Setting up 2nd tuner card WMC

Hi there. I have been running a dual freesat and freeview system for a couple of years, and have just about figured out the basics of doing this.

Freesat is the harder one. so the fact you already have that setup should help...

When I run my freesat scan it usually labels the channels 101, 102 etc.

When you run the freeview scan it will label them 1, 2 3 etc.

Then I have to manually map/condense the duplicated channels together. so taking BBC 1 for example, you can go to channel 101, and set the listings equal to those on channel 1. It will then throw a message saying do you want to just copy the listings, or merge the channels.

Choose merge. Then when you go into channel 1 and choose "edit sources" you should see two listed, the freeview one and the freesat one.

I do that for every shared channel (approx 30 or so).

If you have already changed your satellite 101 channel to number 1 then i'm not sure what happens when you run the freeview scan.

There is a tool that lets you edit the channel/guide information directly, I tried it once but then it crashed.

http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/07/manag...uide-tool.html

Hello irrotational....thank you for the reply.

I have connected the Kworld USB Dual DVB-T Stick and installed the driver but have not done a scan yet.

When you run the freeview scan it will label them 1, 2 3 etc.

Where do I find the freeview scan? When I go to settings>TV>TV signal...all I see is "satellite transponder scan." I don't see any other options.

I still have BBC1/BBC2/ITV...etc set as 101/102/103...etc but after that I have moved channel numbers around...ITV2/ITV3/ITV4 are on channel numbers 118/120/122.

I have used guide tool before to get EPG listing for some channels...but since then I've switched to EPG collector for that....but I will use it again to merge the channels once I find out how to do a freeview scan.

hmmm - on mine media center automatically detected that there was both types of card and so it gave me both options for scanning. The last few times i have done it, i have completely re-set the tv settings for other reasons so used the TV setup wizzard from scratch.

You *may* have to reset the TV settings and start from scratch...or it maybe a simple matter of turning your pc off and on again, to kick start it.

I've been told that media center will pop up a box if it detects a new TV tuner and say something like "detected new tuner do you want to add/scan" or something like that...

Try searching here or google for "add new tuner to windows media center" or some such?

Thanks a lot for your help.

I had to start from scratch

Couldn't get the freeview scan to appear...It's now there after a complete resetting of everything...loosing all my original EPG settings...Now hours of moving stuff around to get it the way I like it.