VU+ ULTIMO DVB-C/T-Tuner

[Ev0]

You won't get any pay channels as mentioned above, and i'm not sure you would even be "allowed" to receive the free channels using an aftermarket box.

As for not being able to find any channels to begin with, iirc they use different frequency's for different area's of the uk and also have area id's

[Larry-G]

There should still be a corresponding .xml file that contains the frequencies like the terrestrial.xml and satellites.xml.

[Ev0]

that is true

[Larry-G]

that is true

have a look in ETC/ see if there is a cables.xml file there.

[Ev0]

there isn't on my box, (etc/tuxbox) I only have satellite and terestrial xml's.

But then I am using the BH image again now so don't know if there is a cable.xml in the vix image (don't recall seeing it but then I wouldn't have been looking for it as I don't have the cable tuner).

[Larry-G]

there isn't on my box, (etc/tuxbox) I only have satellite and terestrial xml's.

But then I am using the BH image again now so don't know if there is a cable.xml in the vix image (don't recall seeing it but then I wouldn't have been looking for it as I don't have the cable tuner).

yeah thought as much although as far as i understand it you would still need a official box just to pickup the FTA on uk cable, no doubt some one will let me know if i'm wrong.

[ekkostar]

My DM500C still works for FTA cable.

BBC News is on Modulation 64 QAM, Frequency 00411, Symbol 06887

When I try to do a manual scan on that working transponder the Ultimo returns nothing ?

[Ev0]

Can't you copy your cable.xml file from your dm500c to the ultimo ?

[silverfox0786]

you need the cable.xml but how upto date it is i do not know as you cannot generate an upto date one but use a generic one

here you go

[ekkostar]

Right, I'm going to scan the network via my DM500C then FTP the XML into the Ultimo.

I finally got to load one transponder and it seems the frequencies in the BH xml are out for the UK. That seems to be the problem me thinks.

[silverfox0786]

an eiser way would be to open the setting in DBedit and update the xml file and ftp that into the ultimo

same thing but less time

[ekkostar]

There's a 'terrestrial.xml' in there and it holds both the DVB T/C info. For the life of me I could not edit it correctly and get the box to recognise the edits.

Went back to scan manually. You have two options a complete scan or a transponder. The complete scan will not pick up anything.

The manual transponder set to Network scan does. As soon as you find one working transponder, then it downloads everything. I tried to scan Freq 387000 on Symbol 06887 and it kicked on to download everything off cable, 503 channels in all.

So, it seems there is a slight bug in BH on the Cable tuner side.

Most of the channels on cable as you would expect were scrambled, BBC News & Four are FTA.

Now for the really interesting news......

....there were 4 feeds on there transmitting...

BBC HD
Sky Living HD
E4 HD
SyFy HD

They all cleared FTA in glorious 1920x1080 !

That means the DVB T/C tuner can indeed handle HD on the cable side

[Rob van der Does]

There should still be a corresponding .xml file that contains the frequencies like the terrestrial.xml and satellites.xml.

I found no such thing in the PLi images.

[ekkostar]

There should still be a corresponding .xml file that contains the frequencies like the terrestrial.xml and satellites.xml.

There is, it's all in a file called 'terrestrial.xml' The frequencies appear to be generic as DVB C covers EMEA rather than UK. It's a Dreambox.de registered file so seems to be default untampered with, which is the problem.

I gave up trying to edit it for now.

As I have said the effort didn't go wasted, I have discovered that the DVB T/C tuner works perfectly with Cable HD. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that as it clearly opens up further possibilities with this box.

[silverfox0786]

Now for the really interesting news......

....there were 4 feeds on there transmitting...

BBC HD
Sky Living HD
E4 HD
SyFy HD

They all cleared FTA in glorious 1920x1080 !

That means the DVB T/C tuner can indeed handle HD on the cable side

Cable doesnt use a C or C2 standard all cable channels are just plain C and they will decode tghen you need teh receiver to be HD Ready to decode it so that was expected from the cable side

you just wont see it in the Terestrial Side in Mainland UK. Where T2 is required