Mapped services channel dumber different than provider channel number

Hi all
I'm running tvh 4.1-2347 self built for armhf on banana pi
It works, or actually worked, fine, but after having reset the configuration, I'm hitting a weird problem
For some reason the channels numbering in the mapped service are different than the tuned services channel numbers.
In the DVB-T services I can see that the provider channel numbering is correct and it's the one I expect here where I live (Italy).
But the mapped service the numbering gets messed up soon, because it seems that the mapping remove the missing numbers in the channel list.
As example, suppose the the tuning gives me channel 22 23 - 32 32 ecc... in the mapped services I get 22(ok) 23(ok) 24(wrong) 25(wrong) and so on until the end.
The option in the network "ignore provider number" is NOT marked, and I can't really see where this problem could come from, also because before having reset the configuration I have got a perfect channel list.
I use as frontend client Kodi.
I don't use bouquet because I didn't fully understood the logic behind, it seems it leverage on the EPG, and EPG is not really reliable here.
Is it possible that the problem comes from the provider/network tagging?
Bye

Replies (5)

RE: Mapped services channel dumber different than provider channel number - Added by Antonio S almost 8 years ago

No one?
I have tried to remove the tagging, still same result
It worked once, I really can't understand which is the relevant option here
Bye

RE: Mapped services channel dumber different than provider channel number - Added by Mark Clarkstone almost 8 years ago

I'm running the latest git (on my armel box - HTS Tvheadend 4.1-2378 as of right now).

Here's a screenshot of some of the services, I recently mapped (just to test for you).

Tvheadend correctly uses the LCN set by the provider (notice the number gap between 5 USA & ITV4).

By default if a service does not have an LCN set Tvheadend will use the (lowest) next available number. What you're seeing might be because the provider has (re)moved the channel & left a dummy service to inform users (using a standard box) that they need to re-tune in order to receive it again. Sometimes these dummy services have LCNs and sometimes they won't. Here in the UK most STBs will either ignore services with no LCN (and hide them from the user), or place them in the 800+ channel range.

If you can confirm that Tvheadend is using the incorrect LCN (Local channel number value is set in services) & the service is active (play it in VLC) open an issue.

RE: Mapped services channel dumber different than provider channel number - Added by Antonio S almost 8 years ago

Hi Mark
As you can see, the LCN numbering is correct in both the stream and channel/EPG page (notice channels 399-501)

But if I connect to tvhts via Kodi, as you can see the numbering is not kept:

The obvious reason is that the channels are all put in sequence, instead of being mapped keeping the LCN number. The problem is that it's not possible to inspect the mapped service database (maybe a suggestion for a feature?). It's not even clear to me what happens if I remap them again, changing the option. It merges the mappings? Replace the older with the newer?
For SURE it worked the first time I started tvheadend :(
Bye

RE: Mapped services channel dumber different than provider channel number - Added by Anthony Thomas almost 8 years ago

That's a Kodi issue not TVH.

On Kodi go to System Settings - TV or PVR Service (depending on skin) - General

Make sure these two options are ticked
Use channel order from backend(s)
Use channel numbers from backend

That should give all the channels in Kodi the same numbers as TVH.

RE: Mapped services channel dumber different than provider channel number - Added by Antonio S almost 8 years ago

Yes, that was!
I remembered something similar, but I was looking for this option in the plugin settings, while it is in the general PVR setting...
Thanks!

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