25 year sky engineer here to help if i can

[dctyper]

the amstrad drx100 with sperate decoder when went wrong we had to desolder components and replace with new ones , no swoping out boxs

i remember these, 16 channels if i remember

dc

[Sarann]

hi guys new to the site and would like to help if i can regarding sky problems

Ah maybe you might be of some help then, any idea what is wrong with the box I have bought (second hand) has it had it? It is an ex sky box (pace) when connected I get the majority of the free to air channels but some are missing i.e god channels etc. I have another box identical and it is perfect, so is the one I installed for a neighbour, tried resetting by 4 0 1 and backup. It asks for card on these staions..but they should be there without as they are FTA. Any suggestions?
Thanks .......your first challenge...

[father ted]

the amstrad drx100 with sperate decoder when went wrong we had to desolder components and replace with new ones , no swoping out boxs

yes your right there but it seems a life time ago

i was customer number 112 when it first started up got free gifts and everything from them, had a full year without paying as the ~~~~ed up my direct debit and when i pointed it out they gave me another year free ,dont think that would happen now

[waj_uk]

Do they do literacy tests before you can work for them at sky? Just wondered :-)


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[davvo]

srx100
srx200
installed loads of these
i remember having to take the lid off and tweak the pots to get rid of sparklies ~~~~ing nightmare

[paulmansky34]

strange one but try attchment see if that helps
Astra 28.2E Tests & Other Channels

[wooper]

Sparklies, ahhhh, them were the days!!!

[porter1]

turned my tv package off on sky +,had it disconnected ,threw it on and sky + still works,will they still send signals to turn it off,via phone or transponder?

[jerryeagle]

Simple task:
When a skybox doesnt work properly anymore and a service engineer comes to replace it, he goes into a "secret" menu and is able to copy the recorded films on a portable hard drive and uploads them in the new replacement sky box. I just want to do half the way: from sky box on portable hard drive. What do i have to do?

[dp11]

not possible mate.

[cactikid]

best while your package is still live is to rec to dvd or vcr before you cancel.

[jerryeagle]

I'd love to hear paulmansky saying that. One Sky sales man told me the engineers do it regular and he did it himself too, and the engineers code vyou need for it would be to look up in the internet. So for now, I tend to believe the sky man more than one pessimist here who just claims it wont work.
I wonder if there are any other "secret" menus in the service section apart from "01" or "001" gonna check it out as soon I have the next opportunity.

By the way, it is not about a package which has expired, it is about a full hard drive in the sky box and I dont want to delete movies I'd like to watch later again only to make space for new recordings. I have plenty of storage possibilities but no portable DVD recorder. And the "old" way to copy by playing it and recording the outgoing signal with a video recorder is too time consuming and prehistoric. Eventually the sky box is nothing but a computer with a hard drive. One should be able to copy this hard drive.

Thanks for reading

[davvo]

recordings made from subscription channels and stored on the sky hard drive they are encrypted and only de-crypted upon playback

copy your recordings over to a pc you have to do this in real-time

there is software package called Copy+
it dont work

there is no other secret menus

[terriers]

i worked for sky a few years ago and the so called engineers are a useless bunch!! thick as ~~~~ and know nothing about motorised european systems...or sky for that matter....my 11 year old can line a dish on 28e.....their answer for everything is a box swap....wouldnt pay em wi washers

[paulmansky34]

its not poss to copy your recordings onto anouther hard drive but have been told sky are working on being able to store your recordings at there end and when box is replaced will down load ur recordings onto new box but when this will happen i dont know sorry