Hello, I am a newbie using VU+ Ultimo with 3 cable tuners installed. Some of the channels in the cable-net need a conaxcard+CAM which I have. Problem is that when I record one of the conax channels it locks up the rest of the conax channels so that I cannot watch them. I suppose it is some setting that needs to be adjusted but I have not found any. I can watch the conax channels one by one. Can you give me some help, please.
Request Ultimo CAM problem
- Thread starter uchrw
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I have done some more testing, and it seems to me either Ultimo (BH1.7.8) cannot correctly use the Conax Cam module, or there is some setting somewhere that I cannot find. I am using 3 hybrid-tuners in cable-position.
1. I can watch the Conax channels one by one as long as I am not recording any Conax channel
2. When I am recording a Conax channel I cannot watch any other Conax channel (except for the one I am recording)
This behaviour cannot be correct and I cannot find any cure to fix it, so I really would need some help !
For example if someone who has a Conax module would please check this behaviour, or some of the experts on this forum would please point me in the right direction.
Some more testing indicate that I cannot record more than one channel a time. Trying to record two simultaneously is a no go.....and this goes for all channels, not only Conax, so even though I have 3 tuners it seems I cannot use them......
What have I missed ?
chris flynn
Vu+ Newbie
What do you see in the CI menu?
In CI menu I see the following:
slot 1
reset , init, Conax Conditional Access
Support for mult. channels =auto
Support for high bitrate =no
Now there seems to have developed more problems. If I record some program (need not be Conax) the box will occasionally lockup completely with the small cirkular symbol rotating in upper left corner. Nothing helps but hard power off. I did a complete factory reset but no help so I do not know what to do next........
angelofsky1980
BlackHole Driver Specialist
I think you can mix in any form your tuners included the solution 3 x DVB-S2 and 3 x DVB-T/C but I haven't tested directly these two solutions
Thank you for your answer. I have the 3 x DVB-T/C installed as cable-tuners and they are reported by the system as active (I assume they are plug-and-play so no jumper need to be set somewhere). Still, there are something funny going on, for example when I switch to a Conax-channel the infobar and the black square (where the channel number is shown) will blink off an on about four times before it settles down. This does not happen when I switch between free channels. I have this strange feeling that only tuner A is working......I think you can mix in any form your tuners included the solution 3 x DVB-S2 and 3 x DVB-T/C but I haven't tested directly these two solutions
To start fresh I did upgrade to BH 1.7.9 (including FPGA update) but I see no change in the behaviour so there must be something beyond my understanding......
Ev0
Admin
Thats what I thought you would say.
I am not 100% sure (as I don't have any cable tuners to test with), but I expect like with the satellite tuners, when you use loop through, the other tuners are limited to what frequency they can tune, so you can only pick other channels on same or close frequency.
I am not 100% sure (as I don't have any cable tuners to test with), but I expect like with the satellite tuners, when you use loop through, the other tuners are limited to what frequency they can tune, so you can only pick other channels on same or close frequency.
Thank you for your answer. I have an old STB with two tuners and loop through antenna, and no problem of this kind so I cannot understand why this would happen in Ultimo. The whole set of cable-channels should be present in the cable going to all tuners even if they are looped through and since the 3 tuner settings in BH is similar I think every tuner should be able to tune the whole band. Since I do not have any satellite reception at present I am not familiar with satellite tuners. I can make separate antenna feeds to each tuner but I do not think there will be any difference.
Ev0
Admin
Try this, and change the settings so that each tuner is setup independantly (not set to loop through) and see if anything changes.
Update:
It seems that the upgrade of BH and FPGA did fix some (setting) that I perhaps had got wrong so recording of free channels simultaneously is now possible but, not Conax channels. There the situation is that if I record a Conax channel I can simultaneously watch only the same channel that I am recording, all other Conax channels give blank screen. Same problem as before......
Ok, tested, no change. There is no setting for "independency" in DVB-T/C settings, which suggest that they by default work independently. That also seems to be the case when testing with free channels now (upgrade seems to have fixed something here).
However in the case of Conax it seems that it is only possible to watch and record the same channel simultaneously, and the other Conax channels are closed during the recording session. Now, if this is a bug, a settings problem or some "functionality" of Conax I do not know. There are settings for CI in the menu but since I do not understand them I use the default.