Insignia TV antenna channels

[blessed girlie]

We have a 24 Pinnacle with Insignia Fire Smart TV. We are in campground with poor WiFi and need to use Antenna and Live channels. We can’t for the life of us get the scanned channels to actually play. There are like 62 channels available and only one will play. Others say “programming not available”. It’s like it is stuck on the last place we visited and those channels.
Can someone walk me through set up to help this problem? Thanks so much!

 

[jetlag]

Not sure I understand, are you scanning for channels at the new campground? And is your green boost switch on?

 

[norty1]

Depress the power button on your antenna amplifier, then set your tv set to "antenna", then rescan it.

 

[mrmom]

The only other thing to do is to make sure that you hit the OK/Done button on the screen to lock in the channels. Have forgotten that before & had to rescan again!

 

[norty1]

The rv older antennas are not omni-directional and are made to be rotated, I use an app that tell me the direction and distance of ota broadcast stations. You may have to play around with where the antenna is pointed to get the best reception.

 

[blessed girlie]

Not sure I understand, are you scanning for channels at the new campground? And is your green boost switch on?

Yes rescanning for channels at new campground.

 

[jetlag]

Yes rescanning for channels at new campground.

ok, then when done hit ok as mrmom said and be sure you have the antenna amplifier on as Norty1 mentioned. I couldn't think of the proper word for it and called it the boost switch. Also, as an afterthought, you are scanning for OTA channels on the TV input? The TV will typically have inputs for OTA channels and cable, so if scanning on the cable input and not connected to cable you will obviously come up blank.. I have a " stupid" Insignia tv on ours, made smart with a fire stick. I also have a Verizon card installed on the Winegard unit and it covers bad camp WiFi most of the time

 

[Grumpy]

It's called "Thank the FCC for allowing digital TV".

At my place in IL you can only get 1 Station to work at a time without rotating the antenna, but they all show as being there.

 

[jetlag]

It's called "Thank the FCC for allowing digital TV".

At my place in IL you can only get 1 Station to work at a time without rotating the antenna, but they all show as being there.

How do you rotate the Antenna? We have the Winegard box with multiple internal antennas

 

[Grumpy]

You can't. I'm just referencing how bad Digital OTA TV is.

 

[CW5AVRet]

Have you tried cell service or your own wifi hotspot?

Electronic engineers, please back me up here. When you scan for digital channels, it's looking for any signal on each channel, with a lower threshold for signal strength. But when you actually try to tune the channel, the threshold is higher and it has to "push" a stronger signal to display on the TV. Or you must have some kind of signal booster at your end. Otherwise you get a black screen and "No Programming Available"

This is the magic of HD quality digital TV. We should no longer get pictures full of snow & static, like the good old days of my youth. This is also why you may get some channels ok at night, but not during the daytime. It's all about the ionosphere. That's been our experience anyway

Free digital OTA TV is pretty extensive in my area. Big three networks, Fox, PBS, a lot of oldies channels like MeTV, Cozi & Antenna, shopping, and a lot of foreign-language

Good luck!

 

[Larry Pruitt]

I'm having the same problem. When you do a scan on the fire tv you get as many channels found if you do the scan on the "dumb" tv in the bedroom. The channels you get on the dumb tv will play but the channels won't play on the "smart" tv. We have a 22 Senaca 37K. I'm wondering if something somewhere is hooked up wrong. The cable from the Winegard appears to be hooked to the "Ant/Cable" port on the Fire TV. But, the jack that has the antenna booster has nothing hooked to the it. If I hook a coax to that jack I have no idea where to go with it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Grumpy]

But, the jack that has the antenna booster has nothing hooked to the it. If I hook a coax to that jack I have no idea where to go with it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Because one output coax is connected on the back side.