Description of the main Functions of the FCISUtl program


Note:

Although the program has management of favorite channels, and these can be readed from the FCIS,
they are not possible still to be recorded in the decoder (By somereason the decoder no
read the byte of favorites).


Command Line


By defect the program looks for the first port of communications,
if we want to force one in concrete call this program from the command 
line with the command "FCISUtl com3" if we wish, for example to take from the port com3.



To connect


 When beginning, if the FCIS is connected, will appear
 in the status line the version of Software and hardware,
 if appears "Unknown" and the FCIS is correctly connected, then go
 to menu "Connection", "Configure Port" and push the Button "Ok"
 The program will look for the FCIS in all the COMM ports.
 
 Only in the case of finding the FCIS, we will be able to load channels or software to him.
 


In order to modify channels


It is necessary to make 2 things

1.- Get a list of channels and load it in the program, it to go to menu "File"
    and "Load channels list", the channels can be obtained from 3 ways:
    
           - Directly from the FCIS
           - from a txt file like uses the program boxloader
           - from a binary file (directly extracted from FCIS)
           
    Now we can modify the channels, the antennas, the satellites and the transponedores.
    
2.- To Save the list of channels go to the menu "File", "Save channels list"
    there are 3 possible ways
    
           - Directly to the FCIS
           - In the same format that the Boxloader program, the extended format
             it consists of adding to each channel the 8 groups of favoritesto which it belongs.
           - In a Binary file (the same format that uses the FCIS internally).                
           
           