Failed again. It got a lot further than previously in that it scanned the first few providers including sky UK (585video), sky Ireland, Sky italia etc and had got up to about 2500 video channels before I had to nip to the loo. When I returned it said tuner lock failed, and the log just shows lots of lines saying failed. There are no additional bouquets to the one I created using the fixed dish earlier.
I updated the provider config files before running ABM, though it said that they were all up to date anyway.
Is it possible I chose a provider that is outside my limits? or does ABM only offer providers within the satellites you have configured?