Best may to manage satellite channel updates

[jcjefferies]

There is no easy way! You have to scan the transponders and delete the channels you dont want!! However a better way is to create a copy of 282.ini and delete the transponders that have no channels YOU want! My local regional ini file lists only 25 transponders instead 282.ini which has around 105 transponders. At this time there is no up to date ini file available that covers recent BBC changes plus the changes the next two Mondays. The best help is at the web page listed is post 3 of my Freesat Disruption post which lists the frequency of each Freesat Channel and is updated every day at the moment.

[sota]

@sub Would it be possible to have an option when scanning channels that only pre-existing channels would be updated? That way we wouldn't have to keep going back to delete all the unwanted channels.

[sub]

@sub Would it be possible to have an option when scanning channels that only pre-existing channels would be updated? That way we wouldn't have to keep going back to delete all the unwanted channels.

It's not so obvious, but if you do a scan and don't hit save, it does still update existing channels (assuming their sid/tsid/onid don't change). ie, things like channel names, or tuning etc can be updated this way.

[mvallevand]

It's not so obvious, but if you do a scan and don't hit save, it does still update existing channels (assuming their sid/tsid/onid don't change). ie, things like channel names, or tuning etc can be updated this way.

That's good to know but is it true on non Windows?   I thought you needed to hit Save to update/merge the conf files.

Martin

[sub]

That's windows only.

[sota]

That's great, thanks! As a refugee from SageTV I miss the plugin that automatically updated your Freesat channels on Astra 28.2 from kingofsat.net each night.

Pat