Octagon SF8008 Initial Setup

[pabloisred]

You got a lot of help above but you are not giving much back

which part are you struggling with?

 

[pabloisred]

After entering the key and saving it you sometimes need to flick off the channel then back on.

should i be worried about the ones in red? why no entitlements?

 

[Ferret.]

should i be worried about the ones in red? why no entitlements?

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Only the emulator needs to be enabled.

 

[pabloisred]

Only the emulator needs to be enabled.

so what are those other items doing / purpose?

 

[Ferret.]

so what are those other items doing / purpose?

Internal reader card slots maybe, probably configed for caid 1860 or the like, not needed for Biss keys

 

[pabloisred]

And how did you get it to work and clear 4:2:2? are you sure its 4:2:2.

Can you say what feed you are using and the details?

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[pabloisred]

Looking for some advice now regarding my motor setup now I have my Sf8008 setup. I have a 1 metre dish hooked up to a motorised system and use my viark 4k on usals to drive the motor which works very well for me. Smith Smudger has kindly given me a Feed splitter which will allow me to connect both boxes to the dish without the need to keep unplugging cables. My Viark will continue to be my go to box so is there any point in setting motor settings up on SF8008 so I can drive the dish for feeds? I have been using my viark to move the dish the last few days and switching the hdmi back over to SF8008 and just editing the satelite manually in tuner settings. Open to any advice if you think best to have usals setup on both boxes. I'm concious of confusing my motor.

 

[Ferret.]

I setup usuals on both boxes, just leave the one your not going to use powered down.

 

[pabloisred]

I setup usuals on both boxes, just leave the one your not going to use powered down.

Thanks Ferret, on the SF8008 its current pointing a 7east. If I pop in my usals co-ordinates will it automatically know the positions?

 

[Ferret.]

Thanks Ferret, on the SF8008 its current pointing a 7east. If I pop in my usals co-ordinates will it automatically know the positions?

Yes it will, and if you say send the dish to 19e via the 8008 and then switch boxes back to the viark it would then move the dish to the last sat the Viark was on.

 

[pabloisred]

is there any pre made channel lists on here I can load onto the box to save the time of scanning in manually?

 

[Ferret.]

is there any pre made channel lists on here I can load onto the box to save the time of scanning in manually?

For which box ?

 

[pabloisred]

For which box ?

SF8008

 

[kegnkiwi]

SF8008

Just out of interest have you tried menu, plugins, green button download plugins. Settings. Those are the channel lists.