UK EPG/Channel Numbers help

[supercat]

Hi,

I have been playing with nextPVR5 over the past week and new to this type of software but its going ok. I am curently trying to finalise the backend before devoting time to the clients. Great software and kudos to the developers.

I am running a physical Server 2019 box with a TBS 6909-X octa tuner pci-e card. NextPVR sees the 8 tuners and i have managed to scan channels on 28.2E using the default scan settings. I have tested clients on the frontend and managed to get streams to play so doing well! The issue/questions i have are based around the EPG and more importantly the Channel Numbers. 

I cannot get Schedules Direct to populate every freesat channel - not crappy channels but ones like BBC HD. I also cannot find an easy way to rearrange channel numbers.

EPG:

• Is Schedules Direct the only way of getting EPG?
  
• When populating via Schedules Direct by entering postcode etc. What should i be choosing for freesat? Every option has a -cable suffix. Should i be selecting all of them?
  

Channel Numbers:

• How can i auto re-arrange channels to be in "normal" order?
  

My 7 day free trial just expired with Schedules Direct so trying to understand a bit better before signing up.

 Thanks in advance!

[sub]

I'm not in that part of the world, so not super familiar with Freesat. I'm not sure they transmit channel numbers, or at least in a way following normal DVB standards. (Freeview terrestrial does)

Is Schedules Direct the only way of getting EPG?

You should be able to just use the default DVB EPG.