Amiko 8260+ quick scan.

[parkman]

Hi, I have three Amiko 8260+ set top freesat decoders, and I want to check that I have all the available channels downloaded.

I had the set top boxes programmed to find all the channels about a year ago, but I do not get Horror channel, even though the channel is listed at several channel numbers when I use the channel menu to look for it. There is no signal when I select the channels.

I have all the channels saved in a particular order, and I don't want to loose this order by doing a complete new scan.

Is it possible to do a scan and at the same time keep the existing order of channels, or do I have to do a new scan and then go through the process of moving all the channels about, until it is the same as I have at this moment.

There was a lot of work in moving the channels the first time, about 5 hours, as the set top box is very slow if you want to move channel 0800 up to channel 0005, for example. The only way that I know how to do this is to select the channel, in "menu" and then move it by keeping the channel select button pressed on the remote, until the set top box has scrolled through 795 channels until it reaches channel 0005.

I had to do this for about twenty channels the first time, and I don't want to have to do it again, so I would rather not have the new channels than have to relocate all the desired channels to the correct order again.

Perhaps some-one knows if it is possible to do a scan without loosing the saved channel order ?

parkman

 

[kalehrl]

Just create a favorites list and put all the sorted channels there. Then you can scan as many times as you want without losing the numeration in the favorites list.

 

[parkman]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I didn't realise that it was that easy. Unfortunately, the user manual doesn't give an explanation of what the setting do. It does tell you how to do a task, but it doesn't actually explain the task.

It has taken a lot of experimenting just to get the set top box set-up, because so much of the settings have been guess-work !!

Anyway, I will do as you suggest and then run a new scan.

Many thanks.

parkman

 

[parkman]

Amiko HD8260+ quick scan

I had a feeling that just putting all channels into "Favourites" sounded too easy to be true.

I moved about 100 channels into "Fav 1" which took about an hour or more, and then did a new scan. So the channels were still in "Fav 1", but when I turned off the decoder and the TV and turned them back on, the channels were in exactly the same order as they were after I had done the new scan.

Any channels which I had moved into a favourites box were nowhere to be seen. But if I go into "menu" and "favourites" then the channels are listed there.

I have tried to move the channels up or down in "menu" and "services" or whatever it is called, but I can't select the "move" option.

Now all my channels, which I spent almost a day, last year, setting up in a particular order, are all over the place.

I have a TV with a freeview decoder built-in, in another house, and all I have to do with that is select a channel in the menu and just move it up the order to the position that I want it. It seems, for sure, that this is not possible with the Amiko decoder box.

Perhaps some-one may know of a simple method of setting the channels in a particular order, so that when the TV is turned on then the channels will be in the order that was set up first ?

I don't want to have a situation where I have to go searching for "Favourites" with the remote control every time the TV is turned on. I would like to turn on the TV and the decoder and find that the channels are in an order that I want, not in the order that they have downloaded.

Is this possible, or am I asking too much of the Amiko software ? And is it possible without having to get the TV shop technician to have to come to the house to do it ?

If the worst comes to the worst then I could take all four of the decoderes back to the supplier and ask them to rescan and sort the units, but I suspect that could take a couple of days, and in the meantime I won't have any TV !!

Perhaps some-one might have a simple, easy to understand answer before I head back to the shop with the units ?

parkman.

 

[kalehrl]

Just press 'fav' button in the lowermost left corner of your remote.
Then press 'right' arrow button until you see 'Fav 1' list then press 'OK'. You are now in the Fav 1 list and you can turn off your receiver and it will go to Fav 1 when you switch it on.