sonicview 8000pvr

[heman]

hello everybody, glad you are all doing well and working hard on this great site. It seems to get better as time goes on! Anyway, I have just bought a sonicview 8000 pvr and am having no luck in getting it up and running. I am going to do a factory reset and then start from scratch. I was hoping someone with more knowledge then myself could lend me a hand and mybe post a play by play for myself and others like me! This would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advanced!!!!!!!!!!!!! cheers

[wobby]

Hi !!!!! The info you need was posted in SonicView 8000 Help section under[Idiots guide to SonicView 8000 ]dated May 28/2007 posted by Satbum,really good post to get you started.

[tnp12]

here is the setup for the dish:

how to effectively set up and align your dish
1. make sure the pole is plumb and mount the dish onto it.
2. turn your receiver off with the switch on back.
3. if you need a diseqc switch run the cable ( rg6 if possible ) to the proper outlet on it.
4. run one short length of cable from each dish you plan to use to the proper port on the
switch(be sure you have the ports set right in your antenna setup).
5. once your connections are tight turn on the receiver again.
6. select the sat you want to get and go to antenna settings.
7. making sure the sat you want to get is in the top right corner start moving the dish
slowly in the general direction of the signal until you see the quality bar move.
8. if all your lnb's are on one dish you should be tuning the middle one first. to get the others
select the next sat in antenna settings and skew the dish until that one comes in.
9. repeat step 8 until you have signal on all sats.
10. to watch one dish at a time select it in the menu, to watch all the channels select all sats.

and here is how you load files:

how to load a bin file
1. download newest bin file from proper area.
2. MAKE SURE you unzip the file (I use winrar). unzip to desktop.
3. open loader 1 or 2 program, whichever one you have.
4. click open files and select desktop.
5. double click file or drag file to loader program. 6. click "open". file appears in box. select it and click open one more time.
7.file is now ready to load onto stb. IMPORTANT- turn switch on back of receiver off
now if you havent done it already.
8. connect your usb- serial cable to the pc and stb now.
if you have a usb stick you dont use the cable
9. click the pc-stb button.
10. turn on the stb with the switch on back now.
11. wait for the file to load and the word "end" to dissapear and the channel # to
return. turn off again with switch on back before you disconnect the usb-serial cable.
12. file is now loaded, reconnect to tv and turn on again only after all connections are done.
13. wait for new file to autoroll and commence testing enjoyment!!

and you can try these settings:

antenna settings
press menu- installation- pin code- antenna setup
sattelite echostar 7 (for example)
lnb power - on
lnb type - universal (depends on dish type, try all selections to be sure you have the right one)
lnb high - 11250
lnb low - 9750
tp freq - 12224
diseqc 1.0 - port (depends on where the cables are on the switch. use none if you only have one dish and lnb) suggested setting, echostar 7(119) port 1, echostar 8,10(110) port 2, nimic 1(91) port 3.
motor - off
legacy sw - none

good luck and post back if you need more help.

[arboristman]

what are you using for hardware and where ya got her pointed to the sky buddy?
your going to love this stb.this is the ultimate fta dream machine.

[heman]

now ive tryed this step by step and not getting anywhere yet is their any other thing i could try