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Sky Plus woes


A few times a week our Sky Plus box is dying with a message to say 'There is a technical fault on this channel, please try later' (or words to that effect).

I have been doing the full system reset up till now but that takes a few minutes. I found a quicker way to do it today:

  • enter service menu (Services, 4, 0, 1, Select)
  • Sky+ Planner Rebuild
  • wait a minute or two while the screen goes black and it feigns death
  • enjoy more big brother

It still takes a minute or two but you can do it from the remote (e.g. laying in bed), you don't have to pull the power.


Filed under: sky+

Pinetree Says:

over 2 years ago

Thanks for the advice on this page, thought I might have to get a new digibox!:)

Peter Says:

over 2 years ago

Glad to be of help. My box hasn't been doing this so frequently recently, I think they upgraded the firmware, but only this week I woke up and the box showed only a blue screen and wouldn't change channel. I used this trick to fix it without getting out of bed (very important in December).

Peter

Anonymous Says:

about 1 year ago

lol @ not getting out of bed! thanks for the tip will give it a go next time it freezes as i agree with stayin in bed especially in winter!!!

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