channel 4 with SKY in ROI

darkbeatz

Hi there,

Im sure you guys have discussed this before but I wanted to just share my experience in the past couple of days.

So I got sky + in and when the engineer came to my house I asked him about channel four. He said he knew the frequency and would tune it in for me for 30 euro so i said ok. He told me on sky the channel is actually called G54 so He put in the following settings in to add channels

10906
v 5/2
22

and it tuned in the station but no picture, he said that he has seen on some boxes that it wont work but he said check it later it might kick in and he left without charging me. So far it hasnt worked but why dont you guys with sky try it and post your results here and let us know if it worked for you.

this then sparked me to searching g54 on google and i found another frequency to tune in and this time it tuned in 5 channel fours. when i go in to each channel it actually tells me whats on but no picture. Here is that code and this is the website i got it from -> http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/skyuk.html

12168
V 2/3
22

So have any of you guys tried any of this or had a similar experience?

Happy Christmas

parasite

basically you need an FTV card, and if you paid him an extra 30 euro to tune in G54, he scammed you

dRNk SAnTA

I tuned in G54 and got picture and sound but its not channel 4

norbert64

tried it, although maybe you've a different system to me but there is no

5/2 option under FEC lol.

got G54 alright, but it was just a black screen with
T*R and a timecode along the bottom.

would have been good though, if it had of worked.

that begs the question mind you, was the engineer local or sent from Sky

darkbeatz

I didnt pay him anything.

the engineer was a sky engineer and that setting is 2/5 my appologies.

whats an ftv card?

Mossy Monk

G54 is an ITV test channel, not Channel 4

a FTV card will get you Channel 4 and Channel 5

also put all the BBC's, ITV 1, 2, 3, 4 on the EPG. they can be gotten in the UK for £20 or on ebay

jessop1

10906
v 5/6
22

utv & itv are available on this frequency and they seems to be available without the need to buy any add ons. I was pleasantly surprised to learn this.

pastabrown

ok guys this is for allpotential sky subscribers
a while back my friend got sky installed
as she was in work all installation was done with out my influence
when she came homne there was a letter on the table saying ( now this is the important bit)
if RTE is not accessable please ring the following number as it sometimes does not come on automatically
i coped this and quickly but in the channel 4, 5 codes etc an what do you know it worked
downside we cant watch rte even though its on the EPG
bottom line it thinks its an irish box but really its in limbo
since replaced the box and it still is displaying every thing and she cancelled her subscription and it still works
everything free

Mossy Monk

jessop1 wrote:

10906
v 5/6
22

utv & itv are available on this frequency and they seems to be available without the need to buy any add ons. I was pleasantly surprised to learn this.

you can tune in ITV2 also. see the satellite board for details

jessop1

great stuff I've just tuned it in with a few select others.

nice one!

darkbeatz

pastabrown wrote:

ok guys this is for allpotential sky subscribers
a while back my friend got sky installed
as she was in work all installation was done with out my influence
when she came homne there was a letter on the table saying ( now this is the important bit)
if RTE is not accessable please ring the following number as it sometimes does not come on automatically
i coped this and quickly but in the channel 4, 5 codes etc an what do you know it worked
downside we cant watch rte even though its on the EPG
bottom line it thinks its an irish box but really its in limbo
since replaced the box and it still is displaying every thing and she cancelled her subscription and it still works
everything free

which channel four codes did you put in? the ones I listed?

pastabrown

yeah i used the regular channel 4 codes the one where you can select 6 diffrent regional versions
how ever i doubt it will work she was just lucky

Mossy Monk

the viewing card was confused. there are a few more who got these cards aswell