Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

could be a loose connection, open box and reseat the connections, ie undo them and plug back in.

Continuing with the Hard Drive issue , and it seems that "is" what it was ,

I had an unused HTPC sitting around , there was a 1TB WD blue drive in it.
Salvaged that from the HTPC and replaced the HGST ( Hitachi ) drive that WOS shipped in the box.

Drive initialised fine , and it looks like we are back in business , I'll hold off calling it a success until its recorded a few things.

One thing I will say ,
Since I got it the box has been running hot , almost too hot to touch.
I had tried to initialise a few times this morning giving the box a few last tries to see if it was something else other than the hard drive , so it was running for a while and at the temperature that I thought was normal.

I'd disconnected everything and took the lid off , and touched the hard drive to take it out , and ended jumping around the sitting room swearing for about 5 minutes.
Burnt my bloody fingers on it.
Ran it under the tap for a while , I'm gonna have a nice little blister there.

Anyways , got the WD Blue in and all seems fine , but more importantly , the box runs cool , nothing like as warm as it was before.
So I'm thinking that drive was on its way out since day one.

Now all that remains is to get WOS to replace just the drive without me having to send the whole thing back.

I'm another high horse "user" and all is good except for the fact on soarview I can't get rte 1, be3. I'm in cork and under autobouquets maker / providers set saorview area to spur Hill and did a scan. It's picked up the other saorview channels but not the above, I am picking up rte1 on the TV via the loop thru cable. Any ideas?

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Are the channels in all channels or when you filter by terrestrial? Did you try a manual scan for terrestrial channels set to spur hill? Autobouquetsmaker just makes bouquets, it doesn't care if you have or have not got the frequency.

All the saorview channels appear in saorview all channels (if that's what you mean) with correct epg. When I set location to spur Hill in autobouquets maker I did a scan under that menu.

stimpson wrote: »

I picked up one of these today on HHB's advice. I got it from satworld on the Naas Road and he flashed it for me then and there with OpenATV 6.0.0.

I got home this afternoon, connected up dish and antanna, HDMI and ethernet. Everything working fine. I then set about getting it to work with PlexDVR. It was easier than I thought. Ther eis a good tutorial here: https://us.v-cdn.net/6025034/uploads/editor/et/9d4acbdu6kug.pdf

The hardest thing was to match the channel names against the Plex EPG. Once I realised thta the channel numbers were the same it was easy. It's now up and running as IPTV in less than an hour, and I don't have to worry about running sat cables all over the house (as I previousy ran Cat6!)

The box will run headless in my office and the bonus is that Plex can stream to my phone outside the house.

How quick are the channel changes for you on plex devices? And have you found any plex epg that will cover all saorview and freesat channels?

kaisersose77 wrote: »

How quick are the channel changes for you on plex devices? And have you found any plex epg that will cover all saorview and freesat channels?

It takes a few seconds to initialise when you put on live TV. Chanel changes are pretty quick once it’s up and running. I haven’t setup Saorview yet, but I think there is an EPG for it.

I see WOS is calling the Tiviar Alpha Plus as a "new arrival". Is it the same box / hardware as the original release in 2013?

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Yes, but don't let that hold you back. It was 400 quid when first released and is still a very fast box by today's standards

Thanks High horse, its the amount of tweaking & customizing that I find daunting. Though the fact that I'm here says I'm interested ! A dedicated PIP on the remote.....:rolleyes:

I've been trying to setup a Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB over the past couple of days and had it working pretty well with my stations added to Favourites etc.
However today 'Favourites' no longer appears in my bouquets and seems to be the only folder missing.
I presume problem arose due to a wrong refresh setting by me but don't honestly know.

Can anyone tell me how to add a favourites 'folder' to bouquet list as I can't find anyway and am totally lost on this.

Thanks

If I just want a easy to use Freesat/saorview would the Ariva 153 do or should I go all out and get this box? This looks a bit more complicated to get setup etc for a non tech savvy person?

sligojoek wrote: »

I was a total newbie till last april. After a few late nights and some great advice on here I have it working like a dream. The whole family are using it now without any problems. You can get a 1TB HDD on amazon for less than 50 quid. 2 TB for not much more.

Thing is I don't know if I gave a few nights to get it set up! Nobody sells already set up no?

Heiser wrote: »

I think I'll give it a go myself, I'll try find the time. Most satellite installers install the Ariva 153 combo box, what are the most noticeable differences between that and this? I read a lot of pages of the thread last night and I think someone mentioned it has a 7 day EPG for the Freesat and series link? Can I record an Irish station and watch an Irish station?

I'll need to get someone out to install the satellite separately and then set this box up, would that be a problem for the satellite installer as they won't have a plug and play box to confirm the newly installed satellite works?

If you’re unsure of that you’re doing, the Ariva boxes are pretty good. My elderly mother has one and she used to struggle with the Virgin Media box. Not with this. It’s pretty straightforward.

Sat installer will not need a box to align it as hell have a meter.