Need help with my new box Ultimo

[mysteriousMan]

Hey Morning All,

i'm new to this forum and must say how interesting this forum is. So much info and help for satellite boxes. I had to join Anyways Hi All.

So let me start with the problem i have:

i got this box last week and decided to set it up this morning. Reading, googling, i think i got a rough idea of how to set this up.

The box came with Vix 2.3 build 204 (thanks to W.O.S). So the first thing i did was install a hard drive then started the box followed the wizard. Box's DHCP activated and my boxed picked up a IP successfully. What i did next was install the mgCamd 1.38 which i downloaded, installed, started and enabled on startup successfully. My next step was adding a bouquet to the box. I used the DBE software and installed the bouquet from digitalworldz (RATs). RESTARTED box and set up both of the tuners, tuner A and tuner B, to the following settings:

single,
simple,
Astra 1n/2q/2b/2d/eurobird 1 28.2
No

Did an automatic channel, clear before scan set to N0. It found over 1000 channels. This is where the problem occurs, after this when i go back to the bouquet to view any channel, i get N/A as a name for every single channel. I get a message on the screen ''service not available, check tuner configuration'.

what am i doing wrong? Surely i've not missed anything? Know for a fact that the cables are not faulty becuase ive tested a DUO and works perfectly fine.

More info, Satfinder gives me really good stats for Astra 1n/2q/2b/2d/eurobird 1 28.2 only when i click on it.

what holes do the coaxial cables go into? maybe ive put the cables in wrong.

Need your help.

many thanks

 

[Dell_XPS]

Press down arrow on remote, instead or pressing blue button press red button, should bring up all scanned channels, sroll down it to see if you get a picture display, if so the bouquet you have installed is either old/faulty etc, download the latest bouquet from the forum, overwrite the one installed just now.
HTH

 

[mysteriousMan]

pretty sure ive done that still no picture and get the same message.

i downloaded the latest bouquet from Digitalworldz same one running on the DUO i tested and works fine on the DUO. I still get the same message: 'service unavailable, check tuner configuration'

 

[Dell_XPS]

Download silver foxes bouquet from here m8, see if that works.
What happens when you go into last TV channels scanned, does it show a picture ?

 

[mysteriousMan]

Download silver foxes bouquet from here m8, see if that works.
What happens when you go into last TV channels scanned, does it show a picture ?

ive tried SGTFLipflop still the same thing, not checked the last tv channels scanned

 

[Dell_XPS]

are you putting the sat.xml file in tuxbox also when transferring across the bouquets ?, just saves you scanning the channels every time you do a fresh install.
Have you initialised the hard drive also ?
And if i do a scan with the tuners I always clear before scan, so that would be YES.

 

[mysteriousMan]

are you putting the sat.xml file in tuxbox also when transferring across the bouquets ?, just saves you scanning the channels every time you do a fresh install.
Have you initialised the hard drive also ?
And if i do a scan with the tuners I always clear before scan, so that would be YES.

dell_xps,

no i wasnt. where do i locate the sat.xml file from? is this created when i run the scan for the very time?

ive initialised the hard also. Also through the box how do i format the HDD?

 

[Dell_XPS]

once initialised it's formatted to the correct format , in the bouquets you download there is a file in it called satellite.xml, copy and paste that into etc/tuxbox, overwrite the file thats there.

 

[mysteriousMan]

once initialised it's formatted to the correct format , in the bouquets you download there is a file in it called satellite.xml, copy and paste that into etc/tuxbox, overwrite the file thats there.

oh cool thanks Dell_XPS,

can you please post me the link for silverfoxes bouquet, theres a few but not sure which one i need for 28.2e Eurobird?

what are your tuner settings?

 

[Dell_XPS]

Just look for the latest ones m8, think there dated the 5th of this month, cant post a live link :-(, are you using your receiver to view Sly channels ?

 

[mysteriousMan]

Just look for the latest ones m8, think there dated the 5th of this month, cant post a live link :-(, are you using your receiver to view Sly channels ?

yes using receiver to view sly channels.. what are your tuner settings, ill try replicate them on my box

 

[mysteriousMan]

Dell_XPS, when you set up your ultimo, whats step did you take? can you please let me know to see if im doing something wrong

 

[Dell_XPS]

Tuner A is set up the same as tuner B and C m8, simple, both set to Astra 28.2, port a & b I think it is, leave the bottom 2 settings at default.Anything else is left at default, I have a static dish, so might be different for a motorised dish m8.

 

[Larry-G]

What software are you using to transfer the bouquets ?

 

[mysteriousMan]

Tuner A is set up the same as tuner B and C m8, simple, both set to Astra 28.2, port a & b I think it is, leave the bottom 2 settings at default.Anything else is left at default, I have a static dish, so might be different for a motorised dish m8.

i have a static dish too. I'm pretty sure i have only two tuners, tuner A and tuner B

 

[mysteriousMan]

What software are you using to transfer the bouquets ?

Pheonix, i use dreambox edit

 

[Larry-G]

ok make sure you have it setup properly.

 

[Dell_XPS]

M8 bite the bullet, do a fresh install and start from scratch, install fresh image, go through wizard menu and see if you can view channels, then think about installing bouquets etc.

 

[mysteriousMan]

Dell_xps going to start from scratch.

Pheonix, I'll check this in the evening, just say that line isn't there, what would I do?

 

[Larry-G]

Dell_xps going to start from scratch.

Pheonix, I'll check this in the evening, just say that line isn't there, what would I do?

manually hit the reload button directly underneath, or do a GUI restart of the receiver.