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    Default Vast Firmware

    Originally Posted by mtv
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    If you have the latest fimware in your VAST decoder, selecting 'help' on the remote will give you an Australian map, which you select your approximate position and it then gives you approx azimuth, elevation and skew settings (a good starting popint).

    Posted by me.

    What Firmware have you got?

    Iv'e got 2.22.2103 Feb 15 2011 on my Non PVR Box and by pressing Help delivers nothing!

    On my PVR box pressing help does not show any map of any kind only a list of help items!

    The Firmware is different as one would expect being different for the PVR side of things and that Firmware is 2.161.4561 Nov 9 2011!

    Am I missing something here?



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    Yes, it's the PVR firmware 2.161.4561 Nov 9, 2011.

    To enter the dish alignment screen, reboot your PVR box and when it starts searching, press help.

    You should then see the map of Australia with the moveable crosshairs.

    Just follow the onscreen instructions from there.

    Edit: I've added a tutorial with screen shots as a new thread.
    Last edited by mtv; 24-04-12 at 05:48 PM. Reason: added info

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    Quote Originally Posted by toyboy11 View Post
    Originally Posted by mtv

    On my PVR box pressing help does not show any map of any kind only a list of help items!

    The Firmware is different as one would expect being different for the PVR side of things and that Firmware is 2.161.4561 Nov 9 2011!

    Am I missing something here?
    If you start your Vast PVR STB from the powered off position

    or if you just do a reset....on the STB

    just start pushing the help button quickly & constantly as it boots up

    it should then go to the Map screen & you follow the prompts from there

    it will still show if you are correctly on a satellite, if you are quick enough pressing the help button....

    but if it locks onto a signal before you press help, it will just go to scan for channels....

    I have PVR firmware 2.161 too (all the PVR Vast STB ATM have this Firmware (software))
    Last edited by OSIRUS; 24-04-12 at 07:18 PM.
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    Well thanks for that guys. It's a pity that UEC don't tell users that this can be done, still they don't give much away do they.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toyboy11 View Post
    Well thanks for that guys. It's a pity that UEC don't tell users that this can be done, still they don't give much away do they.
    Start the PVR with the signal cable unplugged (as if the dish wasn't aligned). While the box sits searching for the signal, the OSD tells you to press the "help" button for assistance to align and configure your satellite dish.

    It cannot get much clearer than that!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalo Bill View Post
    Start the PVR with the signal cable unplugged (as if the dish wasn't aligned). While the box sits searching for the signal, the OSD tells you to press the "help" button for assistance to align and configure your satellite dish.

    It cannot get much clearer than that!
    & so what happens next, you have to reconnect the signal cable to use the tuning page & doing that with the box powered up is not a good idea from what I've read on this forum, or am I wrong here??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiny View Post
    & so what happens next, you have to reconnect the signal cable to use the tuning page & doing that with the box powered up is not a good idea from what I've read on this forum, or am I wrong here??
    It shouldnt be a problem as long as you dont short the connector.

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    Connecting/disconnecting an LNB with a decoder powered can damage the LNB and or decoder power supply.. not only by a short, but by the spike in power, so I don't recommend it.

    Considering you have to connect the LNB cable to get signal, you might as well reduce the risk by leaving the cable connected to the box.

    Remember too that most 'satfinders' require power from the decoder to operate, which requires the cable to be connected at the decoder.

    I also don't recommend having a centre conductor being 'well above the outside edge of the connector' as this often leads to internal shorting.

    The centre conductor should not protrude any longer than 1mm - 2mm beyond the edge of the F connector.

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    Cool

    Just what I thought.
    So the best option would be to follow this
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    [Quote of Toyboy11 from another thread:]
    When you record a program on a certain channel make sure that you are in that channel when you set your recording. If say you are on channel 2 and you go into the PVR to set a recording on say channel 62 the box will record the video and the 2 audio channels together thus causing this out of sync.
    That's what iv'e found out anyway.

    Try that and lets know how you go![end quote]

    Are you saying that the UEC PVR can't actually get a recording with the sound in sync unless you nurture it?

    I'm glad I haven't rushed out to get an upgrade.
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