Anyone with a 905 up to testing something?

[tvropro]

This is what I propose. Let's see if the 905 will lock up on W5 using the HITS EMM provider.

The 4DTV provider is 4096 HITS is 4160. Can someone see in Options 6, 3, 1, Provider. Enter 4160 and see if it says correct signal found. It will be green if it stays red and says searching for signal a master reset may need to be done first. If that's the case if someone wants to tinker and see if it shows up that way. That will show the 4DTV will work with Comcasts SAC and should be a no brainer for Motorola. If someone does do a MR I wonder if the channel numbers would change to HITS lineup in theory they should. I wish I had a 905 to mess with.

BTW does anyone know how to force an manual EMM provider in the 920 or 922? I wonder if all you have to do is a MR and point at W5?

EDIT

I did some reading on the net and it said that if you do a soft reboot this clears the EMM provider then it should find whatever you point at so anyone with a 905 see if 4160 will lock on W5 if it don't show up first forget the MR idea.

 

[tvropro]

I just tried something with my DSR 405 I have for Starchoice, it shows 2 EMM providers 4128 is Starchoice it also showed 209. I punched in 209 and it said correct signal found. So if the 405 does that on Anik a 905 should show correct signal found on W5 using 4160. Now if someone will confirm this with a 905 it would prove my theory that the 4D is 100% able to be used with Comcasts SAC.

 

[eurosport]

I just tried something with my DSR 405 I have for Starchoice, it shows 2 EMM providers 4128 is Starchoice it also showed 209. I punched in 209 and it said correct signal found. So if the 405 does that on Anik a 905 should show correct signal found on W5 using 4160. Now if someone will confirm this with a 905 it would prove my theory that the 4D is 100% able to be used with Comcasts SAC.

Do you sub to Starchoice? Reason I ask is if so it won't hurt to MR that 405.
Proceed as follows:
Master reset the 405.
Go to "manually tune frequency" Point it at W5 and enter IF frequency 1430. Back out of the menu and tune channel 204.
Satellite signal should lock.
Go into EMM provider screen and enter 4160, and it should turn green with "correct signal found" it's now in the HITS datastream.
Only do this if your 405 is currently subbed so you can go back to Starchoice with it and get their maps again. 905 should work the same way. :up
(I don't have a 905 but this should work since all the DSR's have similar menu functions)

 

[ikki]

This sounds interesting. Let us know how it goes.

 

[tvropro]

Do you sub to Starchoice? Reason I ask is if so it won't hurt to MR that 405.
Proceed as follows:
Master reset the 405.
Go to "manually tune frequency" Point it at W5 and enter IF frequency 1430. Back out of the menu and tune channel 204.
Satellite signal should lock.
Go into EMM provider screen and enter 4160, and it should turn green with "correct signal found" it's now in the HITS datastream.
Only do this if your 405 is currently subbed so you can go back to Starchoice with it and get their maps again. 905 should work the same way. :up
(I don't have a 905 but this should work since all the DSR's have similar menu functions)

I don't sub to *choice so if I do a MR it's not too smart I guess. There has to be a 905 user that can just punch in 4160 and see if it goes green. From what I read you don't even need to do a MR. If you do a MR it will get the maps I think.

I did punch in the 209 (the second EMM provider in my 405) Don't have a clue what that is and it went green & locked so it's on Anik. Didn't mess anything up so entering 4160 in a 905 wont hurt a subbed box in any way.

Any testers

 

[Corrado]

On my 905, options 6-3-1 is for setting the remote control address. There is no option that I ever ran ran across from checking the EMM provider on that model in the menu.

My 410 receivers have that though. On those, it turns from red to green before you even have all the digits entered. I had one of those I successfully switched from HITS to Shaw. (Back in Dec 08 we had a long thread about it. I can't find it presently.)

 

[tvropro]

I thought the 905 could pull up the same menu as the 410's etc.