It involves adding tags for LCN and signal strength to services in lamedb, and using them as the source for channel numbering where they are set. It might be possible to drive this from ABM, by having ABM generate lamedb LCN tags instead of using padding (which I consider to be an unwieldy hack).
There are still some issues to be thought through for the Austraian environment before I even make it available for alpha testing, like numbering of non-broadcast sources (like HDMI IN) and how the numbering scheme interacts with Open Webif.
With my changes, LCN numbering that way will be an option; LCN-like numbering will still be possible if people want to use it.
If there's any interest in looking at this direction for channel numbering, I'm happy to try to change hat I do so that it's more amenable to OpenVix use.
Huevos wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 21:22...
But anyway, for you guys, you only have one provider, so it is pretty simple to incorporate that one provider into enigma code, but here it would be considered a hack. And if you look on some of the European forums there a lot of people very against LCNs because they think it is "spoon feeding" and undermines the intellect of the users.
Australians seem to like channel numbers for some reason. Part of this may go back to the channel allocation practice in the early days of Australian TV broadcasting, where it was only metropolitan and the cities are far enough apart that each network was given the same broadcast channel in each city, and the commercial networks named themselves for their channel allocations: Seven, Nine and Ten. For the nhe national broadcasters, ABC was on channel 2 and SBS was simulcast on 0 and 28 (SBS was the first broadcaster to use UHF in Australia, but at the time there was relatively low market penetration of UHF-capable TV sets).
In the digital world, the broadcasters still advertise their channels by their LCN, for example in this announcement logo for 7flix (yes, still named after the old metropolitan analog broadcast channels!).
Many Beyonwiz users prefer to use the official LCNs for channel changing and would often also like to be able to regroup channels out of strict LCN order: for example ABC uses LCNs 2, 21, 22, .., and SBS uses , 3, 31, 32, ..., so if you use padding to achieve LCN-like numbering, you can't group all the ABC channels together in a bouquet, and then, say, all the SBS channels. Similarly for the other broadcasters.
I personally don't use LCNs: I watch nearly all our TV from recordings and change channel using either the bouquet list or the EPG. I think that memorising LCNs is an effort I can better expend elsewhere. On the Beyonwiz forum, there are both people who tend not to use LCNs and those who seem to want to use nothing else for channel changing. But I don't think I've seen anyone in the Beyonwiz forum who was actually negative about people using them.
I suggest that these changes could also be incorporated into OpenWebif. More to the point OpenWebif can be taught to use the new methods that would become avalable in the proposed 
