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| Barry42 |
 Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:15 pm |
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Following the digital re-tune my TF5800 (SW Ver 5.14.09T) has started programming BBC1 recordings that mirror a series-linked programme: same time and duration but programme name is "BBC1". This prevents a second recording being programmed as the toppy thinks two programmes are already being recorded.
Possibly related to this, when a clash of recordings occur when programming, the clash error message is no longer displayed.
I don't have any duplicated BBC1 channels.
Has anyone seen anything similar or have any ideas how to resolve this?
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| juwlz |
| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:25 pm |
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Are you by any chance getting your signals from the Rowridge transmitter on the Isle of Wight? If so, that confirms the theory that the problem occurs on a 5800 running Freeview+ firmware (5.14.xx) as well as on 5810s.
There's a 10 page thread about the problem.
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| Barry42 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:40 pm |
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| juwlz |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:17 pm |
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Just call me psychic  .
One solution would be to install the recommended (non-Freeview+) firmware. This will allow you to set timers, but will remove the native SeriesLink functionality. (NB: If you do this, you must Factory Reset afterwards, or different types of weirdness will ensue.) My Parents' Toppy which also gets it signal from Rowridge is running 5.13.65T firmware and MyStuff, and doesn't get this problem.
You can add TAPs such as the MyStuff suite to get a better Series Link and a whole lot more functionality, which will transform your Toppy (see ** Everything you ever wanted to know about MyStuff ** and the YouTube video if you fancy taking this route.
You could wait until 18th April to see if it gets better or worse, or you may find that changing your aerial to point vertically and attenuating out the weaker horizontal signals might work.
At the moment, we don't really know what the root cause is. We can only identify that the Toppy's getting two lots of EPG data for TV channels on one of the muxes, which causes the problem you're seeing because of shortcuts taken in the Freeview+ firmware that you're running.
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5800, TS On, F/W: MS6 Recommended F/W 12/9/2009 -Sy+BmC0CfCtFsIMPePsR3UUuUxZ
5810, TS On, F/W: F/W: MS6 Recommended F/W 12/9/2009 +BmCfCtFsR3Z
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| Barry42 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:40 pm |
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Julie,
thanks. I was thinking of seeing what happens after the next re-tune. One of my colleagues also mentioned changing the aerial position to get vertical polarisation - that will be my last resort.
Having said I had removed duplicate channels, I did find a duplicate "Big Deal" channel, which is now deleted. Will monitor thinks and let you know.
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