Ferguson Ariva 250

O'Prez · 08-11-2012 01:10AM

Any update on how to do that bootlogo thing you did STB?

STB · 08-11-2012 01:13AM

O'Prez wrote: »

Any update on how to do that bootlogo thing you did STB?

I'll have to upload the software and the patch somewhere and write the instructions as they are in another language. I don't want people bricking their boxes because I uploaded it!

O'Prez · 08-11-2012 01:25AM

STB wrote: »

I'll have to upload the software and the patch somewhere and write the instructions as they are in another language. I don't want people bricking their boxes because I uploaded it!

Sound

Mediafire is good. No speed limits for free users.

johnxcassidy · 08-11-2012 01:26AM

STB wrote: »

Ariva 250 Channel List based upon firmware version 1.19B1 - upgrade to this firmware first before doing the following.

If you are already on version 1.19B1 then you just need to go to Tools, Upgrade by USB, then right click til you get userdb and then click down to start and flash this file to your box. When it gets to 100% it is done.

Channel Lists included (Astra 1, 2 and Hotbird)
Favourite List 1 - Saorview & Satellite (Ordered)
Favourite List 2 - BBC Red Button
Favourite List 3 - Sky Channels (Alphabetical - Including Sky 2 HD/Sky Summer HD)

All Channels
Hot Bird
Astra 1
Astra 2A (Alphabetical)
Eurobird

You may need to rescan your Saorview channels for your area. This one includes Mt Leinster.

All my Irish channels are gone now and they want me to rescan for them, but that will screw up my existing layout from your very helpful file above. Do you have the updated file to reflect the rescan? Bear in mind that I'm running firmware V1.20B6
Any help would be much appreciated

wextipp · 08-11-2012 01:24PM

Does anybody know the record format for the rss.txt file.

Tony · 08-11-2012 01:27PM

johnxcassidy wrote: »

but that will screw up my existing layout from your very helpful file above.

No, it will not. When you carry out a terrestrial scan it will add these channels to the end of the "all channels" list . You can then edit the listing using the edit channel page on the menu to place the terrestrial channels anywhere you like in the channel list.

STB · 08-11-2012 03:01PM

johnxcassidy wrote: »

All my Irish channels are gone now and they want me to rescan for them, but that will screw up my existing layout from your very helpful file above. Do you have the updated file to reflect the rescan? Bear in mind that I'm running firmware V1.20B6
Any help would be much appreciated

That quote of me in your post is from months back. I posted the latest channel list on the latest firmware a few posts before yours!

johnxcassidy · 08-11-2012 03:34PM

You're a star STB!

fatherland · 08-11-2012 07:14PM

anyone help me with the sleep timer issue... Tony or STB

Tony · 08-11-2012 07:45PM

whats the issue ?

fatherland wrote: »

anyone help me with the sleep timer issue... Tony or STB

gg69me · 08-11-2012 08:49PM

STB wrote: »

Yes it will. I have added it as a channel in the channel list. You just press the text when on the Aertel channel.

Youtube/Dailymotion/Vimeo/Weather Forecast/RSS Feeds/WebTV/Google Maps all working in version posted. Also new feature called Football score which gives the last 10 results.

any joy with youporn or has it been discontinued.....thanks for all your advice and help bye the way , you should be working for the irish government and we might not be in the mess we are in .

STB · 09-11-2012 01:53AM

gg69me wrote: »

any joy with youporn or has it been discontinued.....thanks for all your advice and help bye the way , you should be working for the irish government and we might not be in the mess we are in .

Yes that is working also with the channel list firmware version posted a page back by me.

fatherland · 09-11-2012 06:46PM

Tony wrote: »

whats the issue ?

Am cant find the setting for it tony on the box, i watch the telly to sleep and at moment box is on for the whole nit. wanna set it to hour or so you know. just wondering, where can i do it! ive looked on manual and through everything cant find it, i must be blind! any help greatly appreciated

iba · 09-11-2012 08:15PM

STB wrote: »

Yes that is working also with the channel list firmware version posted a page back by me.

STB,

I think you told me this before but Ive forgotten, sorry

Im rescanning my sats and cant remember should I scan on KU_Arabsat or C-Arabsat?

Also can you tell me if I should include/turn on Network Search and also should I use Blind Scan or Preset Scan?

Please and thank you.

Regards

Iba

Tony · 10-11-2012 03:53PM

Yep no mention of it in the manual that I can see . If you select "other" in the menu you should see "auto standby" which may help achieve what you need although there does not seem to be an option to vary the time .

fatherland wrote: »

Am cant find the setting for it tony on the box, i watch the telly to sleep and at moment box is on for the whole nit. wanna set it to hour or so you know. just wondering, where can i do it! ive looked on manual and through everything cant find it, i must be blind! any help greatly appreciated

king2 · 10-11-2012 04:24PM

I timed my ariva250 to record last night but forgot to power the connected HD. The STB came on and did not record. Now, If media player is selected on the STB with the HD connected, theTV screen goes blank and the STB is frozen until the HD is powered off or the USB lead disconnected. The HD still behaves normally when connected to a PC or used as a stand alone media player

A memory Stick still works with the STB to play media and record as does another HD, but the STB cannot be upgraded via usb with either device .When upgrade mode is selected, eg userdb, "no file" appears in box below, even though the attached memory contains .abs files.

