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Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

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  • #362
    The high horse brigade
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    That's coming up blank.

    Your hard drive isn't initialised. Go to menu setup -> system -> storage -> devices -> initialisation, click on your added drive and initialise it


  • #363
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Im getting as far as System. Storage > devices etc not coming up. All I have is Network, HDMI CEC, time settings, logs settings and factory reset.


  • #364
    The high horse brigade
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    Im getting as far as System. Storage > devices etc not coming up. All I have is Network, HDMI CEC, time settings, logs settings and factory reset.

    Blue button -> mounts -> device manager, is it listed there?


  • #365
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Blue button -> mounts -> device manager, is it listed there?

    Ya. device manager is there but the HDD isn't showing up


  • #366
    The high horse brigade
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    Ya. device manager is there but the HDD isn't showing up

    You sure you connected it right, you need to open it and check


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  • #367
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I'll do that. It was showing up earlier as 1000 gb. now it's gone


  • #368
    sligojoek
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    Here's the HDD. Am I right in thinking the underside is very exposed for something that's screwed to a metal frame?


  • #369
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I'm back very tired and getting very drunk. I ordered two of those HDDs , one for this and one for my son's PS4. After a lot of plugging and unplugging the HDD my son said "try the other HDD". I tried it and everything seems to be working perfect.


  • #370
    The high horse brigade
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    I'm back very tired and getting very drunk. I ordered two of those HDDs , one for this and one for my son's PS4. After a lot of plugging and unplugging the HDD my son said "try the other HDD". I tried it and everything seems to be working perfect.

    Glad you got it sorted. Is the other drive dead?


  • #371
    sligojoek
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    sligojoek wrote: »
    I'm back very tired and getting very drunk. I ordered two of those HDDs , one for this and one for my son's PS4. After a lot of plugging and unplugging the HDD my son said "try the other HDD". I tried it and everything seems to be working perfect.

    Glad you got it sorted. Is the other drive dead?
    Not sure yet. I'll. Put it in a caddy and plug it into the laptop and see what happens.


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  • #372
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Picked one of these up.

    Total Saorview noob here but what I do once I’ve hooked up the powered antenna to find the Saorview channels. I’ve tried the the cable scan but it just shoulds Scanning Failed.

    Any tips? Manual isn’t too informative.


  • #373
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Do you know where your Saorview signal is from? There's a list of transmitters in the search signal section


  • #374
    The high horse brigade
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    quarryman wrote: »
    Picked one of these up.

    Total Saorview noob here but what I do once I’ve hooked up the powered antenna to find the Saorview channels. I’ve tried the the cable scan but it just shoulds Scanning Failed.

    Any tips? Manual isn’t too informative.

    Hold on. Manual? Where did you buy this? Most of us here have a custom software called Enigma 2 on ours. The manual is for the default OS this box ships with


  • #375
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭quarryman


    sligojoek wrote: »
    Do you know where your Saorview signal is from? There's a list of transmitters in the search signal section

    I don't, I'll take a look. To test the antenna I plugged it into my TV (which has a terrestrial tuner) and it found all of the Saorview channels, so the antenna is not the issue.
    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Hold on. Manual? Where did you buy this? Most of us here have a custom software called Enigma 2 on ours. The manual is for the default OS this box ships with

    I bought mine from here:
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/tiviar-alpha-plus

    I went for the OpenATV OS. What I mean by manual is the PDF I found online for the unit, since there was no manual in the box.


  • #376
    The high horse brigade
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    quarryman wrote: »
    I bought mine from here:
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/tiviar-alpha-plus

    I went for the OpenATV OS. What I mean by manual is the PDF I found online for the unit, since there was no manual in the box.

    It's a basic clean install, you have a huge learning curve trying to get to grips with Enigma and have lots to configure, tuners, channels, bouquets, Epg, picons, recordings. You could just install my image backup which has most of the basics already configured for you. Would make it much easier to troubleshoot your issues as there are many of us running the same image. Most of the issues have already been dealt with in this thread.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=106783394&postcount=126


  • #377
    greasepalm
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    on your cable scan what is it showing to show your on the dvb/t side and not on dvb/c side?


  • #378
    sligojoek
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    You can check your transmitter here, then select it when doing the DVB/T scan

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


  • #379
    sligojoek
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Glad you got it sorted. Is the other drive dead?

    All seems good thanks. My wife is sitting down tonight with it for the first time so she has the remote for the next hour or 2. She's over the moon with the picture quality. We'd been using an old sky plus box through scart for the last few months.

    Not sure about the other drive. I plugged it in to two different laptops and it's not showing. Maybe that's because it's formatted in Linux. The light flashes and comes on in the caddy and I tried another drive in it and that showed straight away.

    One question re. sound
    I'm using a soundbox I got in Lidl with an optical cable rather than the TV speakers. Are there any settings I can change to suit that or should I leave it alone?


