Base Enigma in flash, v1.08.2. Scanned all my favourite sats, including Intelsat 707 (10-02), Thor 2 and Thor 3 co-located at 0.9W.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Added Zeus to USB, and checked ‘SmartSettings’ in FWP4.5b.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Everything was cool, except no Intelsat/Thor satellite listed.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Angry.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]All Intelsat/Thor channels listed under ‘removed service’ which equated to 0.9W.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Investigated. Found satellites.xml file in Hydra’s /var/etc/ to be out of step with scanned channels 'SmartCopied' across (the satellites.xml file was loaded as part of the Hydra image, and not rebuilt by FWP).[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]It had Intelsat 707 listed at 1.0W, and Thor2 and 3 at 0.8W! No reference to 0.9W![/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Merged and de-duplicated the two lists of transponders at 1.0W and 0.8W, and redefined them as being at 0.9W and FTP’d it back. FIXED![/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Also had a similar problem with Gemini in USB. Here I did not use SmartSettings copy. I had deleted 7W from the satellite list when I first set the image up (and this was obviously used to build Gemini’s initial satellites.xml file), but then later on I wanted to scan it. Couldn’t do an auto transponder scan, as no 7W listed in drop-down! Did a manual transponder scan. Cool. Got channels. Went to channel listing by satellite. ‘Removed Service’. ArrrGGGGhhh.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Same problem. No 7W in Gemini’s satellites.xml file.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Copied it from another .xml file I had, and pasted it in. Patched it up and FTP’d back. Sorted.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]The list of satellites displayed when you hit the up/down button, then green, has it’s names taken from the labels defined in satellites.xml, so you can rename them there with no ill effects. Also, regardless of which order they are in the satellites.xml file, the channel/sat list on the Dreambox is dynamically sorted in alphabetical order, so you can rename them in a specific way to have them ordered as you like.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Hope this makes some sense.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [color=black][font=Comic Sans MS]Take a backup via FTP. Get an xml editor and have a play. FrontPage works fine.[/font][/color] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS] [/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black]STICK[/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black][/color][/font] [font=Comic Sans MS][color=black]P.S. I'll 'unstick' this thread after a couple of weeks. Just wanted to give folks a chance to read it.[/color][/font] [/QUOTE]
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