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

muffler · 12-08-2014 01:24PM

Something strange happening alright. I give my UTV card to my daughter and she can get everything up and running but every morning when she brings the box out of standby the "trick channels" are gone from the EPG. She only got Sky installed a couple of months ago and its one of the boxes with the built in wifi. I dont know if that makes any difference or not.

She's going to try the blue button method for the next couple of days and we'll see how that goes.

Citizenpain · 12-08-2014 01:49PM

muffler wrote: »

Something strange happening alright. I give my UTV card to my daughter and she can get everything up and running but every morning when she brings the box out of standby the "trick channels" are gone from the EPG. She only got Sky installed a couple of months ago and its one of the boxes with the built in wifi. I dont know if that makes any difference or not.

She's going to try the blue button method for the next couple of days and we'll see how that goes.

Check that her box is not in Eco mode... It shuts it down completely every night. She wants it to just go to standby . It's somewhere in settings . I can give better directions later

muffler · 12-08-2014 01:52PM

Citizenpain wrote: »

Check that her box is not in Eco mode... It shuts it down completely every night. She wants it to just go to standby . It's somewhere in settings . I can give better directions later

Ah! That could be the issue indeed. I had forgotten about that so I'll get her to check that this afternoon.

david1982 · 12-08-2014 09:51PM

Seriously is nobody else having this problem tonight. They have added extra settings in the add channels section. If it hasn't happened to your box already the update is on the way. No more blue button. As soon as you put the Irish card back in the box all other uk channels disappear from favourites

Citizenpain · 12-08-2014 11:16PM

what software version are you on?

My epg version is R009.066.77.08P
Box is: 4f3120

Full Card Trick still working....

energy1942 · 13-08-2014 12:21AM

david1982 wrote: »

Seriously is nobody else having this problem tonight. They have added extra settings in the add channels section. If it hasn't happened to your box already the update is on the way. No more blue button. As soon as you put the Irish card back in the box all other uk channels disappear from favourites

Have you checked that the channels are in other channels, also have you checked that the favourite channels have been saved using the green button,

Can you explain the new features in other channels.

david1982 · 13-08-2014 08:50AM

They have added a modulation scheme section to add channels with options of QPSK and 8PSK and standard DVB-S and DVB-S2. The software update has 124 pages to read through. The version no is 4f3120 and the model no is R010.070.58.00p

13-08-2014 09:57AM

david1982 wrote: »

They have added a modulation scheme section to add channels with options of QPSK and 8PSK and standard DVB-S and DVB-S2. The software update has 124 pages to read through. The version no is 4f3120 and the model no is R010.070.58.00p

In layman's terms please! Will that mean we can add some of the HD channels that we couldn't previously, due to the sky box restrictions?

Citizenpain · 13-08-2014 10:43AM

software info is 124 pages long for my version too

I can not find any info in EPG R010.070.58.00p anywhere ........ Looks like they got you first David!

david1982 · 13-08-2014 02:35PM

Citizenpain wrote: »

software info is 124 pages long for my version too

I can not find any info in EPG R010.070.58.00p anywhere ........ Looks like they got you first David!

Thats probably because i work for sky

we always get the updates before everyone else

i had the new epg about 4 weeks before it was generally rolled out

oh and in lamens terms i dont know anything about the tech side of the boxes so cant really help with that

looks like yous all have about 3 weeks before the blue button trick is gone forever

13-08-2014 02:50PM

david1982 wrote: »

Seriously is nobody else having this problem tonight. They have added extra settings in the add channels section. If it hasn't happened to your box already the update is on the way. No more blue button. As soon as you put the Irish card back in the box all other UK channels disappear from favourites

This happened a few weeks ago just with BBC 2 England,I had it saved in favourites and in add channels but it didn't show when I put the ROI card back in.

energy1942 · 13-08-2014 03:04PM

zorro2566 wrote: »

This happened a few weeks ago just with BBC 2 England,I had it saved in favourites and in add channels but it didn't show when I put the ROI card back in.

