3.k DXAndy settings


On the site www.dxandy.com you can download current settings for Astra, Hotbird and Turksat.

DXAndy settings are sorted by countries and you have many possibilities to adapt these settings to your own requirements.
DXAndy settings contain all channels of Astra, Hotbird and Turksat and you can automatically adapt them to the requirements of certain countries. In this case only the order but not the number of channels will change.

You can hide whole groups of channels e.g. pay tv packages you don't need, call tv channels or even all channels with one language.
You can hide channels you don't like permanently or add channels which are not included in DXAndy settings.

You can easily convert such a individually adapted settings file into your SetEdit format.

In the following we describe all functions concerning DXAndy within an example.

Let's assume the following constellation:
- Astra, Hotbird and Hispasat (not included in DXAndy settings) can be received
- A German family with Spanish members
- The favourite regional "dritte" channel is "Bayerisches Fernsehen"
- German, Spanish and English channels
- No HD receiver
- Not interested in shopping-tv channels
- Pay-TV: Premiere without sports
- Not interested in erotic channels
- The channel 9Live is not wanted


Please open with "File" -> "New" -> "DXAndy" a DXAndy editor. With "File" -> "Open" you open a DXAndy settings file.


If you click on "Config" in your DXAndy window, you notice that in the configuration the tab sheet "DXAndy" has appeared. If you click on this tab sheet you will get three more tab sheets.


Sat and lists:

If you click on "Sat and lists" you get the following menu:



With Satellites you can choose which satellites you can receive (Astra, Hotbird and/or Turksat). In the channel list you only see channels of the selected satellites.

In our example you would select Astra and Hotbird. (How to add the Hispasat channels will be described later.)

With Lists you can select a country specific order for your channel list. All lists contain the same channels but the order differs. In the German list ARD and ZDF are at the first positions, for Austria this would be the ORF channels, for Switzerland SF, ...

For our example you choose the list "Deutschland".

For Germany and Austria you can choose with Special channel which regional channel will be at the third (Germany) or second (Austria) position in your channel list.

In our example this is "Bayerisches Fernsehen".

Furthermore there are 6 options you can choose:

Hide regional "dritte" channels: In Germany it is possible than the same regional channel may have more than one regional "window" so you can find them several times in your channel list, e.g. WDR Aachen, WDR Bielefeld, WDR Köln, ... With this option you hide all channels of each regional group except one. In the example WDR Aachen stays in the channel list, the others will be hidden.

Hide HDTV channels: All HDTV channels are hidden.

Hide Shopping-TV channels: All Shopping-TV channels are hidden.

Hide Call-TV channels: All Call-TV channels are hidden.

Insert dummy channel with list name: DXAndy files are originally sorted by FAV lists. If you convert this settings file and this option is activated a dummy channel will be inserted at the beginning of each channel group (FAV list) with the name of this favourite list. For this function you have to disable in the configuration of the destination format the option "Sort channel list by satellites".

Add personal FAV list: With this function you can automatically add a FAV list you have created with another SetEdit editor and saved to your hard disc with the function "Export" of the favourite lists menu of this editor. With the button "..." you can choose this FAV list. Now this FAV list will be added automatically each time you load a new DXAndy file.

Note: In chapter 3.d you can read how to create such a "personal FAV list".


In our example you activate the options "Hide HDTV channels" and "Hide Shopping-TV channels".
Furthermore you choose the option "Add personal FAV list". With the button "..." you select the favourite list with the Hispasat channels you have created with another Editor before.


Pay TV:

With "Pay TV" you get the following menu:



Crypt systems: Here you can choose the crypt systems you can receive. The channels of the other crypt systems will be hidden. With "Only FTA" all scrambled channels are hidden, only the "Free-To-Air" channels stay in the channel list.

In our example you choose "Nagra" for the Premiere package.

You can hide these lists: With this function you can hide several channel groups, e.g. all Premiere channels or all erotic channels. In this list you see all channel groups which either contain FTA channels or are scrambled with one of the systems you have selected above.

In our example you choose "Erotic" to hide the erotic channels and then ORF, Digital+, ... to hide the packages which are scrambled with Nagra too but for which you have no subscription.


Language:

If you click on "Language" you get the following menu:



At the upper side of this menu you see for which language this file has been optimised, i.e. which national list you have selected on the tab sheet "Sat and lists".
In our example this is German (GER).

Now you can choose if you would like to have channels with other languages in your channel list or not. If not you will only have channels of the language group your list has been optimised for in your channel list (In the example this is German).

If you activate this option, a box with "Additional languages" appears below. Here you can choose the languages like to see channels with (channels with other languages will be hidden). With "Clear" all language markers disappear, with "all" all languages are selected.

In our example you want to see (additional to the German channels) English and Spanish channels too, i.e. you have to select "ENG" and "ESP".


If you click on "OK", your channel list will be actualised.

In our example you will see in the channel list all German FTA channels of Astra and Hotbird with ARD, ZDF and Bayerisches Fernsehen at the first positions, the complete Premiere package and all English and Spanish FTA channels. Erotic, Shopping-TV and HDTV channels are hidden. At the end of the channel list you see the Hispasat channels you added.


Now you can hide certain channels or add certain channels or even add a complete channel group.

Hide channels:
If you mark a channel as "deleted" it will get the following symbol in the channel list: .
If you convert a DXAndy file into another format, all channels with this symbol will be removed from the channel list.
Your SetEditDXAndy editor automatically saves, which channels you have marked as "deleted". I.e. you only have to make this selection one time but can always download the current settings, convert them and write them into your receiver.

In our example we want to hide the channel 9Live and the Premiere sport channels. Select these channels in the channel list, click with the right mouse button in the channel list and select the function "Mark as" -> "deleted".

Add channels/channel groups:
After you have converted the settings file you can add favourite lists you have saved to your hard disc before with the "Import" function of the FAV-List menu (chapter 3.d) or you can choose in the DXAndy configuration on the tab sheet "Sat and lists" a FAV list that will always be added (see above).

The channel list of a DXAndy file may contain gaps. I.e. empty channels have been added to make sure that the position of first channel of each channel group has a round number.
With the function "Compact channel list" of the channel list menu you can remove these empty channels.


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