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Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

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  • #182
    The high horse brigade
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    dendof wrote: »
    Does this mean an aerial in the attic? A pair of rabbit ears will hardly do!

    This depends on where you are located. This site will tell you your nearest mast and distance.

    https://www.saorview.ie/en/get/coverage


  • #183
    dendof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭dendof


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    This depends on where you are located. This site will tell you your nearest mast and distance.

    https://www.saorview.ie/en/get/coverage

    I'm 40km from nearest mast


  • #184
    The high horse brigade
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    dendof wrote: »
    I'm 40km from nearest mast

    You will most likely need an outdoor aerial. If your house is facing the mast you may get away with an indoor one in the attic. You'll need a local installer to advise.


  • #185
    The high horse brigade
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Hi, looking to purchase a STB for home and decision is between this and the Edision OS Mini.

    There seems to be a loot of setup work with the Tiviar box. Is it suitable for elderly users or would the Edision OS Mini be a better option?
    I've no need for a terrestial tuner.
    I like that the HDD is internal with the Tiviar, but other than that I've no real preference between the two. Any comments?


    Thanks.

    You'd be better with the Tiviar with the internal HDD. Both boxes run Enigma 2 and have identical amount of setting up, it's not the default OS for either box. There is a learning curve to Enigma on any box.

    The Tiviar is a triple tuner while the Edison has only 2x satellite. The Tiviar has a much faster CPU which will give smoother performance.


  • #186
    JB81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭JB81


    Just a quick question. I have the order ready to go on World of Satelite for this.
    The options when purchasing:

    USB Stick Storage - I assume this is not required? Its just a stick for recording if you dont have the HDD?

    USB Wifi Option - What is this? I have Wifi at home with 3. Do I need this option on the box?

    Networking Powerline Homeplugs - What are these and what do they do? Do I need them for the box to work?

    Thanks
    This thread is the reason I am making the purchase

    JB


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  • #187
    JB81
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    sugarman wrote: »
    Yeah thats it.



    If you want to use Wifi, yes. You need an additonal dongle for the box. It hasnt got wifi built in.



    These are if you want to use an Ethernet cable for internet, but your receiver is in another room than your router. Its uses the internal wiring of your house.

    Possibly a silly question, but what would I need Wifi for? Can it connect to BBC player, 3player etc...


  • #188
    The high horse brigade
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    JB81 wrote: »
    Possibly a silly question, but what would I need Wifi for? Can it connect to BBC player, 3player etc...

    There are many reasons to connect this device to your network. You can set timers, stream channels or stream recordings to your phone or laptop if the box is connected to your network. You can also use this box for IPTV streams which require internet connectivity.


  • #189
    The high horse brigade
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Do the boxes need to be kept on in order to receive updates?
    How stable are they?
    Can you set one receiver to be the main one for recordings?

    Thanks for the replies.

    You can schedule updates to run while the box is on. I have a Harmony remote so I only use standby and never power of the devices beside my TV.

    Enigma on these boxes is very stable. There is a bit of a learning curve with Enigma but if you put the time into figuring it out you can setup a great system. Enigma selects the tuner not in use for recordings


  • #190
    The high horse brigade
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    One possible system I might implement is a Freesat input to one receiver and a diseqc input of Freesat/Saorsat to the second receiver.

    If the STB is using the receiver allocated to Freesat and I want to record a Freesat channel, can I set up the box so that it will always look to the Freesat only receiver first when initiating a recording? That way access to Saorsat will not be inhibited if the user decides to view Saorsat subsequent to the recording commencing.

    If I want to record Saorsat, it would look at the Freesat receiver, not find the channel, then search the second receiver and locate it there and use that receiver for the recording.

    I have been told on another thread that this is possible in the settings.

    Yes, you have the option of setting the preferred tuner for recordings in recording settings


  • #191
    MeTheMan
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    I'm not in a saorview covered area. Can you pick up saorsat on a sky dish?


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  • #192
    The high horse brigade
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    MeTheMan wrote: »
    I'm not in a saorview covered area. Can you pick up saorsat on a sky dish?

    Wrong thread. No is the answer. You need a much bigger dish and a different type of lnb on the dish.


  • #193
    FRIENDO
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    MeTheMan wrote:
    I'm not in a saorview covered area. Can you pick up saorsat on a sky dish?


    The common dish supplied by sky installers No

    You need a solid dish type.
    For most of the Country you need an 80cm dish.
    For the South West parts of Kerry/Cork or North/East parts of North East Donegal and parts of the Six Counties, a 100cm dish would be recommended.

    Saorsat also uses a different LNB, you would need a Saorsat Ka LNBF

    Freetv.ie or freesat.ie Web site's can give you an idea on prices of equipment needed.

    Best to contact a local installer, installation and equipment is not to expensive.

    If you want to discuss more on this topic it would be best to start a new thread on Saorsat, lots of people will give advice, cheers.


  • #194
    JOSman
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    Sorry guys, does this box definitely have seven day EPG?


  • #195
    The high horse brigade
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    JOSman wrote: »
    Sorry guys, does this box definitely have seven day EPG?

    Yes, Enigma 2 the software on this box has a plugin called CrossEPG that can decode the 7 day Sky EPG


  • #196
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭JOSman


    Thanks High Horse Brigade. Have a small place down the country and the box I have there is now/next which I really hate. To me epg is important.

