Right – this might at first sight seem an odd thing to do.

Firstly make a note of your recording schedule as you will have to re-enter it. Power off and remove the connection to tuner 2 in.

Now carry out a freesat tune using the postcode of your choice – basically use one that will give you the ITV regions you want to watch.

The box should say one cable connected, however the box has a auto enabled link from tuner 1 to tuner 2 which I hope is still working. This allows both tuners to work using only a single cable.

You may want to consider a single tuner pvr ready box to use the other cable.

This will give you some restrictions on 2nd channel recording and 3rd channel viewing (basically the same as you have now due to tuner 2 not having any lnb control signal capability). There is one big difference because the box knows what recording combinations are possible it will not let you make 2nd recording reservations that are not possible.

You can find more info here.

https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/what-can-i-record-and-watch-using-1-or-2-cables

Note the G2 boxes are a bit cleverer than the old Foxsat when in single cable mode (eg offering time shifting for any viewable channel)

Note intelligent use of the alternate polarisation BBC regions can often make a specific 2nd channel recordable by selecting a region with matching polarisation. The Excel auto version will work this out automatically.

If you try this I will devise a few checks to make sure the box is fully working.

Only available when not recording or within 15 mins of accurate recording start.

Settings – right 3 times to more – OK channel Search. Reset connection mode during Channel Search is a feature of the latest software update. Before that Factory Reset or Secret Menu was only way to change connection mode.

The tuner appears to work OK just lacking DC power out and 1kHz tone switching which is why I hope single cable mode will work 100%.

This may help to understand how a universal lnb works.

http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/lnb.htm

REPASSAC – 37 minutes ago  » 

Single cable mode is a neat idea Graham.

Steve:

A HB-1100S would make great second unit to supplement the other unit. At a reasonable price as well.

If it works

Humax direct have the HB-1000S refurbished with 12 months warranty at £69.00.

TV Boxes

No idea if they will ship to France.

fatscoleymo – 16 minutes ago  » 

Thanks guys, you’ve both been extremely helpful and I’m very happy that we now have a box that we can use to a large extent.

I’ve done as Graham suggested and at the moment am recording 104 – Channel 4, the Grand Prix.

As the recording was about to start a conflict message came up..so we scrolled through channels and some were ‘scrambled or unavailable’….a lot are there though…so….

Am I correct in thinking that as a planned recording is about to start that will take precedent over the channel we happen to be watching if it is on a different polarisation? If both on same polarisation we would just carry on with no conflict?

I’ll have a think about utilising the other feed…I guess another single PVR used just to record about everything we want might be a way to go, the 1100 used to view live and record as well…food for thought and thanks for the heads up.

Steve

Yes if you are watching a channel that conflicts with the next recording you will get the message warning you that the box needs to change channel to make the recording. You should not get this warning at all if the current channel can be viewed during the recording. This also happens with two good tuners and two feeds, often as a result of a short over-run of an existing recording overlapping the start of the second.

A HB-1000/1100S would give you more capability than you had with the fully working 1100S. Namely recording 3 at once and extending channel choice for 3rd viewing.

It’s looking good though a tad worried about your conflict, without knowing which channel you were watching and which was about to record can’t say if it should have worked.

Do you have a PC running Microsoft OFfice (Excel to be precise) ?

A couple of tests to make sure it’s working as it should.

Test single cable working recording from two different transponders

tap 952 to watch BBC 1 E Mids (10788 V) Tap record button

tap 102 to watch BBC2 HD (10847 V) Tap record button

tap 201 to watch BBC Parliament, after 20 sec or so check live pause works

Repeat for the following

703 BBC Radio 3

704 BBC Radio 4 FM

707 BBC 6Music

708 BBC Radio 4 Ex

710 BBC Radio 4 LW

711 BBC World Sv

712 BBC R Scotland

713 BBC RnGaidheal

714 BBC R Wales

715 BBC R Cymru

716 BBC R Ulster

717 BBCRadioFoyle

953 BBC One East E

963 BBC One W Mid

964 BBC One Wales

967 BBC One Yk&Li

971 BBC Two Wales

600 CBBC HD

972 BBC One HD

978 BBC One NI HD

Stop all recording.

