Satelite Tuning on Sony XG95 (Android TV)

[samuelsmith]

Hi all,

I have Sky (UK) but recently bought the XG95 so I could receive the free to air satellite channels and get rid of Sky.

I currently have Sky Q (Zone 1 Dish, Universal LNB) which is working fine.

I took the cable out of the Sky Q box & plugged in into the main sat connection on the TV.

If you do the simple full tune I get about 4 channels e.g. Bloomberg, etc - but I can't seem to figure out how to get any others.

I've tried going to https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E.html to get the individual freq/polarity/symbol rates but still not finding anything.

Am I doing something obviously wrong?!

Many thanks,
Samuel

[LightFoot]

Hi @samuelsmith 

Sky Q uses a wideband LNB. Are you using a Hybrid LNB with six outputs? Sky usually replace the standard LNB with one only suitable for Sky Q.

[samuelsmith]

Thanks @LightFoot - I should have said I have a single cable universal Dcss LNB. In the settings I input fixed antenna with single cable.  So hoped that would have worked...

Like this one:

https://m.ebay.ie/itm/143208130076?ul_ref=https%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F1%2F5282-53468-1925...

[Mick_D]

Hi @samuelsmith

Have you looked into going the Firestick/Chromecast/AppleTV route?

Mick

[samuelsmith]

Hi all,

So I bought the new LNB, changed it over and then re ran the full scan tuning on the TV.

This time it's a little better - It picks up approx. 230 channels (although most are duplicates).  However it seems like only half the channels shown actually work.

e.g. these are the ones that do work:

Channels	Freq	Polarity	Symbol Rate
Travel, DMAX, Quest, Food	12382	H	27500
Astra Promo	12441	V	29500
SkyNews Arabia, Pick	12148	H	27500
Channel 4, Film 4, E4	10714	H	22000
Channel 4, Film 4, E4	10936	V	22000

Which means channels like BBC 1/2/4/News, ITV 1/2/Be, Channel 5/5Spike/5Star, Challenge, Bloomberg, etc don't work.

One thing I notice on https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E-2F-2G.html is that the ones listed under Sky seem to work, but the ones listed under Freesat don't seem to work.

Does anyone know what I need to do to get these working?!

Many thanks,
Samuel