DVB-S scanning suggestion

[Rickos]

Hi,

I've been thinking about what a pain it is to do a DVB-S scan, and then trying to pick out the variations of channels I want afterwards from the drop down menu from a list of hundreds of channels i will never use.
It's never that easy, especially as my PVR setup has a touchpad instead of a mouse.

I'd like to see a feature whereby I can specify what channels I want to scan for, so I can say, ok, scan for all channels, or maintain a list of names, so for here in the UK, i might only want to receive 3 channels:

BBC1
BBC2
ITV1 Meridian (a regional variation of ITV1)

Then when I perform a scan, it would only match with my list, and only shows those that it found from my list in the drop down.

Looking in the scan.cache files, the regional variations are mentioned by name as in my ITV1 Meridian example above. so this should be possible shouldn't it?

Also, i noticed a thread just now that mentions changing PID's and having to rescan etc being a pain.
If the list was matched to the scans and the channels set up in GBPVR, then wouldn't it be possible to automatically assign by label rather than frequency?
Then a scan option could be added to the menu within GBPVR, and any changes would be picked up without having to drop back to the config and manual assignment etc.

I hope all that made sense?

Thanks
Rick

[whurlston]

You can edit the scan.cache file and remove the entries you don't want.

[Rickos]

Yeah, I know, and I do,and then i copy it for the other cards, but it's not a very user friendly way of doing things, and has to be re-done each time the pid's change and a new scan is run.
Of course, I'm nitpicking, I love and couldn't live without GBPVR, but this is a wishlist, and that, is what I'm wishing for!

[martint123]

I would have thought it would be comparatively easy to do external to config.
Something like, do a full scan, run grep or something over the cache file to only pick what you want and then back into config to map the channels.
I think if it changed the names to match the PEG ones then most of the mapping gets done automagically as well??

[Rickos]

In part it would be easy, I was considering writing something in perl to sort/filter my scan caches & remove the stuff I don't want based on a master list of channels I do want.
But it would be nice to have this as a built-in.