So, I cancelled Sky TV some time ago. Subscription ran out about 14 days ago, however the Q 2TB box continued to work - albeit in a crippled way, no recording, only free-to-air channels etc.
Was happy enough but then Sky started demanding their box back, so I packed it all up and that left here just over a week ago.
Fast forward - took delivery of a FreeSat box today - Arris 500GB job.
Here are the two cables that were in the Q 2TB box
Here are the two cables plugged into the FreeSat box
Cabled up the box, switched it on, FreeSat logo and then the box wanted to complete a signal check. It went away for a few minutes and came back with this
I completed the setup anyway and then went into Settings>Signal Strength and I'm greeted with this
It's really dark outside at the moment, however here is a really poor image of the dish in question - in case that makes any difference.
So, I have a dish and cables that were plugged into a Q 2TB box and were workign fine during my Sky Subscription. Untouched, the whole thing was working as a glorified "FreeSat" box for a few weeks.
So although I wasn't able to record, access the Home or any premium channels, I could watch BBC, ITV, etc.
Now, with the Sky box gone and the FreeSat box installed - absolutely nothing, anyone have any ideas?
I knew it was going to be too good to be true for it to just work. I can, and will just go back to using all the various apps on my AppleTV box if needs be - it's just like is a lot easier with all the channels through the one source and easy switching between them.
Was happy enough but then Sky started demanding their box back, so I packed it all up and that left here just over a week ago.
Fast forward - took delivery of a FreeSat box today - Arris 500GB job.
Here are the two cables that were in the Q 2TB box
Here are the two cables plugged into the FreeSat box
Cabled up the box, switched it on, FreeSat logo and then the box wanted to complete a signal check. It went away for a few minutes and came back with this
I completed the setup anyway and then went into Settings>Signal Strength and I'm greeted with this
It's really dark outside at the moment, however here is a really poor image of the dish in question - in case that makes any difference.
So, I have a dish and cables that were plugged into a Q 2TB box and were workign fine during my Sky Subscription. Untouched, the whole thing was working as a glorified "FreeSat" box for a few weeks.
So although I wasn't able to record, access the Home or any premium channels, I could watch BBC, ITV, etc.
Now, with the Sky box gone and the FreeSat box installed - absolutely nothing, anyone have any ideas?
I knew it was going to be too good to be true for it to just work. I can, and will just go back to using all the various apps on my AppleTV box if needs be - it's just like is a lot easier with all the channels through the one source and easy switching between them.