Channel list

[dodo67]

Is there an updated channel list for a SV8000 HD? The one i have is a 2016 and dont get the movie channels?

[jvvh5897]

I think you can go to sites like the James Long uplink or the Bev sales one that has TP and channel info--no PIDs though. For PIDs you have to scan the birds you look at (or take the info from another box's channel list--maybe talk the jynxbox guys to post one as there is info about the data in those lists now).

[jvvh5897]

Since you have had the use of others work in the past, don't you think that it is time you paid them back by doing a channel list for them?

[jvvh5897]

You could even automate the updates to a channel list with a little info on the structure of the list. I wrote a little python code to run through a couple of the posted lists from the past in the files section, but it seems you can use channel master to at least look and edit them. With a few mods you could use the python code to renumber the displayed cha number, use longer names (the name field is fixed so you can't use arbitrary length name), you can change the CaID used in IKS I bet. Lots of things possible if you just code it up. There is a checksum, but python handled that just fine. The list of active transponders carries the number of channels for that TP--so for some prov changes that would change.

[dodo67]

Since you have had the use of others work in the past, don't you think that it is time you paid them back by doing a channel list for them?

Heck, if I could make a valid list i sure would, but i' not that versed in computers to do them. So i use what is available. Thx. for the reply tho.

[jvvh5897]

As far as I can see, the only thing stopping you is your unwillingness to try.

[jets]

What you can do with the SV8K is turn on Auto TP, now look in EPG and any channels with "no information" tune any of those channels and let it auto TP. Do this only on those channels with no information or you could corrupt a few channels that are non scan-able. Once done all channel save the list to USB without rebooting. Now load it back into the SV8K and your list will stay updated. I recommend you do a back up before you start in-case you mess up.

[jvvh5897]

Here is what I see in the channel list files: there are two parts both with simple sum XORed with 19450815. The first part I haven't played with--it is just satellite data with a 0x28 byte header and a length in there can be used to find the second part. The second part has a text string at the start: "HDCHNINF" as part of a 0x28 byte header. The data that follows is all fixed length fields: satellite data is 0x28 bytes per entry, the TP data is 0x2c and the channel data 0x38 bytes per entry.

I've only bothered to pull out the satellite names from entries. A typical set might be:
EchoStar 14
Anik F3
EchoStar 10,11
Ciel 2

The TP data includes stuff like CaID frequency, SR, which satellite is is on, the network name string and how many channels are found on it using a running count of how many channels are before the TP and how many with the TP (highlighted one such in bold) (I've added a index to the TP info below and computed the # ch in the TP):
0 1 12311 H 21500 1890 1840 0 13 n chs = 14 EchoStar 119
1 1 12501 V 21500 1890 1840 14 61 n chs = 48 EchoStar 119
2 3 12530 V 21500 1890 1840 62 71 n chs = 10 EchoStar 110
3 1 12297 V 21500 1890 1840 72 124 n chs = 53 EchoStar 119

In the above you see three of the TP are on sat 1 and one on sat 3. The H/V test is likely incorrect. You can see two CaID--it may be one is what the stream sends and one is what is sent out with IKS but that is just a guess--I've seen more than one CaID in CAT.

Here is what the raw entry looks like:
tp example:
00 0e 17 30 90 18 40 18 00 00 0d 00 02 40 20 00
fc 53 58 2e 41 45 63 68 6f 53 74 61 72 20 31 31
39 20 00 00 07 00 ff 0f 00 00 00 00

1 12311 H 21500 1890 1840 0 13 EchoStar 119

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Here are a couple raw channel entries:

00 00 A1 01-22 16 22 16 00 20 21 00 04 00 01 08
46 6F 78 20-57 65 73 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00-A1 01 28 00 23 16 00 00 00 00 FF 1F
02 04 00 00-00 00 00 00

radio sxm22:
09 00 86 17-00 20 10 10 00 20 21 00 01 02 01 0A
53 58 4D 32-32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00-86 17 35 00 10 10 00 00 00 00 FF 1F
00 04 00 00-00 00 00 00

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example of a SID+2000:
96 108 2108 1108 1108 2108 SRC Sherbrooke
extracted from below:
60 00 6C 00-54 04 54 04 00 20 20 00 FF 0F 01 10
53 52 43 20-53 68 65 72 62 72 6F 6F 6B 65 00 00
00 00 00 00-3C 08 4A 00 3C 08 00 00 00 00 FF 1F
02 04 00 00-00 00 00 00
you can see they added 2000 to the SID for BEV.
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After the channel data there is a displayed channel order table. Two bytes per entry. I've added an index:
24 128
25 795
26 171
so they are mapping into SID order I think in the file.
128 4 122 122 4386 4386 4387 SYFY
795 25 123 123 4130 4130 4131 MALL
171 6 124 124 4130 4130 4131 BET

I could post the python code I used to extract data from the file if there is any interest.

[jvvh5897]

What the heck, I'm attaching the python code I used as a text file