WETEK Play/OPENELEC user discussion, tips n' tricks

branners69 wrote: »

I have the same setup but with a 32gb sd card. I would regularly have to pull the plug, but it will just boot straight backup, doesnt go into Kodi or anything. It will often hang when I am just flicking through channels. The less flicking I do, the less chances of it happening. I reckon it is just the box, you pay for what you get!

But a 2gb card seems very small, I wouldnt reckon on much timeshift with it!

Ok thanks, so it could be the sd card, it was an old sd card I have, will get a new card.

For timeshift I have a USB stick, can't remember now if 4gb or 16gb.

branners69 wrote: »

I see Amazon are having a decent sale on SD cards!

32gb and 64gb

Class 1 :eek:

Some decent prices there, Mymemory and memoryc have good prices too.

Guys,
I bought 2 of these units in the group bu which have gone unuses. 1 was opened to check contents the other is still in the parcel motel packaging. Dont suppose anyone is looking for one? If so PM me.

Thanks

Would also be interested given they are satellite models.

tommycahir wrote: »

Just got an email from wetek saying that their new android box the wetek hub will be available in July and Play2 will be available late this summer and Play2S will see the light of day in early 2017.
Read more about it here.

unfortunately no prices for any of these boxes yet..

The Hub is €89 but it's just an Android box, isn't it? No cable or sat connections.

BTW way Tommy, thanks very much for your PBnigma guide. I'm up and running now and glad I took the plunge as it's so much better for TV than OpenElec or LibreElec and Wetek Theatre.

jakdublin wrote: »

The Hub is €89 but it's just an Android box, isn't it? No cable or sat connections.

BTW way Tommy, thanks very much for your PBnigma guide. I'm up and running now and glad I took the plunge as it's so much better for TV than OpenElec or LibreElec and Wetek Theatre.

No worries, glad it is of use to you guys, Yeah I was getting an error on the site which prevented the price from being shown!

Yeah it is just an android box but comes with the Wetek custom build of android os and includes a 2 year warranty unlike alot of the stuff from China seen around these days. Not a box for me but am sure some people will find it good.

What were you running?

robbie67 wrote: »

Turned on the wetek play box yesterday just got a black screen i does nothing i have tried recovery, clean install, soft recovery, to no avail i just stays black i cant get into the boot loop in fact i cant get into any thing

I looked up wetek forum and it looks like a uboot problem has any body tried a hard recovery of the box and is it difficult any help would be appreciated thanks

It wouldn't be just a loose cable, would it? I've done a hard recovery and while it's tough on the nerves, it worked for me and if you follow the instructions carefully it should be ok. The only thing that went wrong was I detached the wireless antenna, which is easily done btw, but I figured out how to attach it again. I'm not as experienced as some on here but I used the opportunity to flash different set ups onto the nand, something I was too scared to risk before, and I'm better off than before.

Only issue I have now is PBnigma crashes most nights in the early hours. Think it's something to do with timers, or epg refreshes. Tommy's guide is great for setting up but I could really do with a manual! Got the radio bouquets on yesterday by accident and couldn't figure out how to switch back to tv. Had to do it through the web interface.

Have you tried flashing the updated BIOS to it? Have a look at the wetek forum and linuxsupport, great websites for guides and how too do everything.

Probably a stupid question, but is there a physical tuner required to plug into the back of the box?

When I try a network scan in the settings menu it's coming back with zero channels found.

Just wondering where I'm going wrong

I have a wetek openelec sat box.


Thanks in advance

Dr Robert wrote: »

Probably a stupid question, but is there a physical tuner required to plug into the back of the box?

When I try a network scan in the settings menu it's coming back with zero channels found.

Just wondering where I'm going wrong

I have a wetek openelec sat box.


Thanks in advance

Depending on the box you purchased the tuner should already be installed might be for cable or Satellite, if satellite you just connect the cable from the dish to the back of the box, after configure it to show what satellite Astra 19, Astra 28, Eutelsat 16, etc then scan for channels.

If you give more info on how you configure it others might help you better, if you are using PBnigma use the guide created by Tommycahir

nava wrote: »

Depending on the box you purchased the tuner should already be installed might be for cable or Satellite, if satellite you just connect the cable from the dish to the back of the box, after configure it to show what satellite Astra 19, Astra 28, Eutelsat 16, etc then scan for channels.

If you give more info on how you configure it others might help you better, if you are using PBnigma use the guide created by Tommycahir

I've configured most of the stuff from Tommys very helpful guide.

I think I have just gone wrong somewhere basic. Possibly cable related as mentioned above

A cable with 2 screws in the end? Sounds like a VGA cable. Not needed for this box. Have you your satellite feeds plugged in?

I'm not sure if you're trolling or being serious to be honest.

Just found this out about the Enigma remote control. When you press the Del button, bottom right corner it brings up the History Zap.

This is dead handy now for flicking between the football on ITV HD and ITV 4 HD!

wiz569 wrote: »

Pressing the zero key will do it quicker

And there was me wasting my time pressing extra buttons!!

Thanks for the heads up!