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

Luckycharms_74 · 28-10-2012 11:31AM

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Ok I have a little problem maybe someone can help with.
I set up the extra channels on both sky boxes but today the boxes hung. You couldn't change channels or anything and the only way to get boxes back was to unplug and reboot. What ended up happening is that any recording that were taking place failed.
Has anyone else experienced this.
It has only started to happen since using the card trick

I think what could be causing the problem is when the box records 2 programs at the same time (one from the Irish EPG and one from the card trick Fav). Last night I recorded ITV1HD & Rte1. The ITV program recorded but the Rte one failed. The box then froze because I had ITV2 set to record and that failed also.

Has anyone expeienced this problem. If it keeps happening with the recordings then there is no point doing the card trick. I'm puzzled by it.

Any help

tibolt · 29-10-2012 11:33AM

When I try to order a FTV card from Sky using the link https://mysky.sky.com/replacecard/get-a-card, the page is no longer there.

Anyone know how to obtain a (NI) FTV card?

energy1942 · 29-10-2012 04:23PM

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

I think what could be causing the problem is when the box records 2 programs at the same time (one from the Irish EPG and one from the card trick Fav). Last night I recorded ITV1HD & Rte1. The ITV program recorded but the Rte one failed. The box then froze because I had ITV2 set to record and that failed also.

Has anyone expeienced this problem. If it keeps happening with the recordings then there is no point doing the card trick. I'm puzzled by it.

Any help

You cannot record 2 card trick programmes at the same time, the only way to do this is get sky multiroom, that's how I do it, you can however record an irish card channel & a card trick programme at the same time so long as you make sure your irish card channel is on at the time the second recording starts, I am finding this also happens when trying to record football first.

MBSnr · 29-10-2012 09:37PM

Something I noticed on BBC news as a fav (at least) is it keeps resetting back to ch 998. Anyone else see this? It's the last fav saved so might try deleting all and start over.

Luckycharms_74 · 30-10-2012 04:46PM

energy1942 wrote: »

You cannot record 2 card trick programmes at the same time, the only way to do this is get sky multiroom, that's how I do it, you can however record an irish card channel & a card trick programme at the same time so long as you make sure your irish card channel is on at the time the second recording starts, I am finding this also happens when trying to record football first.

I have multi room. I'm not trying to record say ITV1 HD & ITV2. It was ITV & Rte. So you mean that if I record ITV & a non card trick channel it has to be on the specific irish card channel or any channel on the irish card. You know normally it changes channel automatically when you have 2 channels set to record.

Hope my post makes sense

pbarr · 30-10-2012 09:05PM

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Can you give the steps for that. I added all the itv 1HD from kingofsat. There was one of the itv1 freq wrong so that one didn't work. It's when I go to the epg and try to add itv1 hd as a favourite (think its ch 178) the problem occurs. It saves alright as favourite and shows up in the blue button on the uk card when I scroll through . It's when I swap cards it disappears from the blue button

Edit: after numerous tries itv1hd is now showing via the blue button . Can't get channel 5 though. But not to worry

Channel 5 is like itv1 hd there's a load of them in the family so maybe adding them all would work I have it using a Ni card.

energy1942 · 30-10-2012 11:16PM

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

I have multi room. I'm not trying to record say ITV1 HD & ITV2. It was ITV & Rte. So you mean that if I record ITV & a non card trick channel it has to be on the specific irish card channel or any channel on the irish card. You know normally it changes channel automatically when you have 2 channels set to record.

Hope my post makes sense

If you are recording 2 channels at the same time & one of them being a card trick channel then you must have the non card trick channel on, for example if you recording ITV & Rte you must have your box on 101 when the later of the recordings is about to begin otherwise only one will record.

Luckycharms_74 · 31-10-2012 12:04AM

energy1942 wrote: »

If you are recording 2 channels at the same time & one of them being a card trick channel then you must have the non card trick channel on, for example if you recording ITV & Rte you must have your box on 101 when the later of the recordings is about to begin otherwise only one will record.

I assume if you have it the other way around thats what causes the box to hang.
Thanks for the help

SPAWKER · 01-11-2012 09:24PM

Box updated overnight from R005.053.70.05P to R005.053.70.11P and the card trick still works.

machiavellianme · 02-11-2012 03:57PM

SPAWKER wrote: »

Box updated overnight from R005.053.70.05P to R005.053.70.11P and the card trick still works.

Cool.
What brand box is this? Samsung? Pace? Amstrad?

SPAWKER · 02-11-2012 07:54PM

machiavellianme wrote: »

Cool.
What brand box is this? Samsung? Pace? Amstrad?

Its an Amstrad DRX 890 version No 4f3106 also working on version No.4f31d4

jca · 02-11-2012 08:42PM

SPAWKER wrote: »

Its an Amstrad DRX 890 version No 4f3106

The 4f3106 works with NI ftv card?

