3.f Using the transponder functions and entering new channels by hand
There is a short summary of the transponder functions in chapter 5.e.
In the Metz receivers there is no transponder list in the settings. The transponder data like frequency, symbol rate etc. are saved for each channel separately. If you want to compare your settings with Internet lists, it is easier if the channels are sorted by transponders. So a transponder list is created for SetEditMetz: the program compares the transponder data of all channels and all channels that have the same transponder data are assigned to the same transponder.
If the transponder data were compared exactly, you would have many transponders that you could easily consider as the same because a difference in the frequency of only some MHz doesn't matter. For this reason you can enter a frequency tolerance in the configuration window. The number you enter there is the maximum difference between the original transponder frequency and the frequency of the channel that is being imported and is to be put to the same transponder. This tolerance is also used for the symbol rate. 5 MHz is a good value.
Possibly when you read the settings from your receiver you wondered about channels with strange names and that some channels were missing in your list (e.g. German Premiere, soccer, Formula 1 or pay-per-view channels).
Channels that share place (like the German ARTE/Kinderkanal) can only be found in the receiver if they are active at the time you make the channel search. Some of the Premiere Direkt, soccer and Formula 1 channels are found, but not with the right name.
In the Internet there are sites (e.g. www.lyngsat.com) where you can find all channel settings (including the missing pay-per-view or soccer channels). In the following you find an explanation how to enter channels and transponders from such lists by hand.
Suppose you discover on www.lyngsat.com that on satellite X a new transponder is active, but your receiver can't find this transponder at the moment, for example because it does not send at the moment (feed) or your antenna is not aligned to this satellite.

Here we see that transponder 12656 horizontal is new and one scrambled TV channel (Anem, the orange background shows you that the channel is scrambled) and two audio channels (B2-92 with two different audio PIDs) are active on this transponder.
You have to enter the TV channel and both audio channels one by one.
First you have to click on the position in the channel list where you want to have the new channel, then you choose the function "New" from the popup menu of the channel list. You get the same window as for the "Change data" function, except that no parameters are entered yet.
In the field "Name" you can enter the name of the channel (here "Anem") and in the section "Font" you can select the font that is used for the channel (e.g. Greek fonts for Greek channels).
Then you have to enter the PIDs and the channel ID.
The TV channel "Anem" for example (see list above) has the video PID 4194 and the audio PID 4195. The channel ID (service ID) is 1 and the PCR PID is as a rule identical to the video PID, so don't forget to enter it!
For the Audio (radio) channels of course no Video PID is given. Usually you use the VPID 1FFF (hexadecimal) or 8191 (decimal) to indicate that this PID is not used.
The text PID is used for the teletext information.
If you don't find this PID, you can enter 1FFF (hexadecimal) or 8191 (decimal) instead, i.e. "not used". For "normal" channels you don't need this PID.
Now you have to enter the transponder data for this channel. For the example mentioned above you enter 12656 for the frequency and HOR for the polarity. The symbol rate in this case is 2963.
In this example the FEC is 3/4.
The green numbers in the Lyngsat chart are the NETwork ID and the TS ID (here NET ID = 0 and TS ID = 176).
These two IDs identify the transponder. The Net ID identifies the provider; the provider sets the TS ID in any way he likes. If a provider has more than one transponder on one satellite, the Net ID is always the same and the TS ID differs.
In the field "Service Type" you can change the type of the channel (TV, radio or HDTV).
When you have entered all the parameters please click on OK and the new channel will appear at the selected position.
If you only want to change some of the parameters of a transponder (e.g. because the TS ID and/or the Net ID are wrong), you simply have to select the transponder, click with the right mouse button into the transponder list and select from the menu that appears the function "Change data". You get a dialogue where you can change the parameters of the selected transponder. (You can also make a double click on the transponder to get this dialogue.)
As soon as a satellite has one channel it is shown as being active (appears in green). Satellites that have no channel have a white background. (You can change these colours in the configuration.)
Note: In some lists the PIDs are given in decimal notation, in others in hexadecimal notation (see chapter 8). You have to be aware of that when you enter the PIDs. In the configuration menu and in the channel data window you can specify if you want to see/enter the PIDs in decimal or hexadecimal form.

When you enable the option "always on top" in the configuration menu, SetEditMetz will always be in the foreground on your desktop. This can be useful when you work with such Internet lists, as the SetEdit window will not go into the background when you click in the browser.
You also change the notation of the PIDs if you click on the "H" for hexadecimal or "D" for decimal in the border of the "Info" section.
To compare your settings file with lists in the Internet that are often sorted by frequencies you have the possibility to sort the transponders of your settings file by frequency. To do this click with the right mouse button in the transponder list and select "view sorted by" -> "frequency" from the menu you get.
Alternatively you can also view the transponder list sorted by polarity.
You can also set the viewing mode by clicking on the letters "O" (original), "F" (sort by frequency) and "P" (sort by polarity) in the frame of the transponder list.
If you want to enter channels that differ only in few parameters, it is useful to create a duplicate of a channel (please use the copy and paste function from the channel menu) and then change only the different parameters.
For German Premiere it is often useful to have channel duplicates. For the sports channels you will find different events (e.g. Champions league, Formula 1, etc.) on the main channels and "special channels". Sport 1 is for example identical to a Formula 1 perspective and a Superdom (soccer) channel. If you like to switch during a Formula 1 transmission between the different feeds it is useful to have all these feeds in one block to prevent from skipping several channels. The same rules aim for champions league and other events.
To create a channel duplicate please click on the channel you like to create a duplicate of, then open the channel menu and select "copy" from this menu. Now select the desired position of the duplicate in the channel list and select "paste" from the channel menu. The original channel and the pasted channel are now marked red to show you that this is a duplicate channel. If you don't want to open the channel menu every time you can also use shortcuts for these functions, Ctrl-C is for copy and Ctrl-V is for paste.
There are two ways to find such a duplicate later:
When you move the mouse over a channel that is marked in red, you get a hint showing the number of a channel that is a duplicate of this channel.
To find such a channel, first click on the channel list, then you can enter the channel number from the keyboard, so if you hit the key "1" channel 1 will be selected, "1" + "4" will select channel 14 etc. As with finding the channels by name, you have to enter the numbers within 3 seconds, otherwise the last entered number is taken as the first digit.
You also have the possibility of using the "Find duplicates" function. Click with the right mouse button in the channel list and select "Find duplicates" from the popup menu you get. You will see the following window:

All duplicates are shown. The different pairs of duplicates are marked in different colours. This function does not distinguish between different types of channels, i.e. it can happen that you see a pair of TV channel duplicates first and then a pair of radio channel duplicates. Relevant for this search are the transponder data and the channel ID, but not the name. If you activate the option "PIDs", the video, audio and PCR PIDs are compared too.
For the "Find duplicates" window there are the same functions as for the "Find channels" window, i.e. you can delete and move channels from this window into another list and select if the duplicates are searched on all satellites or only on the selected satellite.
Continue with Import of channels.
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