comag digital sattelite receiver from lidl

Mmmm did that yesterday, signal was up in the 90%s. Scan returned nowt.

LNB 1 or 2 made no difference
Network search on/off no difference.

BUT BUT BUT....... When 'editing satellite' the frequency range max & min is 09750 to 10600 for ASTRA28EAST. There is no provision to change this and it puts the Beeb channels out of range


Stan

Hmmm. Try adding a custom satellite with a bigger range in Menu -> System Installation -> Add Satellite.

If you tinker around a bit with the LNB number, it will change the range for you.

signal level was mid 70%s, I mis remembered from the channel levels.

LNB No mmakes no diff. I have watched the scan thru' & on LNB2 it scans from and above the max freq up into the 12something Gigs. As the scan runs I have not seen 10.773G but I may have missed it.

Tried downloading software update from ASTRO2 at 19deg but message was 'no update available'. Does that mean 'off air' or that I have the latest anyway?

I really don't know where to go next. I doesn't feel like a digibox fault but how can I tell. Now if the Beeb hadn't shifted their roost the factory settings would have been OK (well, maybe).


Stan

You could always get a cheap Sky digibox from a carboot and plug it into your dish.

A lot of the other Comags that Lidl sold have had BBC transponders missing off the internal database.

Try this list of mine, its the fta stuff only.:

http://www.digitalsat.co.uk/astra2_28e.html

(& before anyone points out its a month out of date - I know, Ive been busy, & theres not much missing off it.)

Maybe ask the boys at the local Lidl's, I can't be the only one.

Has anyone got one of these Comag Digital receivers from Lidl set up and running? If so what is it like? Any good. I am looking to access Astra 2D(28.2E) and Hotbird 2 (13E) using dual lnb`s on a single dish.

I would be really interested to hear from anyone with experience of this receiver from Lidl.

John

Yeah, I bought 1 about 8 mths ago, when they were doing the items (dish, receiver, finder) seperately. Moved my Motek SG2100 no probs at all. Not a hard receiver to set-up either. Think I paid £49.95 for mine.

Got a dreambox 500-S now, so I may stick the COMAG on Ebay

Rgds

it does not seem to matter were i face the dish or what the sat finder says i always get no signal on the reciver. any thoughts

I know this might sound patronising, but do you have the box switched on (both at the back and on the front), so that there is some text on the front LEDs?

i feel un-patronised, good question.
yep it is all turned on boots up fine, cable plugged into the right LNb socket, striped the cables first, followed the instructions in the book.
got a compass to find the sats.
i would like to think that i could get at least a weak signal but it says signal strength 00%, tried to scan for sats, nothing. on one of the posts it said try and make sure the LNB is set to universial - i could not find the universial setting.
I have a tree in front of me but i am 3 storeys up so it is the middle "seethrough" tree structure and sky can be recived through it.
Just thought I have missed the glaringly obvious button that says "receive signal"

When you say "right LNB socket", do you mean the one right-most (when facing the front of the receiver), or the one to the left of the right-most one? Because the right-most LNB socket is a loop through, whereas the one to the left of this is the LNB input.

What type of dish and LNB are you using?

The one that says "LNB in" right hand side (of the two sockets on the left) as you look at the rear of the box.
Dish 57cm provided, LNB twin digital provided. although i also got the 80cm they sold as well as the single LNB but have not tried them.