Following records two from one transponder (only requires tuner 1), this means all channels in same band and same polarisation can be viewed, hence the long list.

tap 102 to watch BBC 2 HD (10847 V) start a recording06

tap 106 to watch BBC 1 HD (10847 V) start a recording

The following should be viewable (note for 111 it will require you have one of the listed regions at 111) Note you may want to consider changing postcode to make one of these available

For 103 it requires you have a vertical polarised ITV 1 as listed.

121 Channel 4 + 1

122 E4

123 E4 + 1

124 More4

975 Channel 4 + 1

103 ITV London

103 ITV Granada

103 ITV Anglia East

103 ITV Central West

113 ITV2

117 ITV4

118 ITVBe

154 ITV4+1

602 CITV

977 ITV London

201 BBC Parliament

703 BBC Radio 3

704 BBC Radio 4 FM

707 BBC 6Music

708 BBC Radio 4 Ex

710 BBC Radio 4 LW

711 BBC World Sv

712 BBC R Scotland

713 BBC RnGaidheal

714 BBC R Wales

715 BBC R Cymru

716 BBC R Ulster

717 BBCRadioFoyle

952 BBC One E Mid

953 BBC One East E

963 BBC One W Mid

964 BBC One Wales

967 BBC One Yk&Li

971 BBC Two Wales

212 BBC NEWS

607 CBBC

957 BBC One NI

958 BBC One Oxford

961 BBC One South

962 BBC One S West

969 BBC Two NI

600 CBBC HD

972 BBC One HD

978 BBC One NI HD

115 ITV3

116 ITV3+1

731 talkSPORT

112 STV East + 1

112 ITV Granada + 1

111 ITV London HD

111 ITV Granada HD

111 ITV Meridian South HD

111 ITV Central West HD

111 ITV HD Anglia East

111 ITV HD Yorkshire West

127 4seven

206 RT HD

209 NHK WORLD HD

214 Arirang TV

692 Revelation

694 GOD Channel

142 True Ent

152 True Ent+ 1

154 true ent

302 True Movies

303 True Movies +1

500 Chart Show TV

501 The Vault

502 ChartShow Hits

504 Starz TV

603 POP

605 Tiny Pop

604 Kix

606 POP +1

609 Tiny Pop +1

134 CBS Drama

136 CBS Reality +1

139 horror ch+1

135 CBS Reality

137 CBS Action

138 horror channel

693 ISLAM CHANNEL

695 Sonlife TV

809 TJC

143 True Crime

148 Food Network

149 Food Network+1

155 PBS America

156 YourTV

167 QUEST

169 QUEST RED

205 France 24

811 Craft Extra

870 BABESTATION

210 CNBC

306 TalkingPics TV

806 JML Direct

818 BEST DIRECT

161 SHOWCASE

695 Sonlife TV

809 TJC

815 Thane

790 TWR

511 VIVA

Hi Steve. You don’t need Excel if you download the .htm file at the link I posted. This can be opened by any web browser using the File open option.

Really pleased it worked out.

If you are confused by the explanation I can help if you download the actual file and open it in the web browser of your choice.

ok thanks that was my original thought but didn’t want to look stupid if it was something that could be resolved on here.

And It was looking at the wrong transponder

juggy9999 – 1 hour ago  » 

Looking at your list in the above it looks like it is not picking up some of the transponders. I did a STB search for channels and it found about 333 tv channels. Do you think it is definitely faulty?

Definetely missing some transponders if you did a full fta scan of all FTA channels at 28.2E. Current count is near 400.

http://en.kingofsat.net/tv.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear

Download this file and open it in a web browswer

https://www.adrive.com/public/t3jBkt/FoxsatStaticMK2_011.htm

In freesat mode check one channel from each transponder. With a bit of luck may spot a pattern. It could be a power supply issue which for instance could mean you aren’t getting horizontally polarised channels. The fact that your other sat box works kind of confirms it must be faulty.