Amiko Alien 2 Triple Tuner Combobox

Nforce · 20-04-2013 12:29PM

I've a HTPC with a Blackgold BTG-3595 dual DVB-S2 and dual DVB-T tuner card. I'm running Mediaportal frontend with the HADU plugin which works quite well,albeit channel switching is a little slow. I must try the XBMC frontend soon as I also have DVBdream and DVBviewer installed.
I got my Logitech Harmony 650 remote (as posted in the Bargain Alerts section) during the week and I'll set that up later in order to remove the stock pile of remotes that are currently scattered about the house.

The Alien has been pretty much rock solid since I've set it up. I'd be nice to get the RTE Player/3Player plugin's working however. An XBMC plugin for Enigma2 would be ideal.

peter_dublin · 20-04-2013 12:40PM

Nforce wrote: »

I've a HTPC with a Blackgold BTG-3595 dual DVB-S2 and dual DVB-T tuner card. I'm running Mediaportal frontend with the HADU plugin which works quite well,albeit channel switching is a little slow. I must try the XBMC frontend soon as I also have DVBdream and DVBviewer installed.
I got my Logitech Harmony 650 remote (as posted in the Bargain Alerts section) during the week and I'll set that up later in order to remove the stock pile of remotes that are currently scattered about the house.

The Alien has been pretty much rock solid since I've set it up. I'd be nice to get the RTE Player/3Player plugin's working however. An XBMC plugin for Enigma2 would be ideal.

The XBMC PVR plugin for XBMC already exists and is excellient by all means, use the VU+ one, works with a DM800 without issue, as like you I have multipe devices and multiple tuners but for the sake of keeping the wife happy I need to centralise everything as there is too many points of failure at this stage.

Can I be brazen and ask you to test your Alien with a trial version of DVBLink :-)

derek214 · 20-04-2013 01:13PM

Hi all,

Firstly, great thread! Big thanks to Pog for the great steb by step also!

I have the Amiko Alien 2 running Enigma2. have a question about the cooltv plugin. Under the setup I have set "start cool tv guide with red button" to yes however when i hit the red button I still get the "please choose an extension" with options for sleep timer, cooltvguide, rte player etc. is there a way to have a button launch directly into the CoolTV Multi Guide?

I read earlier in the thread that its done with the button mapping, anyone got an example of what i need to change?

Thx,
Derek

PogMoThoin · 20-04-2013 01:14PM

derek214 wrote: »

Hi all,

Firstly, great thread! Big thanks to Pog for the great steb by step also!

I have the Amiko Alien 2 running Enigma2. have a question about the cooltv plugin. Under the setup I have set "start cool tv guide with red button" to yes however when i hit the red button I still get the "please choose an extension" with options for sleep timer, cooltvguide, rte player etc. is there a way to have a button launch directly into the CoolTV Multi Guide?

I read earlier in the thread that its done with the button mapping, anyone got an example of what i need to change?

Thx,
Derek

Have you restarted the box?

cool_cat · 20-04-2013 01:19PM

Hi guys - has anyone been able to set up autotimer on the AR-P image? It looks like it needs WebInterface (rather than openwebif which comes with the AR-P image), but I can't install web interface, I have tried everything I could think of but keep getting green screens of death...

Thanks in advance

derek214 · 20-04-2013 01:24PM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Have you restarted the box?

Yeah mate - set the cootv start on red button to yes. save and reboot. Still the same though...

I've set it to bouquet on start and that has worked so the set-up is working just not the red/green etc. buttons if that narrows anything down??

**Resolved**

so I installed a plugin called MultiQuickbutton which allows you to edit the button mapping. from this then I have mapped the EPG button to open the CoolTVGuide Bouquets list.

Cheers for the input pog!!

Derek

stanley1 · 20-04-2013 01:47PM

keep getting green screen when I choose network wizard , using ar-p image, it seems to be skin related when using dtv-hd, dmconcinnity etc.

sattvfan · 20-04-2013 04:31PM

zakalibit wrote: »

I have a brand new triplex alien2, that is no use to me (too many tuners), I might consider selling it for a reasonable price, ping me if interested.

Ditto with mine maybe not sure yet though. PM me if interested. Only a few month old as new etc

The lack of blindscan still on Enigma seems crazy when you have so many other images supporting this on the Azbox ME, a far more advanced box really with triple boot up etc

stanley1 · 20-04-2013 05:57PM

sattvfan wrote: »

Ditto with mine maybe not sure yet though. PM me if interested. Only a few month old as new etc

The lack of blindscan still on Enigma seems crazy when you have so many other images supporting this on the Azbox ME, a far more advanced box really with triple boot up etc

AZbox, promised everything and delivered nothing.

championc · 20-04-2013 07:18PM

stanley1 wrote: »

keep getting green screen when I choose network wizard , using ar-p image, it seems to be skin related when using dtv-hd, dmconcinnity etc.

