Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

UsedToWait

spongerobinson wrote: »

Same reason I'm setting one up. The box has now been moved to the parents house, so I'll be checking up on it in a week or so to see if the guide etc has downloaded ok.

I set a zap timer to tune to a Saorview channel at 5 every morning, but I'll have no way of knowing if it actually works to update the guide unless nobody turns it onto a Saorview channel for more then a week.

You hardly remember which menu the timer setup is under?
I'm sure I'll figure it out if not,,

spongerobinson

UsedToWait wrote: »

You hardly remember which menu the timer setup is under?
I'm sure I'll figure it out if not,,

Just press Menu > Timers and it was one of the options in there. If you don't figure it out let me know, and I'll take a screenshot of the page next time I'm there.

endeval

Hey High Horse,

How's the system for catch-up tv?

Can you intermix Sat and Saorview channels and just flick through them?
e.g Ch1 RTE1, Ch2 BBC1, Ch3 RTE2, Ch4 BBC2

Can you get Netflix or NowTV on it?

Cheers
James

gotasmoke

I'm hoping someone can help. I have a Sky connection in the house and I want to cancel Sky and replace it with the freeview channels so I bought this box and flashed it with High Horses image. It looks like it successfully flashed because the bouquets are updates but no satellite channels are showing up. The EPG info is showing up for most channels ok, but I'm not actually viewing the channel. I'm using the same cables from the LNB that work fine in the Sky box so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

greasepalm

Are you using a sky q box that uses a special lnb not suitable for ordinary boxes?there is a hybrid lnb for using both services for sat and is your box a sat version?

sligojoek

Check that you're not making the mistake I made. There's tuner A input and output. Then there's a tuner B input. I plugged one of the cables into tuner A output.

Rick_

How easy is it to create your own layout for these boxes, or modify an existing one to amend, say, the font used or the colour of the OSD? Looks like a great little box, I am sorely tempted, if only I had a dish installed at my current flat to get me the extra channels.

gotasmoke

greasepalm wrote: »

Are you using a sky q box that uses a special lnb not suitable for ordinary boxes?there is a hybrid lnb for using both services for sat and is your box a sat version?

I didn't know that the sky lnb won't work with other boxes. I'll get a generic lnb and try that out. Thanks.

JOSman

gotasmoke,

I think sky lnb doesn't work with other dishes.

Boxes should be fine.

Johnboy1951

The Sky Q LNB is not compatible with the vast majority of other STBs, unless a 'special' LNB was requested and used at the time of installation of Sky Q. This special 'Hybrid LNB' does allow compatibility with other STBs.

Gerry Wicklow

PFMC84 wrote: »

How easy is it to create your own layout for these boxes, or modify an existing one to amend, say, the font used or the colour of the OSD? Looks like a great little box, I am sorely tempted, if only I had a dish installed at my current flat to get me the extra channels.

To change the general layout of menus, colours etc you can download and change the "skin" with just a few clicks. There is a fairly big range available for the different makes of box. Beyond that you can edit specific details if you are VERY comfortable working with Linux internals.

ShaneOC

gotasmoke wrote: »

I didn't know that the sky lnb won't work with other boxes. I'll get a generic lnb and try that out. Thanks.

The Sky Q LNB (the one with 2 outputs on the LNB) will not work with other boxes.

A regular Sky LNB (usually one or four outputs) will work perfectly well with other boxes. LNBs with just one output were used originally before Sky+ arrived.

Some Sky Q installs use a hybrid LNB (6 outputs on the LNB)which does work with other boxes.

Easy Guide:
1 LNB Output - Will work with other boxes (but no simultaneous watch and record)
2 LNB Outputs used with a Sky Q box - Will not work with other boxes
4 LNB Outputs - Will work with other boxes
6 LNB Outputs - Will work with other boxes

quarryman

Two questions:

1. How do I telnet/ssh into the box? I've found the IP and tried to access via Putty but no response

2. How to I delete multiple files in the Playlist?

greasepalm

Is it an ipk file your trying to load as it can be put onto a usb and installed internally?
Think i had to use dcc that has a telnet portal.

UsedToWait

quarryman wrote: »

Two questions:

1. How do I telnet/ssh into the box? I've found the IP and tried to access via Putty but no response

2. How to I delete multiple files in the Playlist?

1. You need the user name and password too - root and tempass if you're using THHB's image


2. Easiest using openwebif to connect to the box, then boutique editor - there might be another step to prevent them reappearing the next epg download - THHB or someone knowledgeable might advise..

JB81

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

If you have the aerial looped through, you can still use the TV tuner to watch one mux while the box records the other.

IN relation to this. I am just trying to get my head around the recordings, and auto timers etc.. and trying to figure out what and how many things I can record at a time.

Loop - Is this the lead that comes with the box?
Where does it go? Do you need any other particular aerial or anything for it to work?

