How to get Channel 5 and BBC One HD on your Irish EPG and Recordable!!

cork_south

jca wrote: »

That looks the business. It would suit my father down to the ground. Have you a link?

I got it on Satworld:
http://www.satworld.ie/amiko-alien-2-triple-plus-tuner.html

Bear in mind it's not just plug and play, you have to do a fair bit of research to see if it suits your needs and it also helps to know some Linux.
From using the box so far I think it's great.

Selhurst

amazon one is alien 2 is twin tuner
you need the Alien 2 triple tuner
on satword.ie
like what cork _south said

200motels

Selhurst wrote: »

amazon one is alien 2 is twin tuner
you need the Alien 2 triple tuner
on satword.ie
like what cork _south said

Can you record on it?

Selhurst

yes but you need to buy
a hard drive.
it's this box here

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056707402/1

fat-tony

200motels wrote: »

Can you record on it?

On an external drive - no easy way to fit an internal drive

billbond4

Big overhaul to epg rolling out today,let's hope card trick isn't effected

billbond4

billbond4 wrote: »

Big overhaul to epg rolling out today,let's hope card trick isn't effected

Info here

http://www.sky.com/mysky/latestnews/article/my-sky-updates/2014-03/sky-plus-homepage-update/#update_schedule?DCMP=AFC-78888&affiliate=true

muffler

billbond4 wrote: »

Big overhaul to epg rolling out today,let's hope card trick isn't effected

Not quite today though

Over the next few months, we’re rolling out a new look Homepage for the Sky Guide on compatible Sky+ HD boxes.

byte

Aye, a few months for the Samsung, Pace and Amstrad DRX780.

I've the Pace box, which has already been made notably lethargic after the last update. Dunno how well it'll cope with the new update.

muffler

byte wrote: »

I've the Pace box, which has already been made notably lethargic after the last update. Dunno how well it'll cope with the new update.

Do you reckon the updates are making the boxes a bit sluggish even without the card trick?

Its just that I have noticed my own box a tad unresponsive especially when FF/rewind. It takes that couple of seconds to move up through the gears as they say. I dont even use the NI card these days.

jca

Is the new epg on the download stream or are they leaving the present version on it as a back up?

SPAWKER

jca wrote: »

Is the new epg on the download stream or are they leaving the present version on it as a back up?

No not yet and wont be for a couple of weeks yet.

jca

SPAWKER wrote: »

No not yet and wont be for a couple of weeks yet.

Ta. I hope this new epg likes my utv card.

enfant terrible

Anyone know if old Thompson Sky HD boxes will be affected.

Just set one up for my uncle, it gives UK EPG without a card.

SPAWKER

enfant terrible wrote: »

Anyone know if old Thompson Sky HD boxes will be affected.

Just set one up for my uncle, it gives UK EPG without a card.

No the old Thompson boxes wont be getting any more firmware upgrades have a look here http://skyepginfo.co.uk/skyhd/skyplushd/html

Nsewell

jca wrote: »

Is the new epg on the download stream or are they leaving the present version on it as a back up?

The previous version will always remain on the DR stream when a new version starts to roll out until the new update has been proven to be stable.

It's the main purpose of the DR system.

Do you reckon the updates are making the boxes a bit sluggish even without the card trick?

Deffinetly, I tried an old pace box I have running R008 last week, it's just generally sluggish when moving through the menu's.

There was also a few people posting on the sky forum last year about it when R008 started rolling out.

billbond4

Card trick still working on the new epg

DigiDec

As said above card trick still working but still jumping back to ch 998 on the hour.

A new shortcut to get to Other Channels is now Services 6 5 Select

jca

billbond4 wrote: »

Card trick still working on the new epg

Are you using a NI card? It looks like the usual 998 problems on other uk cards.

Dr. Nick

DigiDec wrote: »

As said above card trick still working but still jumping back to ch 998 on the hour.

A new shortcut to get to Other Channels is now Services 6 5 Select

Is it always on the hour? Never noticed...

DigiDec

Not always but almost every hour on the hour and half hour during the morning, say 10am to 1pm.

kooga

guys

looking for some assistance

I have a sky box but no sky sub. i have a setanta sub and a freesat from sky card. the setanta card is in the box. can i combine the uk epg and irish epg?

if so some guidance please.

will accept a pm so not to be seen bringing up old threads

tks

machiavellianme

kooga wrote: »

guys

looking for some assistance

I have a sky box but no sky sub. i have a setanta sub and a freesat from sky card. the setanta card is in the box. can i combine the uk epg and irish epg?

if so some guidance please.

will accept a pm so not to be seen bringing up old threads

tks

As far as I know, only the NI or CI cards can be combined with the ROI epg and even that has dependencies on having a non-HD sub and certain Sky HD boxes. What your looking for is unlikely to work. However, in the early days of the trick, people reported stacking various cards onto the ROI epg so maybe it could work. It essentially involved the same process as described in the trick (post 1) and inserting each card in succession with the desired channels tuned in other channels and favourited.

boardzz

I have a NI card and the swap trick works great for me with UTV and Channel 5 on the EPG. I'm wondering if I add HD to my subscription what effect this will have on my setup?

muffler

boardzz wrote: »

I have a NI card and the swap trick works great for me with UTV and Channel 5 on the EPG. I'm wondering if I add HD to my subscription what effect this will have on my setup?

From reading other posts in this thread it wont work.

jca

boardzz wrote: »

I have a NI card and the swap trick works great for me with UTV and Channel 5 on the EPG. I'm wondering if I add HD to my subscription what effect this will have on my setup?

No don't get the HD sub it won't work.

pbarr

It'll sort of work, You'll have to use the blue button to record the trick channels as they won't appear on the epg. Better off to avoid it.

jca

Death by blue button... If you like watching channel 998 every few minutes. ..

gtg60

pbarr wrote: »

It'll sort of work, You'll have to use the blue button to record the trick channels as they won't appear on the epg. Better off to avoid it.

Which also defeats the purpose of having a NI card (which are hard enough to come by).

lawred2

DigiDec wrote: »

As said above card trick still working but still jumping back to ch 998 on the hour.

A new shortcut to get to Other Channels is now Services 6 5 Select

with my Sky+HD box; it's Services 9 5 Select