How to connect, activate, and found out your receiver

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For the association to the satellite dish, RG6 cable is suggested. For the association to the TV, HDMI provides the simplest audio and video quality during a single cable and may be used where potential.
How to connect your receiver
Your receiver has to be connected to the satellite dish and to the TV. make certain to find the concentrical cables coming back from the satellite dish within the space wherever you're connecting and activating the receiver initial.

Connect the concentrical cables from your satellite dish to the sat-in port on your dish receiver.
Note: HDPVRs need 2 cable connections from your dish.
Connect the HDMI cable to the HDMI port on your receiver and therefore the HDMI port on your TV.
You may conjointly use RCA, component, or composite cables if your TV doesn't support HD.
Ensure that your TV is about to an equivalent input to that you connected the cable; as an example, HDMI1 versus HDMI2.

Connect the facility cable to the receiver associate degreed an electric receptacle and wait one minute.
Turn on your receiver.

If you have got a blue or black screen, otherwise you see a "No Signal" message, your TV could be on the incorrect input. To troubleshoot this, ask this page.
If you have got a message that says "Receiver has lost satellite signal", verify your association to the Saturday IN port before continued.

You are currently able to activate your receiver. To do so, follow the directions below.
Receiver set-up
The first time your receiver is turned on, you will be asked to travel through a brief initial setup method. This setup feature can optimize the receiver settings supported your TV sort. On-screen and Guide preferences will be modified at any time by pressing "OPTIONS" on your remote then choosing "Preferences".

1. Select whether or not you'd like your on-screen menus in English or different languages.
2. This will not have an effect on the language of TV programs.
3. Select the kind of TV your receiver is connected to:
4. SDTV (CRT): largest on-screen text, vi rows of Guide information, with no channel logos displayed.
5. HDTV Small: medium text, vi rows of Guide information, and channel logos displayed.
6. HDTV Large: tiny text, eight rows of Guide information, and channel logos displayed.

Note: TV massive displays the foremost info at intervals the Guide read, however the text are smaller to supply the extra info.

8xx series receivers only: choose if you'd prefer to found out a way to activate your receiver
If this receiver was purchased from Shaw Direct, you'll be able to proceed with the activation:

Go to my.shawdirect.ca and log in together with your Shaw ID.
Click "Manage TV" on your left and scroll all the way down to the "Activate Receiver" box.

WiFi on your receiver
If you select to skip this step, you'll be able to found out WiFi later by pressing the "Options" button on your remote and choosing "WiFi Setup".
Proceed with associate degree LNB sort scan. Press alright to begin the scan.
You will get associate degree aware of activate your receiver.
Click the "Activate receiver" button and follow the steps.

How to install satellite channels? 

ensure that:• The satellite cable is firmly connected to the TV and therefore the electric receptacle
Answer
When putting in multiple satellites, begin with step one
When putting in just one satellite, begin with step a pair of

1. Select the Quantity of Satellites

By default, the TV is about to 1 satellite. to put in multiple satellites follow these steps:
• modification the association sort. Press the “Home” button on the remote of the TV and select:
[Setup] > [Search for satellite] > [Install channels] > [Settings] > [Connection Type]
• select one amongst the subsequent options:
• DiSEqC 1.0 (3-4 LNBs)
• DiSEqC mini (2 LNBs)
Check on the manual or label of the DiSEqC Switch that choice to choose. once unsure, strive the setting DiSEqC one.0 (3-4 LNBs). Please note that the TV solely supports DiSEqC mini and one.0.

• choose [Done] > [Start]
The TV can begin an entire channel scan. this could take up to associate degree hour, looking on the quantity of satellites. once the search is complete, the TV can show a message and show an outline of the found channels. Press alright to end the installation.

Unicable
Use these steps if the supplier specifically mentions the satellite uses unicable

A unicable system (EN50494) will connect either one or 2 satellites, exploitation just one cable.
• Press the “Home” button on the remote of the TV and select:
[Setup] > [Search for satellite] > [Install channels] > [Settings] > [Connection Type]

• select and make sure the matching option:
[Unicable for one satellite]
[Unicable for two satellites]

The television can currently show a listing of user bands (UBS):
UB0, UB1, UB2, UB3, UB4, UB5, UB6, UB7

If the supplier uses a user band vary between UB1 and UB8, please cut one to match the UB list within the TV.

• select a user band (UB) and press the ‘OK’ button
• Enter the user-band-frequency, given by the cable service supplier (XXXX.XXX MHz). It ought to be at intervals the subsequent range:
Minimum frequency: 0950.000
Maximum frequency: 2150.000
• Press ‘OK’ to start out the satellite search

2. Search channels

To (re)install the channels, press the “Home” button on the remote of the tv and select:
[Setup] > [Search for satellite] > [install Channels]
• once finding the satellites, make sure the installation with OK

Note: Some TVs can raise a way to preorder the found channels. select one amongst the choices and press OK.

Note for customers within the United Kingdom:
• Televisions square measure nearly always sold  with solely a DVB-T tuner.
• If the tv has no DVB-S tuner, a Set-top box is required to look at satellite channels, typically together with a Sky Subscription