loading up the coolsat 8000 anything i should know first?

[gabshere]

ok i'm going to make the transition from one of my coolsat 5000 to my coolsat 8000 today.
I've been scanning TP into my coolsat 5000 ( cause i usually deleted out the ones i couldn't get or the ones i didn't watch). i will then download my channel list and i guess you can the push it to the 8000 ( is that correct) any tips i should know before i start?

thanks

 

[Mr Tony]

George
How did you get it to do that? load the 5000 list into the 8000

I did the exact same thing (swapped out a 5000 for a 8000)...you might want to load the newest software into it

just some tips
-satellite list in 8000 is old...satellites are there but they have names like GE5,GE3,G6 etc so you will have to rename them
-If you rescan anything in it resets the channel list..I think I explained this to you in a PM...I think (couple folks asked me)....simple way to solve is to go to sort and flip to "network", save it, then go back and sort by "tp"...it will sort them by satellite then transponder (I'll explain below)
-I set up the satellites (31 of them) from E to W with 123 as 1 (so its on top)....then I went 61.5,72,74,79,82,83,85,87,89,91K,91D,93,95,97,99,101,103,105,
107.3,110,111.1,113,116.8,119,121,127,129K,129D,148 and 31 is my fixed C-Band...works pretty good

I know folks think I'm crazy for moving from a blind scan box to a non-blind scan but being able to hear PBS through the HDMI cable (and record if need be) is pretty sweet

As for the channel list, mine shows after the sort as
G10 11720
G10 11732
G10 11799
G10 whatever that TP is that has those arabic channels
G10 12102
G10 12114
then
61.5 whatever TP's have free things
72 11890 (KFTL)
72 (HD FEED)
72 12052
72 12143 (GBN)
74 11733 (ONN)
79 11900 (KTEL)
etc
etc
etc

 

[gabshere]

George
How did you get it to do that? load the 5000 list into the 8000

I haven't achived it yet lol but i suspect it can be done i will have to test & try a few things first..... still scanning with my 5000 i haven't even plugged in my 8000 yet

i will have to get anothe HDMI cable

gathering up the new software now (already did it once but can't remember where i put it) and i have a filing system too lol download via dialup .... so slow

 

[Mr Tony]

firmware is here
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-ai...8000-new-factory-firmware.html?highlight=8000

 

[gabshere]

still trying to get the loader had to find it and download it all the links here for a downloader come up bad for me , does anyone have a good loader ?


but i did play with it a bit and too me about 30 minutes to change 1 satellite name get it to find signal and scan the already loaded tp's lol lol this is going to take a while

 

[Mr Tony]

all you had to do was ask

 

[gabshere]

i get an error when i download that one plus several others that i searched out in the threads . i swapped back to the 5000 to watch some tv tonight RTN

will try again soon
thanks

 

[Mr Tony]

I dont know why it does that...it works for me and all I did was tell the computer to save it as a zip file