Any Ideas? Thanks

kenmc · 10-11-2012 07:28PM

Had a quick search but didn't find the answer to this:
Have an Ariva 250 connected via HDMI to as Samsung TV.
When I am play something which is recorded on the hard disk, and press the stop button, the tv displays "disconnecting hdmi device" (or similar) and then the tv source changes from hdmi to "tv" . I need to go back and select 'stb' in the tv source to go back to the STB. Anyone know how to stop this happening? I saw something to do with HDMI-CEC earlier but I don't know how to turn it off.

Have to say I find the whole user interface on the Ariva very poor, and I'd consider myself pretty tech-savvy. My poor mother hasn't a hope with it... Having to go into the menus to find and watch recordings is very poor, there should be a single button to get there from the remote
Cheers
K

king2 · 10-11-2012 11:37PM

Tony wrote: »

Yep no mention of it in the manual that I can see . If you select "other" in the menu you should see "auto standby" which may help achieve what you need although there does not seem to be an option to vary the time .

You can do this with the recording timer menu. As well as setting the box to record there are two other options, On or"Channel" as the option is called in the menu or "Turn off"

Thargor · 10-11-2012 11:50PM

king2 wrote: »

You can do this with the recording timer menu. As well as setting the box to record there are two other options, On or"Channel" as the option is called in the menu or "Turn off"

And then you can tell it to do that every day at the same time at night.

mcglough · 12-11-2012 11:49AM

Sorry if this was answered / discussed previously, but I did look and could not find anything. I notice that some set-top boxes are now starting to support internet based tv players (like RTE player). Is it conceivable that a future SW upgrade on the Ariva 250 might see the RTE player functionality?

Thanks,
Mark.

MickserB · 12-11-2012 01:07PM

it already does, youtube, grooveshark, youporn etc

EDIT - would love to see players alright on the box, but the box is pan european, not aimed at the irish market per say, so to get something like a RTE player on it, would be good but slim I would say

5h4mr0(k · 12-11-2012 02:04PM

Where is Grooveshark on the menus? I've the latest firmware (1.21) and I can't see it as an option.

MickserB · 12-11-2012 02:28PM

1.20B6 is the latest firmware for the 150 and 250 and I am using the patched version which gives you Grooveshark as an option in the Apps menu

STB · 12-11-2012 07:09PM

kenmc wrote: »

Had a quick search but didn't find the answer to this:
Q1 Have an Ariva 250 connected via HDMI to as Samsung TV.
When I am play something which is recorded on the hard disk, and press the stop button, the tv displays "disconnecting hdmi device" (or similar) and then the tv source changes from hdmi to "tv" . I need to go back and select 'stb' in the tv source to go back to the STB. Anyone know how to stop this happening? I saw something to do with HDMI-CEC earlier but I don't know how to turn it off.

Q2 Have to say I find the whole user interface on the Ariva very poor, and I'd consider myself pretty tech-savvy. My poor mother hasn't a hope with it... Having to go into the menus to find and watch recordings is very poor, there should be a single button to get there from the remote
Cheers
K

Q1 In the PVR Setting menu there is an option to "After Record" turn off or stay on. Choose stay on. It will remember your settings.

Q2 Tech Savvy eh ?

On the remote control below the mute button there is a button that pulls up the media player.

STB · 12-11-2012 07:12PM

MickserB wrote: »

1.20B6 is the latest firmware for the 150 and 250 and I am using the patched version which gives you Grooveshark as an option in the Apps menu

My experiences with the patched version Micker is that it plays havoc with

1. the epg data for the UK channels and occasionally Saorview.
2. the media player.

That is because these functions is ported from a different box that doesnt have the same functionality. Same in previous p version. Grooveshark is not a big plus but I would understand why the p version would be a plus for others.

deandean · 13-11-2012 12:11AM

I have a question about signal strength.
when I go into setup I get a signal strength of 80 to 90 percent for satellites and for terrestrial. But when i switch from channel to channel the signal strength bar is all over the place, e.g. Tonight Rte1 is between 20 and 90 percent and rte2 is 11 percent on terrestrial tonight. I start to lose reception on channels where the signal strength is less than about 5 percent
So, how come I can get such a weak or variable signal on individual channels while having a very strong signal from the satellite / terrestrial antenna? thanks!

O'Prez · 13-11-2012 06:08PM

Alright lads. All timed recordings on my box are failing (I'm on the latest firmware but it was happening with the previous firmware too). Timed recordings will work grand if I leave the box on but fail when the box is in standby. I don't know how the box is supposed to behave when waking from standby to carry out recordings but from my tests it doesn't just wake per say but boots up as if it's been switched off and on from the back of the box...ie it goes through the boot screen, gets IP, notifies me a HD has been found and all that and then switches to the channel I have set to record but doesn't record it. It's as if by the time it realises a hard drive (mains powered) has been detected that it has gone past the allotted recording time. I would have thought that when it wakes to carry out recording schedules that it would behave in the same way as when I just wake it from standby with the power button in that it doesn't go through a cold restart so to speak. Any advice lads?

Nowso · 13-11-2012 08:13PM

when setting the timer u have to the timer service option from channel to record , if not it will not record and just show the program

O'Prez · 13-11-2012 08:14PM

Nowso wrote: »

when setting the timer u have to the timer service option from channel to record , if not it will not record and just show the program

I have it set to record...it records grand if the box is on but won't when coming out of standby.

Thargor · 13-11-2012 08:44PM

Mine definitely wakes itself up to record no problem anyway.

Ferguson Ariva 250

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