Bug 387513

Summary:	No DVB-T2 reception from Austria
Product:	[Applications] kaffeine	Reporter:	Stefan Heimers <stefan.bk>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Stefan Heimers 2017-12-01 20:53:34 UTC

Kaffeine can't find any DVB-T2 channels from Austria.

It has taken me a long time to find the solution, but it's easy: scanfile.dvb does not contain dvb-t2 channels for austria, only the old discontinued dvb-t.

For me I have added the following lines which match the settings for the transmitter site Pfänder.


[dvb-t/at-All]
T2 474000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
T2 498000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
T2 554000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
T2 642000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
T2 746000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
T2 778000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1

Note the 1 at the end which is unusual. Most other european countries use stream id 0 with dvb-t2, that's why austrian channels are not found even with generic settings or automatic tuning.

You can find a list of all channels in Austria at https://www.simplitv.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Simplitv/documents/downloads/Senderliste_Antenne.pdf

You might also want to add the channels for MUXA and MUXB to the sections for Switzerland, Bavaria and Baden-Würthenberg as they contain free to air programmes and have quite some overspill. I'm now watching TV from Austria in Zurich with a HMP-Combo USB stick and Kaffeine which is 100km away from Austria.

Comment 1 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2017-12-01 21:52:22 UTC

(In reply to Stefan Heimers from comment #0)
> Kaffeine can't find any DVB-T2 channels from Austria.
> 
> It has taken me a long time to find the solution, but it's easy:
> scanfile.dvb does not contain dvb-t2 channels for austria, only the old
> discontinued dvb-t.
> 
> For me I have added the following lines which match the settings for the
> transmitter site Pfänder.
> 
> 
> [dvb-t/at-All]
> T2 474000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
> T2 498000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
> T2 554000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
> T2 642000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
> T2 746000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
> T2 778000000 8MHz AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO AUTO 1
> 
> Note the 1 at the end which is unusual. Most other european countries use
> stream id 0 with dvb-t2, that's why austrian channels are not found even
> with generic settings or automatic tuning.

The scan tables are actually not maintained at Kaffeine, but generated from dtvscantables, once a week. Anyway, I just added the channel list there:

    https://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-tables.git/commit/?id=6ce57c9daf5521020e37922dfdde863882305d04