Bargain Alert: New Ferguson HD DTT/Sat Combo Box - €63 before postage

Tony

Afraid I cannot answer that as commercial interaction is against forum rules without a moderators permission.

Compton

Hi Techguy, yes, that's a great offer. You'll have to wait til mid-late november for delivery though. Still, excellent from an Irish retailer.

Fresh Pots

Tony wrote: »

Afraid I cannot answer that as commercial interaction is against forum rules without a moderators permission.

Thats fair enough, I know you do your best for your customers.

shblob wrote: »

Hi Techguy, yes, that's a great offer. You'll have to wait til mid-late november for delivery though. Still, excellent from an Irish retailer.

Yeah its the cheapest I've seen anyway and I think stocks are running low everywhere so may as well get a discount if your going to be waiting.

Compton

TheTechGuy wrote: »

Yeah its the cheapest I've seen anyway and I think stocks are running low everywhere so may as well get a discount if your going to be waiting.

True, not too long to wait either, have had nothing but good experience with the lads in there too

Tony

shblob wrote: »

True, not too long to wait either, have had nothing but good experience with the lads in there too

Yep Andre is a good guy

Compton

There is another thread which confirms that Boards.ie works as a code for 5% off on www.satworld.ie this makes the 120 around 80 quid or so

Peter Rhea

shblob wrote: »

There is another thread which confirms that Boards.ie works as a code for 5% off on www.satworld.ie this makes the 120 around 80 quid or so

What's 5% of 120?

Compton

The ferguson ariva 120, which is what this thread is about!!

Dozen Wicked Words

Thats a great price isnt it, wish I could afford one! €81.43 before postage.

Compton

not bad at all tbh. I already have one though haha.

fuzzball

what about having 1 yr olds who will eat the front facing memory stick

Compton

what about them?!

STB

fuzzball wrote: »

what about having 1 yr olds who will eat the front facing memory stick

The 1 year olds are extra (so are the memory sticks).

LordSutch

I have been struggling to pick up the five BBC streams since they moved frequency a couple of months ago. I gather they are now on Astra 28.2 / (11954 H 27500) and yet, when I do a transponder search I get nothing! All other stations/ transponders are fine I think, although I notice that I can only pick up BBC Radio2 on Eurobird, which may or may not be odd?

Any ideas, anybody?

Gerry Wicklow

LordSutch wrote: »

I have been struggling to pick up the five BBC streams since they moved frequency a couple of months ago. I gather they are now on Astra 28.2 / (11954 H 27500) and yet, when I do a transponder search I get nothing! All other stations/ transponders are fine I think, although I notice that I can only pick up BBC Radio2 on Eurobird, which may or may not be odd?

Any ideas, anybody?

That's correct Astra 2 11954 H 27500 2/3
look for 6711, 6712, 6713, 6714, 6715
Most BBC radio are here too except radio 5L and 5SX which are on 10803 H 22000 5/6

LordSutch

But how do I do that in practice on this box?

I am familiar with searching transponders, but this transponder 11954 H 27500 is reading No signal ???

Help!

Compton

are you using a sky dish? could be a dodgy lnb, this is quite common.

LordSutch

shblob wrote: »

are you using a sky dish? could be a dodgy lnb, this is quite common.

Yes I am using a Sky dish, but would a faulty LNB affect just one transponder? bearing in mind that everything else is working just fine, it really is only (11954 H 27500) that's dead, I'm thinking more along the lines that there might be a glitch in the box, since I upgraded to the new 2.15b5 Firmware?

Kristopherus

Try deleting that transponder from the list, and add it on again later. It may be just a temporary software glitch.

Compton

Strange things happen with those LNBs for some transponders or polarity.
I will have a look on my box tomorrow and let you know if it's the software or not.

Tony

There is no glitch in the box that could possibly cause the problem you are describing .

LordSutch wrote: »

, I'm thinking more along the lines that there might be a glitch in the box, since I upgraded to the new 2.15b5 Firmware?

LordSutch

Oh my God, after weeks of searching I have just found the BBC Red Button streams (by accident)! All along I have been correctly searching on Astra 28.2, but this morning I was listening to BBC Radio 2 on (Eurobird 1), then forgetting that I was on the Eurobird satellite I went into TP search yet again looking for the missing streams, and this time the signal strength & quality were showing a very high output with 6711, 6712, 6713, 6714, 6715 all looking good )

I'm still baffled as to why I got them on Eurobird 1, instead of Astra 2, so I can only guess its just a labelling issue? For a while there I thought I had buggered the boxes with the firmware upgrade.

peadar99

Something that caught me out for a while after a firmware update was the LNB Frequency under Antenna Setup. I had somehow managed to get the one for Eurobird set correctly but not the Astra 2 one.
Low frequency transponders were fine, but channels from higher frequency transponders would then come in on the expected transponder from Eurobird, but on either the wrong transponder or not at all from Astra 2.
Setting the frequency to Universal - 9,750-10,600 fixed it up for me. [I did have to delete and rescan some of the goofy transponders.]

