sky box engineer tricks

[manuelgorman]

This is a bit off topic, but does anyone know if the "secret menu" can be used to enable Sky+ functionality if you are not a subscriber?

[TEDSON]

No it cannot.

[kdhedger]

Will these help my box from keep losing listings?

[davelostplot]

I have two questions, the first is obviously me being dumb... but...

Which/where is the thanks button ?

and the second is a little more challenging :-

I have a sky+ box that I would like to be able to store more recordings.... Can someone tell me if it is possible to replace the internal disk witha larger one and then use the HDD format menu option to complete this to give a larger disk ??

many thanks.

Hi

You can use a special program called copy+ its a freeware program that allows you to put your current sky hdd into a pc along with a new drive say upto 1TB, and clone your data across.
(skycopyplus is the web site name)
The size of the new drive can be anything as long as the drive interface is compatible with the original box, so Sata for HD systems or ATA for sky+ systems

have used it myself to up my sky+ 160 to a 320 without any problems.
Good luck..

[Exclusive83]

no u didnt m8....any reset scrubs the harddrive...and it works on hd or sd plus...the holding your fingers on left and right button while powering back up is also good for getting boxes out of stuck in standby too...

As for the not losing your recordings,,the usb port on the box
was gonna be for connecting a device to capture the recordings
before doing a system reset,,or box swap,that way you could put the recordings back on box or new box and customer wouldnt lose their recordings....this is what they told us when i used to work for them 2years ago but still nothing yet...the amount of customers i got grief off was unbelievable,,yet understandable....

The usb port on the box was for future developement, nothing to do with the transfer of program's from a goosed box onto a new box. the usb port in all fairness is good to charge your ipod or iphone but thats about it.....

[Exclusive83]

Will these help my box from keep losing listings?

if your box is losing its listings your gonna need to do a planner rebuild-connection check if a sky+ or hd, if its a standard box you'll just need to go with the good old connection check and hope for the best

[Exclusive83]

If you stopped paying S*Y subs they disable hard-drive in +box

system fault = full system reset

loss of all recordings,series links etc that you may have set up

[Exclusive83]

Does this work the same with an HD box?
ALSO
Is there another option that just resets the menu so you don't lose all your recordings? - I think I saw the engineer do this before he did a full reset before

services 0,0,1 select (quick on the keys)

access's the installer(setup menu on a hd) push select again to drop the orange highlight to the middle of the page,keep pushing the right arrow button to highlight rebuild or sky+rebuild push select twice

you will get a warning advising that this process will stop all current recordings but it wont delete what you have.....

your box will go off after 4mins leave it on standby for another 4mins and then start the box as normal, if this doesnt work your only option is a full system reset/front panel reset which will wipe the lot sad but very true

let me know how you get on with this

[cactikid]

are caps an issue on sky+ hd pace boxes as i have gone through the reset and rebuild,sometimes comes up with no listings under any of the headers all channels.movies.news etc and the epg only does 10 hrs then no listing,also no synopsis under selected programme and once lost the sat feeds,unplugged and rebooted it came back.

had a closer look and not seen tuner 2 had no input so maybe lnb down as other feed now fixes problems.

[EAMO 2]

I notice nobody replied to this. I am having the same problem - can't access any recordings (planner blank) and error HP-52J when trying to add new recordings.

Once you cancel sky subs they disable hard-drive in sky box. one
possible solution is to connect sky box to dvd-recorder with scart
lead and copy all recorded programs to disc. This must be done before subs are cancelled

[bigtaffy]

I know its 2011 but tricks like this are still so valid for those of us fixed in the SD time loop or not able to upgrade to HD cos of having not enough money to buy a HD television

[akan21]

I may be a bit off topic, but I was given an old SKY+ box with the card, the previous owner had cancelled his subscription with SKY. I was able to record for a few months, but it's over now. What I was wondering is does his sky account on mysky.com is still working after having cancelled his subscription with Sky and how long or do you need to recreate an account online ?
Thanks
PS the box is not plugged to the phone line.

[oxter]

Once you cancel sky subs they disable hard-drive in sky box. one
possible solution is to connect sky box to dvd-recorder with scart
lead and copy all recorded programs to disc. This must be done before subs are cancelled

I persuaded the sky engineer to leave me my old sky+ HD box when I got a freebie replacement for the original which was still working fine.
I tried previously to set it up in another room to replace an even older sky box. It appears to set up, lists the channels ok and the signal is good but despite a reset of the box I still get "no satellite signal is being received"
Can anyone suggest where I go from here?

[Carew6]

If you are only using one input (make sure it is Input 1) then enter the Installer menu..
Services-0-0-1-Select
and turn Single Feed mode ON.

[nigel6020]

both these options dont work with my sky+hd box does anyone have any suggestions. cheers Nig