Help needed please
Purchased a caravan and it has been fitted with a maxi view satillite dish ontop of roof of van with a Grundig freesat HD box.
Cannot get the satillite to work !! In the paperwork I received with the van is a receipt saying price of installation of satillite and a free view card,, not received a card with paperwork, so I am on the understanding that the box just plugs into the tv and it should work
Would appreciate any help please as at my wits end trying to get it to work.
If you have satellite at home, hook the Grundig Box upto one of the feeds.
This way you will know that the satellite feed is fine, so if you still have no joy, then the problem lies with the Grundig Box.
Also no card required for Freesat these days, as all is now FTA for the Freesat channels, back in the day some channels were FTV which still required a card.
Is the max view satellite dish, auto seeking, or is it the manual time.
The dish has to point at 28.2 Deg East, and go to an elevation of 22 Degrees, the elevation of course depends on your location.
Unless the dish is auto seeking, then I would imagine set up could be a challenge, others may have a similiar system and can advise better on dish set up.
Edit = just had a look at the video for setting up the Crank version of the maxview dish, looks straight forward enough, so long as the dish is true to the settings displayed within the vehicle, otherwise the dish will need to be re-calibrated manually.
Another thought I had is that the caravan would have be plumb level, and pointing in a certain direction, for the read out of the Elevation and Azimuth (East to West) on the internal unit to give the correct readings, unless I am missing something.
Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 02/5/2016
Also no card required for Freesat these days, as all is now FTA for the Freesat channels, back in the day some channels were FTV which still required a card.
While no card was ever required for Freesat, there are still a few (about six) Freesat from Sky channels that still require a card and compatible box if you wish to view them.
We have a dome on our roof, but not the Maxview. Is the Maxview a single to twin? The one cable plugs into the control box and then another cable goes from the box to Sky+ HD digibox.
The other cable goes directly to the Sky digibox which allows us to record while watching another channel. They have to go the correct way as the one cable feeds back 9v to the LNB of the satellite dome. If you connect it the wrong way around you can blow the LNB.
I would strongly recommend that you contact Maxview support and ask them about connecting it up and advise them if it is a single to twin.
Quote: Originally posted by Oscar sab on 01/5/2016
In the paperwork I received with the van is a receipt saying price of installation of satillite and a free view card,, not received a card with paperwork,
Lets just clarify things before this causes even more confusion. There is no such thing and never has been, its Freesat from Sky card.
How does that work Inner Zone, when a Freesat satellite reciever does not have a built in Sky (Mediaguard) decoder, and there is no official CAM module for use in none Sky satellite receivers, that will accept a Freesat from Sky card, if they even still exist.
Maybe a Freesat from Sky card would add a few channels, I can't say, but then you would need to be using a Sky satellite receiver and not a Freesat satellite reciever.
Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 02/5/2016
How does that work Inner Zone, when a Freesat satellite reciever does not have a built in Sky (Mediaguard) decoder, and there is no official CAM module for use in none Sky satellite receivers, that will accept a Freesat from Sky card, if they even still exist.
Maybe a Freesat from Sky card would add a few channels, I can't say, but then you would need to be using a Sky satellite receiver and not a Freesat satellite reciever.
As I said "still require a card and compatible box if you wish to view them."
Quote: Originally posted by Oscar sab on 01/5/2016
Help needed please
Purchased a caravan and it has been fitted with a maxi view satillite dish ontop of roof of van with a Grundig freesat HD box.
Is it a Grundig Freesat box or a Grundig Sky box as both were available.
Thanks for all your posts have been and had another look at the Grundig box and it says on the front Grundig HD freesat box.
I have tried the dish connected to another freeview box I have and did manage to pick up some channels but they were foreign, I asked for advice when my van went in for a service and they said if you can get foreign channels it must be working but if there were any obstacles in the way such as houses or trees ( which there is trees facing us) then you might not be able to get any English channels, best to try in were there are no obstacles, we took the van out for the weekend for a test run to North Wales in a wide open space and could not get any channels on the Grundig box or the spare freeview box that we got the foreign channels on, I am now confused !!
Is the Maxview a manual adjustment or is it automatic? If manual you may need a sat finder. If you were near to Worcester I would pop over and test it for you as I have a really good sat finder as used by the professionals.
Yep, looks like you are picking up Astra1 at 19.2 East or HotBird at 13 East, so clearly a case of the dish pointing to the wrong satellite.
Dish just needs rotating slightly, and the elevation lowering a fraction.
With a bit of luck that will put you on Astra2 at 28.2 East for all the Freesat stuff.
The other box you used was it a Freesat model, or just a basic FTA satellite reciever like the Comag (Silvercrest) units that Lidl often sell, if so this could explain why you got the foreign channels when you hooked that up to the Dish.
The Grundig Freesat box may be Astra2 only with no option to select another satellite, unlike a FTA satellite reciever which will have a few satellites pre-programmed.
As mentioned before if you can try out the Grundig or your other reciever on a Astra2 live feed (from Sky dish etc), you will be able to establish that you can get say Sky news, make a note of the channel number, when you get a picture.
Then when you hook the reciever upto the maxview dish, set the reciever to the channel that you know is for Sky News, and adjust the dish until you get a picture.
Unlike when using a meter, there is a slight time lag, a few seconds, from the dish finding the satellite, until your reciever display an image/audio via the TV, just a case of going easy.
From what you have mentioned, you are 99% there, or you could be really unlucky in that the LNB on the dish is only delivering one of the two polarity's Horizontal or Vertical, very easy to establish that problem from the channels that you do get.
I am now thinking that this must be the Manual Crank type maxview dish.
Quote: Originally posted by Oscar sab on 02/5/2016
Thanks for all your posts have been and had another look at the Grundig box and it says on the front Grundig HD freesat box.
I have tried the dish connected to another freeview box I have and did manage to pick up some channels but they were foreign, I asked for advice when my van went in for a service and they said if you can get foreign channels it must be working but if there were any obstacles in the way such as houses or trees ( which there is trees facing us) then you might not be able to get any English channels, best to try in were there are no obstacles, we took the van out for the weekend for a test run to North Wales in a wide open space and could not get any channels on the Grundig box or the spare freeview box that we got the foreign channels on, I am now confused !!
Please stop confusing Freeview with Freesat, the two are not compatible.
No wonder the OP is confused, I think when he states freeview he Realy means FTA not Freesat, best not to mention Freesat from Sky at this point I guess!
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