On 07/06/2021 11:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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alan_m wrote:
On 07/06/2021 00:43, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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I'd expect that of the dish. Not sure the tuner does, though.

I looked up the frequencies etc of some UK progs, and did a manual tune
using that data. Said it was adding progs, but still couldn't find them
afterwards.


Freesat is the same cluster of satellites as used by sky and with a
fixed dish tuners all Freesat/Sky/Enigma2/A.N.Other boxes have no
problems getting all available Freesat or Sky or Free to Air Sky
channels from that cluster without having to move a dish. Freesat is
group of TV channels with an over the air 7 day EPG much like the Free
to Air channels from Sky where the 7 day EPG can be obtained by tuning
in to their IEPG channel (comaptable software assumed). Other free to
air channels may only have a broadcast now and next EPP but maybe a
longer period EPG can be obtained from the Internet.

I was able to get everything using the original STB. The dish remains the
same. And of course is much bigger than a Sky dish. I motored it, using
the TV software, to give 100% from Astra 28 in the sets drop down menu.

I also entered my post code in the general setup instructions for the TV,
and that found my actual address.

If I do a FreeSat tune, it complains about not knowing my postcode.

Have you tried a postcode very near you? The even numbered houses on my
road have a different postcode to the odd numbered.


It will be the software behind the tuner that determines how good the
experience with a GUI and associated features.