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Once you've started the tool you will see this screen:
Most of the menus within the TV- Configuration are self explanatory, but a little bit of introduction is needed to the second menu in the list: TV Servers. This menu is where all your tuners are configured and where you scan your channels.
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Depending on your tuner drivers, you may see more tuners than you actually have, e.g. if the driver supports different types of DVB tuners. If you see tuners here that you don't have (e.g. DVB-S when you have DVB-C), just untick the corresponding boxes to prevent confusion.
If you are using a Common Interface (CI) Conditional Access module (CAM) to access coded channels, select each tuner which uses a CAM, click the edit button and tick the box to enable the CAM under CAM Setup in the Edit card properties dialog box which appears. This is usually sufficient, but check the other options in the dialog to see if any apply.
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To scan for your ATSC channels you need to select the Tuning mode (Digital terrestrial or so) and probably (depends on your signal type) the QAM tuning frequencies
When you press on "Scan for channels" the scan will start.
During the scan there are lots of information shown. Once the scan is finished MediaPortal 2 will tell you, how much channels are found.
If you got a subscription card from your provider and want to receive encrypted channels you need to enable the CAM. Select each tuner which uses a CAM, click the edit button and tick the box to enable the CAM under CAM Setup in the Edit card properties dialog box which appears. You also can enable the EPG grabbing here, but most ATSC stations did not deliver EPG "on Air" so most likely you need an other EPG source.
DVB-S/S2
The DVB-S/S2 tuning section allows tuning with diseqc, however this guide does not currently address this functional capability.
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Click on the menu TV Servers > Your Server > DVB-S/S2_Tuner_1 and put a tick in the #1 option. Next is to update the satellite lists. Also it's highly recommended you don't need to do this but without the refresh you most likely won't get all (new) channels properly.
To scan for channels do the following steps:
- Change the Satellite drop-down list to your desired Satellite (e.g. 28.2°E Astra for UK Freesat or 19.2°E Astra for central Europe)
- If you have more than one type of TV source (other tuner or IPTV), put a tick in the Create Groups For: Digital Satellite option.
- If the card you are tuning is a DVB-S2 card, then put a tick in the Enable DVB-S2 Channel Tuning/Scanning option. If you miss this you will not be able to receive any HDTV channels.
- Put a tick in the Enable Channel Movement Detection option. This is optional and can also be unticked if you don't need it or getting issues with this feature.
- Click on the Scan for Channels button to start the scan
- When the scan is complete, the progress bar will show 100% and MP will report a list of the new/updated TV and radio channels detected during the scan
DVB-T/T2
- Click on the menu TV Servers > Your Server > DVB-T/T2_Tuner_1
- Using the drop-down list, select your country
- Using the drop-down list, select your region (if you live in the UK and don't know your region, then enter your postcode into this website and find your local transmitter).
- If you have more than one type of TV source (other tuner or IPTV), put a tick in the Create Digital Terrestrial Group option
- Put a tick in the Enable Channel Movement Detection option
- Click on the Scan for Channels button
- When the scan is complete, the progress bar will show 100% and MP will report a list of the new/updated TV and radio channels detected during the scan
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If you have more than one tuner of the same kind (e.g. two DVB-S2 tuners) you can do a channel scan for every tuner. But you also can "map" the channels scanned with the first tuner to the other tuner(s) of the same kind. This will save a lot of time. For this you need to click on the menu TV Channels. Then activate the menu entry "TV Mapping". Here you will find a dropdown list with all your available tuners.
Choose a tuner you don't have done a channel scan with and you will get a list similar to this:
Select all channels in the "Available Channels" list and then click on the ">>" button. Now all those channels are mapped to this tuner and can be received here too, without the need to run a complete channel scan.
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