Freesat question in new house.

[mattyfez]

Hi all.

recently moved house, I have a new LG smart tv with freesat, and a sat dish from the previous owners.

When I scan for freesat channels on the TV it finds a hundred and odd channels, and loads them into the menu/schedule.

But if I try to watch anything it just says 'invalid service'.

I have 2 cable feeds from the dish and have only tried one cable so far.

I hope its not a skyQ issue and just a setting im missing on the TV.. I'd have thought if I need to replace the LNB It wouldn't be able to scan any channels at all?
The TV is connected to my bb wi-fi though for streaming channels, so im not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[mattyfez]

The 2 cables coming from your LNB will be horizontal and vertical channels so I would connect them both up. I believe it wont work without the horizontal working

Thanks but the TV only has one input socket for a satelite cable, so I could try plugging the other one in? but I'm not sure it would make any differnce?

Thanks again.

 

[mattyfez]

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This might be closer to the problem

Ahh crap.. i'll try the other sat cable tomorrow when I have time... Thanks for your input.

... but I suspect its a SKY-Q job, so i'll have to get the ladders out and fit a better LNB or just fit a proper dish/LNB combo.

 

[mattyfez]

Thanks... It's a new model LG OLED but it only has one satellite in socket and one old school aerial coax input.

It's not the end of the world as the TV is hooked up my pc and the TV has prime and Netflix etc built in anyway.

Would be nice to have the addition of free sat.. But I'm now debating whether it's worth the bother..

It would be handy in the event of a local internet outage I guess