Question
I have a Humax Foxsat Freesat recorder and a Panasonic Freesat TV set. When the Foxsat is recording, some channels on the TV show “no signal”. Not always the same channels. Any thoughts?
Submitted online by John D
Our Answer
We questioned John further to find out how things were connected together. It seems that this is what John has:
- Two feeds from the satellite dish going to the two satellite LNB sockets on the Humax
- A lead from the LNB Out on the Humax to the Sat In on the Panasonic TV
- An HDMI lead from the Humax to the TV
With this information, we worked out the problem. John has three satellite receivers (two in the Humax Foxsat, and one in the TV), but there are only two feeds from the satellite dish.
Each satellite receiver needs its own feed from the LNB on the dish – they can’t be shared or split. When the Humax is recording, it uses two feeds (one for watching the channel it is tuned in to, and one for the channel it’s recording). This leaves no spare feed for the TV. Some channels will still get through (i.e. the ones that the Humax is tuned into), but others won’t.
The Solution
The easiest option would be to watch satellite TV via the Foxsat, and not the TV’s Freesat receiver. The Foxsat has two tuners, so it will let you watch one channel while you record a different channel. Just use the Foxsat and watch via the HDMI lead from the Foxsat to the TV.
The other option, is to get a third feed from the dish, and connect this to the TV’s Sat In, but this may be tricky and/or not cheap. The “watch via Humax Foxsat” is the cheapest and easiest!
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We have the same setup and the same problem, but if I understand your explanation correctly surely the solution is simple- just tune the humax to the channel you are recording before you switch on the TV?