It will work providing you have sat signal try with the receiver turned on for while then with receiver turned off but leave it plugged in,did you set your dish type in installation?For THE GUIDE try this go into your menu look for local channels set your zip code for 14211(buffalo) the receiver will reboot and download into the guide your OTA stations for buffalo which means you have a full description of whats on 7 days ahead also tells you whats on in hd but only works for the US stations later on you can delete all the channels you can not receive (the sat stations)I had to get the guide going for the wife or she was lost thats why I run the sat feed, soon all the US stations are mandated to transmit that info in their signal but right now they are pretty tardy or random with guide info.Keep trying my ts160 works great on all available channels from buffalo with a crappy terk tv32 antenna