Zgemma H7s Guide

I have 2 H7S recievers from World of Satellite (I have been using enigma2 receivers from WoS for years as have a lot of my family/friends). I have bought several recievers from them and never had an issue.

Anyway, I bought 2 H7S receivers in 2021. Both of them hung a few times per week when not in use. I tried EVERYTHING … remove plugins, disable certain plugins, new PSU with higher rating, removing HDs … etc. As I said, I have LOTS of E2 experience (I have commited to the OpenVix opensource codebase even) and I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

I contacted WoS support who are excellent. I shipped both receivers back to them and they managed to reproduce the problem - seems to have been a hardware problem with both receivers. They shipped 2 new Zgemma H7S receivers to me and they've been rock solid. Not a single crash/hang in 4 years.

At the time, I know there were a good few complaints similar to mine. A lot of people just accepted it and were happy to turn the reciver on and off when it happend.

you might have received one of the dodgy H7S receivers @Thargor

Is there an easy way to move a large number of channels to favourites from one of the other bouquets?

I am using simply ten eighty on openvix image 6.5.003

Have you tried or know the method using the remote and how many channels?

Holy smoke that's a lot. have you setup ABM to give a starting point like this

I just have those and I dont use favourites at all. I threw a lot of shite out too like religion, kids, shopping, adult etc.

Saorview only has half a dozen channels and Entertainment is like I used to know it from my Sky box.

I dont find I need favourites after that.

Looks good. Do you find it awkward not having the Irish channels on the same list?

Cathy, I know what you are trying to achieve and I use dreamboxedit to arrange all channels/bouquets, xfr between boxes etc but using the remote I can achieve much the same but slower. The favourites bouquet is a default ie it wont be deleted when ABM runs hence the idea add all the channels you watch most often and have them on same epg. On your list above you show freesat and I never use that. Here is a pic of how I set abm and a pic of favourites. I use maghera so you may have your own xmitter so leave it. The sequence is.

1. Configure ABM = see pic. NB green to save. 2. Select Providers see pic. 3. Hide the sections you don't want. 4. Keep the Bouquets you want I have a tick on favourites. 5. Delete ABM before you scan. 6. If box is on internet, I click update provider files. 7. Start scan.
2. When scan is finished you should have favourites at top and then you can add channels but do a pic as I have tweaked my set up and may look different. Go slow and check each entry.

Here is a pic of favourites with channels added.

You can always change back to your own preference and you dont have to run ABM only if required and as ITV have sorted channels now changes should be very few. I run mine on friday only.

Am I correct in saying the Favourites bouquet wont be updated if you run ABM ?

ie if one of the Favourite channels changes frequency, it will need to be manually updated, copied in ?

Using openvix 6.5.003 with simple 1080.

I have opentv download enabled

To keep the epg updated for both Irish and UK channels do I need to do anything else?

The automatic import epg is disabled

With openepg you dont need epgimporter so that should stay at disable. And there may be the odd occasion when epg is not filled so you can press blue button and select forced download. And NB location of epg MUST be hdd or usb so go epg settings look for location and if it says internal flash toggle arrow to change green to save. If you need EPG importer it has to be configured correctly.

The EPG for saorview is transmitted with the channels ie you cant download it. if epg is missing you just wait.

Vix is at 6.6 now and they have stopped support for older versions you may not notice for a time. Did you sort moving/adding channels?

I prefare a clean install no settings back up onto a new partition as have 4 to choose from.

Sometimes they change things and some things are not restorable.

I stick with default skin simple 1080 as sometimes skins give trouble and hide things and just keeping things simple so less issues.

Setup - user Interface - Skin selection

So clear. Thanks again.

In for late shift now so will try it later if chilling when get home or else it will be towards the weekend.

Is there any downside to staying on 6.5.003 for a short while?

Does anyone use the av outlet on the zgemma h7s?

Have an old 3.5mm to rca cable but it doesn't want to push fully into the av outlet.

Wondering has it a different size av outlet.

correct.

Thanks for the info.

I can't get anyone to repair the Vu+ boxes so will try one of these.