Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

NewClareman

@MayoForSam: This dongle on Amazon Uk is only £9.75, and is fine for Saorview.

If you look on the thread on leaving Sky there's a link to my images in the first post. Hope this helps ��

hs5424

MayoForSam wrote: »

Didn't work, nothing picked up, signal strength is showing 0%. Could the tuner be blown?

To be sure you need to confirm with a signal meter what level you have on the coax. If you have over 45dbuV plus then the tuner should see it. If signal is there then something happened to the tuner when the power cut. Do you have a masthead or distribution amplifier on your system. If so check this out before you start messing with the box.

NewClareman

hs5424 wrote: »

To be sure you need to confirm with a signal meter what level you have on the coax. If you have over 45dbuV plus then the tuner should see it. If signal is there then something happened to the tuner when the power cut. Do you have a masthead or distribution amplifier on your system. If so check this out before you start messing with the box.

He knows the signal is there, he is using pass through to the kitchen.

In any case most users on this forum would not have access to specialised signal meters. If he wasn't using pass through I would have suggested that he bypass the box by plugging the lead directly into the tv.

sligojoek

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

I use 120Gb SSDs which cost less than €25 delivered. IMO 120Gb (30 hours HD) is more than enough for a sat box, anything more than that will probably never be watched.:) I have a NAS for long term storage. Being silent an SSD also suits a bedroom box.
At the end of the day each user will have their own wants/needs. For me SSDs are the way to go YMMV

Sorry to be OT.

Gerry, Have you a link to one of those? Could do with jizzing up the laptop. storage space not important

Gerry Wicklow

PM sent

MayoForSam

I'm trying to re-flash my Tiviar without success. I downloaded Claremans's most recent image and extracted the 'tiviaraplus' folder onto a FAT32 newly formatted FAT32 USB stick (4 GB) - there's 3 files inside the folder on the USB stick. However when I follow the instructions for re-flashing (power off, insert USB stick into rear port, power on), the box keeps skipping the USB image and goes straight into normal re-booting. I tried with another stick, still no good.

Anyone have any ideas what might I be doing wrong?

greasepalm

Sometimes they dont see the usb and it just boots up,try another and is there any button needed to press to start the flash process.

No other usb devices plugged in.

MenloPete

The most recent image requires a different online flash method. I can't find the link right now, but I'm sure NCM has mentioned it several times.

Edit: Found it here: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112589224&postcount=981

MayoForSam

greasepalm wrote: »

Sometimes they dont see the usb and it just boots up,try another and is there any button needed to press to start the flash process.

No other usb devices plugged in.

It should prompt me to press the Power button. I've noticed there are only 3 files in the 'tiviara' folder on the USB stick - imageversion, kernel.bin and rootfs.bin.

However, when I checked another image, I noticed a 4th file called 'noforce'.

Do I need to also copy 'noforce' into the folder on the USB stick?

greasepalm

removed.

NewClareman

MayoForSam wrote: »

I'm trying to re-flash my Tiviar without success. I downloaded Claremans's most recent image and extracted the 'tiviaraplus' folder onto a FAT32 newly formatted FAT32 USB stick (4 GB) - there's 3 files inside the folder on the USB stick. However when I follow the instructions for re-flashing (power off, insert USB stick into rear port, power on), the box keeps skipping the USB image and goes straight into normal re-booting. I tried with another stick, still no good.

Anyone have any ideas what might I be doing wrong?

You now need to use flash local, as referenced by MenloPete, with newer OpenATV images.

NewClareman

greasepalm wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=106783394

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kig

Sorry I am late to this thread, so apologise if these questions have been asked and answered already.
I am looking for a new sat receiver, but am unsure whether it does all that I want.
1. I would like to be able to record at least 2 programs at the same time, or watch one and record one - is this possible?
2. It looks like I would need to provide a hard drive for recording?
3. I also would like to be able to play/record through my old Sony DVD/HD player/recorder. I assume this is possible.
4. In the past I have had issues with my recordings onto my own external hard drive, being encrypted so that when the receiver gave up the ghost, I was unable to retrieve my recordings - is this the case with this receiver?

Gooey Looey

kig wrote: »

Sorry I am late to this thread, so apologise if these questions have been asked and answered already.
I am looking for a new sat receiver, but am unsure whether it does all that I want.
1. I would like to be able to record at least 2 programs at the same time, or watch one and record one - is this possible?
2. It looks like I would need to provide a hard drive for recording?
3. I also would like to be able to play/record through my old Sony DVD/HD player/recorder. I assume this is possible.
4. In the past I have had issues with my recordings onto my own external hard drive, being encrypted so that when the receiver gave up the ghost, I was unable to retrieve my recordings - is this the case with this receiver?

