Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Menu -> setup -> recording and timeshift -> recording settings -> make sure preferred tuner for recordings is disabled

Yeah it is as well.

Just out of curiosity what is timeshift?

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

Just noticed you have tuner A set as "advanced". Why?
"Simple" should be Ok with tuner B set as "equal to A"

Not sure this will help your current issue but...

I have never changed that, it was set like then when I flashed the image from THHB. Like you say, I don't think it is affecting my current issue anyway... cheers

If I were you, I'd start from scratch at this stage. Flash a new image to the box and see how you get on. I personally use OpenATV, and it's not too difficult to set up from scratch if you aren't afraid to do a bit of tinkering. The other benefit is that you'll know exactly how everything is set up.

JB81 wrote: »

I have OpenATV and I haven't really touched any settings myself.

Example from last night.
Herself had auto timers set up for Emerdale from 7pm to 8pm and Corrie from 8pm to 9pm, both on ITV which was fine.
She also had Love Island on ITV2 from 9pm to 10pm. Which was also ok. Nothing else recording at 9pm.


I went on to BBC1 NI and set a timer for the Argentina match from 6.30 to 9.30 i think. And there was a conflict.

I would only ever had 2 things recording at any one time.

So I thought about it and I changed the end time of the football timer to 20.59.
And this did not come up with conflict.
So I think as Corrie was finishing at 9pm, and Love Island was starting at 9pm, and the football was still on at 9pm, this meant there was 3 recordings at that single point. Would I be right??

Gonna play around with it again, and see what would have happened at 9pm if i had left all timers on!

I am having problems getting my Saorview signal sorted, not a problem with the Tiviar, its a aerial/signal issue. So once I get this sorted I can be watching football and other things on Saorview so it won't be a major issue. But just trying to figure it out...

JB

You might be on the right track there. Overlapping timers can cause conflicts. I have my box set up to auto record a few minutes on either side of the set program too, so for example 7-8 on mine would actually be 6.57 to 8.03. Worth checking if yours is set up that way too.

Yes overlapping times can have an effect and sometimes if there is a +1 or on later one can set a new recording so as not to clash.

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Use autobouquetmaker, select a mainland UK Freesat region to get ITV (NI will get UTV)
You can also find it in all channels and add it to favourites

Seems to be sorted, thanks.

Is your EPG working properly at moment. On ITV the football is normally on around 6.30pm, which is grand and I have it recording. But it shows a different programme on at 7pm and at 8pm etc..( soaps or something else? ), and because herself has soaps on autotimer, it picks this up, but the football is actually still on, so it is recording the football twice.
Not a big deal I just found it weird. Would it have something to do with the ITV regional channels not all showing the football. I think I have mine set at ITV London?

Was just wondering

Thanks
JB

I ordered one of these boxes and it arrived yesterday.
Spent the whole day setting it up.
Thanks to The High Horse Brigade for the flash image , would have been lost without it as I'm totally new to Enigma2

This box is replacing a Humax 1000s which no longer sees the hard drive , fault is not the hard drive but some component on the mainboard , a problem that Humax refuse to acknowledge.

Got satellite recordings working almost straight away after flashing THHB image.
Could not get any Saorview channels.

The catch here is that you must know your transmitter.
I didn't.
The Saorview coverage chart insists that for Celbridge , Wicklow Kippure is the transmitter.
That doesn't work when its set as the saorview area for me.

I have a Triax 212 for Saorview , which was working fine.
Got the frequencies of the channels from the info button on this , which were 546 and 570 Mhz.
Got a table of frequencies vs channels for Saorview.
Those frequencies are channels 30 and 33
The only transmitters with those freq/channel numbers are Donegal and Dublin Three Rock.
Stuck in Dublin 3 rock.
Scanned Autobouquetmaker and Bingo , were up and running.

I changed UK freesat region to London as cannot stand UTV

I have to say , this box is fast to boot up , comes straight on to the last channel viewed , the humax has a couple of minutes of waiting because it insists on slowly showing you the freesat logo unfolding.
The picture is equally as good as the humax , maybe better on some channels.
Of Course , having Saorview and Sat on one box is excellent.

Something I noticed last night whilst on my main PC.
W10 sees the box in networks and I can see the hard drive contents.
Very useful.

Gerry is holding out as you can type strange messages on pc to appear on tv while friends are over.

Never mind .... got it.
After an age of googling it seems the solution was far too simple to be commonly posted.
After you copy the "picon" folder to where it needs to be on the hard drive, you need to restart the box.
Menu > standby/restart .... simple as that.

andy1249 wrote: »

Saw this last night during the england v cratia match on ITV london HD.
Earlier that day the EPG showed a number of programs related to the match, i.e. build up , then the match, then reaction etc.
I set them to record.

As soon as the match started the epg changed and showed emmerdale , coronation street etc.

The match still recorded no problem , just the epg info was incorrect.

Yeah same here. However herself had emerdale and corrie on autotimer as well so was recording those as they were on the EPG ( it was actually recording the match ) and I was recording the match and then there was a conflict with Love Island - WAR....lol

Where is box placed as it sounds as its not getting enough air?

sligojoek wrote: »

I've been getting this some mornings after switch on. Strange as there don't seem to be any problems with Saorview. Has anyone any ideas what's causing it?

That was me for the first few days , I had the wrong Saorview area in the Autobouquetmaker setup menu.
I had to do a bit of detective work to find the right one.
See post 507 above.
The Saorview coverage site says I,m on wicklow kippure , but where I am an autotune of saorview puts me on dublin three rock.

sligojoek wrote: »

Thanks Andy. I don't think that's the problem. I'm just 10 km from Truskmore as the crow flies and I can see it from my back door. It's showing 100% signal.

Just saying , if you have another saorview receiver or Saorview TV you can get the frequencies off it and make sure using this pdf.

The last page shows channels and frequencies and the first shows what channels come from what transmitter.

http://www.2rn.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2RN-DTT-Television-Transmission-Network-Nov-2013.pdf

Maybe, like me , there's a possibility that another transmitter has a stronger signal in your exact spot.

It could be Freeview co-channel interference from anywhere.I get Freeview from Scotland without an amp, just an aerial in the attic. It's hit and miss. I am in Tallaght. Could be the answer.