Channel 5's no longer available on our Humax freesat box

[Lachouette]

Not sure when this happened but think it was only a couple of days ago. Channel 5 is now 'unavailable or scrambled' on our humax receiver. Has this happened to anyone else and is there a way to fix it?

Thanks,

Jan

[Bob T]

Mine is fine, was watching it this evening.

[sid]

Mine is OK too, but I had to specifically check as I rarely watch C5. [Www]

[Gyn_Paul]

Mine too. Do a channel re-scan. That should fix it.

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[Lachouette]

[quote user="Gyn_Paul"]Mine too. Do a channel re-scan. That should fix it.

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Thanks. Will try that as soon as we've done guest breakfast and let you know.

Jan

[Clair]

I had the same problem and a rescan sorted it out.

[Lachouette]

Thanks one and all. A rescan this afternoon not only fixed that but brought to light another couple of channels!

Jan

[krusty]

Its all part of the move to satellite IN , where I am it means I have now probably lost CH5 for good ......no great loss to me, but happy the op got it back with a re-tune.

[Gyn_Paul]

[quote user="Lachouette"]Thanks one and all. A rescan this afternoon not only fixed that but brought to light another couple of channels!

Jan

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Somewhere in the setup is an option to autodetect new channels, which would also detect ones changing frequency. Which would probably explain why we other Humax owners didn't get the problem.

Probably be worth your while to find it and check 'yes' to autodetect.

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[Gyn_Paul]

.....Actually that can't be right. Channel 5's been on N1 for quite some time now.

Odd.  Martin, you don't happen to know if Ch5 has changed frequency/transponder on on N1 do you?

curiouser and curiouser!

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[Martin963]

Well there's an update "date" on Lyngsat for 10964 MHz for the 15th Jan.   I do remember some discussion about whether the BBC would go on carrying channel 5 on their transponder but I didn't follow it as I can honestly say that there is nothing on FIVE that interests me at all,   other than to marvel at just how bad the picture quality on its spinoffs can be,   with regular instances of the whole screen being a mass of 1 cm x 1 cm coloured squares on certain material.

I've kept quiet actually  because *I've* lost them on my rubbish Grundig/Harvard freesat box and can't get them back.   Which is merely embarrassing to have to admit to,  rather than inconvenient.

10964 MHz comes stonking in but it doesn't update the EPG settings when I scan.  I must see whether my auto update is on or not,   although it managed to find ch 4 HD a couple of months ago when it moved,  with just a 10 second pause for thought when I first selected it.....

Laters - well I have got channel 5 and channel 5 +1,    but it's the spinoffs that still elude me on my Grundig Harvard.   I suppose I'll have to do a first time install eventually,   but having persuaded it to see France 2/3/5/O off AB3 and TF1 (yes,   TF1 FTA on Eurobird 9) it involves a lot of additional work.   So I'll do without * and USA for the moment.

[krusty]

I know the 5 group have been on 1N for a while , but they did leave one live for a while on 2D in the 10.773 section , this is the one they switched off this week ,completing the move to 1N.

Actually I did get a screen grab while it was live , as Martin said among the BBC channels.

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