Yes to all

swoofer

I think its no for No.4, if they get an enigma2 box and use an HDD if box goes ..up they get anotherBOX and it will play recordings.

Johnboy1951

The recordings should not be encrypted when using the Tiviar or similar with a Linux OS.

kig

Can you also get the soarview channels on the same Tiviar Alpha + Plus box?

Johnboy1951

kig wrote: »

Can you also get the soarview channels on the same Tiviar Alpha + Plus box?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105770302&postcount=1

2 x DVB-S/2 tuners
1 x DVB-T/2 tuner

sligojoek

swoofer wrote: »

I think its no for No.4, if they get an enigma2 box and use an HDD if box goes ..up they get anotherBOX and it will play recordings.

That's right. The files can be played on anything afterwards.

teach nua

MayoForSam wrote: »

I'm trying to re-flash my Tiviar without success. I downloaded Claremans's most recent image and extracted the 'tiviaraplus' folder onto a FAT32 newly formatted FAT32 USB stick (4 GB) - there's 3 files inside the folder on the USB stick. However when I follow the instructions for re-flashing (power off, insert USB stick into rear port, power on), the box keeps skipping the USB image and goes straight into normal re-booting. I tried with another stick, still no good.

Anyone have any ideas what might I be doing wrong?

I was having same problem trying to flash new openvix. Tried 32 GB stick first, didn't work, went and bought new 8GB, that didn't work even trying in different USB ports. Went back to 32GB stick again this evening and it worked .

Also had not realised where the power switch was on the FRONT of the box (it is the white curved slash shape, the one on the left) Thanks to person who pointed this out in previous post and to everyone for help so far....onto setting box up now

endeval

Josman, did you manage to replace the power supply? I think I'm in the same situation.

thanks.
J

JOSman

With regard to the power supply, last week one of he guys on here said just replace it with a 12volt 3 amp (external) supply which I did and it did work. BUT, on standby the box was getting very warm and I decided that it's time to replace it.



I'm now looking for a replacement and the H7 looked good for a while but I do like wifi (sick of temporally running cables through the house for upgrades etc.) so that ruled it out for the present time.

greasepalm

Check out home plugs instead of wifi.

Gerry Wicklow

JOSman wrote: »

With regard to the power supply, last week one of he guys on here said just replace it with a 12volt 3 amp (external) supply which I did and it did work. BUT, on standby the box was getting very warm and I decided that it's time to replace it.



I'm now looking for a replacement and the H7 looked good for a while but I do like wifi (sick of temporally running cables through the house for upgrades etc.) so that ruled it out for the present time.

Why not use network adapter plugs instead

JOSman

Kids are using TP links.

For me, trying to keep it as simple as possible (not great on the technical side), that's why I decided to go wifi.

Gooey Looey

JOSman wrote: »

Kids are using TP links.

For me, trying to keep it as simple as possible (not great on the technical side), that's why I decided to go wifi.

You just need a third tp link homeplug

a clanger

JOSman wrote: »

With regard to the power supply, last week one of he guys on here said just replace it with a 12volt 3 amp (external) supply which I did and it did work. BUT, on standby the box was getting very warm and I decided that it's time to replace it

Was this a big job or relatively simple. It's not worth paying a pro to do this as I'd get a replacement box for roughly the same price. Anyone got some pointer with regard to which power supply and any pitfalls when changing would be appreciated.

JOSman

hs5424 wrote: »

As I don't have a Zgemma myself so I cannot compare, however when I set them up they both seemed to function the same. With all these things ''time will tell''.
By the way if anyone has any power supply problems with the Tiviar Alpha + don't bother to try and repair it. Just remove old psu and pop any 12v 5A one inside and hard wire it to the main pcb. It only delivers 12v to the main board so its a simple fix.

On the power board, each cable is marked with either 0V or 12V. Mark the cables before cutting and solder the 12V etc. I think 4 of the cables are 12V and the other 3 are the 0V side. I had bought some heat shrink in Lidl recently and that worked great.

All praise to HS5424. He's the man with the solution.

J

a clanger

JOSman wrote: »

On the power board, each cable is marked with either 0V or 12V. Mark the cables before cutting and solder the 12V etc. I think 4 of the cables are 12V and the other 3 are the 0V side. I had bought some heat shrink in Lidl recently and that worked great.

All praise to HS5424. He's the man with the solution.

J

Sorry to be pain any recommendations for a 12V PCU

Would THIS be OK ?

JOSman

Hi Clanger,

HS5424 recomends a 12V 5amp supply.


I had a 12V 3amp installed (laptop type charger) and the supply was able to handle the power to the box but I'd be inclined to go a little higher on the amp side.

J