after a week of testing here are some notes i took along the way
audio troubles
it will not let audio pass thru in LL or RR mode on channels thru the hdmi....
need to fix this
audio goes well thru the red/white audio wire but nothing out of hdmi.
hdmi will work only in LR mode
cband testing
scanning trouble
55w FTV 3779h took 6 times to find it. 2 more scans it found it fine,did not delete tp or ch
only did about a hour with cband
no choice of scanning H or V must do both
after blind scan it kicks out to all sats channel list if new channel(s) found
would not work well with my 8x1 switches
picky about 4x1 too
about gave up and put my $40 Spaun 411 4x1 on it ....liked it (LOL) then found a Pansat 4x1 it liked
this test was 4x1 with 4 fixed dishes this was the best set-up for blind scanning as you'll read below.
it missed less tp's in this set-ups but was still erratic did not take notes it was done outdoors. if i keep this box this will be what i use it for just to find a Event and watch the event on another bo
az or pansat).
this set-up was hooked up to a S9 and working well before testing the X2
Fortec 36"90 cm hooked it up to a 4x1 to a 6+ year old Stab 100 motor with usals
drove motor fine till it got to 121 (going 58-125)
then it did not want to go to 121.123,125 but to go to the sat had to go into the antenna set up and hit the.... Go tab. it would go to that sat the channels were scanned in played channels upon exiting.
after a few time thru the arc 125 started working in usals for 121.123 used 1.2 and got them working ok.
on 83 ku had to put in the RTV tp and it still took 6 times to scan in.
103 ku missed the Huntington Beach mux 11940 v 3 times yet got cozi every time.
125 ku the H channels it misses 2 most of the time
fast blind scan
too fast it is in too big of a hurry that it misses some tp's
advice for improvement
slow the blind scan down
now it is < 3min
if it was 5 min think it would not miss like it does now.
if you just want the 24/7 offerings this box would be ok,
but if you want to find live wild feeds not so much imo
worse S2 blind scan box i've owned as far as blind scanning goes
have not decided if it's a keeper or not got another 2 weeks to test it.
but if it was a higher priced item might return it now.
