Sundtek Support Forum

Thanks to the wonderful work of the Sundtek Support, who spend over an hour digging into the problem, the solution was found.

It appears the new MediaTV Pro III has a somewhat smaller bandwith to lock a channel then the old MediaTV Pro II.
As I scanned my channels using the old MediaTV Pro II, the found freqencies were out of the lock-bandwith needed by the MediaTV Pro III.

Scanning the freqencies with MediaTV Pro III solved that problem.

Ziggo is also a little to blame as e.g. transponder on 578MHz is actually centered on 578.75MHz.

The idea that it is a driver problem seems more and more plauasible.

I hooked the two tuners up to a Vu+Solo2, with a much faster processor.
Whenever the system tries to access the new tuner, it keeps saying 'loading'
The blue led on the tuner is on, it is visible in both VTI and OpenPli.

It feels like the driver is not working with the 3rd generation tuner.
As it is brand new: it is possible to swap it for a 2nd generation tuner?

Unfortunatly I was happy to early. Seems when I had two streams, they were comming from the same transponder, most likely through one tuner.

The new tuner will not function, not even when I remove the old tuner and it is the only configured tuner. I do not seem to be able to get a working picture out of this new tuner.

The Sundtek control center shows both sticks, OPenPli tuner configuration shows both sticks (I have a picture to proof that: www.bajor.nl/scc.jpg )
Changing the 'transmission way' does not change a thing
When I stream with the old stick and try to watch TV with the new stick it claims that it cannot find the channel (afstemmen mislukt in Dutch). As if the stick is working fine from the Linux side but is not able to convert the cable signal into a TV signal.

Tonight I will connect the new tuner to my windows computer and see whether or not it works.

I'm using VTI6 which has given me much beter results in the past the e.g. OpenPli.
I did update the drivers to the version of 10 March 2015 but that didn't help.
Good to hear the unit worked at your end, therefore it must be a software/driver issue.

I'll put on VTI8 and OpenPli and see whether that will work

Yes I did, as I deactiviated the S tuners, both C tuners are active

Both tuners are setup exactly the same, just confirmed that again

both yes, I installed through the programm on page 1 (ssi.exe) and then
configured in the Sundtek Control Center on the Vu+Duo. I put a yes at the 'second tuner' option.

I already own a Sundteck MediaTV Pro II which I use on my VU+duo very happily.
As I want to add a cabel tuner, I was looking at buying a Sundteck MediaTV Pro III, as the II is no longer available.

My question is: can I expect the two USB tuners to work together, just as if there were 2 version II's? And in the manner of just following this thread to get them to work?

Thanks

I've been using my USB Media Pro with a Vu+Duo using VTI as software. This combination worked very well, especially since Openpli seems to be incompatible with this device. Even with the newest drivers it doesn't work very well. But that is not why i write this.

A couple of days ago my USB stick stopped working.
Odd thing is that the Vu+ still recognizes the stick and has it available as a tuner. It looks like the connection between the cable connector and the tuner is broken as I am able to select the channels but the signalstrength is zero

The reason I think this is because the stick is well recognized within Win7, is configurable but doesn''t find any channels.

The signal on the cable is correct as my Sony TV has no problem displaying the channel using the same cable. Also, it was working up until a few day ago and I didn't change anything (no updates e.g.).

I've tried to reinstall the software, this results in the same problem: tuner is recognized, initialized but no channels are found.

Please advise.

Best regards

Boudewijn