LordSutch wrote: »

Oh my God, after weeks of searching I have just found the BBC Red Button streams (by accident)! All along I have been correctly searching on Astra 28.2, but this morning I was listening to BBC Radio 2 on (Eurobird 1), then forgetting that I was on the Eurobird satellite I went into TP search yet again looking for the missing streams, and this time the signal strength & quality were showing a very high output with 6711, 6712, 6713, 6714, 6715 all looking good )

I'm still baffled as to why I got them on Eurobird 1, instead of Astra 2, so I can only guess its just a labelling issue? For a while there I thought I had buggered the boxes with the firmware upgrade.

Ronnie Raygun

shblob wrote: »

Strange things happen with those LNBs for some transponders or polarity.

Can you elaborate, on what evidence do you base this statement?

Tony

Can we keep this on topic guys please. Discussions about LNB's deserve their own thread.

Compton

sometimes 'h' frequencies don't work at all on those lnbs and sometimes 'v' frequencies don't work. due to lnb fault.

Tony

shblob wrote: »

sometimes 'h' frequencies don't work at all on those lnbs and sometimes 'v' frequencies don't work. due to lnb fault.

Ok but can we leave it at that and stick to ferguson specific issues please

LordSutch

Tony wrote: »

Ok but can we leave it at that and stick to ferguson specific issues please

So what do you make of my TP post#2423 Tony? What do you think has caused 11954 to be labled on Eurobird?

Tony

LordSutch wrote: »

So what do you make of my TP post#2423 Tony? What do you think has caused 11954 to be labled on Eurobird?

I've no idea

Zab

LordSutch wrote: »

So what do you make of my TP post#2423 Tony? What do you think has caused 11954 to be labled on Eurobird?

I'm not entirely convinced the device differentiates between satellites in this way, so perhaps if you did a normal search on what you have labelled as "astra" then a blind search on "eurobird" you could get something like you're describing. eg. when you manually add a satellite to the list you can name it whatever so it isn't trying to match it with a particular satellite.

LordSutch

Tony wrote: »

I've no idea

OK Tony, I'll explain in detail.

A month or two ago the BBC announced some Transponder changes which included the then seven Red Button Streams becoming five (due to BBC cut backs). The Five stream channels were now to be found on Astra 28.2 TP 11954 H 27500. And since that time several weeks ago I have been trying to get the streams by selecting the Astra channel list and then going into the main menu & doing a single TP search (Astra heading) on 11954 H 27500, but its always been dead, with no signal whatsoever!

What I have discovered this morning was that if I select the Eurobird channel list & then go into the main Menu (select single TP search) then 11954 H 27500 comes to life and I can press the blue button & capture all stations on that Transponder. My box has this transponder listed under Eurobird 1. Might it be a labelling issue in the box? I've no idea (as you would say) but I'm happy with that issue now, and the five BBC streams are to be found in my box on Eurobird 1, and not on the Astra 28.2 Satellite.

Hope this helps.

Tony

So if I understand you correctly you are asking me a question that you already know the answer to ? Have I misunderstood you ?

When I say I've no idea it really means what is says in so far I do not have an answer to your question which was "What do you think has caused 11954 to be labled on Eurobird?"

LordSutch wrote: »

OK Tony, I'll explain in detail.


Hope this helps.

LordSutch

Tony wrote: »

So if I understand you correctly you are asking me a question that you already know the answer to ? Have I misunderstood you ?

Not to worry Tony, I was just trying to highlight an anomoly in my Ariva 120.

Tony

LordSutch wrote: »

Not to worry Tony, I was just trying to highlight an anomoly in my Ariva 120.

No problem, next time I get a chance I'll try to replicate what happened to your box to try to gain an understanding of whats going on.

Trevord

LordSutch wrote: »

OK Tony, I'll explain in detail.

A month or two ago the BBC announced some Transponder changes which included the then seven Red Button Streams becoming five (due to BBC cut backs). The Five stream channels were now to be found on Astra 28.2 TP 11954 H 27500. And since that time several weeks ago I have been trying to get the streams by selecting the Astra channel list and then going into the main menu & doing a single TP search (Astra heading) on 11954 H 27500, but its always been dead, with no signal whatsoever!

