4 DIAGNOSTICS

The Current Channel status fields are:

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

Type

Indicates whether the channel is analog or digital:

 

 

 

 

OSD

Description

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL

Digital

 

 

 

Status

Indicates the current status of channel acquisition.

 

 

 

 

OSD

Description

 

 

 

 

Acquired

Service has been acquired and is playing, but stream

 

 

components may not be locked yet if the service is digital. For

 

 

an analog service, there are no stream components to lock, so

 

 

this is the final status.

 

 

 

 

Acquiring

Service is being reacquired.

 

 

 

 

Not

Service has not been acquired due to a failure.

 

Acquired

 

 

 

 

 

OSD

Description

 

 

 

 

Acquired

Digital service has been acquired, and all relevant stream

 

and Locked

components for the service are locked. If the service is

 

 

purchasable, the stream components will not be locked until the

 

 

service is purchased.

 

 

 

 

Acquired

Service has been partially acquired, but is not playing. For the

 

Not Playing

MPEG-2 services, this means that no components are selected.

 

 

 

Preview

Indicates whether the current program is in preview mode.

 

 

Purchasable

Indicates whether the current program can be purchased for viewing.

 

 

Purchased

Indicates whether the current program has been purchased.

 

 

EPOCH

Number of authorization requests originating from set-top.

Num

 

 

 

 

Auth

The current epoch authorization reason is displayed in the hexadecimal format

Reason

0xbb on the OSD.

 

 

 

 

 

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