Amiko Alien 2 Triple Tuner Combobox

Brandaan wrote: »

Does anyone have any experience of doing this or is everyone using USB drives?
Thanks.

In AR-P (could be in hdmu too), in networks settings, network browser, when it lists available samba shares and you mount selected share there is a option to use it as a local drive, i.e. for timeshifts, I'd imagine nfs would be a more performant option for such things.

I have an external USB drive with a bunch of movies I recorded from the TV using another satellite box. I've found I can plug that USB drive into the Alien 2 and watch them... didn't need to ftp anything to any particular folder cause you can navigate to the folder they are stored in from the on screen menu.

some one suggested no-ip to me? will this do what i need?

i have an zyxel eircom router, i have a bit of reading to do to understand what im at!

thanks again

Any updates for the OpenAR-P auto timers? and webinterface?

My struggle with crossepg on Spark continues. For some reason it never downloads a full 7 day epg for me but only about 6-8 hours worth of programme listings and even then, listings do not appear for all channels. I'm still working at this because apparently it does work for some on Spark so maybe I'm doing something wrong

Here are the first few lines of my crossepg.log file. It gets created in /root/tmp of the Spark OS after crossepg runs to download an epg.

02/05/2013 22:30:13 CrossEPG open 20130222
02/05/2013 22:30:15 EPGDB opened (root=/root/tmp)
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Clearing old aliases...
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Loaded 0 aliases
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Adding new aliases...
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Completed
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Started OpenTV events download
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Reading dictionary '/var/crossepg/providers/skyuk_astra2_28.2.dict' ...
02/05/2013 22:30:15 Completed. Read 512 values
02/05/2013 22:30:20 demuxer_index 0
02/05/2013 22:30:20 Read /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
02/05/2013 22:30:20 Reading channels...
02/05/2013 22:30:31 Read 909 channels
02/05/2013 22:30:31 Reading titles...
02/05/2013 22:35:37 Maximum loop exceded
02/05/2013 22:35:37 Read 243 KB

I think the line "Maximum loop exceded" is indicating that crossepg is not downloading all the data needed to create a full 7 day EPG. The following line: "Read 243 KB" should show that several MBs of data were downloaded.

Using Filezilla I can see a 'crossepg' folder is created on my USB drive. And that folder contains four files with their file sizes:
crossepg.aliases.db

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18bytes
crossepg.descriptors.db

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52 Kb
crossepg.headers.db

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313 Kb
crossepg.indexes.db

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36Kb

I wish I could contact the Spark developers for the Alien 2 box. Can anyone give me their contact details or shine any more light on my issue? I haven't tried a factory reset yet.

Any chance any of you good people would boot into Spark and update to firmware 1.2.63 and see if you can get a full 7 day epg working?

Cheers.

Flex

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

Sorry guys as i said Im a newbie at the Amiko Alien.How do i even check what its running? Also the stb is very unresponsive to the remote control along with the picture freezing issue. Yesterday i was just changing channel and the whole screen went pink and it eventually sorted itself out after five minutes.

The fault is with the box as my other tv which is hooked up to a ferguson ariva 150 is working 100%

when you boot it up what picture comes up? If spark then load enigma2 and use pogs guide.

Was trying to get wifi working on my Triplex last night and while moving the unit to peak the signal it fell off the shelf .
It landed on the ground with a usb drive in the back and now the rear usb wont work anymore .
It looks fine but must have shorted or something ,I may have to do some diy .