3.a Load and back up a settings file
Read settings from the receiver:
Please connect your receiver to the PC with a serial null modem cable (no 1:1 cable).
If you start SetEditHomecast for the very first time you will get a window with the history of the changes from previous versions.

The first thing you should do is to make a backup of the channel settings in your receiver. You can restore such a backup at any time into your receiver and the receiver will be the same as it was at the time you made the backup.
To do this, you have to enter in the configuration the comport you have used to connect your receiver to the PC. Please click on the button "Config."
You will get the following dialogue:

(Here you find three pages. If you are on the page "Colours" or "Convert", please click on "General settings" to get the menu shown above.)
Please enter in the box "Comport" the correct comport.
Then please click on OK.
All other options of this menu are explained in chapter 5.b in details.
Now click on the button "file". You will get the following menu:

Here you select the function "Backup", you get the following window:

In this window you enter the directory and the filename for your backup. (Note: the language of this window depends on your windows version, so don't worry if you see German buttons here.)
As soon as you have clicked on "save", the following message will appear:

When you have clicked on "OK" in this message, the settings will be read from the receiver and saved on your hard disc.
Save settings:
To save your settings, please click again on the button "file" to open the file menu but now select the function "Save as". You get the following dialogue:

Here you have to enter the directory and filename of your back up.
As soon as you have clicked on "Save" in this dialogue, the data is saved in this file.
If you make some unintentional changes in your settings when you experiment with SetEditHomecast you can always restore this backup file into your receiver and reverse any changes.
Now it depends on whether you want to change your own receiver settings with this program or if you want to adapt a settings file from your hard disc that you found e.g. in the Internet to your own requirements and write it into your receiver (chapter 3.h or 3.i).
If you want to change your own receiver settings please click on the button "File" and select the menu item "Read from receiver". You get the same message you know from the backup function, so continue as described above.
The settings are now transferred from the receiver to the PC, but this time the settings are not saved, but shown in SetEditHomecast.
Load a settings file from your hard disc:
If you want to adapt a settings file from your hard disc (e.g. from the Internet) to your own requirements and then write them into your receiver, you have to load these settings first. Please click on the button "File" and then select the function "open" from the file menu.
Now please select the file you want to load from the list you see

and click on "Open" or double click on the file you want to load.
Note: If you want to write settings that you have found in the Internet into your receiver, you have to be careful:
A settings file does not only contain the channel information, it also includes the LNB and the satellite configuration. These configuration settings will usually not fit to your receiver.
Therefore you should better overwrite these configuration settings with your own configuration settings (see chapter 3.i or 5.d.)
When you have loaded a settings file or read the settings from your receiver, you get the following window (depending on the window size and some personal settings the picture may differ).

You see the TV channels (light blue background) and the radio channels (light green background) as well as a transponder list, a satellite list and the favourite lists (FAV).
If you select an item in the satellite list, you will see all channels and all transponders that are assigned to this satellite.
If you select a transponder or a favourite list, you will only see the channels that are assigned to this transponder or this favourite list.
When you select a channel, the satellite, transponder and FAV list (if the channel is in a FAV list) of this channel are marked grey.
Channels that are in a favourite list are marked in the channel list with a darker background colour.
Transponders marked in red are empty; they contain no channels.
If the channel number is marked with a red background colour, the channel is assigned to a vertical polarised transponder. If the channel number has a white background colour, the channel is assigned to a horizontal polarised transponder.
If you have a cable receiver there are of course no polarisations.
If a satellite has a green background colour, it is activated, which means there are already channels on this satellite.
(You can change all these marking colours in the configuration menu, see chapter 5.b.)
When you click with the right mouse button in the channel list (TV or radio) and select from the popup menu the entry "Info" you will get the number of TV channels, radio channels, transponders and satellites that are in your settings.

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