Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

rizzo 1976 · 25-03-2021 11:03AM

Payton wrote: »

Is there a 'Sky' image (picons EPG etc) that can be used for this box?

Yes I'm using one from Chabbs on Techkings.

https://www.techkings.org/threads/skynew-skin.114388/

Dutch Roll · 25-03-2021 01:35PM

Hi all.

Over 2.5 years into my Tiviar Alpha+ journey, and it's been great. Apart from having to return the box to WoS after 10 months due to a failure of the power system, I am delighted with the setup. Thanks in a large part to all the help from this thread.

I have installed similar setups in 4 houses for family members, one of whom now has the Tiviar and a Formuler box side by side. The problem is that both boxes respond to both remotes, and so it's cumbersome when switching between the two as one of the boxes has to be turned off so as not to respond to the control inputs for the other box and potentially end up getting buried in some strange menu, or worse still changing/deleting settings.

Is there a way around this? Can the remotes be reprogrammed for example? They were thinking of getting a Harmony remote, I guess this would not solve the problem as it just repeats the signal that the original remote would have been sending, right?

I fear I may not have explained this very well...

Cheers.

greasepalm · 25-03-2021 01:53PM

There are numerous posts on forums with ir contolling different things and not sure if your model can change it to a new code.

Webif on laptop can control box functions as it uses a box ip and not a remote.

Vic_08 · 25-03-2021 06:03PM

Dutch Roll wrote: »

Hi all.

Over 2.5 years into my Tiviar Alpha+ journey, and it's been great. Apart from having to return the box to WoS after 10 months due to a failure of the power system, I am delighted with the setup. Thanks in a large part to all the help from this thread.

I have installed similar setups in 4 houses for family members, one of whom now has the Tiviar and a Formuler box side by side. The problem is that both boxes respond to both remotes, and so it's cumbersome when switching between the two as one of the boxes has to be turned off so as not to respond to the control inputs for the other box and potentially end up getting buried in some strange menu, or worse still changing/deleting settings.

Is there a way around this? Can the remotes be reprogrammed for example? They were thinking of getting a Harmony remote, I guess this would not solve the problem as it just repeats the signal that the original remote would have been sending, right?

I fear I may not have explained this very well...

Cheers.

Unless one of the boxes is able to accept an alternate remote code set, which AFAIK these do not, then a different remote controller will do no good.

A workable (but a bit crap) solution is to put the boxes in different corners of the room and take advantage of the narrow directionality of the remotes.

If it's of any use to you I have a Zgemma H7 and Formuler F1 beside each other and they do not have any remote clash. Maybe you can swap boxes around your clan so the 2 together aren't running off the same code set.

Dutch Roll · 25-03-2021 11:31PM

Vic_08 wrote: »

If it's of any use to you I have a Zgemma H7 and Formuler F1 beside each other and they do not have any remote clash. Maybe you can swap boxes around your clan so the 2 together aren't running off the same code set.

That's not a bad idea, might try that, thanks.

rizzo 1976 · 27-03-2021 12:02PM

Can anyone tell me why I can't get the native player to work on OpenWebIf? It says right click to run native client but when I do the run this plugin is greyed out.

Payton · 27-03-2021 10:28PM

rizzo 1976 wrote: »

Yes I'm using one from Chabbs on Techkings.

https://www.techkings.org/threads/skynew-skin.114388/

Have to try and remember how to install the picons.

rizzo 1976 · 29-03-2021 05:21AM

Payton wrote: »

Have to try and remember how to install the picons.

Plenty of plugins, import them in from the server into the reciever and enable them in the EPG settings.

rizzo 1976 · 05-04-2021 10:47PM

OpenATV 6.5 beta is now available.

Has anyone upgraded to it yet?

Any issues and stuff not working?

rizzo 1976 · 07-04-2021 11:57AM

**BUMP***

Can anyone tell me why I can't get the native player to work on OpenWebIf? It says right click to run native client but when I do the run this plugin is greyed out.

greasepalm · 07-04-2021 12:00PM

Greyed out usually means not accessible and wonder if support has stopped.

rizzo 1976 · 08-04-2021 10:45AM

greasepalm wrote: »

Greyed out usually means not accessible and wonder if support has stopped.

Have you got it working?

PacMan · 08-04-2021 11:41AM

my tiviar stopped working two days ago.
Loaded new skin. Didn't like it so pressed blue button to restore settings, and it has been trying to boot up since.
Have turned it off for a few hours, and turned it on again, but still nothing.