I can only suggest setting a static ip address which you should do if you plan to stream from the box - or ftp stuff to it which you'll deffo need to do with AR-P get get everything just right

C

stanley1 · 20-04-2013 07:53PM

championc wrote: »

I can only suggest setting a static ip address which you should do if you plan to stream from the box - or ftp stuff to it which you'll deffo need to do with AR-P get get everything just right

C

changed skin to pli-hd and everything fine now, wi-fi stick working as well, if anyone is interested it's a railink rt5370 usb stick.

FlexMcMurphy · 21-04-2013 07:01PM

This is a question for people using their Alien2 to stream channels to their laptop using HDMU Enigma.

How are people connecting things up to achieve streaming? Running a network cable from the Alien2 to the router? Using a Wifi dongle? Using HomePlugs to send the signal around the house using the mains? I would ideally like to stream over Wifi but have read that those Wifi dongles give mixed results. The Wifi card in my laptop supports the 802-N Wifi protocol but my Netopia Router is 802.11b+g only. My router is about 20ft from the box but there's a glass/wooden door separating them.

If Wifi dongles do the job then can anyone recommend a good model? There are three on eBay from an Irish seller, one has an antenna. Is that better?
dongle with Antenna : http://www.ebay.ie/itm/USB-WiFi-Dongle-Skybox-Openbox-Eyebox-F3-F4-F5-M3-X3-X4-X5-RT5370-150Mbps-/251255776004?pt=UK_Computing_USB_Wi_Fi_Adapters_Dongles&hash=item3a8002e304#ht_1352wt_1165
Black dongle : http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Amiko-Nano-USB-WiFi-Stick-for-8900-Alien-8820-8330-8340-Alien-3-Alma-RT5370-/261036285162?pt=UK_Computing_USB_Wi_Fi_Adapters_Dongles&hash=item3cc6f99cea#ht_1076wt_1165
White dongle : http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Amiko-Mini-USB-WiFi-Stick-for-8900-Alien-8820-8330-8340-Alien-2-Alma-RT5370-/261079530735?pt=UK_Computing_USB_Wi_Fi_Adapters_Dongles&hash=item3cc98d7cef#ht_1040wt_1165

Any help gratefully appreciated!

stanley1 · 21-04-2013 09:18PM

using 2nd one on front usb port, works fine downstairs, about 30ft away.

Dublin Deluge · 21-04-2013 09:29PM

Hi, would anybody know the answer to this or have any pointers? cheers

Dublin Deluge wrote: »

I'm on the latest version of HDMU. I have a collection of MP4 videos and they play alright on the box. However, when I pause most of the time the box stops responding. The circle indicating that the box is busy appears on the upper left corner and never goes away. The box doesn't react no matter what button you press on the box. The only way to get the box back is by turning it off and on with the switch at the back. It doesn't always happen, but happens most of the time. I have no problems pausing any recording I've made (files with .ts extension), the video is paused and when I press play or pause again, the video resumes smoothly. I've only seen this issue with MP4 videos so far.

Is it a known issue that MP4 videos are not very well supported? Could I convert those MP4 videos into .ts? Any other workarounds?

zakalibit · 21-04-2013 09:30PM

I have fixed webinterface and autotimer plugin on AR-P over weekend, should be available in the feed shortly.

As well thanks to you I have convinced the team to change webinterface as a default in the next release.

zakalibit · 21-04-2013 09:34PM

Dublin Deluge wrote: »

Hi, would anybody know the answer to this or have any pointers? cheers

I'm working at the moment on some issues with divx format, it is the same area of code as others, if you can reproduce the same on AR-P and give me a full report with logs/crashlogs, I would take a look. Or at least give us a samle file that exhibits the problem and crash-logs if any.

I do not promise that I'll fix them, but I'll try.

FlexMcMurphy · 21-04-2013 10:18PM

stanley1 wrote: »

using 2nd one on front usb port, works fine downstairs, about 30ft away.

Hi Stanley, cheers for the response. I haven't bought an Alien 2 box yet but intend on doing so. How did you get the streaming working? I read there is a Web Interface plugin which you use to configure a port and then you use that and the boxes ip address to view it on the VLC player on your laptop? Simple as that? Did you set up a static ip on the box? How?

Does the streaming picture appear on your computer live as it would be on the TV or do you have to download it first or anything? And what's the picture like then? Does it break up or pixelate? I read streaming HD is not really doable over Wifi unless you have an 802.11-N router. That's a shame as the Saorview channels are all HD.

The small black wifi dongle would certainly be the most discrete on the box but I wonder is the signal as strong from it as from a dongle with antenna?

So many qs.. too many I know, apologies!

