It was interesting to see two different sets of oscam files, though I did use Abu's set. Well he was first after all.
Yes Yesterday+1 is probably the ace in the pack.
Lately I'm quite into their "Abandoned Engineering" series.
I occasionally watch some of the reruns of old stuff on 4Music and it's nice to have that at the higher bit rate and resolution on satellite compared to Freeview.
London Live isn't a bad channel either. I could probably get it on Freeview if I had my own aerial and didn't have to use the filtered feed provided by the landlord.
Drat. I've found a problem. Setting the ABM Sky UK provider to "FTA Only"="no" means my autotimers sometimes set timers for channels that are neither FTA or FTV which then don't work!
I had an autotimer to record a certain film the first time it was on any channel and it chose Film4 HD which it obviously won't be able to record.
Not sure what to do now
Has ABM (and more importantly whatever runs the code in the sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml file) got access to the list of channels that autotimers search through?
If so can I delete the subscription channels from that list too in the elif part in the code in sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml ?
Last edited by BrianTheTechieSnail; 14-07-20 at 21:57.
Xtrend ET10K, 2 x satellite tuners 28.2 (Sky FTA), 2 x hybrid (UK Freeview), Zgemma H9S (satellite)
Are you getting the autotimers to search all channels? Thats madness. When creating an autotimer do it from the epg and set it just to scan that particular channel unless you have good reason to do otherwise.
Zgemma H7S running OpenVIX 6.2, Darkmotor, Triax TD110 dish, Inverto Black Ultra dual lnb
LG 50UM7450 4K TV, Pioneer VSX-534 Atmos AVR , Panasonic UB820 region free 4K Bluray & a PS4.
As I said it was a film. That autotimer has been set for several weeks now so, no I didn't know for sure which channel it might come up on next.
Autotimers are generally for recurring programs. Thats not to say you cant use it for what you are trying to do but sometimes a bit of human intervention is required. Youvcan limit the search to certain channels/bouquets to try and eliminate the possibility of film4 hd etc.
Sort out the bouquets first and you should manage it. You should be able to switch the sd for the hd channel. Personally I set up my bouquets manually with just the channels I want. Takes time but its worth it.
Zgemma H7S running OpenVIX 6.2, Darkmotor, Triax TD110 dish, Inverto Black Ultra dual lnb
LG 50UM7450 4K TV, Pioneer VSX-534 Atmos AVR , Panasonic UB820 region free 4K Bluray & a PS4.
I never said autotimers are JUST for recurring programs but GENERALLY.
A recurring "ordinary timer" is a completely different thing. Once it is set the times/channels cannot vary so unless it is something like the 6 o'clock news that doesn't change times it won't be very useful. The autotimer is a different beast and will search the epg on a prefined basis for the search parameters of your choosing. The more info/constraints you give it the better it performs. You have instructed it to search ALL CHANNELS for a particular movie. The fact that it returns with FILM 4 HD which you can't view is not a fault of the software - its operator error for not excluding that channel. To prevent that happening you need to set up bouquets of channels you can actually view and restrict the search to those channels. If you can't see the logic in that then I can't say any more to you.
Zgemma H7S running OpenVIX 6.2, Darkmotor, Triax TD110 dish, Inverto Black Ultra dual lnb
LG 50UM7450 4K TV, Pioneer VSX-534 Atmos AVR , Panasonic UB820 region free 4K Bluray & a PS4.
But before I added the sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml and set the ABM Sky UK provider to "FTA Only"="no" it worked without any of that fuss.
I don't think I'm stupid to try and look for a way to fix the adding of FTV channels so that it doesn't have annoying side effects.
So please, I have enough ways of working round the annoying side effects now, lets only have suggestions for an actual fix from now on.
You've already had the fix, just setup the default action for autotimers to only search in bouquets with channels that you can actually view.
Easy to setup your own favourites bouquet with a favourites.xml file.
ronand (15-07-20)
Okay, looking through lots of files on the OpenVIX github (and other related ones) has failed to give me enough understanding to devise a neater method.
To do this with bouquet(s) I don't think I need to make new bouquet(s).
The Sky all channels bouquet already has the undecryptable (is that a word?) channels removed so I can use that.
I'll also look in to removing unwanted channels (poor signal, adult content, whatever else) from that bouquet, and from the Freeview all channels bouquet.
I think I can do that in the ABM CustomMix files too.
There's a example removing Freeview channels here: https://www.world-of-satellite.com/...#post475139
But it didn't work 100% right for me when implemented on satellite when HD swap was enabled.
Last edited by BrianTheTechieSnail; 16-07-20 at 04:36.