clarkenuttal
Member
Apologies for the length of the post but I guess I needed it to explain the issue.
I connected Octagon SF8008 with OpenATV 6.4 and Grogbuild to my Sky cable and tried to tune and scan Sky free view channels and it kept on bringing 25 channels back regardless of whatsoever I did to resolve the issue. I took following troubleshooting steps but to no avail:
1) Flashed it with latest OpenATV image and scanned using OpenATV
2) Installed GrogBuild and scanned using GrogBuild.
3) Deleted and re-installed satellites.xml, lamedb, lamedb5 and all bouquets. using FileZilla
4) Flashed and implemented all steps above using OpenVix (base) and OpenVix with WilloBuild
5) Restored box to default factory settings and used recovery OpenATV and OpenVix and followed all steps above.
6) Deleted the partitions of multi boot and did all steps to ensure its a fresh install.
The issue is resolved by scanning all the transponders individually one at a time but some of them require scanning 2 or 3 times before it picked channels.
I was then advised to use ABM as a resolution which works for the first run but if you end up making any changes or re-run ABM which is inevitable if you scan ABM daily using your default ABM settings then it presents a new sets of issues. Firstly all channels go blank and do not work, and only issue to resolve it is to re-start the box but this only makes first few channels work and as soon as you change the channel everything goes blank (black screen) so only way forward is to keep restarting the box after every channel change. Second issue is that by re-running ABM it randomly (not always) brings up error that there's a Tuner Error and only way to resolve this is to disable the Tuner and re-run the ABM But this once again puts me back into black screen on channel screen loop.
So in order to rule out any potential issues with the dish/LNB I checked LNB and connections and any potential loose connection/wiring and nothing was found and then I plugged in my spare Zgemma box with OpenATV 6.4 and Grogbuild (essentially same software as Octagon) and everything works a charm. I can scan whole satellite and get nearly 500 FTA channels back on the LNB and get no issues with ABM or anything. I have even upgraded the software on Zgemma but it still works a charm so I can say with surety that the issue does not lie with any loose wiring/connection and/or LNB/Dish.
Can someone please advise me what can be the potential issue here ?
Any help is appreciated
I connected Octagon SF8008 with OpenATV 6.4 and Grogbuild to my Sky cable and tried to tune and scan Sky free view channels and it kept on bringing 25 channels back regardless of whatsoever I did to resolve the issue. I took following troubleshooting steps but to no avail:
1) Flashed it with latest OpenATV image and scanned using OpenATV
2) Installed GrogBuild and scanned using GrogBuild.
3) Deleted and re-installed satellites.xml, lamedb, lamedb5 and all bouquets. using FileZilla
4) Flashed and implemented all steps above using OpenVix (base) and OpenVix with WilloBuild
5) Restored box to default factory settings and used recovery OpenATV and OpenVix and followed all steps above.
6) Deleted the partitions of multi boot and did all steps to ensure its a fresh install.
The issue is resolved by scanning all the transponders individually one at a time but some of them require scanning 2 or 3 times before it picked channels.
I was then advised to use ABM as a resolution which works for the first run but if you end up making any changes or re-run ABM which is inevitable if you scan ABM daily using your default ABM settings then it presents a new sets of issues. Firstly all channels go blank and do not work, and only issue to resolve it is to re-start the box but this only makes first few channels work and as soon as you change the channel everything goes blank (black screen) so only way forward is to keep restarting the box after every channel change. Second issue is that by re-running ABM it randomly (not always) brings up error that there's a Tuner Error and only way to resolve this is to disable the Tuner and re-run the ABM But this once again puts me back into black screen on channel screen loop.
So in order to rule out any potential issues with the dish/LNB I checked LNB and connections and any potential loose connection/wiring and nothing was found and then I plugged in my spare Zgemma box with OpenATV 6.4 and Grogbuild (essentially same software as Octagon) and everything works a charm. I can scan whole satellite and get nearly 500 FTA channels back on the LNB and get no issues with ABM or anything. I have even upgraded the software on Zgemma but it still works a charm so I can say with surety that the issue does not lie with any loose wiring/connection and/or LNB/Dish.
Can someone please advise me what can be the potential issue here ?
Any help is appreciated