The Wander
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Fortec Star Passion+
Vistron 42" HD
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Sorry for the long post but just thought I would pop by and update everyone on the state of play with Passion+ firmware and the BBC 1 HD upgrade.
A couple of weeks ago I contacted Fortec Star tech support about the changes to Freesat listings and very quickly got a reply with a new (version 1.3.0) firmware update to try.
Installing this update however did not resolve the BBC 1 HD channel changes and I wrote back to tech support listing the requirements for the new revised channels and the appropriate channel numbers. So far I have not received a reply or an updated firmware version.
For anyone else having problems receiving the new BBC 1 HD channels and after reading the very helpful replies on this forum to others I thought it might be useful to provide a guide for others.
During my struggles in receiving the new BBC 1 HD channel I found 3 ways to ‘update’ the channel listings to receive the revised channels, 1 hard, 1 better and an easy way, however all the ways suffer from one defect, it seems impossible to change the allocated channel number listed in the EPG guide and I ended up with multiple channels using the same number.
The hard and better ways rely on downloading the SetEditPassion utility to edit the channel lists from the Passion+.
Just a note about this software, on the download site it does ask you to pay for the software, what it does not say is the software will edit up to 20 channels without payment but you will get a countdown timer that gets longer each time you start the software as a sort of ‘Nag Screen’.
1. The hard way uses an RS232 null modem cable to download and upload the channel list to/from the Passion+, only do it this way if you know how to use RS232 communication software and cables.
2. The better way, save your channel list to a flash drive via the USB socket on the Passion+, put the flash drive in a laptop (or PC) preloaded with the SetEditPassion software. Use the software to edit the channel list, adding the changes, save the new revised list back to the flash drive and upload it back to the Passion+
Both these ways using the SetEditPassion software will list the channels in the correct order but you may end up like me with multiple channels using the same EPG channel number.
3. The easy way, on the Passion+ remote, press ‘Menu’, select ‘Manual Scan’, press (OK), you should have Astra 2A listed as the satellite, select TP frequency. And use the left/right then up down arrow keys to select 10847 V 22000 and press (OK).
Now just select ‘Start Scan’ and BBC 1 HD should pop up, save your settings and you should now have BBC 1 HD listed on some weird channel (mine is number 5204).
You can also do the same for 10803 H 22000 to bring back BBC FOUR on channel 5205 and 12643 H 27500 to add Luxury Life HD (this was a new channel listed in the version 1.3.0 firmware, mostly adverts but can have the odd good program).
Once found and listed you can use the channel editor software in the Passion+ to move the channels to better locations, but so far I have not found a way of changing the EPG channel number listings.
As someone else said ‘If only Fortec Star would provide a channel editor we can use to edit our own channel lists’, and if it would also allow the changing of the EPG channel numbers, it would solve this saga once and for all (and no firmware updates unless needed).
If anyone would like the full channel VID, PID's etc for the channels to put in the SetEditPassion list then leave a note and I will post them up for everyone.
Regards, TW.
A couple of weeks ago I contacted Fortec Star tech support about the changes to Freesat listings and very quickly got a reply with a new (version 1.3.0) firmware update to try.
Installing this update however did not resolve the BBC 1 HD channel changes and I wrote back to tech support listing the requirements for the new revised channels and the appropriate channel numbers. So far I have not received a reply or an updated firmware version.
For anyone else having problems receiving the new BBC 1 HD channels and after reading the very helpful replies on this forum to others I thought it might be useful to provide a guide for others.
During my struggles in receiving the new BBC 1 HD channel I found 3 ways to ‘update’ the channel listings to receive the revised channels, 1 hard, 1 better and an easy way, however all the ways suffer from one defect, it seems impossible to change the allocated channel number listed in the EPG guide and I ended up with multiple channels using the same number.
The hard and better ways rely on downloading the SetEditPassion utility to edit the channel lists from the Passion+.
Just a note about this software, on the download site it does ask you to pay for the software, what it does not say is the software will edit up to 20 channels without payment but you will get a countdown timer that gets longer each time you start the software as a sort of ‘Nag Screen’.
1. The hard way uses an RS232 null modem cable to download and upload the channel list to/from the Passion+, only do it this way if you know how to use RS232 communication software and cables.
2. The better way, save your channel list to a flash drive via the USB socket on the Passion+, put the flash drive in a laptop (or PC) preloaded with the SetEditPassion software. Use the software to edit the channel list, adding the changes, save the new revised list back to the flash drive and upload it back to the Passion+
Both these ways using the SetEditPassion software will list the channels in the correct order but you may end up like me with multiple channels using the same EPG channel number.
3. The easy way, on the Passion+ remote, press ‘Menu’, select ‘Manual Scan’, press (OK), you should have Astra 2A listed as the satellite, select TP frequency. And use the left/right then up down arrow keys to select 10847 V 22000 and press (OK).
Now just select ‘Start Scan’ and BBC 1 HD should pop up, save your settings and you should now have BBC 1 HD listed on some weird channel (mine is number 5204).
You can also do the same for 10803 H 22000 to bring back BBC FOUR on channel 5205 and 12643 H 27500 to add Luxury Life HD (this was a new channel listed in the version 1.3.0 firmware, mostly adverts but can have the odd good program).
Once found and listed you can use the channel editor software in the Passion+ to move the channels to better locations, but so far I have not found a way of changing the EPG channel number listings.
As someone else said ‘If only Fortec Star would provide a channel editor we can use to edit our own channel lists’, and if it would also allow the changing of the EPG channel numbers, it would solve this saga once and for all (and no firmware updates unless needed).
If anyone would like the full channel VID, PID's etc for the channels to put in the SetEditPassion list then leave a note and I will post them up for everyone.
Regards, TW.
