Amiko HD 8260+ set top box free sat decoder.

I would like to see if anyone on the forum has any knowledge of tuning / scanning an Amiko HD 8260+ combo free sat decoder box.

I had the decoders fitted about a year ago, and the set top box is using a free sat satellite dish and an aerial combined, to pick up RTE channels. I am getting the RTE terrestrial channels OK, so RTE 1, RTE 2, TG4 etc. etc.

The problem is that after a year there have been a number of changes in the free sat world and new channels have come on line, such as the Horror channel. With the existing channel set up on my decoder boxes I have not been able to receive new channels such as Horror.

I rang the supplier and asked can I just do a rescan of channels, keep the existing channel order as it is and get any new channels that have come on line, and the answer was yes, just do a rescan.

Guess what, it didn't work, all the channels have gone to the order in which they are downloaded, so where I had RTE 1 as channel 1 I now have BBC 1 - and I can't change them to my own order of preference.

Not only have all the channels changed position, I no longer receive RTE 1. I have RTE 2, e3, UTV, but no RTE 1. There is a channel at about 800 and odd showing RTE but it ia a subscription channel, not free to air.

I have tried a cable scan as well as a satellite dish scan, but RTE 1 does not appear anywhere.

Can anyone tell me how to find RTE 1 on the Amiko HD 8260 combo box, or has RTE 1 gone off the free terrestrial aerial wavelength, to a subscription channel ?

I would be grateful if some-one could explain how to scan both the aerial and the dish channels, and also, if possible, how to sort the channels in a simple straightforward way.

When I asked the supplier if this was possible he said to put everything in order, in a favourites folder, and then do a scan. I spent two hours doing this, but then when I turned the set top box off and back on the channels were displayed in the same order as they were before moving them to a favourites folder, so that obviously didn't work.

The way I would like it to work is the way it worked before, so that when I turn on the TV and decoder box the TV shows the last viewed channel, and I can then just press a channel button on the remote, and get whatever channel I have set on the number.

I do not want to have to go hopping about with the remote looking for favourite folders and other nonsense. I want it quick and easy.

maybe some-one knows how to program the Amiko HD8260+ box and could let me know how to do it ?

parkman