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CustomSubchannel Systemplugin
@ zombi wrote
Since the implemented SubService function on the Dreambox cannot be used for many things and SubService has not really been used on DVB for a long time, the whole topic was not that interesting for me.
But I was often asked if there was a way to create your own subchannels and I remembered a very old plugin from monty03 who had built a costumsubservice for the VU's in 2013 and gutemine had adapted it for DreamOS.
We looked at the whole thing and Sven H ( has adapted some things to the plugin to spice it up for today's time (2013 is already very, very long ago).
The plugin is still the old one from monty03 but with extended code and it has been renamed to Customsubchannel and is located under Systemplugins after installation.
I will make the plugin available here in the Ihad and it will be installable via the GP Feed.
This plugin now allows you to include all channels as subchannels, and streams are now also possible.
(what you can do with it because of streams I will not explain here
)
What are sub-channels good for?
- You can, for example, in the case of Bundesliga/Sport, make a channel in the channel list and then create all the others as sub-channels, so only the one channel is in the channel list, but in the case of a match you have all the channels where football etc. is broadcast under the sub-channel function.
- Even in the case of the public service broadcasters, such as WDR, MDR, etc., you can combine tens of regional programmes and have only one of them in the channel list.
- Furthermore, you can integrate streams to have alternatives if you can't receive a satellite channel, etc., which I won't go into here, but I think you'll find out for yourself :winking_face: .
The big advantage of all this is that it makes the channel list and bouquets very clear and you can still find all the channels quickly.
A lot has also been done to the quick switch:
- it can now handle streams and switch through them.
- the InfoTaste can be used and you get the Eventview or, if installed, the EDM Eventview.
- also EventDataManager EventPictures go in the quick switch bar
- YELLOW can be used for a simple EPG.
- BLUE can be used to call up the extensions.
The quick switcher has got more functions than the standard quick switcher.
The plugin loads a subchannel.xml to /etc/enigma2 during the install, there are a few channels already entered as subchannels, this file is not overwritten during an update and so you as a user can adapt this file to your own wishes and remove or add things.
You can also exchange subchannel.xml files with each other here or post entries for self-insertion.
If you have installed the GP Quickbutton you can't call the subchannels from this plugin with green, but there is a solution:
In etc/enigma2 there is the file qbuttonfunction.json there simply the entry with in the file and one can put the call of the Subs on a key (I used there e.g. long green for me)
With Sib2 3.9, the whole thing also works together with this plugin here.
@ zombi wrote
Since the implemented SubService function on the Dreambox cannot be used for many things and SubService has not really been used on DVB for a long time, the whole topic was not that interesting for me.
But I was often asked if there was a way to create your own subchannels and I remembered a very old plugin from monty03 who had built a costumsubservice for the VU's in 2013 and gutemine had adapted it for DreamOS.
We looked at the whole thing and Sven H ( has adapted some things to the plugin to spice it up for today's time (2013 is already very, very long ago).
The plugin is still the old one from monty03 but with extended code and it has been renamed to Customsubchannel and is located under Systemplugins after installation.
I will make the plugin available here in the Ihad and it will be installable via the GP Feed.
This plugin now allows you to include all channels as subchannels, and streams are now also possible.
(what you can do with it because of streams I will not explain here
)What are sub-channels good for?
- You can, for example, in the case of Bundesliga/Sport, make a channel in the channel list and then create all the others as sub-channels, so only the one channel is in the channel list, but in the case of a match you have all the channels where football etc. is broadcast under the sub-channel function.
- Even in the case of the public service broadcasters, such as WDR, MDR, etc., you can combine tens of regional programmes and have only one of them in the channel list.
- Furthermore, you can integrate streams to have alternatives if you can't receive a satellite channel, etc., which I won't go into here, but I think you'll find out for yourself :winking_face: .
The big advantage of all this is that it makes the channel list and bouquets very clear and you can still find all the channels quickly.
A lot has also been done to the quick switch:
- it can now handle streams and switch through them.
- the InfoTaste can be used and you get the Eventview or, if installed, the EDM Eventview.
- also EventDataManager EventPictures go in the quick switch bar
- YELLOW can be used for a simple EPG.
- BLUE can be used to call up the extensions.
The quick switcher has got more functions than the standard quick switcher.
The plugin loads a subchannel.xml to /etc/enigma2 during the install, there are a few channels already entered as subchannels, this file is not overwritten during an update and so you as a user can adapt this file to your own wishes and remove or add things.
You can also exchange subchannel.xml files with each other here or post entries for self-insertion.
If you have installed the GP Quickbutton you can't call the subchannels from this plugin with green, but there is a solution:
In etc/enigma2 there is the file qbuttonfunction.json there simply the entry with in the file and one can put the call of the Subs on a key (I used there e.g. long green for me)
Subservice (show option channels) can also be called up with Secondinfobar2, if you set it there the subchannels can be called up with 2x OK.
With Sib2 3.9, the whole thing also works together with this plugin here.