BBC2 England & BBC 1 London will still work if you select it from other channels, select a recorded programme, then press sky & when it goes back to
BBC2 England or BBC 1 London, press channel + or - on your remote control, then you will be able to record it.

jca · 13-08-2014 03:22PM

david1982 wrote: »

Thats probably because i work for sky

we always get the updates before everyone else

i had the new epg about 4 weeks before it was generally rolled out

oh and in lamens terms i dont know anything about the tech side of the boxes so cant really help with that

looks like yous all have about 3 weeks before the blue button trick is gone forever

Will the full EPG using my UTV card be gone too?

david1982 · 13-08-2014 04:03PM

jca wrote: »

Will the full EPG using my UTV card be gone too?

I dont know ive been using the westcountry card and its not working

i have full package with hd

all the uk channels are ticked and saved in favourates when i have the uk card in

as soon as i put the irish one in all the uk ones gone and all series links are also gone

its as if ive powered the box up with the irish card inside the box

david1982 · 13-08-2014 07:24PM

I'm able to add all the BBC hd channels now in other channels. Bbc1 NI HD CBEEBIES HD BBC NEWS HD AND BBC3 and bbc4 HD.

energy1942 · 13-08-2014 07:32PM

david1982 wrote: »

I'm able to add all the BBC hd channels now in other channels. Bbc1 NI HD CBEEBIES HD BBC NEWS HD AND BBC3 and bbc4 HD.

Can you trying to record as follows:

BBC2 England & BBC 1 London will still work if you select it from other channels, select a recorded programme, then press sky & when it goes back to
BBC2 England or BBC 1 London, press channel + or - on your remote control, then you will be able to record it.

13-08-2014 08:32PM

energy1942 wrote: »

Can you trying to record as follows:

BBC2 England & BBC 1 London will still work if you select it from other channels, select a recorded programme, then press sky & when it goes back to
BBC2 England or BBC 1 London, press channel + or - on your remote control, then you will be able to record it.

That works for me with a BBC West Midlands card, thanks!

david1982 · 13-08-2014 10:00PM

That's not working for me but I would be Looking to record channel 5 anyway sure the BBC HD and BBC 2 are recordable anyway so not much use to me but thanks for the suggestion. Hoping someone comes up with a fix when the updates hit the rest of your boxes. I thought it might have been something to do with sky sports 5 launching and the sports having their own section on the home screen

SPAWKER · 13-08-2014 10:52PM

david1982 wrote: »

Thats probably because i work for sky

we always get the updates before everyone else

i had the new epg about 4 weeks before it was generally rolled out

oh and in lamens terms i dont know anything about the tech side of the boxes so cant really help with that

looks like yous all have about 3 weeks before the blue button trick is gone forever

Which model of box do you have as it seems the DRX595 boxes are the only ones getting this update at the moment with DRX 890/895's to follow later.?

david1982 · 13-08-2014 10:58PM

SPAWKER wrote: »

Which model of box do you have as it seems the DRX595 boxes are the only ones getting this update at the moment with DRX 890/895's to follow later.?

I haven't a clue how to check. I have 3 sky plus HD boxes and they all updated

Plascebo · 14-08-2014 10:16AM

david1982 wrote: »

i have full package with hd

all the uk channels are ticked and saved in favourates when i have the uk card in

as soon as i put the irish one in all the uk ones gone and all series links are also gone

its as if ive powered the box up with the irish card inside the box

Is that the issue there? Does the card trick not work if you have the HD package?

david1982 · 14-08-2014 10:25AM

It worked fine with the HD up until 2 days ago

Citizenpain · 14-08-2014 10:36AM

Plascebo wrote: »

Is that the issue there? Does the card trick not work if you have the HD package?

