UK Freesat - Can't find 11426.5

bdav

Trying to set up UK Freesat on a WINTV-NOVA-S2 USB Stick. I seem to be able to find a lot of things on 28.2E / Astra 2E, however can't find anything on the 11426.5 needed for the Freesat EPG / bouquet- using 11426.5H on https://en.kingofsat.net/pos-28.2E.php as a reference.

I've set my orbital position to 28.2E for the network - not sure if this is needed.

11426.5H seems to be already set up as an S2 mux, and only has sky channels.
11428H as suggested elsewhere gives me a fail every time. Others have suggested frequencies inbetween, but for those I get a scan fail.

Am I looking in the wrong place? Have these moved? I seem to pick up plenty of other services that I'd expect, just not the guide / bouquets. Both H and V muxes work so presumably not an LNB switch issue.

davep

bdav 11426.5H on Astra 2E is the correct mux. It is a DVB-S mux as listed on Kingofsat.

Have you enabled the "Freesat" and "Freesat (EIT)" EPG grabber modules, at their default priorities? Also set "EPG Module ID" on that mux to "UK Freesat".

bdav

Yep I think thats pretty much what I've got (attached screenshots).
It picks up the odd mux on the same Astra2, particularly the Sky pay for ones (not the BBC ones unfortunately).

SNR on the ones it does pick up is fine - a solid 15db, no breakups etc. Have tried nudging the dish slightly each way, but where it was / is is the peak on the SNR front (which I read is a very good level). A few H and V muxes show, so presumably the LNB is good. While its scanning the working muxes, I see SNR and signal on the status page, for the other muxes I see no SNR (presumably no lock).

Not quite sure what else to try at this stage! Presumably if its getting a few muxes then the tuner (NOVA-S2 USB) is good.

Screenshots

Chris G

The Sky EPG data is on 11778, that includes freesat.

bdav

Chris G Is that for sure? All the mux listings (even with recent updates to the specific muxes) seem to list freeview guide on 114265, and indeed I seem to pick up Sky EPG / bouquets successfully, but no freeview ones.

Have you got it running successfully on 11778, and if so are you able to share the settings you're using? Cheers

Chris G

If you delete all EPG data and tune 11778, you should see it grab the full x day EPG for Sky.
All the transponders seem to carry EPG data, but 11778 seems to carry the most.

I think that's all the relevant info?
You should get rich EPG data in Kodi etc.

bdav

Thanks for taking the time to snag those @Chris G - I'll have a go with that! I seem to have picked that up previously but only ended up with the Sky bouquets - Having another go from scratch!

bdav

Good news at last - it was an oversight on my behalf! I hadn't realised the previous owners of the house had SkyQ, and the LNB was one of the funky wideband ones. Trip to screwfix, £16 later, and it picks up the freesat Bouquet no issues on 11425!