<Ollie> wrote: » There is no EPG, only now and next. You have to 'wake up' the channel at the program start time, so yes, manually input. This is not as user friendly as a sky box, but it's a bloody great combo box for the price. I bought my third 150 box today for only €100. It's the exact same as the 250, but doesn't display the channel name on the box, and the remote doesn't work other devices like dvd players etc. Two features I have no interest in. Great media player too, plays every file.
O'Prez wrote: » The Irish stations have 7 day EPG :cool:
STB wrote: » "Wake up" On satellite yes, this is true. Whats actually happening you will notice is that when you pull up say BBC1, then the BBC2 epg will also populate. What it is doing is populating it per transponder (think frequency block for simplicity). Unfortunately with practically all free to air receivers this will be the case as "Freesat" have decided to have one single transponder to hold its own epg data which these boxes don't populate from. There are normal non linux combo boxes (Technomate) that have hacked this or Sky Openeg's data but they are hacks that require manual interaction. Not done on Arivas unfortunately.
<Ollie> wrote: » Didn't know the Irish channels had a 7 day EPG. :rolleyes: Only hooked up a powered hard drive today, so just getting used to recording, pausing, etc. Thought I was an expert there for a while. Think I have just about grasped the difference between FTA and Freesat now. lol
SD_DRACULA wrote: » Does anyone have a link to the manual for the 250? Also does this output in 1080p resolution?
Tony wrote: » http://www.ferguson-digital.eu/en/download/HD-Satellite-Receivers/Ariva-250-Combo/manual_EN.pdf/
12.2 TV System This menu is used to set the image parameters. Above all, you should determine the resolution of the image sent over the HDMI connection. Select the highest possible resolution supported by your HD television set in order to obtain the best image quality. The following resolutions are available: 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p (50Hz), 720p (60Hz), 1080i (50Hz), 1080i (60Hz), 1080p (50Hz), 1080p (60Hz). If you select an unsupported resolution, your image will be lost or become illegible – you can always use the F3key to return to the basic resolution, i.e. 576i.
SD_DRACULA wrote: » Thanks Tony. Do you know if this will pick up uPnP players such as my NAS unit through the ethernet port or wifi dongle? Could not find anything about it in the manual.
gg69me wrote: » i got a 250 lately aswell but not that impressed as it completely froze three times already and the only way to get it working again was to switch off the box at the back and allow it to reboot . seems to happen alot when i go into the entertainment section and try to download movie clips etc or it happened once when i was recording onto my mains powered hard drive....has anyone else had problems with their box freezing up completely or am i just jinxed?
bmaxi wrote: » Yes I've had that too. Doesn't bother me much as I don't really use the entertainment function but I can understand how it would annoy someone who does. I don't think all the questions regarding LAN operation have been addressed by Ferguson so we can only hope it will be solved in a future firmware update.
gg69me wrote: » Thanks for the reply bmax about your box completely freezing up aswell , i was beginning to wonder if i had bought a dud box . its a fair pain when you are recording an important program and it freezes up like happened to me last week but as you say maybe the next firmware upgrade will sort this problem out . this never happened to me when i was using the Ariva 120 box which is now moved to the kitchen and i am using the 250 in the sitting room as my main box buti might be swapping them around again , i see how it goes for a while...the weather app dosent seem to work either no matter how many cities i put in but sure not to worry it will probably be raining anyway , i am in ireland after all.
petersburg2002 wrote: » Am i wasting my time using an indoor UHF aerial? Im in the centre of Dublin and never had problems receiving the old analogue with the indoor aerial.
<Ollie> wrote: » Is the hard drive partitioned? Also is the format NTSF or FAT32?
grayface wrote: » Does anybody have a link for firmware version 1.19B1 for Ariva 250, as I want to upgrade to this firmware on a friends receiver, and dont want to get it wrong. Cheers and thanks in advance for feedback.:):)
grayface wrote: » Anyone find any link.?
Thargor wrote: » just wondering if all the channels are already on it apart from the Saorview channels,
winston_1 wrote: » Even if the channels are already tuned they will be out of date.
winston_1 wrote: » Satellite frequencies change regularly.
Tony wrote: » Yes they are as per the product page , if the receiver was shipped before last Friday you will need to retune BBC news and BBC 3 ,4 On 12 October: BBC Three / CBBC and BBC News will move to 10.818 V 22000 5/6 BBC Four / CBeebies and BBC Red Button stream 1 will move to 10.773 H 22000 5/6 Source: BBC Bloghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/info/sat_frequencies.shtml
Tony wrote: » That's an assumption on your part , any box shipped after last Friday should have the changes reflected in the channel list assuming the supplier provides this service.
Tony wrote: » Regularly is over stating the case
winston_1 wrote: » I very much doubt if they will. The radio changes are not yet complete so retuning will be required.
winston_1 wrote: » There seem to be changes on Astra 2 every month, though admittedly most do not affect the BBC channels.
gg69me wrote: » i connected up a brand new hard drive to my original 120 box and formatted it.i used this hard drive for 6 months on the 120 box with no problems and just reconnected it to the new 250 box with no trouble in playing my old recordings just some trouble with the box freezing sometimes when recording....bye the way the box is on file system is NTFS as this was recommended in the original 120 manual if i remember correctly . what is the best system do you think...fat 32 or NTFS FOR THE 250 BOX.
