Sagemcom BT/EE TV Box Pro

Got my box, must admit I'm very pleased with it, seems to work very well up to now
One quick question I have though, is there any way to get the box to start on the last channel it was on? Mine starts on channel 1 every time it's been off for a bit?
I did put the hdmi power saver nice to always ready, assuming this would sort that, but it still starts on channel 1.
Thanks
 
We always leave ours on 103 ITV HD and it always remains on that channel when it starts up.

Did you do the initial set up using an aerial or are you using the internet for your channels? I am using the aerial. 1 would be standard def using the aerial.

Another thing I do is set deep standby for the hours I am not generally using it for viewing, otherwise the HDD always runs in normal standby mode… not sure why, but that how it does it by design.

I have mine to wake at 6 am and go to deep sleep/standby at 1pm. You can have it on deep standby all the time, but then you have the longer startup when you want to watch something.

Glad you are otherwise pleased :)
 
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I might switch from always ready to smart mode in the power saver mode, which sounds like what you are using and see how that goes.

Cheers for the help and for letting me know about this box, apart from that small detail it's great isn't it 😊
 
james_uk said:
Cheers for the help and for letting me know about this box, apart from that small detail it's great isn't it 😊
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You’re welcome, I didn’t know about it either until some on this forum mentioned it to me.

I thought at less than £100 is was worth a try and I couldn’t be happier with it :thumbsup:
 
I meant to add, unless you have setup the device in aerial mode you will not be able to record four channels like the Aura.

I think internet mode only allows recording of two channels. Check the startup guide for more information.
 
Yes the App is very good and unlike the Aura one you can delete timers from the App.

Unless you have the device in normal standby or it’s running you cannot set things remotely, that is one Down of using deep sleep. It will try for a time, but if it can’t communicate it will timeout and you will get a notification. I will rarely need to use it, but I may adjust the deep sleep whilst I’m away, just in case I want to set something. The times I have used it the box has already been recording so was able to accept the timer.
 
Steppy said:
I meant to add, unless you have setup the device in aerial mode you will not be able to record four channels like the Aura.

I think internet mode only allows recording of two channels.
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If the box is in internet mode, and you haven't got an EE/BT TV subscription ,it's very obvious, as it will be "tuned" to zero channels.
EE/BT TV still need to provide the infrastructure for providing channels via internet mode for what would be free via an aerial.
 
Luke said:
If the box is in internet mode, and you haven't got an EE/BT TV subscription ,it's very obvious, as it will be "tuned" to zero channels.
EE/BT TV still need to provide the infrastructure for providing channels via internet mode for what would be free via an aerial.
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Interesting, I didn't realise you had to have a subscription to use it in internet mode. Good to know.
 
Luke said:
If the box is in internet mode, and you haven't got an EE/BT TV subscription ,it's very obvious, as it will be "tuned" to zero channels.
EE/BT TV still need to provide the infrastructure for providing channels via internet mode for what would be free via an aerial.
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You can still use all the apps in internet mode, (separate subscriptions may be required for some), but to have any working epg channels in internet mode does require an EE/BT TV subscription, a router with which supports multicast, and an EE/BT TV internet connection to deliver that multicast.
The first of those 3 conditions is the subscription. No subscription means no epg channels, therefore the router and the ISP does not matter in that respect.
 
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Luke said:
You can still use all the apps in internet mode, (separate subscriptions may be required for some), but to have any working epg channels in internet mode does require an EE/BT TV subscription, a router with which supports multicast, and an EE/BT TV internet connection to deliver that multicast.
The first of those 3 conditions is the subscription. No subscription means no epg channels, therefore the router and the ISP does not matter in that respect.
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Wow, somebody is still using IP multicast. I was involved with TV using multicast between 2000 and 2005 but I thought multicast had very much fallen out of favour. Personally I thought it made perfect sense, but most ISPs disagreed.
 
I guess the problem with multicast is everybody gets the same thing at the same time (like broadcast), when actually they want individual pick-and-choose streaming.
 
Black Hole said:
I guess the problem with multicast is everybody gets the same thing at the same time (like broadcast), when actually they want individual pick-and-choose streaming.
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That is not how IP multicast works. A device registers with the router which IP multicast addresses it wishes to receive using the IGMP protocol. Each network only receives the superset of all the IP multicast addresses the sum total of devices on that network have requested. And even then the hardware or low level firmware filtering in the ethernet hardware or drivers of each device means the higher layers of the network stack only see the IP multicast addresses they requested.
 
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