Adrian P Challinor wrote: > Can anyone explain why I get these messages in the log and the box > crashes? ... > May 14 18:00:06 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!! The FF firmware is known to crash on poor signal quality. Reasons (except for poor software quality in the firmware) might include a poorly aligned dish, a broken LNB, a bad coax cable, etc. Use the femon plugin to check your signal quality. Carsten.