Sly EPG for VU+ Duo2

I read this somewhere:

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OpenTV allows you to receive the EPG guide from your satellite, (Its the exact same data Sly use for their EPG, so you can be sure its 100% up to date, all the time). This is better, because it is always updated by Sly (who better to provide the data?). And also you will never have any problems, I have been using this since I got my box, and it's never failed on me.

So is CrossEPG and OpenTV the best things to use? I know what CrossEPG does but what does OpenTV do?

Can someone please tell me how to setup and configure both of them.

I'm using Blackhole 2.0.8. I I followed that guide. The EPG is working now but the EPG looks Blue and pretty basic. I downloaded Cool TV Guide but I have a few problems:

The Cool TV Guide EPG does not show when I press the EPG button. Also on the channel list when I press 3 for MultiEPG, the Cool TV Guide is not shown, I only get the blue EPG. I can only access Cool TV Guide by holding the Blue button then selecting "Cool TV Guide".

In Cool TV Guide the channel names show in plain text (which is what I want) but the left and right part of the channel names are cut off so for example instead of seeing the channel name of "ITV4 HD" I can only see "V4 H". How can I change it so that the full name of the channel is shown?

I've installed the ***+HD skin for Cool TV Guide. I selected a skin of "MyDesign" yet I can't see the new skin in the EPG. I installed the skin from the LinuxSupportAddons menu.

OK. A bigger problem for me at the moment is the Sly+HD skin for Cool TV Guide. I selected a skin of "MyDesign" yet I can't see the new skin in the EPG. I installed the skin from the LinuxSupportAddons menu. I assume I'm also supposed to select the skin from the following place?: Main Menu, Setup, System, Skin. When I did it said the skin isn't compatible with Blackhole 2.0.8. Any idea what versions it's compatible with? Seems strange the the Cool TV Guide works but the skin for it does not?!

OK could someone please advise me of an plugin that will make my EPG look something like this where it shows 16 channels on screen in mini mode and it clearly shows the names of the channels b6317fff6706ac.jpg

I'm not too bothered about how it looks as long as it has those features.

Never mind I just adjusted the "Left Section Width" sizes to 200 so I don't even need a skin for Cool TV Guide anymore. Just wondering though, how can I uninstall plugins installed via the LinuxSat Support Addons extension? I've changed too many settings on Cool TV Guide so I want to uninstall it then reinstall it again.

I tried that before and "Cool TV Guide" is not there. Is there no way to uninstall it?

I did that but when I install the program again, my settings are still being remembered!

On another issue I noticed this comment on Google: "You want crossEPG & OpenTV. forget this rytec boll*cks."

I'm already using CrossEPG and OpenTV but with Rytec-Sly UK. What's wrong with Rytec and should I be using Sly-UK instead? What's the difference? I notice that Rytec uses an EPG type of: ext_dat
whatever that means, and Sly-UK has an EPG type of: OpenTV. So I thought I should be using that since it mentions OpenTV and I'm already using CrossEPG with OpenTV?