Blue button trick currently works with hd
Full card trick doesn't

Anxiously waiting for software update !!!

energy1942 · 14-08-2014 12:08PM

I have just been on the phone to BSKYB, talking to a representative at there Donegal centre,

I wanted to find out when I may expect a software update, he asked for my Version number & model number, 4f3101 & R009.066.77.08P

He left me for several minutes & Came back & told me that my box has the very latest software update & that there are no plans to update in the near future,

He also told me that sky have no plans to roll out such a change that would add 23,000 & 29,000 to the Symbol rate on Add channels currently & that such a plan would almost certainly be accompanied by a press announcement.

david1982 · 14-08-2014 12:44PM

energy1942 wrote: »

I have just been on the phone to BSKYB, talking to a representative at there Donegal centre,

I wanted to find out when I may expect a software update, he asked for my Version number & model number, 4f3101 & R009.066.77.08P

He left me for several minutes & Came back & told me that my box has the very latest software update & that there are no plans to update in the near future,

He also told me that sky have no plans to roll out such a change that would add 23,000 & 29,000 to the Symbol rate on Add channels currently & that such a plan would almost certainly be accompanied by a press announcement.

No offence to the lads in the Derry office but i can tell you now he is wrong

all my collegues had their boxes updated and i can tell you 100 precent that the 23,000 symbol rate has been added

all the BBC hd channels are now available to add to other channels

like i said they always update our boxes first for some reason so yous can all expect it to be generally rolled out

i wish i could post a pic to this page to show you but i dont think i can do that can i

energy1942 · 14-08-2014 01:22PM

david1982 wrote: »

No offence to the lads in the Derry office but i can tell you now he is wrong

all my collegues had their boxes updated and i can tell you 100 precent that the 23,000 symbol rate has been added

all the BBC hd channels are now available to add to other channels

like i said they always update our boxes first for some reason so yous can all expect it to be generally rolled out

i wish i could post a pic to this page to show you but i dont think i can do that can i

I have sent an email to BSKYB asking for clarification about this, if & when I receive a reply, I will Post it here, but for now I am happy to go with what the Customer service representative told me, he seemed very sure of the facts of what I was enquiring about

twinklerunner · 14-08-2014 01:41PM

david1982 wrote: »

No offence to the lads in the Derry office but i can tell you now he is wrong

all my collegues had their boxes updated and i can tell you 100 precent that the 23,000 symbol rate has been added

all the BBC hd channels are now available to add to other channels

like i said they always update our boxes first for some reason so yous can all expect it to be generally rolled out

i wish i could post a pic to this page to show you but i dont think i can do that can i

If so, it's strange that there is no mention of this over on Digital Spy - the members there are usually fast to advise on any proposed changes.

david1982 · 18-08-2014 04:07PM

Just noticed that the sky movies on demand section has updated and its the actual front covers of the movie posters showing up now looks pretty slick

Has this happened with everyones box ??

muffler · 18-08-2014 04:19PM

muffler wrote: »

Something strange happening alright. I give my UTV card to my daughter and she can get everything up and running but every morning when she brings the box out of standby the "trick channels" are gone from the EPG. She only got Sky installed a couple of months ago and its one of the boxes with the built in wifi. I dont know if that makes any difference or not.

She's going to try the blue button method for the next couple of days and we'll see how that goes.

Citizenpain wrote: »

Check that her box is not in Eco mode... It shuts it down completely every night. She wants it to just go to standby . It's somewhere in settings . I can give better directions later

muffler wrote: »

Ah! That could be the issue indeed. I had forgotten about that so I'll get her to check that this afternoon.

Just to update this wee issue. Yeah, the Eco mode setting was the problem. She changed it and has all the UK FTA channels on the EPG now and more importantly they are staying on the EPG

Thanks for the help Citizenpain

SPAWKER · 18-08-2014 08:52PM

david1982 wrote: »

Just noticed that the sky movies on demand section has updated and its the actual front covers of the movie posters showing up now looks pretty slick

Has this happened with everyones box ??

Can you post a picture of that and also a pic of the system details screen please.휊

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

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