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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gloomyandy" data-source="post: 785390" data-attributes="member: 24855">Hi Folks/DJBlu,I've just switched to using this grabber, previously I was using the original skyepg grabber. I have a mixture of DVB-T and DVB-S2 cards (two of each). I think this is a reasonably common setup so how I'm doing things may be of interest to others....Firstly, I'm in the UK and I'm essentially only using the free to air channels, however I do use the epg data from some of the encrypted channels (like 5 usa), to give me series link etc. for the DVB-T versions. This is how I've set things up so far...1. I used the sky-grabber to scan all of the DVB-S channels and populate the all channels list. I did not switch the HD channels for SD ones2. I manually picked out the channels I actually use and placed them in a my-channels group (basically these are all of the free to air channels ignoring shopping channels etc.).3. I then scanned the DVB-T channels and combined them with the DVB-S versions (so I have two entries for BBC one etc.), which means that I get the sky epg for all of these channels.4. This leaves me with a few channels like 5* and 5 usa, Dave etc. that are only free to air on DVB-T. For those channels that have a scrambled version available I combined the DVB-T version with scrambled version but set the DVB-S2 card mapping for that combined channel to be used for epg only. This gives me sky epg data for the DVB-T only channel.5. After all of the above I had one channel (that I care about), that has no epg data, this is the BBC DVB-T 301 channel which caries the red button sport coverage. I use this to watch the F1 practice sessions. To get epg data for this channel I use the radio times data via the web-epg grabber...6. I've deleted all of the scrambled channels except the ones that are used for DVB-T epg data.So after all of the above I have combined entries for freeview/freesat channels with epg data coming from the skyepg. This gives me series link for pretty much all channels. One slight problem is that sometimes the Sky version of a DVB-T channel may have more shows on it (some of the DVB-T channels are only active for a limited time during the day). For me this is not a problem (as this only applies to channels that I rarely use), but it may be for some people...So a couple of questions...1. Is there a better way of doing something like this, as it takes a while to get this all set up.2. At the moment I have the channel update option turned off in the grabber as I don't want the above configuration damaged. But is there a safe way to allow the updating of the DVB-S data using the grabber, that will work with combined channels? Also I only need a small number of scrambled channels, is there some way to turn off the grabbing of scrambled channels (I know there is a new option to do this), but keep the ones that I'm actually using?Hope the above is of some interest, and thanks again for the great work...Andy</blockquote>

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