Thanks for this Debby. I will have sighted assistance this morning hopefully. David T From: Debby McCallan Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:54 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: TVonics playing up Hi again David Just had an awful thought - you are talking about the DTR (digital recorder) aren't you? Anyway, here goes: If it hasn't actually done the re-tuning bit then you can do this when you first plug it in - At this point you will be asked whether you want to start tuning and audibly you will hear “press blue to activate talking menus”. Press the blue button on the remote (bottom row, right hand button). It will then read the information on the screen “Please press OK when you wish the box to start tuning”. Press the OK button (large circular button a third of the way up the remote). It will now scan for channels in your area with a progress announcement every 15 seconds. You may have to select regions etc. ------ If it has re-tuned and you just need to turn speech back on: If you didn’t turn speech on when you set up the box, you can switch the talking features on or off at any point, although this may require sighted assistance. Using the on-screen menu and the navigation controls you can activate talking features by pressing the menu button then select settings, press OK then accessibility settings, press OK and then move down to text-to-speech. Scroll through the options using the left or right navigation keys. Without sighted assistance you may be able to activate talking features by using this button sequence. Follow this exact button sequence: menu, down, OK, down, down, OK, down, down, down, right. After a few moments, talking features should be activated otherwise return to TV and try the sequence again. ----- I did test the sequence out when I helped someone else so know that it does work. You should then only have to re-set anything you had before such as speech rate, volume etc but with speech on it's a doddle. Hope this helps. Cheers Debby ----- Original Message ----- From: David To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:46 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: TVonics playing up Hi Debby, Thanks for replying so quickly. Don’t worry about insulting my abilities such as they are. I think I have got the instructions on one of my daisy players but, in the meantime, please send me the relevant section I need rather than the whole manual. Thanks in anticipation. David T From: Debby McCallan Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:05 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: TVonics playing up Hello David At last, something I understand and could maybe help with, haha. My TV Onyx has refused to work twice now and it's very frustrating as I had to re-set my timers and TTS settings, luckily it kept my Library intact. The last time it happened it went into "install" mode so had to go back to the instructions, therefore pressed the blue button immediately to start speech. There is a way to turn it on without doing this though. If you haven't kept the instructions handy or in accessible format you could download from the RNIB shop or I could look them up myself and send you anything you need. Sorry, don't want to insult your abilities so forgive me if I am teaching you to suck eggs as they say. Cheers Debby ----- Original Message ----- From: David To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 6:52 PM Subject: [access-uk] TVonics playing up Hi list, Last night TVonics and freeview just stopped working. I was not in the room at the time so no buttons were inadvertently pressed. Got a neighbour in this morning and discovered it was retuning itself and eventually was fine once again. However, it has been behaving strangely during the day. The current state of play this evening is that I am getting freeview tv but TVonics is not speaking and the correct channels do not respond properly to the remote. It tried to connect me to the Welsh transmitter this morning but I changed it to the North-West. I also put new batteries in the remote. Anybody else had similar problems? Do I need to put in TTS voices again, if so, how? Regards David T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3222/6159 - Release Date: 09/12/13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3222/6159 - Release Date: 09/12/13