Freesat in a Ultimo

[Tropheus]

Hi Guys

I am really new to satellite equipment and have just brought a Ultimo to watch Freesat.....

How go I do this? I have it connected it to an old $ky dish and have setup both of the tuners but cant find Freesat do I need to get a $ky card for the receiver?

[Larry-G]

Freesat channels the same as sky uk are broadcast from the same satellite's so just do a scan on 28.2 east or load a premade bouquet pack such as silverfox's or the SGTFlipFlop bouquets.

[Tropheus]

Thanks for the reply, I have looked at silverfox one - How do I load it?

[Stanman]

Tutorial in my signature.

[Larry-G]

follow this tutorial
http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?10938-How-to-upload-VIX-Silverfox0786-bougets-to-E2

[Tropheus]

Thanks I watched those but I have an Ultimo not a dreambox?

I have the wlan setup and can access the root via the network from my pc, is it just a case of transferring the files in your bougets to a folder?

[Larry-G]

dont worry its the exact same procedure.

[Tropheus]

Is there similar software for the ultimo like DBEdit?

[Larry-G]

dreamboxedit will work for any enigma 1 or 2 receiver i use it for all of my receivers.

[Tropheus]

I'm getting this error message any idea why?

Connecting to 192.168.1.12.
Connected.
Dreambox response: Login successful.
** Getting directory list /var/tuxbox/config/enigma/* **
Starting FTP transfer
Transfer complete
** Sending file "/var/tuxbox/config/enigma/lamedb" **
Starting FTP transfer
Transfer aborted
Error sending file "lamedb" to the Dreambox.
Disconnecting.
Disconnected.

[Stanman]

Did you chose Engima 2 from the options in the profile tab?

Also need to have "allow duplicates" enabled in the advance tab.

[Tropheus]

Thank you Stanman, I managed to transfer all of the files OK and they now in the channel listings.

When I select a Freesat channel I get a tune error, is this because I need a FTA $ky card?

[Stanman]

No, check your tuner setup in menu>services>tuner configuraton to make sure its 28.2. If it is do a full rescan and see if that fixed. Is it all channels or only one or two as they may have moved location since the bouquets were released.

[Sicilian]

Try old version from here
http://dreambox.happyllama.com/

[Tropheus]

Thanks guys,

I'm not at home now so will have another go at it later. All of the channels are up loaded now so it must be a tuning error.

I read in another thread that I needed to buy a Sly FTV card to get the Freesat channels? I don't have one yet do I need to contact Sly and get one?

[Stanman]

You can do or try and pick one up from Ebay for under £20 or less but make sure its still active

[Larry-G]

no free sat channels are as the name suggests are free only a few FTV channels need a card now. have you set up your tuner cards in the receiver correctly ?.

[Tropheus]

So I do need one to get Freesat to work.....

[Larry-G]

no you dont need a card to get the freesat channels such as channel 5 etc. but have you set up the tuner cards in the receiver ?.

[Stanman]

You need to be clear about freesat.
There is freesat
http://www.freesat.co.uk/ and these channels are avilable in SF bouquet and marked as FREESAT. nothing further is needed c

There is also
http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/ these you will need a sky card, doe not need a valid subscription to work.

[Tropheus]

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?15496-TS-Doctor-1-1-49-Beta-Freeware&p=112907#post112907

>>>have you set up your tuner cards in the receiver correctly ?.

No I think that's were my problem is.... As I said before I am new to satellite and have a lot to learn....I have set the hard drive up and the network without any problems, my next step is setting up freesat

[Stanman]

Go Menu>Setup>services>tuner confiuration:

Simple
Single
28.2E
No

repeat the same for all tuners that have a cable connected, if not than just set them to loopthrough from A or which ever tuner has the cable connected to it.

[Larry-G]

i suspect you have not setup the tuners but i am not near a receiver to go through it with you. stanman on one of the others will post the instructions on how to set up the tuner cards.

[Tropheus]

Thanks for making it clear about Freesat and Sky Freesat.

None of the freesat channels work in the SF bouquet .... Guys please don't laugh I've got a feeling that I have set the satellite dish to 23.5E!!!

[punisher]

Just change it to 28.2e and save it for all the tuners and that should get you working

[Stanman]

Follow the instructions in post 22 and go to BBC1 and see if you can get a picture.

[Tropheus]

Guys thank you all so much for all of your help.

I had got the satellite setting wrong it was pointing to 23.5E ....

I changed that it it worked straight away... Freesat is now working!

[Larry-G]

cool, i'm happy your sorted.