Scope of supply:
Twin satellite receiver
Powerline adapters
IP receiver
HDMI cable
F-connector cable
Network Cables
The first installation went smoothly. Connect twin receiver with a cable to the LNB, plug into the socket. In other rooms the powerline adapter, then the Receiver plugged into the socket in and via scart to the TV. The first image is already there. However, only a setup screen. First I made the basic settings and only once was disappointed. There was no picture, although a connection to the satellite receiver was via Powerline. The problem was quickly found, a totally outdated and useless list of channels. There are two possibilities. Either start a channel scan or connect the system via network cable to a router and Download Stations internet. I chose the latter.
The channels can be sorted quite easily, but there when you move the transmitter regularly hanger. In general, the scroll function reacts very slowly, so you also drop by Rast quickly on desired channel. This I found very disturbing at the station sorting. The picture quality is fine. The receiver has an EPG, which rapidly updated after the transmitter choice. The Aufnahmefunkion I've only briefly tested with a USB flash drive and here it was in HD recordings occasional dropouts. A slot for a smart card is present.
As the Powerline adapter is quite large and I'm also not a fan of this technique was more interesting to me something else to the system. The general possibility for SAT-IP. So I have the receiver unit connected directly to my home network. Also the receiver I could connect directly to the network, so I just in case the need Powerline adapter, whenever I quickly wanted to operate, for example, in the garden the receiver. The quality is consistently good and is not disturbed by any other electrical equipment. About the wireless router now gives the possibility to the cell phone or smartphone via SAT-IP-AP to watch television. To test two Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet were used. The first test did not work, but the error was quickly identified and traceable. Since the Satempfangseinheit was only connected with a cable to LNB, could also only a receiving device is provided and that was the real recipient of the TV set. After I had connected a second cable, I could on a second machine SAT-TV look. After the TV receiver off I was able to start the reception on the second mobile phone, or tablet and watch two different channels in parallel via WLAN. About the app, however, works only SD channels. HD channels or even scrambled channels are not possible because the smart card slot in the TV receiver and not sitting in the satellite unit.
No one uses Powerline nor wish to be an option to deactivate the satellite unit, this I searched in vain. To what extent a Power Save feature is activated, I could not check. If you go to the SAT unit with a browser, you can see which devices are used just as a receiver and you can still put a check that streams are provided to recordings with a higher priority. Here I also have the same even performed a firmware update from Version 1 (31.01.2013) to Version 2 (23/04/2013). Last but not least the indication that the satellite unit is quite warm in my opinion in the operation.
A test through VPN not working. Once the tablet / smartphone in another subnet were the SAT unit was no longer found on the app.
Conclusion: if you want to receive only about satellite TV, a twin LNB enough, otherwise it should already be a quad LNB, but then you get a good usable SAT-IP system. However Powerline is not switched off and the adapter for the TV unit very large.
