Tvheadend

Hi.
I’m fairly new to TVHeadend and I’m setting up a multi-tier client-server environment with a Schwaiger MS41IP SAT>IP Multiswitch-Server (w/ four DVB-S2 tuners) and above TVH running on Ubuntu 16.04 (VM@QNAP-KVM).

Questions:
- If I re-check my (only single) network setting (Astra), the pre-defined muxes field which was initially set (Astra), it's now empty. Is this an expected behavior?
- Is there no way to distinguish between radio and tv services while automatically mark/address them in the services section for easier searching/mapping?
- While constantly idle scanning muxes, over time there are more and more services found also with multiple same services name, which are not published by SES/Astra and seem to not work (Ghost's). Should I turn off "idle scanning" and better just use the predefined muxes?
- When mapping these multiple (same) services with the option „merge name“ what happens exactly? Can this be (non)beneficial?
- On all my devices with TVH Client (Kodi) every time I start a HTSP stream of a HD service first, it stalls and the the "subscription status" shows „bad“. After a long while, it recovers and starts to stream. Is this an expected behavior for a true 1Gbs network?
- While using TVH Client 2.2.15 (Kodi), I can’t make Picons visible. I have downloaded the recent SRP-SymLink-Files (https://picons.xyz) and added their path in the „general section" while also resetting caches on TVH server/client. The name of all/most links match the „icon URL“ in Channels/EPG.

Wish list:
While (with TVH) now replacing my former similar solution from Reel-Multimedia (which was built on Klaus Schmidiger’s VDR), I’m missing two very useful features:
- "Search Timers“ for auto recordings with the possibility to exclude repeatings (re-runs) by comparing elements of the EPG.
- The possibility to eaisily setup such above search timers with the TVH client (Kodi).

THX for any quick support.