UK regional variations should be handled by ABM which follows official sky regional variations (ie some regions may not have a HD version).
If it works, the user from the menu can choose SD regional channels or HD.
SD channels will be local for that area as all channels operate SD in each area but HD channels may not exist for their chosen region.
To get around this, they can:-
- Just choose to use SD for all regional channels.
- Choose HD but a region close to them.
- Manually edit the xml file to tell it not to use HD version of a specific channel. (i do this now with ABM and BBC One because HD version doesn't yet do local news so just tell ABM to always use SD version of BBC one but HD versions of other regional channels).
Having your regional bouquets wouldn't make a difference that I can see as option 3 would allow a mix/match approach but with added benefit that there is no need to scan for transponder changes as this would be done automatically and can be scheduled to do this.
Occasionally, some files may need updating (ie when a new channel starts broadcasting) but I plan on handling this via your plugin and allow user to download any main update changes from DW server rather than release a whole new version of the plugin.
Obviously, there may be really odd time where a new version of the plugin may be necessary but I expect this to be rare.
If you wish, I can still add regional channels but the idea behind this plugin is that most things would be automated to save users having to manually swap channels around using a bouquet editor.