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

Plascebo wrote: »

Do your ITV stations revert to channel 998 after 10 or so minutes?
Would love to get a work-around as I can't get the quick-rewind to work:mad:

No my blue button channels are working fine atm,hopefully it stays that way

muffler wrote: »

Since the update last week anything I have in the favourites (blue button) reverts to the intro channel after about 20 seconds or less. I was watching BBC2 Wales the other night and off it went too.

No problem with recordings, just the viewing.

Yeah seems to affect some more than others. I've watched some stuff for a while on the Favs without it reverting back. Other times it kept doing it. I wonder if a signal has been sent to make the box 'check' the inserted card's entitlements more often and if the channel viewed is not normally on the EPG, revert back to Ch998 (just like when you swap the card).

Box got another update again last night an Amstrad DRX890 to R005.053.70.12P and the card trick is still working fully using a NI card.:D

honeyphoebe wrote: »

Ok so I have just got my setanta card, thanks for the info about this. I have unplugged box put in ftv card restarted then swapped cards back but my stations always go back to irish epg after a few mins. If i leave in ftv card i get english epg. What am I doing wrong? Also what is blue button trick? Please and thanks

Chances are that you have the new epg now so the channels will not stay. What you need to do is unplug your box, put the setanta card in and start it up. When you have it started, add all of the channels that you are interested in to your "other channels" menu via "add channels". You can get to this easily by pressing the "services button". The tuning details are in the sticky at the top of the forum. Once you have that done, you need to add the channels you want to the favourites menu. I think this is via the "services" button also if memory serves me correctly. Just follow the instructions and select the ones you want (ITV 1-4, Channel 5,5usa, 5*, four 7 etc) (with the yellow or green button, cant remember which) and save them before you leave. Now, go to channel 103. It should be ITV. Press the off button on your sky remote. Swap the cards back and turn it back on. After a few minutes the Irish EPG should load but if you press the blue button a few times it should scroll through the favourites you've just added.

Thanks so much for such a detailed answer. I'll try that later

Chances are that you have the new epg now so the channels will not stay. What you need to do is unplug your box, put the setanta card in and start it up. When you have it started, add all of the channels that you are interested in to your "other channels" menu via "add channels". You can get to this easily by pressing the "services button". The tuning details are in the sticky at the top of the forum. Once you have that done, you need to add the channels you want to the favourites menu. I think this is via the "services" button also if memory serves me correctly. Just follow the instructions and select the ones you want (ITV 1-4, Channel 5,5usa, 5*, four 7 etc) (with the yellow or green button, cant remember which) and save them before you leave. Now, go to channel 103. It should be ITV. Press the off button on your sky remote. Swap the cards back and turn it back on. After a few minutes the Irish EPG should load but if you press the blue button a few times it should scroll through the favourites you've just added.[/Quote]

antocann wrote: »

got a new sky box installed , now cant get the trick to work , when i unplug , insert uk card power on , still shows rte 1etc...

Are you sure that the UK card was inserted properly? Try again as RTE can't appear with a UK card

how to get this FT card in ireland?

Are many people experiencing problems with the box after doing "the trick"?

My sister tells me that her box, which had the software updated a couple months ago, is now freezing a few times a week. She is using a Granada region card and records quite a bit from the ITV1 channel.

Im using the same card and apart from one or two reboots over the last few months I never had any issues myself but then again I seldom record the UK channels.

pbarr wrote: »

To all those that are doing this using the blue button to record keep redoing the card trick once a week or every couple of weeks. My box was updated in the summer and after that I could only record that way up until two months ago I had to do the card trick again after a power cut and I discovered the trick channels back on the epg again with no obvious reason for it. Only for the power cut I would never have known that it had come back working.

Is it a UTV region card you're using?

pbarr wrote: »

Yes it is, I posted plenty here after the update and read about only a UTV card working by I couldn't get it to work. I gave up in the end and just used the blue button. I recon the box must have got an update that let it work.

Sorry I was being lazy in that I was trying to avoid rooting through the posts again to see what type of card it was.

I thought it was a UTV one alright and I seem to recall that most people using this card still retained the channel on the EPG after the update.

alanashe wrote: »

I got my hands on an old Sky NI Card, rebooted box with it and up came BBC 1/2 NI and UTV. However it did not store them onto the EPG.

You need to have those channels saved already as 'other channels',when they are saved,plug out the box & insert the NI card,wait until the NI EPG fully loads,save the 'other channels' as favourites,turn off the box & put back in your normal Sky card,viola-the 'other channels' are available via the blue button.

jca wrote: »

Not me unfortunately!! Could anyone who has the trick channels on the epg post their epg/box type please?

I found this photo of my system details that I took a week after the box was updated with the new EPG and the card trick would not work.



Tonight I took this one(apologies for bad quality).The model no is different and the manufacturer has changed from Amstrad to Sky and Receiver ID has been added and the number 3 has been added in to the serial no and the card trick is working with it with the channels on the EPG.