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Whats going on with my Magic Eye?

  • 20-04-2009 01:47PM
    #1
    Gargantuan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭


    I have a magic eye which up until sometime last week was working fine. It was running off a Pace Sky + box for the 6 months or more.
    The light is lighting up on the unit but it will not let me change channel or use the remote in anyway.
    I have checked the cable ,all good , i even plugged it directly into the back of the box to verify it , light on but still doesn't let channel change.

    Was of the theory that the IR sensor was broken so i bought a new one yesterday and tried it in the cable , but no joy again (wasted 13:99) .
    Un-Plugged box for 10 seconds to see if it was just needing a reset, no joy again.

    Was there any new software update that could of corrupted the magic eye functionality ?

    Any ideas of what to try ?


Comments

  • #2
    slegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭slegs


    Sometimes other IR sensors can interfere if they are close. Try moving it another location away from where it is now and try again. Also I had a problem once like this and it turned out to be a short on the cable. There was enough voltage getting there to power the light on the eye but it wasn't transmitting the remote signal.


  • #3
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    My sky magic eye switchs off whenever I use the red button to access interactive features such as Sky News Active. I then have to go to the living room and go into the installer menu and turn on the power to it. Apparently the Sky+ box need a full factory restore to fix it except I do not want to do this as I will lose some of my recordings.


  • #4
    Gargantuan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭Gargantuan


    Still not working :(

    Checked voltage at RF2 port and getting 8.8v and other end of cable get same .
    Plugged new magic eye directly into the back of box and it still didn't work .

    Confused ....


  • #5
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    8.8v is low so sounds like a box problem.

    Gargantuan wrote: »
    Still not working :(

    Checked voltage at RF2 port and getting 8.8v and other end of cable get same .
    Plugged new magic eye directly into the back of box and it still didn't work .

    Confused ....

    https://satellite.ie/



  • #6
    Gargantuan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭Gargantuan


    Any ideas of a possible fix ?

    Total reset ?

    Was there a software upgrade as it seemed to come on all of a sudden.


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