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After factory reset on Humax Foxsat HDR problem with quad LNB feeds
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<blockquote data-quote="Sampaguita" data-source="post: 1150386" data-attributes="member: 418853"><p>Thank you for your replies. there was no signal at all shown by the auxiliary receiver.</p><p></p><p>However I followed Rolfer's suggestion and switched of the Humax at the mains, went back to the spare Skybox and lo! it now works. and signal is coming through. I switched Humax on again and signal is still coming through to the Skybox. To make sure I switched off power to the Skybox and rebooted and it still works as well as the Humax. Thank you. </p><p></p><p>I suppose it has something to do with the Humax setting up the LNB to it's specifications, it uses the Freesat EPG (TV Guide) whereas the Skyboxes are using the Sky EPG which includes Freesat channels as well as others such as CNN. It would be useful to know what actually the fault was. I had already tried unplugging both the cables coming into the Humax and checking the Skybox feeds, which still didn't work. Funny how something as simple as leaving the cables in and than unplugging the box resolved the issue.</p><p></p><p>To answer your question why I reset the Humax, it was a soap opera sequence. We had guests in the room with an (very) old Thomson Skybox which was picking up signal but if you changed channel it stopped working and put up an error message. so I switched it out with the (not quite as old) Pace Skybox, which worked fine. I noticed that it still received CNN which is no longer on Freesat, so I used manual tune on the Humax to tune in the CNN transponder, worked Ok but as you probably know it doesn't come up on the main EPG an somehow all the EPG settings got messed up, so I made a new Freesat scan and that was when the feed to the auxiliary Skyboxes crapped out. I then made a factory reset to see if that would resolve the problem but it didn't.</p><p></p><p>Glad that I didn't go ahead and get a new LNB! Now just need a replacement for the Thomson. Lots of inexpensive Freesat and Sky boxes on ebay any recommendation for a low threshold non HD model (I am in Italy) ? That's why I had the Thomson as it was rated a very good fringe area STB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sampaguita, post: 1150386, member: 418853"] Thank you for your replies. there was no signal at all shown by the auxiliary receiver. However I followed Rolfer's suggestion and switched of the Humax at the mains, went back to the spare Skybox and lo! it now works. and signal is coming through. I switched Humax on again and signal is still coming through to the Skybox. To make sure I switched off power to the Skybox and rebooted and it still works as well as the Humax. Thank you. I suppose it has something to do with the Humax setting up the LNB to it's specifications, it uses the Freesat EPG (TV Guide) whereas the Skyboxes are using the Sky EPG which includes Freesat channels as well as others such as CNN. It would be useful to know what actually the fault was. I had already tried unplugging both the cables coming into the Humax and checking the Skybox feeds, which still didn't work. Funny how something as simple as leaving the cables in and than unplugging the box resolved the issue. To answer your question why I reset the Humax, it was a soap opera sequence. We had guests in the room with an (very) old Thomson Skybox which was picking up signal but if you changed channel it stopped working and put up an error message. so I switched it out with the (not quite as old) Pace Skybox, which worked fine. I noticed that it still received CNN which is no longer on Freesat, so I used manual tune on the Humax to tune in the CNN transponder, worked Ok but as you probably know it doesn't come up on the main EPG an somehow all the EPG settings got messed up, so I made a new Freesat scan and that was when the feed to the auxiliary Skyboxes crapped out. I then made a factory reset to see if that would resolve the problem but it didn't. Glad that I didn't go ahead and get a new LNB! Now just need a replacement for the Thomson. Lots of inexpensive Freesat and Sky boxes on ebay any recommendation for a low threshold non HD model (I am in Italy) ? That's why I had the Thomson as it was rated a very good fringe area STB. [/QUOTE]
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