    Thanks again J


  • #197
    greasepalm
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    yes they do as i also have now and next on other boxes which i hate also.


  • #198
    john_doe.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭john_doe.


    The Wireless dongle that comes with these as an option , is there anything special about it?
    I'm assuming I can fit my own SATA drive and a wireless dongle later.

    Also any way to share recordings from this box to allow playback on other device.
    For example I have a number of Kodi boxes running on Minix hardware in house. If I recorded a TV show on these it would be great if could watch it from the Minix in the bedroom.

    Also I'm guessing series link works okay on the enigma images ?


  • #199
    Gerry Wicklow
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    In my experience not all wireless dongles are linux compatible. You would need to check if the drivers are available. They aren't great for streaming HD either. Hard-wired or powerline adaptors would be better. You can access almost all the box functions and stream live or recordings from any web browser on the same network using a built in 'Webif' plugin. Series linking uses an 'autotimer' plugin. This is simple to use but can also be far more powerful and flexible than simple series linking


  • #200
    The high horse brigade
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    There are also Android apps like Dream Player which allow you to remotely view the EPG, set timers and stream live TV and recordings. If you know a bit about networking you can even configure your network so you can do this from outside your network

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.cyberdream.dreamepg.tv.player


  • #201
    john_doe.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭john_doe.


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    There are also Android apps like Dream Player which allow you to remotely view the EPG, set timers and stream live TV and recordings. If you know a bit about networking you can even configure your network so you can do this from outside your network

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.cyberdream.dreamepg.tv.player

    jeez , this is great, was going down the route of setting up a tv headend server for client android boxes, but this would do al lot of what i needed.

    one another question - how does these compare to the other enigma type boxes out there?
    would you rank them in the top 3?


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  • #202
    The high horse brigade
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    Also note, I wouldn't run an enigma 2 box without some sort of storage for the 7 day Epg. Saving the 7 day Epg to the internal flash storage will cause the box to glitch and crash as it's a huge database. A usb key will do if you've no hard drive, make sure there's nothing on it as you will need to format it to a Linux format to initialise it. Picons go there also


  • #203
    john_doe.
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Also note, I wouldn't run an enigma 2 box without some sort of storage for the 7 day Epg. Saving the 7 day Epg to the internal flash storage will cause the box to glitch and crash as it's a huge database. A usb key will do if you've no hard drive, make sure there's nothing on it as you will need to format it to a Linux format to initialise it. Picons go there also

    Thanks ya.
    I was wondering how these compare with other enigma boxed on the market now . Reading the thread people seem very impressed with it.


  • #204
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    john_doe. wrote: »
    Thanks ya.
    I was wondering how these compare with other enigma boxed on the market now . Reading the thread people seem very impressed with it.

    I've setup plenty of Enigma boxes when card sharing was popular. This is up there with any of them Vu+, Gigablue, Technomate etc costing 3 times the price. It's got a very fast CPU, plenty of ram, has space for an internal hard drive and has good support thorough OpenAtv or OpenVix. It's a serious box for the price, it was over 300 quid sterling when released in 2013 with a proprietary OS.


  • #205
    greasepalm
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    I also like e2 boxes like vu and xtrend and picked up a triple tuner and added internal 1tb hdd.


  • #206
    SteM
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    Mine arrived on Friday and I spent part of Saturday setting it up to how I wanted it. Very happy with it, it's very snappy. It seems very good for IPTV streaming too, no glitching yesterday at all.


  • #207
    Gerry Wicklow
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    SteM wrote: »
    Mine arrived on Friday and I spent part of Saturday setting it up to how I wanted it. Very happy with it, it's very snappy. It seems very good for IPTV streaming too, no glitching yesterday at all.

    If you are running openATV make sure to use the BLUE button to backup your settings. It only takes a few seconds but can save hours of hassle if you manage to mess things up.


  • #208
    SteM
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    Gerry Wicklow wrote: »
    If you are running openATV make sure to use the BLUE button to backup your settings. It only takes a few seconds but can save hours of hassle if you manage to mess things up.

    Running openvix, must remember to do a backup when I get home. Thanks for the reminder.


  • #209
    P.C
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    Hello stem

    Is the picture of good quality in openvix.
    I was thinking of changing over to openatv.


  • #210
    SteM
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    P.C wrote: »
    Hello stem

    Is the picture of good quality in openvix.
    I was thinking of changing over to openatv.

    It's been fine for me. I have a Sony Android TV with built in sat tuner so I run a cable from the box to the TV and have compared the picture from the two sources. The picture from the TV tuner does seem a bit better to my eye but nothing incredible. My wife doesn’t notice any difference between the two.

    Does the image you are using on the box effect the picture quality?


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  • #211
    P.C
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    SteM wrote: »
    It's been fine for me. I have a Sony Android TV with built in sat tuner so I run a cable from the box to the TV and have compared the picture from the two sources. The picture from the TV tuner does seem a bit better to my eye but nothing incredible. My wife doesn’t notice any difference between the two.

    Does the image you are using on the box effect the picture quality?

    I have a Sony 32 smart TV, like you with sat tuner. Also I find the picture that bit sharper on the Sony compared to the box. Thanks for the comments.


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