What I have discovered this morning was that if I select the Eurobird channel list & then go into the main Menu (select single TP search) then 11954 H 27500 comes to life and I can press the blue button & capture all stations on that Transponder. My box has this transponder listed under Eurobird 1. Might it be a labelling issue in the box? I've no idea (as you would say) but I'm happy with that issue now, and the five BBC streams are to be found in my box on Eurobird 1, and not on the Astra 28.2 Satellite.

Hope this helps.

Well done on resolving this. The lack of signal from the transponder had me really puzzled.

Doodoo

Can anyone give a link to a list of pro's and con's in laymans English or a basic list of what this box can and can't do without having to go through 156 pages of info and questions.

kbell

Quick question, when setting the timer to record, on some channels I get the message "invalid input, continue to edit.
yes-no"
Tv 3 and rte especially.
But on other channels there's no problem.
Any ideas why I'm getting this??
Cheers.

Gerry Wicklow

kbell wrote: »

Quick question, when setting the timer to record, on some channels I get the message "invalid input, continue to edit.
yes-no"
Tv 3 and rte especially.
But on other channels there's no problem.
Any ideas why I'm getting this??
Cheers.

The only time I ever saw that was when two timer settings clashed or overlapped.

Compton

Doodoo wrote: »

Can anyone give a link to a list of pro's and con's in laymans English or a basic list of what this box can and can't do without having to go through 156 pages of info and questions.

Good
Satellite+Terrestrial in one box, one remote
USB PVR Function
Nice looking STB
HD
Very cheap

Bad
No MHEG5
Can have strange glitches at times

norbert64

shblob wrote: »

Good
Satellite+Terrestrial in one box, one remote
USB PVR Function
Nice looking STB
HD
Very cheap
Media Player functionality (Can play many different video formats, including the increasingly popular h264 format)
Card Reader (Just pop your sky card in and you may even get some extra channels)
Has Timeshift/Live pause features like sky+ (In principal anyways, she's nowhere near as good as sky+ of course)

Bad
No MHEG5
Can have strange glitches at times
the box, channels have to be updated manually
No 7 day satellite EPG
Temperamental 7 Day dtt/saorview EPG

Adds /\ :P

Doodoo

I have a white sky card that gives me five usa etc. Will this work in this box.

NUTZZ

Doodoo wrote: »

I have a white sky card that gives me five usa etc. Will this work in this box.

Yes it will work!

STB

Doodoo wrote: »

I have a white sky card that gives me five usa etc. Will this work in this box.

You wont need the card as Fiver and Five USA will be free to air next month (6 December) on 28.2.

STB

LordSutch wrote: »

OK Tony, I'll explain in detail.

A month or two ago the BBC announced some Transponder changes which included the then seven Red Button Streams becoming five (due to BBC cut backs). The Five stream channels were now to be found on Astra 28.2 TP 11954 H 27500. And since that time several weeks ago I have been trying to get the streams by selecting the Astra channel list and then going into the main menu & doing a single TP search (Astra heading) on 11954 H 27500, but its always been dead, with no signal whatsoever!

What I have discovered this morning was that if I select the Eurobird channel list & then go into the main Menu (select single TP search) then 11954 H 27500 comes to life and I can press the blue button & capture all stations on that Transponder. My box has this transponder listed under Eurobird 1. Might it be a labelling issue in the box? I've no idea (as you would say) but I'm happy with that issue now, and the five BBC streams are to be found in my box on Eurobird 1, and not on the Astra 28.2 Satellite.

Hope this helps.

Yes I have replicated this. Its a glitch in the software.

On first install some TPs fail during search. They never come back.

Your solution of using the Eurobird preset satellite is a way around this. I had this problem with the TP that Sky news is on. Adding the TP under Astra did not work.

So good solution.

ShamoBuc

STB wrote: »

You wont need the card as Fiver and Five USA will be free to air next month (6 December) on 28.2.

Didn't know that, excellent news.

PeterDuggan

Can some-one kindly give me a link to the latest firmware and channels please. Have searched this forum but getting confused with all the references to different versions. Thanks.

Compton

latest firmware here:
http://www.ferguson-digital.eu/en/download/HD-Satellite-Receivers/ariva-120-combo/

PeterDuggan

Thanks shblob but I need the one with the Irish channels. Thanks.

Compton

you can put a channel list in seperate.. and you will have to rescan the irish channels anyway?

PeterDuggan

Last time I updated the firmware there was a channel list (incl Irish DTT) was in the file.