Hi,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum as it's more a config question, but not sure where else is best to put it. I've had a Vu+ Solo4k for a month or so and I'm really happy with it. Flashed to OpenViX 5.1.032, set up with picons and recording programs to my NAS. Got the hang of timers (mostly) and got favourites sorted out. This box replaced an old Samsung S7800, which about six years ago replaced an old Sky HD box and subscription. Still using the old Sky dish unchanged from the old Sky subscription days.
I've got a question around available channels on the Hotbird satellite. My installed tuner hardware is whatever comes with the box, i.e. the two non-modular LNB connectors, both hooked up to the old dish. When I set the box up, I set all tuners to the Astra satellite and did a scan. Got great result - 983 channels, of which about 300 are viewable (nice have Channel 4 HD again). Signal looked great - photo here: https://i.imgur.com/U2ePmBK.jpg
But I have a 4K TV and a now a 4K satellite box, so I'm interested in the 4K broadcasts. From the Astra scan, I only have Astra UHD and SES UHD, both of which look amazing. But according to this link https://www.eutelsat.com/en/services...-channels.html , Hotbird has some UHD channels and some that even broadcast in HDR/HLG. When I reset the tuner to Hotbird, signal still seemed OK : https://i.imgur.com/awBaOuX.jpg. But when I did a scan, it only found 28 channels, all of which were weird and wonderful stuff like HUM News, Solar Radio and ATN Bangla UK. See https://i.imgur.com/oF8ZW26.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/0KUvHRJ.jpg for the channels I found.
So my question is, if I want to get the full range of channels from Hotbird as listed in the link above (mainly Travelxp 4K for the HDR UHD signal) do I need to change my settings somehow, or is my dish installation not set up correctly to just switch the tuner like this?
Box brand & model: Vu+ Solo4K
Chipset: 7376
System OE: OE-Alliance 4.1
Firmware version: OpenViX 5.1.032 (2018-07-24)
Kernel / Drivers: 3.14.28 / 20180702
Tuner config for Hotbird scan:
Configuration mode: Simple
Mode: DiSEqC A/B
Port A: 13.0E Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B/13C/13E
Port B: 13.0E Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B/13C/13E
Set voltage and 22KHz: yes
Send DiSEqC only on satellite change: no
Force legacy signal stats: no
Any help much appreciated.
Rob