I have a HUMAX FOXSAT-HDR. Tuner 1 is dead and I need to find a way to force it to use tuner 2 for freesat so I can use the EPG-
The history:
1. Had the dish, single lnb and cable set up nicely for 3 or so years, looping tuner1's output into tuner 2. Then suddenly "no signal". Nothing.
2. As it coincided with some bad weather (wet and windy) I got up on the roof and had a fiddle with the aligment. To no avail.
3. Bought myself a cheap (6 Pound) satellite finder which is powered by the recorder and helps align the dish. Discovered that tuner1 provides no output (didnt power the reader) but tuner 2 did.
4. Aligned satellite and got 80/80 power/quality on tuner 2 but couldnt autotune. Tuner 1 has 0/0.
5. used the secret menu to tell it there were 2 different cables and then to set tuner 2 to 28.2 freesat. (There seems no way to remove this freesat satelite from tuner 1, although you can add more).
6. return to autotune. Now it shows the 80/80 at the bottom and accepts the postcode. However cannot find the channels. - it seems to revert automatically to tuner 1 and the bars go to 0/0.
7 Go to manual tune and can tune in 304+ channels - including the freesat ones at the specific transponder. However these show the 80/80 bars and yet only show a blcak screen.
8. Use the menu to go back to freesat mode --> and promptly lose all my channels, and still cant autotune.
9. Tried fiddling about with the settings and teh factory reset but so far no luck.
My conclusion from the above is that: 1. tuner 1 is dead. 2. The humax by default uses tuner 1 for autotune.
I need to do one of the following:
A: make the software user tuner 2 to autotune freesat
B: manually open up the appliance and change the tuners around
C: somehow manually tune in the channels and set up the EPG if it is possible
Any help / advice greatly appreciated.
The history:
1. Had the dish, single lnb and cable set up nicely for 3 or so years, looping tuner1's output into tuner 2. Then suddenly "no signal". Nothing.
2. As it coincided with some bad weather (wet and windy) I got up on the roof and had a fiddle with the aligment. To no avail.
3. Bought myself a cheap (6 Pound) satellite finder which is powered by the recorder and helps align the dish. Discovered that tuner1 provides no output (didnt power the reader) but tuner 2 did.
4. Aligned satellite and got 80/80 power/quality on tuner 2 but couldnt autotune. Tuner 1 has 0/0.
5. used the secret menu to tell it there were 2 different cables and then to set tuner 2 to 28.2 freesat. (There seems no way to remove this freesat satelite from tuner 1, although you can add more).
6. return to autotune. Now it shows the 80/80 at the bottom and accepts the postcode. However cannot find the channels. - it seems to revert automatically to tuner 1 and the bars go to 0/0.
7 Go to manual tune and can tune in 304+ channels - including the freesat ones at the specific transponder. However these show the 80/80 bars and yet only show a blcak screen.
8. Use the menu to go back to freesat mode --> and promptly lose all my channels, and still cant autotune.
9. Tried fiddling about with the settings and teh factory reset but so far no luck.
My conclusion from the above is that: 1. tuner 1 is dead. 2. The humax by default uses tuner 1 for autotune.
I need to do one of the following:
A: make the software user tuner 2 to autotune freesat
B: manually open up the appliance and change the tuners around
C: somehow manually tune in the channels and set up the EPG if it is possible
Any help / advice greatly appreciated.