[sclug] Digital TV card and channel recognition

[Dickon Hood]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 18:17:23 +0000, David Given wrote:
: On 11/12/09 17:27, Dickon Hood wrote:
: [...]
: > (use your transmitter; you're not on Crystal Palace, clearly) is what you
: > want.

: What's the best way of figuring out what transmitter I'm on?

IME, a compass and a map.  Use the compass to see where your aerial is
pointing, and locate anything likely-looking on the map.

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/> has a postcode checker, which is likely
to tell you.  Gets mine right, and I'm supposedly borderline Crystal
Palace and (IIRC) Hannington.

: Commercial STBs don't appear to need to know, instead doing a
: brute-force frequency search looking for multiplexes. Is there a way of
: doing this instead?

Yes.  You can cat the whole of /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-* into one file,
and pass that instead.  There's another tool called 'w_scan' which
allegedly will do something similar, but I've never used it.

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Dickon Hood

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