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Hi i am quite new to this!
I have installed a skystar 2 card into my pc and installed prog dvb and followed big teds idiots guide to installing it.Thanks:)
I have not yet got my dish up,doing it at the end of the week,i have read i should point it at Hotbird as this has the most channels?
But as well i have come a cropper lol, i installed _ftp://download.technisat.com/de/soft/550.zip
i dont know why lols but now it has deactivated/my card cannot be started or something it says,can i backtrack and get rid of this somehow?
sorry for being an idiot!:):)
 

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Remove the aforementioned file and re-install the SS2 driver and application from the CD that you presumably had with the card.

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Thanks, that sorted it out :)
So for me the best option is to point my dish at hotbird right? Do you think it would be easy to install the dish alone?
 

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Plenty of advice here if you're going to install the dish yourself andyman. If you're just going for the one satellite with a fixed dish you need at least to know that you have a good line of sight to the satellite and know where the satellite is in regards your location.

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thx for the advice:)
i thought i'd make sure i had a good job done so i have just phoned a local satellite chappy to come saturday and put my dish up, the only thing concerning me was that because i am going for a fixed dish would hotbird be my best choice? with regards to my skysat2 pci card+prog dvb or dvb viewer with regards to my soft cams etc?
 

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ProgDVB and vplug emulator will be fine. Regarding choice of satellite, mignt be worth investing in a monoblock LNB and setting your dish up for Hotbird and Astra 19E.
 

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Hi, and thx,i have my tv in the other room with a dish set up for sky, i think this is the astra 19.2 one.....do i just put vplug in the prog dvb folder like i did with yankse and sm2?
and do you know if there is a good selection of films,sport etc on hotbird? thanks again.
 

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Your Sky dish is on Astra 2 (28E). Astra 19E is probably the best for films and sport (Pr*mier bouquet) at present. T P S on Hotbird OK too, but liable to change encryption soon and disappear fron emus.

Extract vplug files into the progDVB plugin folder, its softcam needs to be updated frequently.

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thx for all the advice, i think i'll tell him to line it up with hotbird and try that one out (TPS stuff) for the movies etc
 

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Like LLew said....get a monoblock; then you can switch between Hotbird and Astra 1
 

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Hi i have just been talking to the chap who is installing my dish on saturday and i asked him about the monoblock for astra 1 and hotbird, and hes told me it wont work unless i have diseqc 1.2 or something?
I am using my computer, prog dvb and sky star 2 PCI card as my receiver, could you please tell me if it has this diseqc 1.2 and if this will be possible for me? thanks again for all your guys help


(I just read that i should be using DiSEqC 1.0 for switches. DiSEqC 1.2 is for motors.) does this help at all? The Technisat site says the sky star 2 features diseqc 1.0 so maybe i am ok?
 

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Id think your ok with 1 or 1.2...

I use an ex EuropeOnline Skystar 2 (v2.3) card with progdvb and a motorized dish, most of the time pointed to 1°W :) but if it can shift a motor it can work a switch.
 

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andyman2008 said:
Hi i have just been talking to the chap who is installing my dish on saturday and i asked him about the monoblock for astra 1 and hotbird, and hes told me it wont work unless i have diseqc 1.2 or something?
I am using my computer, prog dvb and sky star 2 PCI card as my receiver, could you please tell me if it has this diseqc 1.2 and if this will be possible for me? thanks again for all your guys help


(I just read that i should be using DiSEqC 1.0 for switches. DiSEqC 1.2 is for motors.) does this help at all? The Technisat site says the sky star 2 features diseqc 1.0 so maybe i am ok?

Yes, you'll use Diseqc 1.0 to switch the monoblock with the Skystar/ProgDVB.
 

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what do you view on 1 degree west Eek?
 

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Apparently Digi TV should be OK. Haven't tried myself (prefer C*nal Sat on the same sat - using a Diablo cam in a proper ST:cool: :-rofl2
 

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ok great,could i email you Llew as i dont think i am supposed to ask my next question in this forum as to what and where i should drop in the root folder of prog dvb? or i can give you my email in this forum? mine is EMAIL=Deleted
 

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hmmm sorry i didnt know i couldnt put my email address in here?
 

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Just copy the vplug zip file into the progDVB plugin folder and extract all the files there.
 

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Thx Llew, its all up and running with the monoblock,on hotbird and astra
 

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Good to hear it's working OK. Enjoy :)
 
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