Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

greasepalm · 06-02-2020 12:13AM

Pc and channels was old skool 20 years ago as there was no abm which i find is handy also.

lawred2 · 12-02-2020 10:44AM

Small freesat box bit the dust - might use the opportunity to shift the AA2 out of the sitting room into the kitchen and replace the AA2 with a Tiviar.

Where's best to pick one up?

greasepalm · 12-02-2020 07:36PM

Satworld have stock nearly 200 euro.

Gerry Wicklow · 12-02-2020 09:18PM

greasepalm wrote: »

Satworld have stock nearly 200 euro.

WOW the Zgemma H7S is currently £112GBP +HDD and a superior box IMO.

greasepalm · 12-02-2020 11:24PM

I have a zgemma h7s and must get it setup.Thinking people see the Tiviar as a new box but is years old and modern boxes are getting cheaper and faster.

Johnboy1951 · 12-02-2020 11:30PM

greasepalm wrote: »

I have a zgemma h7s and must get it setup.Thinking people see the Tiviar as a new box but is years old and modern boxes are getting cheaper and faster.

Yes, this thread start just over two years ago and the box was released in 2013.

7 years is a very long time for this kind of hardware.
It is still good, but nowhere near top of the pile now.

lawred2 · 12-02-2020 11:43PM

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Yes, this thread start just over two years ago and the box was released in 2013.

7 years is a very long time for this kind of hardware.
It is still good, but nowhere near top of the pile now.

What is top of the pile?

greasepalm · 12-02-2020 11:51PM

It might depend on your decision in buying boxes,
Single tuner
Twin tuner
Combo tuner Sat and Cable
Triple tuners
Quad tuners with selectable plug and play tuners
Budget
Hdd internal or external.

What was top of the pile a few years ago and expensive might not be made anymore.

john_doe. · 15-02-2020 04:29PM

Does anyone have the Viewer Advisory message for saorview.?
It's blocking out the EPG and program information for all my saorview channels

Atlantic Dawn · 15-02-2020 04:40PM

john_doe. wrote: »

Does anyone have the Viewer Advisory message for saorview.?
It's blocking out the EPG and program information for all my saorview channels

Rescan needed or you will lose the channels on 4th March...
https://www.saorview.ie/changes

Gooey Looey · 15-02-2020 04:55PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Rescan needed or you will lose the channels on 4th March...
https://www.saorview.ie/changes

How do you update ABM to fix this as a rescan does not fix it, ABM breaks it again the next time it runs

greasepalm · 15-02-2020 05:13PM

Does abm need an update as what version is running on your box.
Scanning the saorview service are you like clear old info before scanning for new services.

Gooey Looey · 15-02-2020 05:51PM

greasepalm wrote: »

Does abm need an update as what version is running on your box.
Scanning the saorview service are you like clear old info before scanning for new services.

I don't have access to the box it's at my mams but scanning adds the channels with the new frequencies but ABM undoes this the next time it runs

john_doe. · 15-02-2020 07:19PM

Gooey Looey wrote: »

I don't have access to the box it's at my mams but scanning adds the channels with the new frequencies but ABM undoes this the next time it runs

Ah is that what's happening.

How to fix that so be my next question .
Using the original image from THHB.

Gooey Looey · 15-02-2020 07:24PM

john_doe. wrote: »

Ah is that what's happening.

How to fix that so be my next question .
Using the original image from THHB.

You can disable ABM automatic scans until you find a fix

Johnboy1951 · 15-02-2020 08:31PM

Gooey Looey wrote: »

I don't have access to the box it's at my mams but scanning adds the channels with the new frequencies but ABM undoes this the next time it runs

Can the terrestrial channels be omitted from this scanning?
They so rarely change it is easy to do it manually ..... or else let ABM do it once only.

Gooey Looey · 15-02-2020 09:09PM

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Can the terrestrial channels be omitted from this scanning?
They so rarely change it is easy to do it manually ..... or else let ABM do it once only.

Yeah I must look into maybe ignoring Saorview updates, I may have to move Saorview to the bottom of the bouquet list like favourites

greasepalm · 15-02-2020 09:13PM

Abm can be setup to what you command it,what version is your abm on?

