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My system is not "blessed" by freesat, just a PCIe DVB-S2 tuner with
TVheadend on Linux.

I've had News HD as a channel for a long time, the BBC website* claims
it should still be there on 11023H, which is what I'm "tuned" to, but apparently News HD is no longer on that transponder, I can play other
channels such as Parliament HD (which happens to be simulcasting news HD
at the moment) and to different BBC Two NI channels.

Has it closed, or just moved to a different transponder?



[*] <https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/freesat-sky/satellite-frequencies> --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2

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On 29/08/2025 19:36, Andy Burns wrote:

My system is not "blessed" by freesat, just a PCIe DVB-S2 tuner with TVheadend on Linux.

I've had News HD as a channel for a long time, the BBC website* claims
it should still be there on 11023H, which is what I'm "tuned" to, but apparently News HD is no longer on that transponder, I can play other channels such as Parliament HD (which happens to be simulcasting news HD
at the moment) and to different BBC Two NI channels.

Has it closed, or just moved to a different transponder?

Here it's still available on 11023H, picked up with a standard DVB-S2
receiver (no Freesat). The Scottish and Welsh variations of BBC One HD
and BBC ALBA HD are on the same transponder, and a few BBC radio
stations as well.
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On 29/08/2025 18:36, Andy Burns wrote:

My system is not "blessed" by freesat, just a PCIe DVB-S2 tuner with TVheadend on Linux.

I've had News HD as a channel for a long time, the BBC website* claims
it should still be there on 11023H, which is what I'm "tuned" to, but apparently News HD is no longer on that transponder, I can play other channels such as Parliament HD (which happens to be simulcasting news HD
at the moment) and to different BBC Two NI channels.

Has it closed, or just moved to a different transponder?

[*] <https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/freesat-sky/satellite- frequencies>

It works for me: Raspberry Pi running TVHeadend with a PCTV 491e DVB-S2
tuner. It's on 11023H with Service ID of 8921.

11023H is configured (Configuration | Mux page) as:

DVB-S2
Freq 11024000
Sym 23000000
Pol H
Mod PSK/8
FEC 3/4

Other channels on the same mux are:

BBC Alba HD SID 8927
BBC R5L
BBC One Scot HD
BBC ONe Wal HD
BBC News HD
BBC R1
BBC R2
BBC R3
BBC R4
BBC Asian
BBC One WM HD
BBC Alba HD SID 8926

I'm puzzled at your reference to BBC Parliament and two BBC Two NI
channels, because those are not on that mux - either in TVHeadend or on https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E-2F-2G.html


Odd that the BBC Reception page doesn't list it, because it *is* there!
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Ulrich Onken wrote:

Here it's still available on 11023H, picked up with a standard DVB-S2 receiver

Thanks for checking.

Looks like it wasn't an issue with TVheadend itself, but more likely
between DreamPlayer frontend on my Android TV dongle and TVheadend, a
refresh has fixed things ...


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On 29/08/2025 18:59, NY wrote:

On 29/08/2025 18:36, Andy Burns wrote:

My system is not "blessed" by freesat, just a PCIe DVB-S2 tuner with
TVheadend on Linux.

I've had News HD as a channel for a long time, the BBC website* claims
it should still be there on 11023H, which is what I'm "tuned" to, but
apparently News HD is no longer on that transponder, I can play other
channels such as Parliament HD (which happens to be simulcasting news
HD at the moment) and to different BBC Two NI channels.

Has it closed, or just moved to a different transponder?



[*] <https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/freesat-sky/
satellite- frequencies>

It works for me: Raspberry Pi running TVHeadend with a PCTV 491e DVB-S2 tuner. It's on 11023H with Service ID of 8921.

Here's the result of playing the 11023H mux in VLC: Configuration | Multiplexes, select 11023H, ">" icon [Play this stream]

https://i.postimg.cc/XN9crpNV/11023H.png


If you get different results when you do this, you may need to re-scan
that mux to update the list of services, though LyngSat doesn't flag it
as having changed recently, so if it was working in the past, it should
still be.
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On 29/08/2025 19:07, NY wrote:

On 29/08/2025 18:59, NY wrote:

On 29/08/2025 18:36, Andy Burns wrote:

My system is not "blessed" by freesat, just a PCIe DVB-S2 tuner with
TVheadend on Linux.

I've had News HD as a channel for a long time, the BBC website*
claims it should still be there on 11023H, which is what I'm "tuned"
to, but apparently News HD is no longer on that transponder, I can
play other channels such as Parliament HD (which happens to be
simulcasting news HD at the moment) and to different BBC Two NI
channels.

Has it closed, or just moved to a different transponder?



[*] <https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/freesat-sky/
satellite- frequencies>

It works for me: Raspberry Pi running TVHeadend with a PCTV 491e DVB-
S2 tuner. It's on 11023H with Service ID of 8921.

Here's the result of playing the 11023H mux in VLC: Configuration | Multiplexes, select 11023H, ">" icon [Play this stream]

https://i.postimg.cc/XN9crpNV/11023H.png

If you get different results when you do this, you may need to re-scan
that mux to update the list of services, though LyngSat doesn't flag it
as having changed recently, so if it was working in the past, it should still be.

Apologies, the route to playing the mux is Configuration | DVB Inputs |
Mux (I missed out DVB Inputs)
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NY wrote:

Here's the result of playing the 11023H mux in VLC: Configuration | Multiplexes, select 11023H, ">" icon [Play this stream]

https://i.postimg.cc/XN9crpNV/11023H.png

If you get different results when you do this, you may need to re-scan
that mux to update the list of services

Thanks, I think the DreamPlayer frontend is a bit wobbly, it often loses
a setting or two, unfortunately the developer hasn't been very
responsive when I've reported issues (it's payware, albeit pretty cheap)
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