Stobart · 02-11-2012 11:27PM

Hi folks,
I currently have 2 HD boxes { 1 Amstrad (main tv) and 1 Pace ( In attic split to 4 rooms via magic eyes)}
I have the card trick working well since its discovery last year.
On the Amstrad its through the blue button as its new epg and the pace is the " on the epg " way. My card is West region i.e itv 1 is itv 1 west.
I'm thinking of upgrading to a 2tb (1tb) box, Does the trick work in any way on it ? And which box do you think i should replace ? I love the pace with the channels on epg but is it going to get left behind as its still old epg ?
I've also set up on demand on the Amstrad which is great, do you need new epg to activate it ? Haven't bothered setting up the pace box yet.

Sorry for all the questions/details of setup, just wanted to give people answering as much info as possible:o
Thanks.

SPAWKER · 03-11-2012 12:30AM

jca wrote: »

The 4f3106 works with NI ftv card?

Yes it still works 100% with Ni card.

ellieh1 · 07-11-2012 08:16PM

I was able to pause and record the itv channels via the blue button up until sunday, but now it wont work. I get a message saying live pause is not available orif I try to record "This programme can not be inserted into the planner". Any ideas what is wrong?

greendom · 07-11-2012 08:31PM

ellieh1 wrote: »

I was able to pause and record the itv channels via the blue button up until sunday, but now it wont work. I get a message saying live pause is not available orif I try to record "This programme can not be inserted into the planner". Any ideas what is wrong?

i get this quite a bit - to resolve it I have to switch the box off and re-do the card trick

galtee boy · 07-11-2012 09:22PM

For all owners of Samsung boxes, currently using the full version of the card trick, it's days are numbered because as reported on another forum, Sky started rolling out the new EPG to Samsung boxes last night. Mine didn't get it yet, but it's only a matter of days now.

machiavellianme · 08-11-2012 10:54AM

Blast. Hopefully the NI card will work still.

jca · 08-11-2012 10:05PM

Both boxes updated overnight to version 0.11P. Card trick still working I got " no satellite signal bring received" error on resuming after putting back in the Irish card. In panic I punched in 101 and after a few seconds got RTE1. I hope this is the final release of the EPG as I can't take anymore heart attacks!!!

boardzz · 13-11-2012 09:35AM

Hey where do I get a NI FTV card?

Kay88 · 13-11-2012 11:34AM

I moved from the UK to Ireland and wanted to keep watching ITV and 5.

When I use the card that I had in the UK I can view the channels and select reminders, but when I try to set recording I get a message saying Sky+HD playback and recording are unavailable.

Is there any way around this problem?

I can't see any manufacturer name on the box,but it has a 'manufactured by Sky sticker' and the code RX890R-L.

machiavellianme · 13-11-2012 11:55AM

boardzz wrote: »

Hey where do I get a NI FTV card?

Cant talk about that anymore on here.

boardzz · 13-11-2012 05:22PM

machiavellianme wrote: »

Cant talk about that anymore on here.

The Nazi's on this website are really getting out of hand.

muffler · 13-11-2012 06:03PM

boardzz wrote: »

The Nazi's on this website are really getting out of hand.

That's a bit uncalled for.

jca · 13-11-2012 09:48PM

Kay88 wrote: »

I moved from the UK to Ireland and wanted to keep watching ITV and 5.

When I use the card that I had in the UK I can view the channels and select reminders, but when I try to set recording I get a message saying Sky+HD playback and recording are unavailable.

Is there any way around this problem?

I can't see any manufacturer name on the box,but it has a 'manufactured by Sky sticker' and the code RX890R-L.

Do you have an Irish subscription?

Kay88 · 13-11-2012 11:22PM

jca wrote: »

Do you have an Irish subscription?

Yes I have an Irish Subscription

Brian P · 14-11-2012 05:13PM

I received the new EPG last night on my Samsung box (unfortunately). I've tried the blue button trick and I've no problem getting Ch4HD but ITV1 Hd only stays on the screen for a few seconds and immediately reverts to the Sky998 channel. What am I doing wrong? It's ticked in other channels and favourites.

jgbyr · 14-11-2012 10:30PM

Brian P wrote: »

I received the new EPG last night on my Samsung box (unfortunately). I've tried the blue button trick and I've no problem getting Ch4HD but ITV1 Hd only stays on the screen for a few seconds and immediately reverts to the Sky998 channel. What am I doing wrong? It's ticked in other channels and favourites.

Same here,Samsung box updated last night. I've been trying to watch the England game on ITV1 & it keeps switching to the Sky Intro channel.Very annoying.

muffler · 14-11-2012 11:46PM

I have the same box and same problem as the last 2 posters. Just tested it there now and ITV HD is going back to the intro channel after about 20 odd seconds. I tried it then with Granada and no problems there.

Brian P · 15-11-2012 12:05AM

Brian P wrote: »

I received the new EPG last night on my Samsung box (unfortunately). I've tried the blue button trick and I've no problem getting Ch4HD but ITV1 Hd only stays on the screen for a few seconds and immediately reverts to the Sky998 channel. What am I doing wrong? It's ticked in other channels and favourites.

Oddly enough in the brief few seconds that ITV HD appears if I press "record", it accepts it and I can then watch the recording immediately in planner.

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

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