Zgemma H7s Guide

Does anyone know if WOL (Wake On LAN) works on the Zgemma H7S? I can't find anything in the setup menus and trying to send WOL packets to it didn't do anything. There's a WOL plugin but that's for sending WOL packets to other devices on startup.

The box has a twin FBC tuner card , both of the FBC tuners are connected internally , so you only require a cable to one of them and it can act like both are connected to a cable.

You get 1 physical and 3 virtual tuners to each FBC tuner , no more , so 8 in total no matter whether you connect one sat cable or two.

The above is with a Unicable II LNB

With a Legacy LNB , old rules apply , only one connection , you can watch only one channel , two cables connected , watch one record another etc.

Terrestrials are twin , and really didnt think they needed explaining , the work exactly as you think they should.

In recordings , press menu then settings , then turn network trash on and this limits recording to nas , in addition you can set the network trash space.

By default , timeshift either deletes what is being timeshifted or saves it as a recording when you switch channels , if you dont have network trash enabled , then it will use up all network space.

If recording to local storage , there are no such issues as default rules should limit timeshifted recordings to the current epg event only , it will turn off and delete when that event is over unless you tell it to save timesshift as a recording.

I think the last part is the bit that I was missing….
If it rolls the timeshift over to a new one at the end of the EPG event (and deals with the old one as configered) I can see why there isn't a separate configurable for size or time allowed.

Thanks!

Nope , youve got to watch that , if it just says DVB C then its just a cable tuner , its got to say DVB-T or DVB-C/T

These boxes , because the tuners are add in cards , come in lots of configurations , youve got to watch what you are buying.

On your link , you could ask the seller if its switchable from DVB C to DVB T2 , probably not though , as it would usually say so if it was.

On the VU+ website it seems to only have the hybrid tuners for the previous generation.
i.e. Duo2, but not Duo 4k

It's a shame as I also like the passthrough of that DVB/C (and the previous gen hybrid)


edit:
Hang on! I just seen your pics there. Surely you have a duo 4k, right?
And you have a hybrid tuner installed…

I'm guessing BCM3466 is the model of the tuner?

You are starting with a lower base price than that for internal UK customers. For export to EU WOS will discount the 20% UK VAT.

• Brand: VU+
• Product Code: VU+ Duo 4K SE
• Availability: In Stock
• £349.00
• Ex Tax: £290.83

Assuming £20 postage (just a guess), £310.83 becomes €356.94 using the exchange rate being used by Revenue in June. That is liable to 23% Irish VAT = €82.10. To be collected by the delivery company plus their delivery fee €15? Grand total €454.04. How does €454.04 with whatever tuners WOS are including, compare to German prices including delivery to Ireland?

Whole different ball game if an item sent from GB is subject to Customs Duty, but from what I can see satellite receivers are zero rated.

I will say that I got my H7s from WoS.

It was like @dxhound2005 said. UK VAT was removed, delivery added and Irish VAT + admin fee applied by DPD

So £110 became £90+£15 for delivery.
Then e30 for the VAT+admin

Sure.
23% for VAT + 5 euro for admin. (this was back in March so exchange rate will be different)
DPD has one of the lowest handling fees around. I think AnPost have similar??

The exchange rate for March was 0.8562. Applying that to £105 gives VAT of €27.62. This is a Revenue charge, and cannot be changed by the delivery company. They collected that on behalf of Revenue, plus €5 for themselves, total €32.62? In my example for the VU I used £20 postage and €15 delivery fee. Changing those to £15 and €5 would take about €20 off my estimate of €454.

It's impossible to know how the Fedex total was calculated, without seeing a breakdown. But they could not have changed the VAT figure. If WOS charged UK VAT that would be a major mistake. They are well aware of the procedure going back years. The other variable is that items over €150 value, not including postage, can be liable to Customs Duty plus VAT on the Duty. But I think satellite receivers are not liable.

https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/brexit-and-european-orders-from-january-2021

tango one, a VU + box is about 100 times better than a H7.

When I bought from WOS , Fedex was the one and only option for shipping , they definitely took a hefty premium for themselves , no doubt about it.

But that has been the way lately , used to buy SACD's and Vinyl from Analog productions in America , and fedex shipping was OK back then , but lately , its simply not worth it , double or triples the price of any item.

Out of interest where is your epg getting saved to? hopefully internal hdd or usb.

I left it on Internal Flash.

Is there an advantage to moving it to a local drive?

Look not saying it's not better to move to hd/ssd but how is it going to break the box? Plenty of boxes dont even have a hd installed, are they all going to break, no.

I don't know of many boxes that dont have either a usb or hdd facility that can run or store a 7 day epg.

Name me one and I'll buy it.

Sure, I'll move it to local disk.
But I am genuinely interested in the reason it "will break the box"…

@greasepalm
What are you upscaling with 2 USB ports?

No matter what storage option you're operation your box with you must make sure you dont run out of disk space. It is after all just a linux system like any other pc os and it continually needs space for temp, swap, log files etc just to run. Some of that can be put onto ramdisk but still. And there are means of making sure like purge and cleanup options. Having the EPG in the internal flash as such is not breaking the box.

In the end nothing beats having an internal ssd installed especially if you want timeshift/recording. They cost very little too these days. I'm using one of those Chinese ones from Amazon and they're €35 for 512 GB which is plenty. You'll pay that for a decent USB stick too.

Ok I done something stupid. I went into

Menu, Setup, Tuners and Scanning, AutoBouquetMaker and thenStart Scan

It went off and came back a few ins later but loads of the channels are now gone, like I have Saroview and a few UK ones but most are gone

What have I done wrong :-) sorry

Virtuosso Image Xtrere

BlueHD v3.1 by rossi2000

Image 6.2.011

Box came setup and build.

So if I go into the childrens section, I only have CBBC and Cbeebies, all the other kids channels are gone :-(

I never use the EPG to search for a channel as have ABM setup and while on a channel press the arrow button below the OK button. Blue button shows favourites , Sports , Movies , News etc .Clicking on that section opens up the list of channels contained. I never bothered to setup my own favourites.

clo clo stand by i'll try and do a step by step as the evening progresses, you need to configure ABM and hide sections, I use SKY UK London HD and saorview. I dont mess with ROI or Freesat.

Cant find that skin on 6.5 will look on other box.

OK clo clo I got that skin on 6.2 and here are the pics to show you how to configure ABM green to save then do rest as per the pics and then scan.

go menu setup tuners ABM configure , so as pic, green to save, then go to providers and as pic, then hide sections, save, then go scan and with abit of luck your back,

I'd be wary of using the SSD for timeshift, particularly less expensive ones. With timeshift, the continuous writing to the disk could wear it out. (Recent high end SSD's have very high durability and it shouldn't be a problem with those.) I no longer use a satellite receiver, but if I was using one with an SSD, I'd use a separate drive, or cheap USB stick, for timeshift.

SSD is the best choice IMO.

Yes traditional disk drive is technically a better choice what with no perceived write cycle restrictions and certainly fast enough for anything, but unfortunately I found that a traditional spin disk drive creates very audible vibrations in the internal bay. I couldn't live with that.

Also those write cycle restrictions are really just perceived. By the time any such limits are reached your zgemma will be long gone anyway.