3.h Import of channels
You have the possibility to get ready-made settings lists from the Internet. These lists can be used partially or completely. You can find such lists for example at the following URLs: www.dxandy.com or on the SatcoDX site (you can find a link on my homepage).
There are three possibilities to use such settings files. In this chapter you find a description how to add some channels from an other settings file into your settings file.
The import function
You can import channels from all settings formats that are supported by SetEdit into your SetEdit405 settings. In the standard version you can import channels from SetEdit405 settings, DVB2000 settings, DXAndy and SatcoDX SDX files.
You can add other formats by copying the corresponding modules (SetEditXXX.dll) into the SetEdit directory (see chapter 2.)
Please click on "File" -> "New" and select the format of the settings file, from which you want to import channels.

A second window with the chosen settings file will be opened. In the same way you can open a third or even more settings files. Each of these lists is equivalent. Every format (Opticum 405/406, DVB2000, SatcoDX, DXAndy or other added formats) has its own symbol.
SatcoDX and DXAndy files are only Internet lists, so the functions "Read from receiver" and "Write into receiver" do not exist for these formats.
Now you can easily transfer one or more channels by drag & drop from one window into another or "Copy" and "Paste" them with the corresponding functions from the channel lists menu.
Note: As the Opticum 405/406 receivers only support digital channels you can't import analogue channels. It may happen, that there are analogue channels for example in a SatcoDX file.
In the configuration of the SatcoDX settings file you can choose, if you only want to see analogue or digital channels or both.
In the different settings formats there are different channel parameters. If a parameter only exists in the destination list but not in the source list (e.g. there are no Text PIDs in the SatcoDX files), a standard value will be taken for this parameter.
You can also drag and drop groups of channels (for example entire transponder with all its channels) from one window into another.
Source:
Channel list: The selected channels will be transferred.
All other lists (satellites, providers, labels, transponders, etc): All channels of the selected list will be transferred.
Find window (e.g. "Find channels", "Find duplicates"): the selected channel will be transferred.
Destination:
Channel list: The imported channels will be pasted at the location the cursor is on at the moment you paste the channels. Sometimes it is only possible to paste a channel, if a definitely assignment (e.g. to a satellite) is possible in the destination list. In a SetEdit405 settings list a satellite has to be selected, if you want to paste a channel. If the entry "All" is selected in the satellite list, you can't import channels from another window.
Transponder: A transponder is always definitely assigned to a satellite. So if you assign a channel from another window to a transponder, these channels will be assigned to the satellite of this transponder and will get the transponder data of this transponder.
If you drag and drop a transponder from one window into the transponder list of another window, this transponder with all its channels will be added as a new transponder.
Note: If you import a transponder from another window, this transponder will be added to the satellite that is selected. If "All" is selected in the satellite list, the new transponder will be added to the satellite of the transponder the cursor is on.
If you drag and drop a satellite with all its channels to the transponder list of another window, all these channels will be added to the transponder the cursor is on. This will also happen to channels that come from another FAV list, provider, label, etc.
Note: It may happen that you can't receive a channel, if you assign it to the wrong transponder.
Satellite: The imported channels will be added to the satellite the cursor is on. Transponders that don't exist yet in the transponder list of the destination settings file, will be created.
Favourite list: A direct import into the favourite lists is not possible.
General note: If there is a possible assignment, you can copy channels from each list of one window to each list of another window. For example you can transfer channels from the "Find channels" function of a SatcoDX list to a satellite of a Opticum 405/406 list.
In the popup menu of the channel list there are two functions that may help you to compare the channel lists of different settings files. These functions are only available in the channel list menu, if two or more SetEdit windows are opened.
With the function "Mark new channels in" you can mark in another window the channels that do not exist in your actual list. (The channel number of these channels will be marked in green.)

If more than two lists are opened, you have to select in which list you want to mark the new channels. If only two windows are opened, only one possibility is given.
With the function "Mark not existing channels in" you can mark in your actual list those channels (the channel number will be marked in red) that do not exist in another window.
If more than two lists are opened, you have to select the channel list that you want to compare your actual list with. If only two windows are opened, only one possibility is given.
With "Remove not existing channel markings" or "Remove new channel markings" you can remove the corresponding markings. These functions will only appear in a channel list menu, if there are such markings in the channel list.
If you have marked the "new channels" or the "not existing channels" in a channel list, you can select them all.
Please click in the channel lists menu on select and choose the corresponding entry: "all not existing" or "all new". This entry will only be shown in the menu, if there are such markings in the channel list.
Note: For the import of channels it is useful, to choose in the configuration the value 5 or even 10 MHz for the frequency tolerance. It may happen that the frequency of the same channel differs just a little bit in different lists. If the frequency tolerance is 0, these channels will be marked as "new" or "not existing" too. But a difference of only some MHz is insignificant to the receiver, so you don't need to import these channels.
Continue with Settings from other Receivers and how to convert a settings file.
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