I am gutted to say the least, as I did love this box

rizzo 1976 · 08-04-2021 12:20PM

PacMan wrote: »

my tiviar stopped working two days ago.
Loaded new skin. Didn't like it so pressed blue button to restore settings, and it has been trying to boot up since.
Have turned it off for a few hours, and turned it on again, but still nothing.

I am gutted to say the least, as I did love this box

Remove the plugin or skin by ssh and reboot. Failing that reflash image manually

greasepalm · 08-04-2021 02:28PM

rizzo 1976 wrote: »

Have you got it working?

Never used it, is this on tv or pc and any connection to an older vlc needing a newer updated version?

greasepalm · 08-04-2021 02:31PM

PacMan wrote: »

my tiviar stopped working two days ago.
Loaded new skin. Didn't like it so pressed blue button to restore settings, and it has been trying to boot up since.
Have turned it off for a few hours, and turned it on again, but still nothing.

I am gutted to say the least, as I did love this box

People do as people do trying new skins and other things , sometimes if you can log into webif you can change your settings and box reboots back to normal.

jackal · 14-04-2021 07:01PM

This could be old news to some but I never considered it. The unit is fairly wide. About 10mm too wide to fit inside one of the IKEA Kallax cubes that are often used for entertainment units... as I found out today when mine arrived. My own fault for not checking the dimensions, I just never thought it would be too big. managed to find a place for it where the cables still reached. Otherwise this looks a nice upgrade from my previous Ferguson Ariva. The skin it came with is the sky-like one and it’s pretty intuitive if you have ever used sky.

John mac · 23-04-2021 09:23PM

hi all , bit of a problem with my setup , seem to have lost bbc1, bbc2, itv, quest and Smithsonian (all HD ) bbc4 is ok as are some other channels , have checked the signal quality and strength , both reading in 90s , tried rescanning but no channels found . 10847 V 23000 3/4 (for bbc)

would it be a case of lnb kaput ? or something else .

greasepalm · 23-04-2021 11:23PM

How many channels do you get on a full scan thinking like 900+
Loads of channel movement but none are yours.

https://en.kingofsat.net/pos-28.2E.php

Go into the signal finder and see if you get a signal on your mentioned tuner settings

John mac · 24-04-2021 12:22AM

reluctant to do a full scan as i didn't want to have to reorder channels . kos says these channels haven't moved since 2018

greasepalm · 24-04-2021 12:55AM

Yes as why i mentioned none were yours and what about signal finder what readings ?

Can you check box elsewhere to see if it works there.

John mac · 24-04-2021 08:31PM

yea, no signal on DVBS2 , there is a good signal for dvbs .
no way of moving box elsewhere ,

sebdavis · 25-04-2021 02:36PM

Hi, sorry to jump on thread, is this still the best box for freeview/saorview? they seem expensive. Thanks

greasepalm · 25-04-2021 02:40PM

Tiviar is an older box and there is another thread zgemma h7s twin sat and saorview.

John mac · 26-04-2021 08:16PM

to follow up on this , i plugged in my old skyHD box this evening and channels gone from there too (fta)
so looks like it s more than likely the LNB , have ordered a new on so we shall see .

greasepalm · 26-04-2021 08:20PM

Also check no burnt bits at f connection due to water ingress.

Alfie Tupper · 01-05-2021 03:54PM

Hi all,

looking for some help with my box. I ran a full scan earlier as some of the ITV +1 channels had gone missing but now some of the Saorview channels are missing?
RTE1 and +1 being the main ones

sligojoek · 01-05-2021 04:00PM

Alfie Tupper wrote: »

Hi all,

looking for some help with my box. I ran a full scan earlier as some of the ITV +1 channels had gone missing but now some of the Saorview channels are missing?
RTE1 and +1 being the main ones

You might need to tune tuner C manually. It may have only tuned one MUX. It happened me before and it only tuned Ch 53. I tined in Ch 57 myself. (Truskmore)

You should be able to find your local transmitter here.

http://www.2rn.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2RN-DTT-Television-Transmission-Network-Nov-2013.pdf

athlone573 · 01-05-2021 04:10PM

That link is from 2013, look for the 2019/2020 updated version.

As in I don't think they built a load of new transmitters but the frequencies changed.

peking97 · 01-05-2021 04:34PM

This seems to be the latest version:-
https://www.2rn.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2RN-DTT-Television-Transmission-Network-Sept-2019-Rev.1.2.pdf

Tiviar Alpha Plus Combo STB

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