Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

The high horse brigade

NewClareman wrote: »

I am using the wireless dongle from WoS. I can see the Samba share, all right. However, when I try and transfer large files, or stream via the WebIf, I lose the connection. I can see from the router that it has disconnected, and my only option appears to be a network reboot. Any thoughts - I don’t have the background to troubleshoot this?

Run a continuous point to the box for a time see is it keeping connection or dropping.
ping <ipofbox> -t

NewClareman

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Run a continuous point to the box for a time see is it keeping connection or dropping.
ping <ipofbox> -t

That is working grand. I can’t use power line extenders as the power to the router is over 13amp flex which doesn’t give a good signal.

Jurgen Klopp

Ok lads bit of help.

Changed the skin on the OS and the box rebooted its now stuck on the Openvix please wait loading screen

Is there a way to reset to factory settings or I am gonna have to feckin dig out the laptop?

Obviously have tried turning off and on again a few times

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Ok lads bit of help.

Changed the skin on the OS and the box rebooted its now stuck on the Openvix please wait loading screen

Is there a way to reset to factory settings or I am gonna have to feckin dig out the laptop?

Obviously have tried turning off and on again a few times

FTP into usr/share/enigma2 and delete the directory with the name of the skin that is causing the problem.

greasepalm

I dont agree in factory reset as some boxes it can have issues,thinking with laptop you might enter via webif and delete skim from there maybe?

kindalen

Hi,

Trying to set up my new box. Am not getting any prompt when power on box. Have usb in rear port, any advice?

Am trying to use guide by the High Horse(Thanks!)

Just to add I set up box the other day, scann channels etc just as it came from WOS.

Thanks.

greasepalm

If your trying to usb flash make sure usb is formatted fat32 and extracted image is sent to box and only that usb is inserted into box while powered off,any buttons need pressing to prompt the flash to start?
Some cheaper usb sticks are not seen so try a better one.

kindalen

Formtted usb stick on a chromebook, so assume its fat32. Will try another usb drive.

Thanks.

kindalen

Tried another usb drive and still no joy. Must be doing something silly.

kindalen

Have my box in the attic, any reason I cannot flash it just plugged in downstairs beside the tv, only hooked up to tv via hdmi cable. AS in not hooked up to arial or sat feeds?

Thanks.

Jurgen Klopp

Am in trouble here lads. Can't FTP wirelessly as I don't have the settings saved in FileZilla from last time

Can I connect using a wired connection? Would it be via USB or ethernet?

I also tried flashing via USB and it's not detected. It's the only USB installed and have tried formatting to fat32 couple times and no luck. The only thing is it's a Scandisk 16GB so maybe too big but haven't any other keys around

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Am in trouble here lads. Can't FTP wirelessly as I don't have the settings saved in FileZilla from last time

Can I connect using a wired connection? Would it be via USB or ethernet?

I also tried flashing via USB and it's not detected. It's the only USB installed and have tried formatting to fat32 couple times and no luck. The only thing is it's a Scandisk 16GB so maybe too big but haven't any other keys around

You can FTP from any other device connected to the same network, doesn't matter if it's wired or wireless

Jurgen Klopp

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You can FTP from any other device connected to the same network, doesn't matter if it's wired or wireless

There's no network connected I no longer has the same router. I would have used a WiFi hotspot from my phone but I haven't set it up and with the box stuck on the Openvix boot I can't get into the setting on the box to connect to the WiFi hotspot

Is there anyway to direct connect a laptop to the box and force login that way?

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

There's no network connected I no longer has the same router. I would have used a WiFi hotspot from my phone but I haven't set it up and with the box stuck on the Openvix boot I can't get into the setting on the box to connect to the WiFi hotspot

Is there anyway to direct connect a laptop to the box and force login that way?

Plug the box in using Ethernet it should automatically get an IP without any setting up. You'll need to check the router to food out what IP it gets

Jurgen Klopp

Ok little movement here.

Got a friend's USB and it's detected and prompts press power button to flash

But it's flashing the files and the box doesn't reboot and turn on just the press power button request comes up again

Any idea?

