Zgemma H7s Guide

Is the image different to one on box ie Image is Vix 6.6.005??? Dont update too quickly. Im still on 6.3.and 6.4

No. Both images are/were the same. Vix 6.6.005. I know it's unlikely but I wonder is it possible that something related to that channel only got corrupted and re-flashing the same image restored normal ops.

Rebooting by powering off at rear or remote.

What source is giving issues , sat , terrestrial or iptv ?

When that happened to me i had to restart my tv to cure it.

I am only on 6.3 here

I have a bouquet called Living Room TV in my list of bouquets that I use as my default bouquet, its a mix of Saorview and freesat, all the channel 4 channels like film4 etc changed frequency recently. Autobouquetmaker brought them back in all the other "default" bouquets (the ones that the box creates itself). How can I get it to fix them in my Living Room TV bouquet aswell?

Thought that was it but its a bit strange isnt it? Why doesnt it just fix he channel there aswell?

Sorry to be annoying you with a load of stupid questions again but how does that work? You switch bouquets when you want to go between Saorview/Sat?

Is there any way to make a list thats kind of like favourites but autobouquet would fix it when you run it? Id upgrade my parents tomorrow if there was a way to do this…

Sorry, a little late to this, but I've been using a mechanical 2.5" drive in my H7S for years (at least 4) with zero issues. H7S is in constant use, lots of recordings etc. It's our main TV box, and has acted as a media/recording server for other devices.

With the prices of SSD's. I'd probably go down that route if I was setting things up again today, but there is certainly nothing wrong with using a mechanical drive either. (In fact, this is probably best case scenario for a mechanical drive - a non-boot device with most of the reads/writes being sequential).

Mechanical is fine if you have it installed internally. I think the older version of the H7s had full internal space for the disc. But the newer model has a slot in concept going where the hard disc actually sticks out the back a bit. That slot is very tight and the hard disc has tight contact with the metal case and causes quite some noise from vibration.

My H7s is in the bedroom and I found that noise so bad it was an absolute nono. Like middle of the night all is down and dark and you're fast asleep next thing the disc spins up for some internal job say EPG download or whatever it would actually wake you up.

The clue is in the age!! It's the older type without the slot, so I had to mount the drive internally.

I can't comment on the slot fit (though in theory it should be fine because 2.5" SSD cases are supposed to be identical to their mechanical counterparts), but I can see how it might impact noise.

I was more commenting on the PSU side of things - my H7S has been powering an (internal) mechanical disk for years without issue. I've also never been able to hear the drive either, but your mileage may vary on that front, depending on the drive you use.

Query does anybody use Cacheflush or Power Timers on the H7s as the odd occasion box freezes up and never found the issue.

Off and on switch at rear and box is well vented

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WOS in UK you will get hit with customs tax

Unsure on setup as need to ask them

It could be. Not sure one might think HDMI would be 'smart' enough to overcome obvious misconfig, maybe not. Can you get at it with openwebif?

Good question. Assuming ethernet is enabled on the h7s it will act like any DHCP client upon boot. So I guess you'll have to make your laptop a DHPC host/server of sorts. Or else is there a router in the house? Could you connect it to that? Even temporarily? The router network overview will tell you what IP it was assigned and then openwebif should work from there.