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<blockquote data-quote="Mew" data-source="post: 766986" data-attributes="member: 29012"><p>Hi KeithP</p><p></p><p>Whether you are using Sky or Freesat, they use exactly the same TV streams from the same satallites (currently Astra 2A/2B/2D and Eurobird 1). Obviously for Freesat you can only view those that Sky do not encrypt (Free to Air (FTA)) but this covers a lot of the popular channels (BBC / ITV / C4 etc). With a DVB-S2 card you can pick up the HD FTA channels which are currently BBC1 HD, BBC HD, ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD. The BBC HD channels changed tuning details recently when they moved from DVB-S to DVB-S2 which has caused issues with them not being picked up in a channel scan. You may need to scan for these manually, details here: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/issue-tuning-scanning-dvb-s2-transponder-bbc-hd-bbc-one-hd-97382/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/issue-tuning-scanning-dvb-s2-transponder-bbc-hd-bbc-one-hd-97382/</a></p><p></p><p>If you want to use the broadcast Freesat EPG (all that is broadcast with the channels is now and next info) then you need to select the Freesat Info Radio station in TV Server Configuarion DVB EPG -> Radio EPG Grabber. If it it is not present then the instructions for adding it are in this thread: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-2-0-beta-540/astra-28-missing-channels-when-scanning-96305/index2.html#post746206" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-2-0-beta-540/astra-28-missing-channels-when-scanning-96305/index2.html#post746206</a></p><p></p><p>It is possible to use the SKY EPG and channel grouping, but I think it is still work in progress and probably not quite ready for a production HTPC yet. Details are here: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-development-no-feature-request-here-48/custom-data-grabber-plugins-96767/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-development-no-feature-request-here-48/custom-data-grabber-plugins-96767/</a></p><p></p><p>Hope this helps</p><p></p><p>Mew</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mew, post: 766986, member: 29012"] Hi KeithP Whether you are using Sky or Freesat, they use exactly the same TV streams from the same satallites (currently Astra 2A/2B/2D and Eurobird 1). Obviously for Freesat you can only view those that Sky do not encrypt (Free to Air (FTA)) but this covers a lot of the popular channels (BBC / ITV / C4 etc). With a DVB-S2 card you can pick up the HD FTA channels which are currently BBC1 HD, BBC HD, ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD. The BBC HD channels changed tuning details recently when they moved from DVB-S to DVB-S2 which has caused issues with them not being picked up in a channel scan. You may need to scan for these manually, details here: [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/issue-tuning-scanning-dvb-s2-transponder-bbc-hd-bbc-one-hd-97382/"]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/issue-tuning-scanning-dvb-s2-transponder-bbc-hd-bbc-one-hd-97382/[/URL] If you want to use the broadcast Freesat EPG (all that is broadcast with the channels is now and next info) then you need to select the Freesat Info Radio station in TV Server Configuarion DVB EPG -> Radio EPG Grabber. If it it is not present then the instructions for adding it are in this thread: [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-2-0-beta-540/astra-28-missing-channels-when-scanning-96305/index2.html#post746206"]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-2-0-beta-540/astra-28-missing-channels-when-scanning-96305/index2.html#post746206[/URL] It is possible to use the SKY EPG and channel grouping, but I think it is still work in progress and probably not quite ready for a production HTPC yet. Details are here: [URL="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-development-no-feature-request-here-48/custom-data-grabber-plugins-96767/"]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-development-no-feature-request-here-48/custom-data-grabber-plugins-96767/[/URL] Hope this helps Mew [/QUOTE]
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