Jurgen Klopp

Nvm tried it a second time and she's flying again after a backup!

Just need to connect it to my 4G for plugins

Thanks very much

Jurgen Klopp

Small Q, to connect it to a new WiFi network, is there any tutorial out there? Having trouble remembering

Edit: hmmm WiFi option doesn't seem to be there would it be an issue with teh latest image which is the one I flashed?

greasepalm

i presume box is been setup for wifi,so it will need your router id and password to allow access to your network.
Its the same if a m8 brought over his laptop he can scan your wifi but needs access code to connect.

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Small Q, to connect it to a new WiFi network, is there any tutorial out there? Having trouble remembering

Edit: hmmm WiFi option doesn't seem to be there would it be an issue with teh latest image which is the one I flashed?

Is it a usb wireless adapter? You most likely need the driver for the wireless, it will not be included in a default image. You'll have to plug the box in using Ethernet to download the driver in plugins.

Jurgen Klopp

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Is it a usb wireless adapter? You most likely need the driver for the wireless, it will not be included in a default image. You'll have to plug the box in using Ethernet to download the driver in plugins.

It's a WiFi hotspot of my phone

Could I download the WiFi driver and flash it? The box doesn't detect any WiFi network at all in fact there isn't any options to scan WiFi on the network setup wizard

I might try flashing an older image

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

It's a WiFi hotspot of my phone

Could I download the WiFi driver and flash it? The box doesn't detect any WiFi network at all in fact there isn't any options to scan WiFi on the network setup wizard

I might try flashing an older image

You are not understanding. The wireless on the box will not work until you install the wireless driver. To install the wireless driver you're going to need to bring it somewhere you can plug it in using Ethernet and download it, it's available to download in the plugins download section

Jurgen Klopp

The high horse brigade wrote: »

You are not understanding. The wireless on the box will not work until you install the wireless driver. To install the wireless driver you're going to need to bring it somewhere you can plug it in using Ethernet and download it, it's available to download in the plugins download section

Yes sorry I'm just coming across wrong

If I connect my tiviar to the laptop via ethernet

Then tether the laptop on my phone that should work shouldn't it

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Yes sorry I'm just coming across wrong

If I connect my tiviar to the laptop via ethernet

Then tether the laptop on my phone that should work shouldn't it

It could if you know how to setup internet connection sharing on whatever operating system is on your laptop. I'm not a Windows user so am of little help, Google is your friend.

Jurgen Klopp

Ok moving in teh right direction

Box connected via ethernet to laptop and then tethered to 4G phone

Network Test

LAN Adapter is good

Local is good

DHCP is good

IP address and nameserver are unconfirmed tho

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Ok moving in teh right direction

Box connected via ethernet to laptop and then tethered to 4G phone

Network Test

LAN Adapter is good

Local is good

DHCP is good

IP address and nameserver are unconfirmed tho

You need to setup connection sharing on the laptop so it passes traffic to the box. All those tests confirm is that the network port is up.

Jurgen Klopp

Connected now.

What is the name of the wireless driver for this box?

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Connected now.

What is the name of the wireless driver for this box?

That I don't know. I'll have to have a Google

The high horse brigade

Is it a plug in usb adapter? The full specs for this box don't list it as having internal wireless. Did you add it as an extra? It could be plugged into a usb port inside the box

Jurgen Klopp

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Is it a plug in usb adapter? The full specs for this box don't list it as having internal wireless. Did you add it as an extra? It could be plugged into a usb port inside the box

WLAN was there as default when I bought it from wos I'll have a look and see if they have listed what hardware they installed

Thanks for the help appreciate it, managed get skins and stuff downloaded anyway and think the default epg was what I used

The high horse brigade

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

WLAN was there as default when I bought it from wos I'll have a look and see if they have listed what hardware they installed

Thanks for the help appreciate it, managed get skins and stuff downloaded anyway and think the default epg was what I used

You should open it and have a peep because you'll be waiting till Monday for world of satellite to get back to you. If you get the model no it should be easy to find out what chipset it has. It would have been opened by them anyway to fit the hard drive