Zgemma H7s Guide

before I forget I have put good instructions on how to setup correctly recently and will find them tomorrow.

Great you got sorted.

Swoofer, I have to say it - you are the most helpful person I have ever seen on Boards (and there are lots of very helpful people here). I think I speak for all of us here when I say that it's hugely appreciated.

Just to again say thanks so so much.

I thought the box was a goner and once got that recovery file and the usb working all was perfect.

Actually enjoyed setting it up from scratch late that night and most of it came back to me and then the following day your excellent guide was super helpful in doing any tweaks I has missed.

Can't thank you enough.

I never had that but maybe you have it enabled to delete seen videos and automatically runs to delete them.

Go into your deleted folder and press menu and see if anything differs

I Only delete my trash can MANUALLY.

can you say image and version you are using? Have you downloaded any unusual plugins? and do you use deep standby and timeshift.

I never use deep standby but all boxes are well ventilated. By updating you may have sorted it. You can turn it off , menu, setup system, customise, see task warning on shutdown, default is yes but try no.

Keep an eye if it comes back you will need to go to WOS.

I am only on 6.7.001 and working and using simple 1080.

Is your epg getting loaded to usb or hard drive to save.

If i have to do a cold reboot i go to the IEPG channel for a few minutes to populate my channels. This is on sat 28.2

Saorview usually loads on RTE after a min or 2

Yes, you can watch your recorded programmes - the box doesn't need to be receiving a satellite signal to watch recordings because they're not encrypted.

Great, thatll keep us going until get dish installed

Brilliant, thanks so much again @swoofer

Much appreciated.

Did the blue button force update last night and the EPG was still there today.

HHowever did all those steps so waiting now to see will it stay over next few days.

Signal on both tuners - maybe not as strong as it used to be but that's for another day.

So I narrowed things down a good bit, but still don't understand what is going wrong. I do have things working though so I'm grand for now but if anyone can shine a light on what might be happening I'd be interested!

I was able to manipulate which image to boot from by copying the one I wanted to /boot/STARTUP which gave comfort to try a bunch of things…

I had been running an early vix 6.6 in slot 3 (PiP mode) this was working without graphical issue.
I tried flashing the same 6.6 image to slot 1 without restoring anything (no settings or plugin) and this seemed to work OK until the video output screen where I saw the same issue when 2160p60 was selected. even though that is the output resolution on the working slot3 image.

After a bit of fiddling (maybe a few boots into other slots before coming back to a boot into slot 1 again) It seemed to come right?? e.g. it booted into the next step in the setup wizard without graphical issue. I was then able to complete the wizard to get channels etc.

So I had a "clean" build on 6.6 working in slot 1 and the old config of 6.6 in slot 3

I then tried booting to the Kodi mode of 6.7 that was previously flashed to slot4 including restoring of config and plugins, and this worked fine!

All a bit weird I think.
It seems related to refresh rate but kind of doesn't at the same time.

The glitch (pic above) can look like over scanning or end up being a blank screen all together.

At least its ok now.

Oh crap, the box crashed when I was watching tv and now this is all I can get it to do after multiple reboots! What can I do please?

I’ll tell you tomorrow how to set start up channel as bbc1 and as that won’t change should help if box crashes again.

Not sure if you will see this but here goes

Open BBC1 and arrow up, then press menu , see menu, 1 = set as start up. press ok and select the option. ok. exit out and then go back in and it should now say stop etc.

Crashes are not good but it should now boot to bbc1.

Can you tell me the skin you are using? Go menu information about. And is it definitely called Movie Organiser?? Mine says movie manager.

And go to plugins, then press red, it wont do anything but show plugins installed, go to extensions and see if its in there.