Standardized TVG-IDs about epgimport-sources HOT 2 OPEN

No problem in standardisation of the names.
I came up with the naming to solve the problem for f.i. Animal Planet. Calling it simply AnimalPlanet will not do. Because of 200 different channels all called Animal Planet. So it became AnimalPlanet.de

In general use the real channelname. remove any spaces and replace special characters which could cause trouble.
I a trying to follow these rules. Ok occasionally a TV addition crept in. Also so deviations from this, because of history.

For the example of Bild TV, I will rename the channel to BILD.de
Be aware that in enigma2 we make these id's non-case sensitive. So BILD.de is equal to Bild.de.
I kept the capital letters to increase the human readabilty.

I am open to suggestions.

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Thanks for your quick response, this is great to hear - and will definitely be welcomed by all the affected users! :)

To my knowledge, changing the BILD TVG-ID to BILD.de will solve all current conflicts for now. Thank you for that.

I personally really like the human readable format with an additional country flag that you are using for all the channels.

We have yet to come up with a proper suggestion of how to handle future naming conventions, but having you on board will definitely make this a worthwile effort.
Some ideas that have been coming up are a GitHub repository managed by all involved parties, with a JSON based file for the standardized TVG-IDs. Something like that would probably be a simple solution.

I'll keep you updated on our ideas of how to move this forward together :)

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