sky problems

patrickc

Is there anyone else having problems with sky tonight (no satellite signal being recieved) carlow area??

byte

Working grand here, must be a fault somewhere in your setup - box/dish/cabling.

Try unplugging your digibox for a few minutes and see if that might fix it.

patrickc

byte wrote:

Working grand here, must be a fault somewhere in your setup - box/dish/cabling.

Try unplugging your digibox for a few minutes and see if that might fix it.

cheers ive done that and phoned sky, they say it may be a broadcast issue, if not they want to send out an engineer. (I think it would be better to cancel my sky and get a new installation under girlfriends name) than get out an engineer and pay their fee

jhegarty

patrickc2006 wrote:

Is there anyone else having problems with sky tonight (no satellite signal being recieved) carlow area??

What error is it giving ?

Won't be a broadcast issue, we are all watching the same satellites.....

mustang68

It was the storms I think. Last night I could see a big storm cloud with thunder crossing the sky, as soon as it started passing between my dish and the satellite I lost signal for about 30 mins.

I can appreciate that a group of clouds with electrical activity of the millions of volts, carrying thousands of liters of water can disrupt a signal from a satellite.

patrickc

jhegarty wrote:

What error is it giving ?

Won't be a broadcast issue, we are all watching the same satellites.....

it was giving error 25, then 29. it wasn't working when going to bed last night never got time to check this morning before work.

triple h

mustang68 wrote:

It was the storms I think. Last night I could see a big storm cloud with thunder crossing the sky, as soon as it started passing between my dish and the satellite I lost signal for about 30 mins.

I can appreciate that a group of clouds with electrical activity of the millions of volts, carrying thousands of liters of water can disrupt a signal from a satellite.

hmmm

I tape Monday Night Raw every week on sky sports 3. This week ( the 11th) it was on from 1am to 4am and i watched the first 1 hour and 20 minutes of it ( i play football every monday night and i am made awake for ages after it) Anyway, as i was watching it, i was taping it and i could see the little red light, it was on. Turned off my tv at 2.20am the red light was on and i went to sleep.

The next day when i went to watch it, it said part recorded, start missed due to power cut. The last 43 minutes of the show was all that was recorded. So from 3.15 to 4 am is all that was recorded.

Is this power cut reason it gave me a load of --blank-- how could the part of the show i saw been taped get lost. Also if there was a power cut i would have known, house alarm, radio alarm clock and so on....

byte

Maybe the power dropped voltage for a short period, which affected the Sky+ but didn't affect other things?

I notice it happen from time to time. Light bulbs go dim, and some things just go off, while others continue to work.

I guess it's down to tolerance of components to drops in voltage.

JeanClaude

triple h wrote:

hmmm

I tape Monday Night Raw every week on sky sports 3. This week ( the 11th) it was on from 1am to 4am and i watched the first 1 hour and 20 minutes of it ( i play football every Monday night and i am made awake for ages after it) Anyway, as i was watching it, i was taping it and i could see the little red light, it was on. Turned off my tv at 2.20am the red light was on and i went to sleep.

The next day when i went to watch it, it said part recorded, start missed due to power cut. The last 43 minutes of the show was all that was recorded. So from 3.15 to 4 am is all that was recorded.

Is this power cut reason it gave me a load of --blank-- how could the part of the show i saw been taped get lost. Also if there was a power cut i would have known, house alarm, radio alarm clock and so on....

Exact same thing happened to me aswell, was actually watching Raw live (1am - 4am) Tuesday morning, and at about 3.30am my Sky turned itself off I turned it back on straight away and it only recorded the last 30 mins.

Nothing else electrical went off, so it must have been a Sky problem.

Triple H just out of interest have you got the "anytime" update yet? wasn't that suppose to have an "auto standby" feature. I still haven't got it, maybe it was going to download it Tuesday morning and i interrupted it.

patrickc

i rang sky this evening and threatened to cancel my sky, they said they'd have an engineer out on Saturday and and dropped the fee to 50.

triple h

JeanClaude wrote:

Triple H just out of interest have you got the "anytime" update yet? wasn't that suppose to have an "auto standby" feature. I still haven't got it, maybe it was going to download it Tuesday morning and i interrupted it.

that idea struck me too cause i did not get the anytime update yet.

patrickc

ok so sky came back by itself today, great I thought, then it started acting up again, the terrestrial channels are fine, the others are going between scrambled and not... anyone got ideas as to wtf is going on?

vanman

sky have now introdruced a signal to be sent to sky+ boxes to put them on standby at 1 am to save power,you will see a warning on the sky+ box that it is about to do it,if you dont want it to go on stsndby just press backup.