Duplicate Stations? How to select the one I want?

I have Duplicate Channels 19.1 and 19.2, when I scan for channels on my TV, I get two 19.1 channels and two 19.2 channels. One of the 19.1 and one of the 19.2 channels are perfect, the other ones are blocky and really come in bad. Plex is recording off of the bad ones. How can I make it switch to the good channel? Plex does not show the duplicates and I can’t select which one I want.

I googled for an answer and it seems this is the same issue that I face. How can I get Plex to allow me to choose which one I want?
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/25-hdtv-technical/1527194-cleveland-oh-19-1-signal.html

Still having issues… Anyone?

Works fine on HDHomerun software, within plex its choppy and bad, getting this. Left is HDHomerun, right is plex live.

just a suggestion, in hdhomerun channel manager if they show there only activate the good ones if they are duplicates then remove and re-add tuner in plex, If they both don’t show on the HDHomerun channel manager then you would want to consider posting it on the HDHomerun forum and they might be able to help with selecting which channel to keep.

They don’t show up as duplicates in Plex setup or in HDHomerun, although HDHomerun displays the correct working ones with no quality issues. Plex ones don’t display and when they record it always chooses the bad ones and its really choppy unplayable after recording. I’ll try to take a picture from my TV channel guide and post showing two 19.1’s and two 19.2’s, the second ones when flipping through the channels are the good ones.

Here are both of the 19-1 channels that I have on my TV:

First one is bad(like what shows on Plex recordings) scrambled mess:

Here is the Good 19-1 Channel on my TV(Picture is perfect)

Here is the Guide from the TV showing the duplicate channels on my TV

Not sure what to do, HDHomerun software knows which one to display, but plex and plex recordings do not.

Ah, it’s not 19.1 vs 19.2, it’s that there’s 2x 19.1’s.

Watch the ‘tuners’ option on the HDHomerun page when switching between them on Plex. I bet it shows 2 different frequencies - meaning you’re picking up from 2 towers (IIUC, the DTV number is no longer tied to frequency - so 2 places could be transmitting ‘19.1’).

Community: is there a tuner config file that has the channel lineup from which the redundant entry can be removed?

OP: is there a booster or preamplifier on the antenna? If you’re getting 2x 19.1’s, you either have a heck of a antenna, a heck of a location, a heck of an amp, or a combination thereof.

I have 2 tuners, both tuners have the issues, they are older tuners too and I haven’t seen a tuners option in the setup.
HDHomeRun DUAL
HDHomeRun T1

I have a 5-6 ft antenna in the attic from radio shack, about 8yrs old. In the basement I have an amplifier from RadioShack- 8yrs old as well. Pic below:

Tried turning the gain on the amplifier down, went through HDHomerun setup, re-added tuners in Plex. Still have the problem

I got the HDHomerun setup software to show both 19.1’s, tried readding to Plex. Plex only shows one(and it’s apparently the bad one)

I really need Plex to show both 19.1 channels so I can remove the bad one.

Bueller?

Any Plex Devs here?

And here I thought paying for a lifetime membership would help with getting support. What a waste…

@atomlinks said:
And here I thought paying for a lifetime membership would help with getting support. What a waste…

You thought wrong. The only additional support PlexPass gets you is Plexpass forums.

That being said, this has very little to do with Plex.
It’s just grabbing the first listing within your tuner lineup. Though lucky with HDHomerun app, many apps would do the same.

You manage channels in 2 places.
Go to the website of your HDHomeRun tuners using http://my.hdhomerun.com/ - then go to the Channel lineup, and X out the bad ones.

Then go to your Plex web settings - Server - DVR and TV - Manage Channels - use the drop-down arrow to the RIGHT to see if you can select a different 19.1, just like your HDHomerun lists two.

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If not, well, sorry, only idea I had.

Thanks for the response.

That HDHomerun site I don’t get the option. I have some older HDHomerun tuners and the setup is through the last screenshot I posted above. It does not let me remove any, it just says here are the ones we found. I would expect Plex to pick them all up(even though there may be duplicates) All of my TV’s can do it, and i can just select to block the bad ones there. Plex seems to think there can only be one 19.1 no duplicates allowed.

I just need the developers to change it so that all of them show up, not just the first one. Then I could go into “Manage Channels” and get rid of the first one in Plex.

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So, confirm for me, when you go into Plex - manage channels - and click that drop-down arrow I point to repeatedly to bring up the list, there is only one 19.1?

Correct, only one is listed in the drop-down even though two of them are in HD-Homerun Setup

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Still can’t record shows on CBS. Argh If I could only select the 2nd 19.1 channel…

give this a shot

Thanks for the info about your exe, do you have the source avail by chance? I did notice the location of the sqlite db, i opened in notepad and see this for 19.1

<Channel channelIdentifier=“triplet://0:2301:2” name=“WOIO DT” origin="" param="<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
8024000000000002301020
" number=“19.1” drm=“0” type=“tv” signalStrength=“77” signalQuality=“98”/>

I see channelIdentifier=“triplet://0:2301:2” in a few places and I have no idea what this means or what to change it to. Might I be able to find/replace in this db in notepad and change it?

https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_station&facility_id=39746

physical channel 24.2 is what I want, but plex is choosing to use the 10.2 physical channel and I’m not sure what to change to force it to use the good cbs channel

if you follow the directions in the post it will edit the db for you.