Tuner Sensitivity In ET9000 - Anyone Able To Test Scan 1W For FTA

[Sicilian]

Try doing a full complete scan of of 1.0 deg west. ViX 2.2 has updated drivers and scan does work fine. Try loading cateyes channel list then doing a complete satellite scan of 1deg. 2.2 isn't too far away, extra work had to be done to make the drivers compatible with the image.

Why do you keep scanning if you had found the channels earlier?

[Sicilian]

Just flashed with ViX 2.1 and run software upadte in blue button menu. All fine. Heres a screenshot of scan settings.

1-0-deg-scan.jpg

Found 21 channels. Scan with those settings.

Personally I'd look at your setup and the way your satellites are setup. Very much doubt that theres anything wrong with the receiver.

You cant compare a generic receiver to a linux receiver for scanning, they dont use satellites.xml. If you want to scan using a similar method wait for ViX 2.2 and use the blindscan feature. Some of them 39 channels could even just be data streams or something, not nessacarily TV streams.

[pooface]

Just looking on kingofsat here:

http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-0.8W-fta.php

And it looks like there should be 44 tv streams and a total of 239 total services. Of course, some could be dependant on the beam... But, just done a scan with the following settings:

1w_fta_scan.jpeg

And I got 202 services found, as shown in the following screenshot:

1w_fta_scan_results.jpeg

Hope this helps. Doesn't look to have an issues with the drivers this end tho (on vix 2.2 image)...

[Dervis]

I've got the same problem.
5 Sattellite scan tarnsporder with DM800 HD total:4100 channels (Fta-Encrypt)
the same system with clarke-tech9000 total:3500-3700 channels (Fta-Encrypt)
Satellites:
1-7E
2-13E
3-19.2E
4-42.E
5-1W

I think the driver should be reviewed again

[pooface]

I've got the same problem.
5 Sattellite scan tarnsporder with DM800 HD total:4100 channels (Fta-Encrypt)
the same system with clarke-tech9000 total:3500-3700 channels (Fta-Encrypt)
Satellites:
1-7E
2-13E
3-19.2E
4-42.E
5-1W

I think the driver should be reviewed again

Can you not put a bug report through to xtrend?

[Dervis]

You are right.I need to write all over.

[pooface]

Just do a search for "et-view", and put your post on their official forum I would imagine that the developers frequent there

[world-of-satellite.co.uk]

Just an update. The Bishop bought the Et9000 over to me this morning and the receiver was scanning as it should be. He's now investigating his other equipment.

[The Bishop]

Hi,

To confirm the post by WoS, Steffan very kindly allocated some time this morning to check out the ET9000 and confirmed that the tuner is working OK. A scan of 1W for FTA picked up 202 services compared to 117 I was getting when connected to my equipment .

Many thanks for all your input to the thread and for taking the time to do scans to check the number of services your were receiving. A big thank you to WoS for their excellent support and patience with a newbie to the world of Linux receivers. Last but not least, sorry if some of my posts came across as short tempered, the frustrations with the tuning sometimes got the better of me.

I now need to start looking at other equipment to see what is causing the issue.



The Bishop

[bassethound]

Glad that you are getting to the root of your problems mate

[pooface]

First thing I would probably check would be the lnb... Might be that it's having problems with upper or lower vertical or horizontal... Which would explain less channels when searched. Is it only 1w you get this problem on tho?! As would have thought other satellites would be affected...

[The Bishop]

First thing I would probably check would be the lnb... Might be that it's having problems with upper or lower vertical or horizontal... Which would explain less channels when searched. Is it only 1w you get this problem on tho?! As would have thought other satellites would be affected...

pooface,

I have not yet tested the precise number of services found on other satellites to see if the issue is impacting other satellites. I confined myself to 1W as it has a low number of FTA TV channels which makes a detailed comparison simpler. The ET9000 receives services from other satellites as I tested that out when configuring the tuner but I did not start to analyse the number of services.

I will change the LNB as a first step. I might move from a quad output LNB to a quattro output LNB with a multiswitch as it offers the option to have more than 4 receivers connected and there is amplification available from the multiswitch. However, before then I will probably place a single full band LNB on the dish, connect it to the ET9000 and see what difference that makes on 1W.



The Bishop

[The Bishop]

Update:

After checking all cabling and termination connectors and finding them to all be OK I moved the dish from 1W round to 28E to see how many services a scan detected. Initially, I detected 558 services of which 399 were TV channels which was quite a lot lower than expected. My next port of call was the LNB, currently an Invacom 0.3db quad C120 LNB, I changed the LNB to an Invacom 0.3db single C120 LNB and repeated the scan. The result, the services detected shot up to 982 of which 671 were TV channels.

Lesson learnt, a faulty LNB was the culprit, the ET9000 is functioning perfectly and is a top class unit with top class support from WoS and the ViX forum. Now for ViX 2.2 ..................



The Bishop