Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

[barrykap]

I had this receiver a few months ago and commenced doing blind search on about 15 sats. It went fine, but just trying a sixteenth sat it will no longer work.

It comes up with 'TP memory full' or something.

I have a grand total of about 6500 channels so there must be memory left.

I tried deleting some obsolete TP's but no way will it delete them. Pressing the blue function button whne the delete option is available does nothing at all.

Just recently I have tried doing a new blind scan on one of the existing satellites to update the channel list. But it just crashes back to a reboot when I press the OK button to start the blind scan.

Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? Or is it a faulty receiver?

Thanks.

Barry.

 

[guest poster]

heard this before ... you can have 10,000 channels but not enough tps...

Can you back up what you have now so you can experiment ... (to USB if possible)

 

[Zorba]

I had a similar problem on a visionet receiver which would act sluggish after 3000 channels. One cure was to erase all the radio channels,but leave one behind.

 

[barrykap]

Hi Pedro.

I could experiment anyway without saving because I would prefer to rescan all again I think as there may be some TP' s that have come along since anyway.

Fire away if you have any suggestions.

Cheers.

Barry.

ps. Drove past your big dish today actually :-)

 

[guest poster]

see if there is a bug fix (sorry newer version) on TM's site and download it if there is a newer version...

If you can't delete TPs.. or some channels (or Radio) then try deleting TPs

then...

I don't like doing a factory reset without saving but if you are using USALs it's quick to get it all back ...

then avoid going too near the maximum number of TPs by a good margin... and do regular back ups too ...




Try Jodrell Bank in dishpointer.com or Google Earth...

and for all it's size.. they can still only get radio...

 

[barrykap]

Hi Pedro

I use Diseq 1.2 on my two motor dishes. I hate USALs, both unreliable and spoils all the fun. So doing a factory reset would mess this up a bit as I didn't want to have to tune them in again at this point in time.

I was thinking of maybe deleting all channels on each sat and doing a blind re-scan on say 80% of the sats? Or are TP's stored forever once blind-scanned? If so, it seems a reset is the only option.

Another alternative is to maybe delete a full satellite or two completely?

Would this free up some TP's?

Cheers.

Barry

ps. Am on latest firmware by the way.

 

[guest poster]

Actually the locations (of sats) are stored on the motor and the TM defaults sats to the diseqc 1.2 positions (1-60 or whatever positions) so the positions will (should) still be there and line up ...

I thought you had problems deleting TPs... if you can delete them they should release the memory log jam...

You can delete a full satellite you're not bothered about.. etc.. it should also release the log jam.. ( I say should because you are dealing with a bug so nothing is 100%... like MS stuff etc.)

then edit out unwanted & especially ..duplicated tps which is probably the main problem- that is blind scans find TPs twice or three times giving them a slightly different frequency but they are time consuming to find using alphabetical listing and see the duplicates with similar frequencies- identify the middle freq'and delete the others ....

...have fun....

 

[barrykap]

Hi Pedro,

Yes I think I did do a reset once and was surprised to find the sats all still tuned in (Diseq 1.2 positions).

And as I said in my first posting, for some weird reason the TM won't let me delete any TP's. If it would I am sure all my problems would be solved as you say there are a few dupes and I am sure I could get rid of even more TP's - if only it would allow me to!

When I have the edit screen up and the blue function button says 'delete TP'. I can press it forever but it won't! :-)

Anyway, I will have another go at it later in the week and see if can delete sats etc. I'll report back on here in case you are interested.

Thanks again.

Barry.

 

[iwol]

have you tried the clarke tech editor to delete the tps

 

[barrykap]

Don't know about that one iwol.

Any details?

Cheers.

barry.

 

[barrykap]

Found it!

Downloaded Clark-tech.

I've modified channel list to delete all TP's on two Sats I would never get, then re-inserted the channal data in the Techno and yes, I can now do a blind scan again!

I will remove a lot more TPs this way to make room for future blind scans.

Many thanks for the tip.

Barry.