FTA Receiver Features explained

[zamar23]

Sat Receiver Features explained

Can someone give incite, how the following features available in some sat receivers, especially used ones off Ebay, actually work:

- Auto TP Update On/Off
- Stand-by Mode EPG On/Off

a) Do they work, when the dish is pointed at select sats only like Networks (pre-determined by firmware), or at any sat?
b) At what point Auto TP Update works - when a user scans a sat? Or also while in Standby mode?
c) When Stand-by EPG is Off, but Auto TP Update is On, a motorized receiver stops turning btw sats in Standby - WHY?

- "Network Search On/Off"
Its selectable for each sat. At what point it works - when Auto Scanning a Network sat only, or also in Standby? How it's different from "Auto TP Update" (which is selectable for all sats at once, not for each)? How they work together?

Anyone experienced a motor at times loosing East/West memorized limits, while these functions are activated in Standby or upon receiver's hard start? What can cause that?

 

[brentb636]

Those features are strictly hacker related . I doubt they exist in the factory firmware. They don't on Coolsat 8000.

 

[zamar23]

I assume all sub receivers have similar features as well? How they work in sub receivers? What it has to do with hackers - none of these features seems to be signal decryption related. It looks like it rather related to SI stream decoding, which is common to all receivers. Especially keeping in mind that every network broadcasts some clear channels, and their TPs should be kept updated.

 

[Mr Tony]

Can someone give incite, how the following features available in some sat receivers, especially used ones off Ebay, actually work:

- Auto TP Update On/Off
- Stand-by Mode EPG On/Off

a) Do they work, when the dish is pointed at select sats only like Networks (pre-determined by firmware), or at any sat?
b) At what point Auto TP Update works - when a user scans a sat? Or also while in Standby mode?
c) When Stand-by EPG is Off, but Auto TP Update is On, a motorized receiver stops turning btw sats in Standby - WHY?

all hacker features. Not in factory firmware and in most cases useless in FTA

- "Network Search On/Off"
Its selectable for each sat. At what point it works - when Auto Scanning a Network sat only, or also in Standby? How it's different from "Auto TP Update" (which is selectable for all sats at once, not for each)? How they work together?

network search searches the SID info and updates TP's as needed. Only time I've seen that work is with Globecast. If you delete all Globecast TP's but one and then do a TP Scan with network "on" it should reload all of the TP"s...just the Globecast ones. Not the other TP's on 97W