Making my own bouquet using Open Webif

[Rex the Wolf]

Hi all

My Zgemma H2.s arrived with a channel list/bouquet already installed. Its Ok but I want to reconfigure the Entertainment and Sports sections. I want the HD versions of FTA channels eg. BBC, Channel 4, etc appear at the top of the Entertainment section. Similarly with the Sports section I need to configure the the SD versions to appear first. I'm not too bothered about other sections - they will do as they are for now.

I managed to do most of this manually a few days ago using the Zgemma controller. It was time consuming and then the following day all of my changes reverted back. This must be due to some auto-scan but I dont see where this is changed.

I've now discovered Open Webif and have created a bouquet "My List" but cannot see how to populate this bouquet with the existing sections and channels. I thought it should be possible to copy and paste or drag and drop these, but I cannot see how. Also I will want to make this the default bouquet and prevent it from being overwritten when if a new scan is performed. Pity there's no help or FAQs for Open Webif, it seems to be a good tool for programming the box.

:Cheers:

 

[river4ever]

scan ROI in HD then your area in SD

 

[Steveuk23]

Yeah they will revert back as you've found out.
I tried doing that at the beginning and couldn't do it using AutoBouquetMaker I just ended up adding the channels I wanted to the favourites

 

[Rex the Wolf]

Thanks Steveuk23. I'll have another go at the Open Webif tomorrow. If I have any luck I'll let you know. Thanks

 

[buzzer]

if you use the built-in ABM

Is sources select sky (your area) sd

then further down "swop channels" , select yes.

this will make the bouquets in SD and swop any channel that has a free HD version, like BBC1 etc...

this would give you BBC1 , BBC 2 etc in HD and movies , sports in SD

is this what your wnating to do?

 

[Rex the Wolf]

if you use the built-in ABM

Is sources select sky (your area) sd

then further down "swop channels" , select yes.

this will make the bouquets in SD and swop any channel that has a free HD version, like BBC1 etc...

this would give you BBC1 , BBC 2 etc in HD and movies , sports in SD

is this what your wnating to do?

Thank you very much. Thats exactly what I wanted to do.

There are a few more tweaks I would like to do - for example list my most watched channels in the order I want them. I can do this using the Enable Move Mode but is there a way of preventing the ordering being changed in the daily re-scan

:Cheers:
RTW

 

[buzzer]

I dont know, i like it to look like a sly box so don't mess with the bouquets.

Disable the daily scan maybe?

 

[river4ever]

Agree with @buzzer.
Why mess around with something that doesn't need messed up.
Why you using open webif?
I use open webif if I want to stream of the box to my phone or other devices on my network.

Its a simple setup.
It will just be like sly box.
In menu settings set bouquets as ROI in HD then local area in SD.
Carry out a scan then download your EPG (recommend HDD) I use openatv then reboot box then sorted.
Your bouquets will be the way it should be.
You will not have HD at the start of movies and so on.

 

[Rex the Wolf]

Hi River4ever
The only reason I was contemplating open webid was that it was recommended in another thread. The whole concept of bouquets was completely foreign to me(previously used Open Box). It seems to me as a newbie to Zgemma that there is a great need for some sort of manual/series of tutorials that would guide new users through the basics. Most of the forums seem to assume that every has a certain level of knowledge of the product. I for one do not.

Anyway that's my gripe of the day. Again many thanks to you and Buzzer I am now sorted