Amiko Alien 2+ Motor problem

[melling1166]

Hello All, I recently bought an Amiko Alien triple tuner after using a technomate 5402hd for years. It was brought upon as my motor had packed in so I bought a new technomate 2300 motor at the same time. I set up the motor and copied over all the angles etc off the old motor. I put in my longitude and lat for my area and set the amiko to usals when pointing at 0.8w. I sent it to 13e but no picture. I climbed on the roof and noticed it had gone to about 17e. I kept on trying different sats and all were about 4 degrees out. If I then manually moved the motor to the correct setting say 13e then I got the correct picture. I was confused. I then put in my old technomate and it picked up all the sats but this time using manual setting not using usals. I had never used usals before. I then tried to set up the amiko manually but am struggling with the menu etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[joeuser]

If they are all off by an equal amount, then probably either your lat/long is off, or the motor is not mounted pointing due south. I usually use dishpointer.com to get a good idea of where due south is, then use usals to move to a strong sat (19.2/13e) and then adjust the motor until best signal. An phone or table with VU+ app which has a signal meter is very helpful. (App works with most enigma2 images, not just for VU+) Or there are some other apps that are similar.

BTW, that is true due south, not magnetic south...

 

[melling1166]

Hello Joeuser, thanks for the reply, yes I used the dishpointer app to find true south.As I said on the technomate I can set the satellite positions manually an it works well. Is there a way to set the amiko manually as the usals seems out for me. I checked my position using dishpointer and the long and lat are correct so not sure why that doesn't work, thanks

 

[joeuser]

Depends on what image you are using (or Spark??) For most enigma2 images try:
Menu->Setup->Service Searching->Tuner Configuration->(choose tuner)->
Configuration mode = advanced
choose satellite
LNB = 1
Diseqc mode = 1.2
Use usals for this sat = no

Repeat last steps for each satellite.

 

[melling1166]

Hello Joeuser, thanks very much, getting to find them Sats now using your method, you are a star. I am using vixe2project any ideas how to change the audio to English on the film channels such as sk@ Germany ,thanks mate you have been brilliant

 

[joeuser]

I have not tried that image, but I think in most images you can press the yellow button to choose which audio track. If not yellow, try other colors.

 

[melling1166]

Hello Joeuser, after a few button presses I found it was the function keys at the bottom of the remote, thanks mate