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As I live in Northern Ireland, I was thinking that I might be able to get the RTE channels using the HDR-1000S non-freesat channel option (they are available in Northern Ireland via Freeview HD but I get my Freeview from a relay aerial which only has a subset of MUXes and these don’t include the RTE channels).
When I go into non-freesat on my box it already has several Channel4s set!
How can this be as I never have been in non-freesat on my box and was expecting a Search option?
Is there any way of resetting the non-freesat channels or can this only be done by doing a factory reset of the box?
Thanks again.
Paul
In non-freesat use edit channels to select all of them and delete them. You won’t get Saorsat without another dish and a ka band lnb. (The satellite isn’t at 28.2E)
http://www.satellitesuperstore.com/ka_band_lnb.htm
The beam pattern is very tight for Saorsat so unless you live close to the border you probably won’t get Saorsat anyway.
Graham
Thanks for your reply.
I’m in non-freesat but where is the edit channels option?
Paul
PaulMcI – 12 minutes ago »
Graham
Thanks for your reply.
I’m in non-freesat but where is the edit channels option?
Paul
Can’t check till tomorrow. Box in use.
Settings, Non Freesat, Editable channels then next, highlight the channel you want to remove and press OK – you can only delete one channel at a time iirc
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Just start a new channel search.
Barry
Thanks for your reply.
On investigating further following your post I found that I have to be in non-freesat mode and then going to Settings shows the Non Freesat option that offers Channel search and Editable channels.
This is what I was after.
Looking through the list of channels there are:
5050 RTE One
5021 RTE TWO
5022 TG4
5023 TV3
5024 RTEjr
5025 RTE TWO HD
These must be encrypted because when I try to access them I get the message “Audio/Video code buffer is underrun”.
Would these channels be from Sky on the 28.2E satellite?
Do Humax automatically set up the non freesat channels because I certainly didn’t.
Thanks again.
Paul
I would suspect there’s a possibility that the box you have may be a return.
When you first turned the box on was you greeted with the Setup Wizard or did it just go straight to the Home Menu?
-gonzo- – 16 minutes ago »
I would suspect there’s a possibility that the box you have may be a return.
When you first turned the box on was you greeted with the Setup Wizard or did it just go straight to the Home Menu?
More than that it must have been used in Ireland (and mostly in the Irish Rebuplic) with a KA Band lnb.
Those channels aren’t tunable in the UK.
Where did the OP buy the box ?
Gonzo
I bought the HDR-1000S 1TB box from an Ebay shop: Think Advantage Ltd, Smart Direct, Curzon House, 24 High Street, Banstead, Surrey SM7 2LJ on 10 April 2013.
When I first turned the box on I was greeted by the Setup Wizard and I had to enter the postcode for my house.
Graham
I can watch most of the channels apart from the RTE and Sky channels which report “Audio/Video code buffer is underrun”.
The channels start:
5000 Channel4
ditto
5005 Channel4
5006 Film4
5007 Film4 +1
5008 More4 +1
5009 C4I
5010 E4+1
5011 E4
5012 Channel4 +1
ditto
5017 Channel4 +1
5018 More4
5019 e4
5020 RTE One
etc
5095 Sky2
5096 Sky Living+1
etc
I only wrote down the channels from 5000 to 5125 but they go on ending with radio channels.
As I said above, I can watch most of the channels and listen to the radio channels.
Does this not mean that my dish is pointing at a satellite to allow me to do this?
Thanks again.
Paul
I imagine it means the box has been manually tuned using a dual dish install somewhere in Ireland. This will have two lnb’s on on 19.2E (Ka band) and the other on 28.2E (Ku band). There’s no other way I can think of that you have saorsat channels in your non-freesat list. There may be other KU band channels in the mix from 19.2E. It also seems that the channel scan included encrypted content which you can’t watch at all.
The channel numbers are created in the order they happen to be added (and can be changed)
You now have a single dish on 28.2/28.5E so of course none of the 19.5E will work (and in any case the RTE ones aren’t usable in the UK).
Any of these channels should be usable in non freesat mode.
http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear
I would make a note of your recording schedule and do a factory reset. Then do a full manual tune for fta channels only.
I imagine it means the box has been manually tuned using a dual dish install somewhere in Ireland. This will have two lnb’s on on 19.2E (Ka band) and the other on 28.2E (Ku band). There’s no other way I can think of that you have saorsat channels in your non-freesat list. There may be other KU band channels in the mix from 19.2E. It also seems that the channel scan included encrypted content which you can’t watch at all.
The channel numbers are created in the order they happen to be added (and can be changed)
You now have a single dish on 28.2/28.5E so of course none of the 19.5E will work (and in any case the RTE ones aren’t usable in the UK).
Any of these channels should be usable in non freesat mode.
http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear
I would make a note of your recording schedule and do a factory reset. Then do a full manual tune for fta channels only.
Tv3 isn’t on Saorsat so I’d imagine the channels are just there from a general scan of 28 that included the encrypted channels.
Evilivor
Your suggestion of a general scan of 28 makes sense to me as I can access all the unencrypted channels.
Graham
I live midway between Bangor and Newtownards in Northern Ireland, so from what you have said I think that I am too far from the border to be able to get RTE channels and I will forget about them and try to tune in some FTA channels in the non freesat mode.
So a factory reset wipes my recording schedule. Are my recordings OK or will they be wiped as well?
Thanks
Paul
evilivor – 1 hour ago »
I imagine it means the box has been manually tuned using a dual dish install somewhere in Ireland. This will have two lnb’s on on 19.2E (Ka band) and the other on 28.2E (Ku band). There’s no other way I can think of that you have saorsat channels in your non-freesat list. There may be other KU band channels in the mix from 19.2E. It also seems that the channel scan included encrypted content which you can’t watch at all.
The channel numbers are created in the order they happen to be added (and can be changed)
You now have a single dish on 28.2/28.5E so of course none of the 19.5E will work (and in any case the RTE ones aren’t usable in the UK).
Any of these channels should be usable in non freesat mode.
http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear
I would make a note of your recording schedule and do a factory reset. Then do a full manual tune for fta channels only.
Tv3 isn’t on Saorsat so I’d imagine the channels are just there from a general scan of 28 that included the encrypted channels.
Good point, however a full scan should have found around a thousand channels (currently 970 according to Kingofsat).
Need the OP to confirm just how many channels are in the non-freesat list.
Graham
In non freesat on my Humax box there are 335 TV channels (from 5000 to 5334) and 27 radio channels (from 8000 to 8026). There are no other channels.
I ordered this Humax box on the 10 April 2013 and it arrived a few days later. Any non freesat scan would have been done before that date.
Paul
PaulMcI – 8 hours ago »
Graham
In non freesat on my Humax box there are 335 TV channels (from 5000 to 5334) and 27 radio channels (from 8000 to 8026). There are no other channels.
I ordered this Humax box on the 10 April 2013 and it arrived a few days later. Any non freesat scan would have been done before that date.
Paul
With a non-freesat scan you can scan transponder by transponder, optionally limiting the scan to FTA. The number of channels will vary accordingly. If you rescan you will get the channel again.
I would recommend to locate what you would like to watch, that is not on freesat, and scan those transponders, deleting what you don’t want on that transponder. I have about 4 non-freesat channels.
Non-freesat channels can be very hard to identify. The number assigned is sequential for TV and Radio.
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