Thanks.

The test tomorrow is whether it spots there are two feeds. My current one seems not to and I am not sure what you can do then to make it see the second one.

Tony

The machine finally arrived at 13.05.

I have ‘on demand’ which was not working on the old machine.

However, I do not seem to be able to set up my Hotbird channels.

Whilst it was installing itself there was no suggestion that it had seen a second dish. When I follow the steps that I list at the top of this second page of the thread it finds nothing. In the mists of the past I seem to remember the need to do something about Manual scanning but I cannot think what.

Any clues, anyone?

Tony

You mentioned Antenna.

This website rings a bell but I cannot find any way of replicating it with the current Humax.

http://purplesat.com/index.php?p=1_48_FOXSAT-HIDDEN-MENU

Tony

Thanks,

I’ll wait for your explorations.

Tony

Cracked it….

All of which becomes totally academic as I have just spotted that the new Humax HDR-1100S does not have a slot into which I can put my Viaccess card for the sports channels I have subscribed to. I noticed the whole unit is much smaller than the Humax that died earlier this week but did not realise the slot had been removed. I am now forced into buying a new receiver to work alongside the Humax. I cannot even try using the old machine (with no On Demand) as it does not have ‘pass through’ and I really don’t want to be swopping my two satellite leads every time I view a different box.

However, for anyone stumbling across this thread I will explain how to tune into non FreeSat channels. I’ll start by saying my initial failures were because the frequency I started with used a different ‘transmission’. It was not the default DVB that the Humax assumes. It was DVB-S2(8PSK) and the only way you can get that is by using a ‘User Defined’ frequency. That is the final step in the many steps I’ll list below. Foregive me for keeping this brief. Probably nobody is going to read it. But all the steps are then and if you want elaboration revive this thread. I am subscribed to it and will come back to elaborate anything. The many steps are:-

Home

Settings

System

STB Mode

Change to Non Freesat Mode

Home

Settings

Non Freesat

Channel search

Highlight the Transponder box but don’t click on it.

Red Green Yellow Blue Green Yellow Blue

Dish type Fixed

Satellite Hotbird (for me)

Switch type DiSEqC B

L Frequ Universal

22kh tone On

Transponder

Here you pick your frequency or you do a User Defined one to deal with the different ‘transmission’ mentioned above

I am not going to mention all the saves and edits.

Home will get you back to Freesat mode.

Good luck

Tony