Special thanks goes to FridgeFTA Forum Members olivero604 & kg4muc for help with this issue. Olivero604 posted something about the transponders that lead me to the problem, kg4muc provided his satellite/channel data and did fix testing to confirm this works.
The reason why some of you are missing some of the North American EPG information is your scanned transponder frequencies. The TP frequencies are being linked into the channel ID’s. If your scanned in frequency for a TP is too far off from what we use for reference to encode a channel’s EPG data you get “no information” instead of EPG.
The reasons why you might have different numbers can vary.
1. LNB drift or inaccuracy. Your LNB thinks 3840 is 3843.
2. Your blindscan locked before or after the actual frequency. Like LNB drift, not unusual.
3. The TP(s) we encoded for are slightly off what you are getting.
4. You messed up the LNB frequency setting in the STB. You’ll know this because your STB will report frequencies that are way, way off what everyone else reports.
#1 and #2 are very common with consumer level equipment. In Europe this isn’t really a problem since they mostly download channel/TP lists instead of blindscanning. For us in North America it is different as usual.
The fix for missing some channels is quite easy for examples 1-3.
1. Go to http://www.fridgefta.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=37431&pid=102089#pid102089 and look up the transponder frequency for any EPG channel you aren’t getting data for.
2. Edit the transponder(s) in your A3 that are causing you problems to match the master list. You don’t need to change the symbol rate, only the frequency.
3. Re-download the EPG data in CrossEPG. If you did the above correctly you will now have EPG on your missing channel(s).
The reason why some of you are missing some of the North American EPG information is your scanned transponder frequencies. The TP frequencies are being linked into the channel ID’s. If your scanned in frequency for a TP is too far off from what we use for reference to encode a channel’s EPG data you get “no information” instead of EPG.
The reasons why you might have different numbers can vary.
1. LNB drift or inaccuracy. Your LNB thinks 3840 is 3843.
2. Your blindscan locked before or after the actual frequency. Like LNB drift, not unusual.
3. The TP(s) we encoded for are slightly off what you are getting.
4. You messed up the LNB frequency setting in the STB. You’ll know this because your STB will report frequencies that are way, way off what everyone else reports.
#1 and #2 are very common with consumer level equipment. In Europe this isn’t really a problem since they mostly download channel/TP lists instead of blindscanning. For us in North America it is different as usual.
The fix for missing some channels is quite easy for examples 1-3.
1. Go to http://www.fridgefta.info/forums/showthread.php?tid=37431&pid=102089#pid102089 and look up the transponder frequency for any EPG channel you aren’t getting data for.
2. Edit the transponder(s) in your A3 that are causing you problems to match the master list. You don’t need to change the symbol rate, only the frequency.
3. Re-download the EPG data in CrossEPG. If you did the above correctly you will now have EPG on your missing channel(s).
