WETEK Play/OPENELEC user discussion, tips n' tricks

One here in monaghan also 30 euro

Anyone still using theirs daily? Mine has started to get really slow running pbnigma 5.3.

Wondering is it time for an upgrade? Would want 2 x sat, 1 x saorview & IPTV. What have others upgraded to?

What's the separate device? ^^

jakdublin wrote: »

My box is a dedicated live sat tv server using tvheadend on libreelec that I use daily and as long as that’s all it does it’s great. I’ve tried various enigma setups and tried to integrate it with iptv with varying degrees of success but the best I’ve got out of it is just leaving it as a live tv server to watch and record freeview channels. I now have seperate devices for iptv, Plex and other services. Last year I wouldn’t have known what any of that even meant!
I’ve learned so much from this device I consider it a fantastic investment, but you need to be willing to research, learn and be very patient.

I have to agree it was a fantastic buy. It was a very sharp learning curve but have enjoyed tinkering with it. I found iptv integration pretty handy, there are two small programmes which really help.

I would use mine a lot, pretty much daily. Tried some of the enigma images when I got the box but never really gave them much of a chance. Didn't like the android version either.

Open now LibreELEC is the killer OS on it for me. Everything I need in one place, use tvheadend for TV and some shows i recorded I'll add to the kodi library.
I use trakt as well for the library, one streaming addon integrates with that & realdebrid.
The IPTV site I use for football has a kodi addon too so that's everything i need sorted.

No saorview though, I meant to look for a USB tuner for it but never got round to it.

Haven't noticed mine slowing up. There are issues with it, I'll need to restore from a backup now and again as the file system always corrupts on it.
Though for the price it was a great purchase.
The biggest issue with it now I find is that it can't play h.265, and that's becoming more popular

If you were streaming & recording would it hang up?

Times mine will if I was recording two HD channels & trying to do something else.

batistuta9 wrote: »

If you were streaming & recording would it hang up?

Times mine will if I was recording two HD channels & trying to do something else.

Yeah, little glitches like that. Multitasking isn’t it’s strong point but as Branners says, it’s a media Swiss Army knife

mightybashful wrote: »

How do you install the latest kodi on Openelec on this?

You need to upgrade to LibreELEC. Both Openelec and LibreELEC are Linux versions of Kodi designed for these types of boxes but LibreELEC is more stable and up to date. There's instructions on the LibreELEC website.

manster wrote: »

I'm still on LibreELEC 8.0.2 . Looking at the web site I see the latest version LibreELEC 8.2.1 is released but not for the Wetek Play.

Has anyone got Kodi 17.6 for LibreELEC? Cheers

Its there alright,goto the downloads page and about a third of the way down there is a drop down box,just chose wetek play and chose your method of install

manster wrote: »

Tried it but it is only reinstalling 8.0.2 when you copy over the LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.2.1.img.gz file to the updates folder

Try putting the tar file in the update folder.

manster wrote: »

That worked! Thank you.
Now on LibreElec 8.2.1 and Kodi 17.6
Love Boards

any difference

Anyone who has this device. I haven't used it in a while. I want to do two things.

1. Upgrade to the latest kodi/openelec version
2. Upgrade to the latest kodi build (you can pm suggestions for this if you prefer)
3. I want to side load andorid in such a way as I can add apps myself without it just booting into openelec by default

Can anyone help?

jakdublin wrote: »

Think most people moved to Libreelec as Openelec wasn't being updated and I'm not sure you can use the latest Kodi on Openelec now.
I haven't been messing about with mine for months now, but it's working away on Libreelec without any problem, although do I just use it exclusively for watching and recording live TV. It's easy enough to upgrade Openelec to Libreelec. I was running Android and some other build options at one point or another but to be honest, Libreelec works best on this box. You can check it out here. https://libreelec.tv

Thanks. If anyone could PM me on a good "build" to go along with Libreelec this that will give access to all the necessary content I'd appreciate it. Would help me get setup as quickly as possible.

Wetek website. Sell both enigma and openelec remotes.

No universal remote will work it I'd imagine.