Easist way to combine ABM providers in one bouquet?

[judge]

Back home over Christmas & this CustomMix has been running perfect over the last 5 months.
Anyone know if there's a hack way to add SKY IE FTA & SKY UK FTA too?

Saorview
FreeSat UK
SKY IE FTA
Sky UK FTA

All in the one bouquet that stays up to date on a scheduled download?

Hi @judge - don't see you much on the forum in recent times!

What I do for a combined Saorview/Freesat bouquet is to use a CustomMix file. In ABM I set my local Saorview transmitter as a provider and also Freesat. If you just run ABM like that you get two separate bouquets. If you create a CustomMix file and put it in the custom directory for ABM, then you will get a merged bouquet. Attached is my custom file for Freesat which merges Saorview in at the top (with channel numbers from 1 to 30) and Freesat starts at 101. You need to set "alternate numbering" in the menu Setup/User Interface/Channel Selection to get Freesat to start at 101.

Place the attached file in /usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/SystemPlugins/AutoBouquetsMaker/custom/sat_282_freesat_CustomMix.xml

I also have a custom file for use with Sky bouquet (for those additional channels not on Freesat), but I actually prefer the channel numbering on Freesat.

[abu baniaz]

Have you considered a favourite.xml file? You can add whatever channel you from the 4 providers you mention want into any position. Once you do the initial work, the only maintenance you will have to do is if the official channel numbers change or you want to shuffle them around.

[judge]

Yep Abu, use a favourites like the excellent one you provided above in my own home, not in my mams house as I'm never sure when I'll be up to update it when channel numbers change.
The CustomMix by Joe_90 works perfectly for automated updates using both Saorview & FreeSat UK.
Would also like to add SKY IE FTA & Sky UK FTA for some of the channels that sat_282_freesat_CustomMix.xml doesn't pick up like SKY Arts and some others now that are out of date by using a source="xxx"

[abu baniaz]

With Joe's mix file, you have only inserted 30 channels, so you can add another 70. As an example: add into Freesat position 31, from the provider sky UK, and channel you are sourcing "130"

<insert provider="sat_282_sky_uk" source="130" target="31"></insert>

Best to run SKY in FTA mode and see which channel numbers you want to have and then add to the mix file you are uisng. I don't think there are any FTA channels on Sky IE that are not on Sky UK. But you will still have the issue of channel numbers changing. I am sure you can host the file on a website and write a script to fetch the file like we do with abm custom mix importer. We can add it to the ABM mix importer too if you want.

[Huevos]

Why not add channels by CHID. That way they will always be picked up unless they are removed.

[judge]

Thanks Huevos, any thread/post you can point me to in using CHID from different providers in an ABM custom file?

[dsayers]

Thanks Huevos, any thread/post you can point me to in using CHID from different providers in an ABM custom file?

Like this although I'm not sure if it's py3 compatible

channels_to_add_by_id = {
	1701: 855, # Sky Sports Main Event HD
        4035: 409, # Sky Sports News HD
}
# Add channels by ID
for service in sorted(customised["video"].keys()):
	if "channel_id" in customised["video"][service] and customised["video"][service]["channel_id"] in channels_to_add_by_id:
		customised["video"][channels_to_add_by_id[customised["video"][service]["channel_id"]]] = customised["video"][service]
		del customised["video"][service]

[judge]

Don't want to use any source="xxx" because they get outdated.
Huevos suggestion by CHID sounds a lot better, just not sure if/how it can be done to include multiple providers in ABM?

[dsayers]

Don't want to use any source="xxx" because they get outdated.
Huevos suggestion by CHID sounds a lot better, just not sure if/how it can be done to include multiple providers in ABM?

The above is for add by channel ID the number is the channel you want to place it to