Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

Another problem. The box has gone silent and the remote plus or minus volume won't work on the remote or the Tellymote app.Eerything else is working fine. The light flashes on the box when I try to turn the vol up or down with the remote or phone app. There is no Volume graphic coming up on the screen either.

greasepalm wrote: »

Is that on all channels box is silent,power off tv and box and recheck hdmi is fully inserted then power on both,unsure if audio settings in menu do anything,but previous times if box had a bug a reboot cleared it.

A few strange things are happening.
I normally have the TV on mute and play sound from the box to a soundbar via optical.
I turned it off and plugged it out this evening and restarted it and it's the same.

THe Vol + or - buttons do nothing. the light flashes on the box but nothing happens.

When using the TV speakers the only channels I have sound on are the ones that are HD and DD enabled so after CH5 on my FAV list it goes silent.

THen tonight I'm getting this error.

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Initialise your hard drive again

I'm assuming this will wipe all my saved movies etc. Do you think that will solve my volume control problem as well?

A format will erase anything on hdd or usb,Initialise is to make it the correct language for box to work better.
No i doubt it will fix volume issues as that is in on image.
Just to be clear your picture is not on zoom setting where volume is off screen because picture is blown out of proportions?

You can make a copy of your image to save on hdd if you want to go back and use it in 6 months later,anytime i reflash box i setup fresh with no settings restore as its good practice to get to know your box.
You can after new image is loaded the wizard should see your previous image and ask if you want to restore settings and plugins and saying yes will load your lists saving you setting up from scratch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxNr1WlSHE

that was an old vix image saving to hdd.

sligojoek wrote: »

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If I reflash with THHB's image will I have to set up favourite lists again or is there a way of backing them up first?

It's possible to backup your settings first. However in your case it's possible there is a corrupt or incorrect setting somewhere. Making a backup now and reinstalling it might just restore the fault.
You can also use "drreamexplorer" to make copies of the favourites lists. Look in /etc/enigma/ for a file called "userbouquet.favourites.tv". If you have several bouquets they will have similar names "userbouquet.xxxx.tv" Also copy the file "bouquets.tv"
Likewise the radio favourites will be "userbouquet.favourites.radio" and "bouquets.radio"

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

It's possible to backup your settings first. However in your case it's possible there is a corrupt or incorrect setting somewhere. Making a backup now and reinstalling it might just restore the fault.
You can also use "drreamexplorer" to make copies of the favourites lists. Look in /etc/enigma/ for a file called "userbouquet.favourites.tv". If you have several bouquets they will have similar names "userbouquet.xxxx.tv" Also copy the file "bouquets.tv"
Likewise the radio favourites will be "userbouquet.favourites.radio" and "bouquets.radio"

Yeah. That was what I was afraid of. I'll do a fresh flash of THHB's image and if the volume is working OK I don't mind. I can re-customise everything else afterwards.

One more thing . Will my timers be lost too ?

ParSec wrote: »

Thinking of buying one of these boxes based on this great thread. What would be a good sata 2.5" hard-drive (make & model) and where to buy for self install? Spoke with WOS and they said they put a HGST/Hitachi hard-drive in them for . How much hd space, dose a standard film take up? Also, if I want picons, I'll need a USB stick. What is the best size, make, model and where to buy? Thanks in advance.

Hi ParSec. I've had one for the last few months and am very happy with it.
I got this HDD for less than 50e delivered.

Seagate 1TB

Just looking throught random recordings.
63 mins of Wheeler Dealers in SD is 1.7 GB
63 mins of The Chase in HD is 3.32 GB
33 mins of Eastenders in HD is 1 GB
33 mins of Jamie Oliver in HD is 2.2 GB.

Thanks Gerry. I've that done now.

I would also like to know as i know saorview and 28.2 work its the foreign ones what settings need to be included?

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Yes, but if you add each dish to each satellite tuner A and B you will not be able to watch and record something else on the same satellite. You would need a diseqc switch to do it better allowing you to change satellite on either tuner

https://www.freetv.ie/5x2-diseqc-switch/

The better option is two DISEQC switches, one on each tuner. That way the box can select any combination to allow recording and viewing from different sats at once.

Say you had a single switch on tuner A. You start a recording on 19E, the other tuner will only have access to whatever it is wired to, presumably 28E. With 2 switches either tuner can select any of the four sat positions as required.
For example

TUNER A - SWITCH A

---

28E

---

19E

---

13E

---

9E


TUNER B - SWITCH B
----28E
----19E
----13E
---- 9E

Ok I didn't look at the link. That's a new one on me:o These clever boyos keep coming up with better and better ideas.

Yeah was just looking at that. Very handy. In the past anything I ever used was for 4 sats so never would have seen that unit. Nice one.