View source for VDR Setup-Wizard

This page highlights what should be done in the setup wizard.

== Choose transmission type ==
VDR supports
* DVB-S(2) 
* DVB-T(2)
* DVB-C

VDR supports a mix of different cards, i.e. you can plug a DVB-S and a DVB-T card into your system.

== Choose Provider ==
There are three options. 

# We can either scan for the channels using the selection of the user based on the list of base data in dvb-utils (/usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/). 
# We can try to find existing channels.conf on the net. 
# We can scan using w_scan, a utility which scans without initial start data.

The advantage of using w_scan is, that we only need the country (for DVB-C and DVB-T), or the satellite position (for DVB-S). The disadvantage is, a scan with w_scan can easily take 30-45minutes.

=== Using the scan base data ===
scanning using the scan base data is done by using the scan utility, which is part of the dvb-utils
 scan -e 7 /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E 
for the Astra satellite on 19.2degree east.
=== Using existing channels.conf on the net ===
==== DVB-S(2) Provider ====
In theory we should use [http://www.lyngsat.com Lyngsat page] and show the list of satellites from that page, based on the location of the core. 
* [http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Europe.html Europe]
* [http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Africa.html Africa]
etc.

==== DVB-C and DVB-T Provider ====
The channels.conf for the cable companies and the terrestrial broadcast companies is kinda hard to come by. There are examples available on the [http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_channels.conf vdr-wiki]

=== Scanning using w_scan ===
An example on how to scan for the channels.conf is described in the [http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/W_scan#DVB-S.2FS2_Suche_.28Hotbird_an_DiSeqC_Switch_Port_3.2C_vdr_1.7.x.2C_ab_20090502.29 VDR wiki].