Thanks
JB

The high horse brigade

JB81 wrote: »

IN relation to this. I am just trying to get my head around the recordings, and auto timers etc.. and trying to figure out what and how many things I can record at a time.

Loop - Is this the lead that comes with the box?
Where does it go? Do you need any other particular aerial or anything for it to work?

Thanks
JB

You have a TV aerial loop out, you connect this to your TV so you can watch the Saorview channels on the TV itself while the box is recording/streaming Saorview

JB81

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You have a TV aerial loop out, you connect this to your TV so you can watch the Saorview channels on the TV itself while the box is recording/streaming Saorview

Good stuff, your on the ball early this morning.
Its actually a great box. I do need to get a booster for the signal from my saorview aerial.

The high horse brigade

quarryman wrote: »

Two questions:

1. How do I telnet/ssh into the box? I've found the IP and tried to access via Putty but no response

2. How to I delete multiple files in the Playlist?

What image, the default Openatv is root, no password. I open my box to the outside world so I always put a password on my boxes. Mine is root with password tempass. You can easily change the password for the root user using telnet/ssh with the Linux command "passwd root"

quarryman

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You have a TV aerial loop out, you connect this to your TV so you can watch the Saorview channels on the TV itself while the box is recording/streaming Saorview

What about the satellite feeds? If I have two coming from my dish should I plug them both in or loop LNB out from Tuner 1 to LNB in to Tuner 2 instead?

1. You need the user name and password too - root and tempass if you're using THHB's image

Good stuff, that's working now, I think i might have been trying to connect while the box was off. D'oh!

2. Easiest using openwebif to connect to the box, then boutique editor - there might be another step to prevent them reappearing the next epg download - THHB or someone knowledgeable might advise..

Thanks. I'm in openwibif but can't see my recorded programs anywhere or a way to delete them.

UsedToWait

quarryman wrote: »

What about the satellite feeds?


Thanks. I'm in openwibif but can't see my recorded programs anywhere or a way to delete them.

I think you just plug in the two sat feeds..

Re: the second bit, sorry, picked you up wrong - thought you were asking about unused bouquets..

THHB (hero of this thread!) can advise I'm sure..

quarryman

UsedToWait wrote: »

I think you just plug in the two sat feeds..

Re: the second bit, sorry, picked you up wrong - thought you were asking about unused bouquets..

THHB (hero of this thread!) can advise I'm sure..

No worries. Managed to SSH in and delete them in /media/hdd/movies

Gerry Wicklow

The two satellite feeds go to tuner 1 and tuner 2. The satellite loop outs are not used.
In Webif you access 'movies' up in the top left-hand corner of the page. From there you can also view, copy/backup or delete them.

sligojoek

The last few mornings , I'm getting a message telling me the saorviwew hasn't updated .
There are no problems watching Saorview stuff after I press OK.

Any ideas ?

quarryman

I find the fan very annoying the way it speeds up and down, anyone have a fix for it?

The high horse brigade

quarryman wrote: »

I find the fan very annoying the way it speeds up and down, anyone have a fix for it?

I've never once heard a fan, even with 2 recordings heavy usage. Could it be the hdd spinning up?

UsedToWait

• AutoBouquetMaker is configured to add Saorview first and then Freesat category bouquets and is set to automatically run daily (this updates any frequency changes in line with the Saorview and Freesat EPG). Change your Saorview region in menu -> setup -> service searching -> AutoBouquetsMaker -> providers -> saorview area, then press green to save and then start a scan.

Hi THHB, I know this was discussed on the thread before, but can't seem to locate it.


I'm setting up a box for a very non techy person, so just want the epg to default to the Favourites, and no other bouquets to be visible.


Is there a setting somewhere in ABM that will ensure new bouquets aren't made each time it runs?

greasepalm

Unsure if you hide other sections in abm you will just see the ones you want visible?

ngc.ie

Hi, thanks for all the great help in this thread with the setup,
I have loaded THHB's image from page 5 and I'm trying to clearly understand the autobouquets, same like comment above I'm trying setup the box for someone else and want to simplify the displayed bouquet list and edit channels within them

what's the story with autobouquetsmaker is there away you can permanently delete/rearrange the existing bouquet listing and edit the channels within them or will it keep returning to the default listings and contents after a scan?....should I disable scan?

or would I set up my own new bouquets the way I want them (I notice these remain the same after a scan), if so can you permanently hide/delete the other existing bouquets list so they do not reappear after a scan?

JB81

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You have a TV aerial loop out, you connect this to your TV so you can watch the Saorview channels on the TV itself while the box is recording/streaming Saorview

Hi THHB

ON the aerial loop. The cable that came with the box is only a couple of inches long and the ends on it do not fit into my TV anyway, do i just extend it using a fitting and cable to get to the TV. Or can I just use any cable that fits and run it straight from the box ( Loop out connection ) to the TV? Or do I need to use the specific cable that came with it for some reason?

Thanks
JB