Flex

PogMoThoin · 21-04-2013 10:25PM

For any media streaming you really need to be considering cable or decent homeplugs. HD streaming from the box is 22-30mbit, i've measured it, that is a big ask of any wireless dongle. I always say wireless should be used for mobility only, anything static should be cabled

sattvfan · 21-04-2013 10:30PM

stanley1 wrote: »

AZbox, promised everything and delivered nothing.

Not exactly true, there are quite a few images to try, a good forum about the brand also over at Ricks satellite...plus most if not all images have blindscan and 4.2.2 decoding unlike E2 still

Digidol · 21-04-2013 11:38PM

Does anyone know how many weeks of data you download at a time using CrossEPG? I presume it's about 4 weeks of listings?

PogMoThoin · 21-04-2013 11:40PM

Digidol wrote: »

Does anyone know how many weeks of data you download at a time using CrossEPG? I presume it's about 4 weeks of listings?

7 days

Digidol · 21-04-2013 11:40PM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

7 days

Oh really? Wow, I thought it was more! Thanks for the reply.

PogMoThoin · 21-04-2013 11:41PM

Digidol wrote: »

Oh really? Wow, I thought it was more! Thanks for the reply.

I think it's set by the satellite

Digidol · 21-04-2013 11:43PM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

I think it's set by the satellite

And does it overwrite itself every time or save to a different location on the hard drive?

PogMoThoin · 21-04-2013 11:45PM

Digidol wrote: »

And does it overwrite itself every time or save to a different location on the hard drive?

Overwrites, it's a simple xml database

championc · 22-04-2013 12:08AM

zakalibit wrote: »

I have fixed webinterface and autotimer plugin on AR-P over weekend, should be available in the feed shortly.

As well thanks to you I have convinced the team to change webinterface as a default in the next release.

Oh you legend Zak. Can't wait for next update so. BTW, for Diblin Deluge, maybe you can confirm if MP4 videos work on AR-P ?

championc · 22-04-2013 12:18AM

FlexMcMurphy wrote: »

Hi Stanley, cheers for the response. I haven't bought an Alien 2 box yet but intend on doing so. How did you get the streaming working? I read there is a Web Interface plugin which you use to configure a port and then you use that and the boxes ip address to view it on the VLC player on your laptop? Simple as that? Did you set up a static ip on the box? How?

Does the streaming picture appear on your computer live as it would be on the TV or do you have to download it first or anything? And what's the picture like then? Does it break up or pixelate? I read streaming HD is not really doable over Wifi unless you have an 802.11-N router. That's a shame as the Saorview channels are all HD.

The small black wifi dongle would certainly be the most discrete on the box but I wonder is the signal as strong from it as from a dongle with antenna?

So many qs.. too many I know, apologies!

Flex

IMPORTANT - Anybody with Netopia router (and maybe other ones too), if you have wireless set for B & G, then set it for G ONLY. Wireless routers set themselves internally to the slowest speed of connected devices. Do a Speedtest on B & G and then switch to G Only and retest - I bet you it's better.

Streraming is perfect over a home network (even to mobile devices) using SD Channels. Things seem to get a bit ropey on HD.

I have no experience of running the box off a dongle. should certainly be OK for SD Channels. I thought only RTE2 was in HD ???

C

FlexMcMurphy · 22-04-2013 01:24AM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

For any media streaming you really need to be considering cable or decent homeplugs...

championc wrote: »

I have no experience of running the box off a dongle. should certainly be OK for SD Channels....

Cheers for the opposing views Gents. Question: How are you setup for streaming at home? Do you run network cable from Alien2 to the router then more cable from the router to your PC? I suppose Wifi from the router to phones? Did you get Homeplugs, if so which ones are best?

By the way you're right championc, only RTE2 is currently broadcasting in HD. I had noticed recently the Saorview channels broadcast using H264 compression like the Satellite HD channels and that was confusing me.

Anybody else using a Wifi Dongle with the Alien2 on Enigma?

Flex

championc · 22-04-2013 10:09AM

FlexMcMurphy wrote: »

How are you setup for streaming at home? Do you run network cable from Alien2 to the router then more cable from the router to your PC? I suppose Wifi from the router to phones? Did you get Homeplugs, if so which ones are best?

I'm on UPC (broadband only, no tv) so the router is at the TV location so I have a simple patch straight from my box to the router - but every other connection in the house is wireless over 802.11g

C

championc · 22-04-2013 10:10AM

FlexMcMurphy wrote: »

How are you setup for streaming at home? Do you run network cable from Alien2 to the router then more cable from the router to your PC? I suppose Wifi from the router to phones? Did you get Homeplugs, if so which ones are best?

I'm on UPC (broadband only, no tv) so the router is at the TV location so I have a simple patch straight from my box to the router - but every other connection in the house is wireless over 802.11g

C

Amiko Alien 2 Triple Tuner Combobox

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