  • #380
    sligojoek
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    quarryman wrote: »
    Picked one of these up.

    Total Saorview noob here but what I do once I’ve hooked up the powered antenna to find the Saorview channels. I’ve tried the the cable scan but it just shoulds Scanning Failed.

    Any tips? Manual isn’t too informative.

    From a previous post by THHB

    ).
    Change your Saorview region in menu -> setup -> service searching -> AutoBouquetsMaker -> providers -> saorview area, then press green to save and then start a scan


  • #381
    quarryman
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    It's a basic clean install, you have a huge learning curve trying to get to grips with Enigma and have lots to configure, tuners, channels, bouquets, Epg, picons, recordings. You could just install my image backup which has most of the basics already configured for you. Would make it much easier to troubleshoot your issues as there are many of us running the same image. Most of the issues have already been dealt with in this thread.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=106783394&postcount=126

    Thanks for that. All set up now. (Though I’m not sure what to do with the Picon files).

    Some dumb questions:

    what is the quickest way to get to my favourites? When I press FAV on the remote I get to a menu that I have to click Favorites (TV) again to see the channels.

    I can live pause the satellite input but can’t seem to live pause Saorview?

    Is it possible to get Netflix on this?

    Any other tips or advice?


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  • #382
    The high horse brigade
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    quarryman wrote: »
    Thanks for that. All set up now. (Though I’m not sure what to do with the Picon files).

    Some dumb questions:

    what is the quickest way to get to my favourites? When I press FAV on the remote I get to a menu that I have to click Favorites (TV) again to see the channels.

    I can live pause the satellite input but can’t seem to live pause Saorview?

    Is it possible to get Netflix on this?

    Any other tips or advice?

    I have since moved my picons to a usb key as having them on the internal drive causes the hard drive to spin up every time you change channel. Just copy the picon folder to a usb and plug it in, it doesn't need to be initialised, can be in fat32 format.

    Channels are organised in groups called bouquets, entertainment, movies, news etc. Pressing fav opens the bouquets menu. Autobouquetmaker if setup scans the satellite daily for frequency changes and updates the channels in the bouquets so you never have a channel missing.

    No pause for terrestrial as you only have one terrestrial tuner. This is the reason for two satellite tuners is to allow one tuner to record or timeshift in the background.

    No Netflix.

    Press blue and do a full backup when you are done, can save a lot of frustration later if you ever need to roll back to a clean install.


  • #383
    greasepalm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,955 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    On the saorview topic and without starting a new thread aerials to use on these e2 boxes as in outside or attic have they changed in the last say 10 years.Might need to replace one that has a booster for multiroom?
    I can see a number of people might benefit this new info cheers.


  • #384
    Gerry Wicklow
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    quarryman wrote: »
    ...

    what is the quickest way to get to my favourites? When I press FAV on the remote I get to a menu that I have to click Favorites (TV) again to see the channels. .........

    Pressing the UP or DOWN buttons around the OK button on many remotes will bring up the current bouquet. Using the LEFT/RIGHT buttons with a bouquet open jumps up or down a page.


  • #385
    quarryman
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    The high horse brigade wrote: »

    No pause for terrestrial as you only have one terrestrial tuner. This is the reason for two satellite tuners is to allow one tuner to record or timeshift in the background.

    Ah ok. If I plug both my satellite feeds in it should pick them up and allow pause for those channels?


  • #386
    The high horse brigade
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    greasepalm wrote: »
    On the saorview topic and without starting a new thread aerials to use on these e2 boxes as in outside or attic have they changed in the last say 10 years.Might need to replace one that has a booster for multiroom?
    I can see a number of people might benefit this new info cheers.

    Lots has changed in the last 10 years, there was a rollout of Saorview. The whole country upgraded and adapted their equipment to suit. This thread is not the place for these questions though as every location has a different set of requirements


  • #387
    tkeogh.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭tkeogh.


    greasepalm wrote: »
    usb or hdd need to setup for ext 3- ext4 as thats the correct protocol for recordings.
    i have a usb in my box so how do i go about setting up the usb so that the recordings go to the usb?


  • #388
    The high horse brigade
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    tkeogh. wrote: »
    i have a usb in my box so how do i go about setting up the usb so that the recordings go to the usb?

    Initialise the usb in storage devices and then set your default recording location to /media/usb/movie in recording and timeshift


  • #389
    tkeogh.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭tkeogh.


    cheers mate, where will i find where storage devices is?


  • #390
    The high horse brigade
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    tkeogh. wrote: »
    cheers mate, where will i find where storage devices is?

    I'm out and about so don't know the exact location, off the top of head it's something like menu -> setup -> system -> storage


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  • #391
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭quarryman


    One issue I’m currently having is that (after programming the remote to control the TV) that when I press power in STB mode the box and TV turn off. Is it not possible for just the box to turn off?


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