Ultimo Second tuner on Ultimo not working

poldekch

Vu+ Newbie
Hi everyone, my first post here!

It will be a bit long because I want to describe fully the situation.
From some time my second tuner in Ultimo doesn't work. I discovered the issue 2-3 months ago and tried to find as many info as I could and try everything but I failed.

When one program is recording I'm not able to watch another. After few seconds after change I'm receiving a message 'No data on transponder! (Timeout reading PAT)'

I have dual LNB set to HotBird with about 70-80% of both level and quality. Dish and LNB changed for new few weeks ago.

Box setup:
- first tuner: easy setup, single, Hotbird, no Diseqc
- second tuner: 'same as first' (I tried also other options but without success)

Swapped the tuners - no change - can record from A, cannot watch B. From this I presume both tuners are OK.
Swapped cables - no change - can record from A, cannot watch B.

Satfinder on the box shows good levels on both tuners.

There is one interesting:
When I do manual scan on the transponder I know it has my fav programs:
- tuner A - searches it very quickly and finds some services (about 18)
- tuner B - search takes about 10-15 seconds and result is 0 services

I swapped tuners with cables and did above again - the results were the same - Tuner A gives 18 services, Tuner B - 0.

At the moment I use VTi latest image but I tried with few older, BlackHole, original - and the same results every time.

When I changed in VTi settings 'Use tuner B' - I'm not able to watch or record anything.

What's going on there?
 

angelofsky1980

BlackHole Driver Specialist
Hi everyone, my first post here!

It will be a bit long because I want to describe fully the situation.
From some time my second tuner in Ultimo doesn't work. I discovered the issue 2-3 months ago and tried to find as many info as I could and try everything but I failed.

When one program is recording I'm not able to watch another. After few seconds after change I'm receiving a message 'No data on transponder! (Timeout reading PAT)'

I have dual LNB set to HotBird with about 70-80% of both level and quality. Dish and LNB changed for new few weeks ago.

Box setup:
- first tuner: easy setup, single, Hotbird, no Diseqc
- second tuner: 'same as first' (I tried also other options but without success)

Swapped the tuners - no change - can record from A, cannot watch B. From this I presume both tuners are OK.
Swapped cables - no change - can record from A, cannot watch B.

Satfinder on the box shows good levels on both tuners.

There is one interesting:
When I do manual scan on the transponder I know it has my fav programs:
- tuner A - searches it very quickly and finds some services (about 18)
- tuner B - search takes about 10-15 seconds and result is 0 services

I swapped tuners with cables and did above again - the results were the same - Tuner A gives 18 services, Tuner B - 0.

At the moment I use VTi latest image but I tried with few older, BlackHole, original - and the same results every time.

When I changed in VTi settings 'Use tuner B' - I'm not able to watch or record anything.

What's going on there?

If you have LNB with 2 indipendent output I suggest to setup your box like you have two indipendent dish and not using "Same as" option.
 

poldekch

Vu+ Newbie
If you have LNB with 2 indipendent output I suggest to setup your box like you have two indipendent dish and not using "Same as" option.
Thanks!
I tried this option before but after your advice I set it again as two independent - but unfortunately there is no change.

I have suspicion that the mainboard is faulty...
 
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