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on ‎28-02-2026 17h01

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Message 11 of 13

Re: RTE Channels Disappear

@Dangs 

But Saoview  whilst  it may have FreetoAir  channels on its muxes is not Freeview. So whilst  I think it is reasonable  to ask how Youview/ EETV handle the Irish channels that exist on the  Freeview  NI Mux  as they have official  Freeview  channel numbers  allocated , your expectation that Youview  and subsequently EETV handle  Saoview  streams  is very optimistic.  I believe EPGs also come under the Ofcom regulations these days so it maybe that the rules that Youview  abide by  change . The Box Pro has specifically  been developed  for the EETV subscription  service rather whereas  the humax based models were at times available  to the retail  as well as the BT TV subscription  service.

 

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Dangs
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on ‎28-02-2026 19h00

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Message 12 of 13

Re: RTE Channels Disappear

If that was the case then surely the box should drop all the rte muxs from the epg and not just one out of the three muxs 

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derryviewer
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on ‎02-03-2026 18h42

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Message 13 of 13

Re: RTE Channels Disappear

I have the exact same problem.   

I am in NI with line of sight to the Moville Donegal Saorview transmitter.  When I do a channel retune it will actually pick up both muxes that contain RTE1 and RTE2.  However, if I watch RTE1 first it will keep that mux channels and drop the RTE2 mux channels.  And if after a retune I watch RTE2 first it will drop the RTE1 channels.

I've been using Youview boxes for TV since around 2010/11 when I got one from a competitor which sounds like Walk Walk.  Exact same issue then.  I moved to BT around 2014 and the same issue occurred and still occurs on the latest BT TV Pro Box.

I believe this is a well known issue with the Youview platform and also due to the fact that the tuners in youview based boxes are to put it nicely, cr*p.   There is also no manual tuning on youview boxes.

I currently have 2 x bt tv boxes.  The older G4 box and the newer BT TV Pro box.  The 2 x TV connected to both pick up RTE no problem so I normally just watch RTE on the tv's.

I don't think we'll get much help from BT on this, we might as well be in Dover with line of sight to France tv transmitters and noting that we can't get all the channels.


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