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New Digital TV Boxes and IGMP Proxy
Hello, this is a question for fellow home nerds and any telus reps looking at the forum. I have a Unifi Dream Machine pro router in my house and take pride in managing my own network. I'm able to co...
Received my new boxes yesterday and proceeded to hook them up in place of the older ones. I initially used the same VLAN ports and had no issues with viewing television.
I have now just moved 2 of them to my normal home VLAN with IGMP Snooping turned on and my IGMP Proxy disabled. I am happy to report zero issues.
These are just nice android TV boxes with a Telus TV+ App! Thank you Telus for modernizing!
Now the only thing I miss is being able to record what I just watched. đ If my tv was on a news program and I caught a story I want my wife to see, I could push record and it would start from when I tuned to that channel. Now it only starts the moment I push record... Minor thing, but so far my only complaint!
Hello dolatyler
How did you set up your UDM Pro for Optik TV. I have a UDM SE set up in my network and currently have a switch just after the ONT with the UDM hooked to one port of the switch and the T3200M hooked to another port on the switch and am running just my three Optik tv boxes off the T3200M while the rest of my network is run off the UDM SE. I hate the mess of the extra switch and the T3200M and would like to be able to pack them away and just run everything off of the UDM. I have tried in the past setting it up but I must be missing something as it just gets the 10 seconds of tv before dropping off
How did you set up your UDM Pro for Optik TV. I have a UDM SE set up in my network and currently have a switch just after the ONT with the UDM hooked to one port of the switch and the T3200M hooked to another port on the switch and am running just my three Optik tv boxes off the T3200M while the rest of my network is run off the UDM SE. I hate the mess of the extra switch and the T3200M and would like to be able to pack them away and just run everything off of the UDM. I have tried in the past setting it up but I must be missing something as it just gets the 10 seconds of tv before dropping off
Nighthawk
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Community Power UserLancerEvoDK - You have the older type of Optik TV boxes that will only work when directly connected to the T3200M. That is different than the newer Android TV based hardware referenced in this post. The old Optik set top boxes use multicast packets and most third party routers don't support that, either at all or not properly. That's why the boxes drop off after about 10 seconds when connected to the UDM. You may not have it configured correctly to work with multicast. The newer Android TV based Optik or TelusTV+ boxes do not use multicast packets so they will work with most routers out there right out of the box.
dolatyler may be able to provide you with more details on how they configured their UDM to work with the older hardware.
I dispute your comment on third party router not "properly" supporting multicast packets. In my experience the issue seems to be with Telus not supporting the transmission of multicast packets properly i.e. to published standards rather than their Telus proprietary methods. Just like Apple I think that Telus IT (system desingers) think that in order to minimize customer interaction they need to make proprietary system. With the advent of fibre they need to rethink this philosophy and give the customer an option of getting just a optical termination - ideally just an SFP but optionally the SFP plus Nokia to give an RJ45. All downstream equipment to be left to the customer - so buy Telus or buy your own. Effectively this is exactly the way PureFibre works right now - e.g. I can take the SFP from the Telus provided Nokia ONT and instead use my Edgerouter X-SFP and then on to my UAP's and it works fine EXCEPT for that proprietary OptikTV box. Talk about pushing the customers to "cut-the-cord" of broadcast TV - the Telus marking people just shake their head at the "stupidity" of the techies.
