Zgemma H7s Guide

I am trying to do a scan and the satellite option is only for 16.0E and it will not let me change this. When I look at the tuner setup it is for 28.2E. It doesn't matter if I go to the automatic scan or manual scan it will not let me change the satellite setting.

Any suggestions on how to change the satellite option to 28.2E ?

iceman look at the first thread at top of this forum all in there.

Mburke can you say image and skin

Lads - is there any point in having two epg sources running? (i.e. openTV and EPGimporter) Would they just be replacing the epg.dat file every time, or would they supplement missing data (filling in the blanks as it were)?

Hi greasepalm,

I have the same setup tuner as yourself but when I go to auto scan or manual scan that satellite is set to 16.0E and it doesn't let me change it. If I do an auto scan it only comes back with the saorview channels as the sat is on 16.0E which will not return results. See attached.

I have a second cable for Tuner B and it is setup the same as Tuner A with simple and single.

Update: Problem solved and probably should have done this from the start. Unplugged the device for 2 minutes and then started it again. The settings for satellite with autoscan / manual scan are back to 28.2E.

ABM is set to a region so if a channel changes and it’s not in that region it won’t be picked say utv and you are using London. If you put all your CHAANELS that you watch in favourites and run arm it won’t touch favourites but when a channel goes you have to add it back in using remote or other methods like openwebif, dreamboxedit . I can see all these recent changes settling down soon so abm can be left.

So if I get a wifi dongle and just get openwebif open on my laptop is there a way I can just tell it to fix all the broken channels automatically or is it still a case of going down through them and having to manually put in the Kingofsat frequencies?

You can set up ABM to run just once and it will tune in all the missing channels, in other words it updates your bouquets and the only bouquet not amended if if you have added channels to favourites.

and yes you can only make use of webif after you have added the new channels. I posted a while back how to set ABM and add move channels.

If your using ABM you have an option to scan on sat or Saorview or both .

I only use the Bouquets for all the sections , BUT on second page it allows you to make up your own list and does not get altered on a new ABM scan. There is a way of moving channels to YOUR Favourite bouquet to use.

Dreambox edit was also an old way of doing your list and re installing them back on your box.

After quitting Sky I started with a Tiviar Alpha Plus as that was all the rage here around about 2011 or so. There was a complete image posted by a user on here.

It was OpenATV , and you are 100% correct. Knowing nothing about E2 at the time , I found it dense and impenetrable , and being linux , very little support. Ive always found linux to be more in the camp of " I know something you dont know " and " if you help them too much they will never learn" camp.

Any help you get asks more questions than it answers !

Then I found openvix ….. and it has a full manual.

https://www.openvix.co.uk/openvix-builds/Guides%20and%20Tutorials/VIX%20Manual%20Vs%201.1.pdf

Reading this will give you an excellent handle on how E2 works. Even non openvix versions , you at least have an idea of what you are looking for after reading it.

Now I know how to set up a box off by heart.

1: Run the Wizard to set up your LNB and Tuners , then exit the wizard at that point.

2: Set up ABM to run nightly , default is 3:30am. Keep ALL the bouquets.

3: Set up EPG downloader and run it.

4: Set up your favourites in the assigned Bouquet.

Thats it.

At this point , hit the blue button and make a full backup to USB stick. Any trouble and you can get back to this point in minutes.

All your watching is done from the favourites Bouquet. If a Channel moves , then the EPG for that channel will be blank in your favourites bouquet. But no worries , because the " new " version of the missing channel will have been tuned on your box in the relevant bouquet during the nightly scan.

There have been a lot of channel moves lately , all the ITV HD channels have moved recently , 1,2,3,4, and Be HD.

Type the IP address of box into any web browser , and openwebif will open.

Choose Bouquet Editor , and on top right panel scroll down until your favourites is highlighted.

On the top left , search all channels for the offending channel.

Highlight it and click " Add To Bouquet" , as favourites is highlighted , it will add the channel to the bottom of the list.

Now in your "favourites" Bouquet window bottom right , Delete the old channel slot , and go to the bottom of the list , click and hold on the burger icon in the "new" channel name , and drag into the position you want it.

Simple as that.

You can simply rename that picon , just make sure it exactly matches the channel name as it appears in your channel list

Ill stop annoying ye after this, will this work as plug and play without me having to get it online and look for drivers?

https://www.freetv.ie/zgemma-star-h7-wifi-dongle/

Right so I got the wifi adapter, got it working, can access Openwebif through my laptop fine. Ran autobouquet, followed your instructions, spent an hour making up my list of favourites and getting them into order in Openwebif. Set my living room tv to favourites and… most of the channels I added are dead.

So now Im thinking that my "All channels" and "Providers" lists in Bouquet Editor are a mix of dead channels and working channels?

But Ive definitely seen autobouquet bring dead channels back to life before so now Im even more confused, is there a way to get it to eliminate dead channels from the list before I go making bouquets?

Or do I just bite the bullet and do a full rescan?

Did you do this and I still don't know the image and skin. When you configyre ABM use sky UK and I ue london hd.

" what you can do is a manual scan using tuner A and selecting 28e satellite, you will get the option to clear before scan and this will delete all the sat channels , you get the option to scan either free to air or all. The best option is free to air. Also say no to network scan. Now green button to scan, it will take a while. Once finished you will have all the channels. Exit out and press ok and arrow up then press red button and channels will be in alpha order. And some may have only numbers. You now have to configure ABM to put all those channels into genres, news, music, entertainment, etc and you hide sections you don’t need. Once run you can now move those genres up and down to speed access. And you can create your favourite list of all the channels you watch most often.

What I would need to know is the image you are using and the skin so go menu setup about and either read it off or take a pic. it makes it a lot easier to give assistance.

I posted a basic setup guide here a few months back with a few explanations etc. It's based on openatv but it all really applies to other images, too.

I'm still on what I describe there and nothing else. The odd time I do a software update via ssh (opkg update && opkg upgrade), havent done a full rescan in 6 months or more just ran abm lately took like 2 minutes and all is fine and up-to-date. Even preserves all my bouquets and everything. Only difference I dont really bother with favourites. I have Saorview, then UK Entertainment, +1, Music, Movies, News, BBC Red Button and abm doesnt mess with that.