Dish OTA Module Won't Pick Up Locals

[STDog]

That was my worry. There's no way to force Dish Pass to always pick one over the other.

 

[dare2be]

That was my worry. There's no way to force Dish Pass to always pick one over the other.

Well, you could change the Dish Pass timer option to a single channel to force it.

 

[STDog]

Well, you could change the Dish Pass timer option to a single channel to force it.

Which defeats the point of the pass.

Say I wanted some sport in HD using the description for key words. It could be on any of a dozen channels. But I want OTA HD as the preferred choice, then sat HD, the SD.

I have that w/o OTA, would just like to add OTA for better HD.

 

[dare2be]

I think I figured out the method for selecting the channel. It's not random. It uses the lowest channel number as the first priority.

So if I have a program timer that matches on both 25-0 (SAT) and 25-1 (OTA), it'll be recorded on 25-0.

The other timer I have is actually an OTA subchannel (30-2) that is mapped to 32 (SAT). Since 30-2 is the lower numbered channel, it selects the OTA channel as the first priority.

Since most OTA/SAT equivalents are the same number with a -0 and -1, it will almost always pick the -0 (SAT) channel.

The only workaround is to check the schedule periodically and manually skip the -0 timer event. A pain, but no other way I see.