Gooey Looey · 15-02-2020 09:19PM

greasepalm wrote: »

Abm can be setup to what you command it,what version is your abm on?

I don't have access to the box ATM, it's at my mams

kindalen · 16-02-2020 02:36PM

My box has become very very slow to respond when changing channel or any use of remote. It is the same using a remote app.

Any ideas on how to resolve issue??

Thanks.

Gooey Looey · 16-02-2020 02:38PM

kindalen wrote: »

My box has become very very slow to respond when changing channel or any use of remote. It is the same using a remote app.

Any ideas on how to resolve issue??

Thanks.

First thing to check is where is CrossEPG saving the EPG, it needs to be on storage not local flash. Then check how much storage space you have left, or if timeshift is saving at all times filling your storage

kindalen · 16-02-2020 03:43PM

Problem solved. Thanks.

kindalen · 17-02-2020 08:03PM

My issue was Xtream TV plugin, once removed I reflashed box all is perfect.

However I need the Xtream TV plugin for IPTV, any ideas on a workaround?

Thanks.

habeus corpus · 19-02-2020 04:21PM

I've been running Open ATV on my Tiviar for quite a while now completely satisfactorily. Recordings, picons, HDD, usb stick etc. all running without a hitch. In recent days I've suddenly lost my terrestrial channels (Three rock transmitter). I don't want to risk upsetting my set up unnecessarily so I am asking for some advise. It seems to me I have two choices;
-- run a manual rescan of the terrestrial tuner. or
-- run ABM.
Any advise would be much appreciated.

Cheers and regards to all forum members.

NewClareman · 19-02-2020 04:57PM

habeus corpus wrote: »

I've been running Open ATV on my Tiviar for quite a while now completely satisfactorily. Recordings, picons, HDD, usb stick etc. all running without a hitch. In recent days I've suddenly lost my terrestrial channels (Three rock transmitter). I don't want to risk upsetting my set up unnecessarily so I am asking for some advise. It seems to me I have two choices;
-- run a manual rescan of the terrestrial tuner. or
-- run ABM.
Any advise would be much appreciated.

Cheers and regards to all forum members.

It depends on whether you are using ABM. If so, update the service providers in ABM and rescan. That should be all you need to do.

Otherwise do a manual rescan.

Alfie Tupper · 21-02-2020 12:09AM

john_doe. wrote: »

Ah is that what's happening.

How to fix that so be my next question .
Using the original image from THHB.

I tried this last night and it seems to have worked

menu
setup
service searching
Autobouquetsmaker
UpdateProviderFiles

You should get a message saying
"Saorview was updated"
At least I did and "viewer advisory" hasn't been seen since.

habeus corpus · 21-02-2020 05:04PM

Cheers,

Everything back to normal.

Thanks for the response.

datcat · 04-03-2020 10:10PM

Apologies if this is not specific to Tiviar. Saorview frequencies have changed, at least for Crosshaven, Cork. I did both an automatic and a manual scan and they find all the radio channels and all the terrestrial TV channels except RTE 1.

I've found some suggestions that a factory reset, or maybe reflashing the image might be the next step.

Anybody had any experience like this on the Tiviar?

greasepalm · 04-03-2020 10:22PM

Never factory reset enigma2 boxes as that can cause grief.
Did you try post 2168.
Nobody ever say how old their image is or whether you need to reflash a newer image or not.
Best to say what version of image you are using.Menu-System info=??

FastFullBack · 04-03-2020 10:26PM

datcat wrote: »

Apologies if this is not specific to Tiviar. Saorview frequencies have changed, at least for Crosshaven, Cork. I did both an automatic and a manual scan and they find all the radio channels and all the terrestrial TV channels except RTE 1.

I've found some suggestions that a factory reset, or maybe reflashing the image might be the next step.

Anybody had any experience like this on the Tiviar?

Yes I had issues in Cork as well. Seems the autoscans werent picking up the channel for RTE1. I had to do a manual scan and pick the option to specify which channel. I then picked channel 39 which is where RTE 1 is on Spur Hill.

Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

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