Amiko Alien 2 Triple Tuner Combobox

Fresh Pots · 14-05-2014 09:06PM

TheChevron wrote: »

Well that is one sweet image!

Are the tabs along the top in the menu screen functional or just cosmetic?

Just cosmetic, full credit goes to the guys over on sattvhelp.com forums for the skin and for the skinned virtual zap.

illdoit2morrow · 14-05-2014 09:20PM

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Below is a link to my Hyperion v4 based Complete Image - for the Amiko Alien2 and other ST7162 Based Boxes.

This image is working with the following:
AutoTimer
AutoVolumeAdjustment
AutoBoquets 20131020 (works in about 60 secs)
CacheFlush
CrossEPG 0.6.2
CoolTVGuide v7.0
EMU Manager
MyTubePlayer
OpenWebIf
OSCam v9550 (with blank sample readers)
PermanentTimeShift
Various Skins
Rats Picons
RTE Player
Samba Server
Sly HD bootlogo
Soarview Picons
Streaming / Recording of $ Channels while watching another $ channel
TSMedia 6.5
Virtual Zap

Vfd fix applied so newer boxes have a working display panel.

Use the Download menu in Plugins or just FTP the .ipk files to the /TMP folder, telnet to the box and type IPKG INSTALL xxxxxxx.ipk. This should work for most plugins. CoolTVGuide is linked to the EPG button

The image is setup to use DHCP automatically and is also set for using HDMI at 720p. Terrestrial channels may need to be rescanned depending on your geographical location.

FTP and Telnet - Username "root", Password "pkteam"
OSCam - http://box_ip:8888 - Username "root", Password "oscam"
OpenWebIf - http://box_ip (Default Port 80)
DreamBoxEdit paths - /etc/enigma2/

Download link: http://goo.gl/eLaUN1

Is there any way to change bouquet from within cooltvguide on this image? I can't do it, just wondering if I'm missing a trick.

Fresh Pots · 14-05-2014 09:22PM

illdoit2morrow wrote: »

Is there any way to change bouquet from within cooltvguide on this image? I can't do it, just wondering if I'm missing a trick.

Page - and page +

phobia2011 · 14-05-2014 09:35PM

Help is appreciated

Gerry Wicklow · 14-05-2014 11:12PM

Just a suggestion for those having CrossEPG issues. Some versions of satellites.xml don't include 11778 V 27500 which is the EPG transponder

givecredit · 14-05-2014 11:35PM

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Just cosmetic, full credit goes to the guys over on sattvhelp.com forums for the skin and for the skinned virtual zap.

I think something not quite right with that new skin. Can some try to repeat my experience.

Works perfectly when tuned to a satellite channel. But when tuned to a saorview channel the receiver slows right down. Accessing menu etc slows right down only when tuned to saorview.

Change skin and the problem goes away.

chris1970 · 14-05-2014 11:56PM

hard drive not working this help me,
1. Used EaseUS Partition Master to format it as a single partition, Ext3 and Primary.
2. Insert key into rear of Alien 2.
3. Open Telnet and run command
Code:
fdisk -l
to confirm it is mounted at /dev/sda1
4. Type these three commands one after the other into the Telnet window pressing Enter after each...
Code:
mkfs.ext3 -L RECORD /dev/sda1
cd /autofs/sda1
mkdir movie
5. Reboot Alien 2.. Menu > Standby/restart > Restart
6. After this you should be able to press 'Record' on the remote control and record.

NUTZZ · 14-05-2014 11:56PM

givecredit wrote: »

I think something not quite right with that new skin. Can some try to repeat my experience.

Works perfectly when tuned to a satellite channel. But when tuned to a saorview channel the receiver slows right down. Accessing menu etc slows right down only when tuned to saorview.

Change skin and the problem goes away.

I've found it to perform poorly on PKT anyway, its sluggish and can take a few seconds for anything to appear on screen after pressing the Menu button. The old skin performs much better.

It seems to be hit and miss on certain images, ARP was slightly better.

Fresh Pots · 14-05-2014 11:59PM

givecredit wrote: »

I think something not quite right with that new skin. Can some try to repeat my experience.

Works perfectly when tuned to a satellite channel. But when tuned to a saorview channel the receiver slows right down. Accessing menu etc slows right down only when tuned to saorview.

Change skin and the problem goes away.

Tried to replicate it just now going between channels, navigating the menus, using Virtual Zap. Doesn't seem any slower. Wonder would it be the box downloading the saorview epg slowing it down for you. I'm using a USB 3.0 hard drive, i wonder would that make any difference.

Fresh Pots · 15-05-2014 12:07AM

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Page - and page +

Just realised pressing the play button while in crossepg brings up the list of bouquets to choose from which is probably fast than going through them one by one.

givecredit · 15-05-2014 12:17AM

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Tried to replicate it just now going between channels, navigating the menus, using Virtual Zap. Doesn't seem any slower. Wonder would it be the box downloading the saorview epg slowing it down for you. I'm using a USB 3.0 hard drive, i wonder would that make any difference.

Strange Nutzz is experiencing it and your not. Ruled out the saorview epg downloading causing problem earlier by turning off EIT epg. Still experienced the sluggishness.

The skin displays some errors when tuned to Saorview. Try tuning to saorview and select menu and toggle down through menu and see if you see text errors right under Sky Logo at "MainMenuScreen!. These errors go when tuned to satellite channel.

Slevster · 15-05-2014 12:19AM

Fresh Pots wrote: »

Just realised pressing the play button while in crossepg brings up the list of bouquets to choose from which is probably fast than going through them one by one.

anotherway, is, once you are in the crossepg, press menu, and then set one of the colour buttons to be change of bouquet and save.
(But hadn't come across the play button trick before. Live and learn)

cant touchthis · 15-05-2014 12:27AM

Popped in here after what must be 14 months for a look to see how it's going and dammmmmmmmmmn, ye are still having all the same problems!!!!

I have a AA2, didn't have the time to give it before + don't have reliable internet which adds lots of extra issues, jaysus thought it would be working by now though.

zefer · 15-05-2014 09:17AM

givecredit wrote: »

I think something not quite right with that new skin. Can some try to repeat my experience.

Works perfectly when tuned to a satellite channel. But when tuned to a saorview channel the receiver slows right down. Accessing menu etc slows right down only when tuned to saorview.

Change skin and the problem goes away.

I have the same symptoms on saorview channels and i'm using kernil HD skin using frsh pots hyp 4

zefer · 15-05-2014 09:18AM

cant touchthis wrote: »

Popped in here after what must be 14 months for a look to see how it's going and dammmmmmmmmmn, ye are still having all the same problems!!!!

I have a AA2, didn't have the time to give it before + don't have reliable internet which adds lots of extra issues, jaysus thought it would be working by now though.

If you look through the thread properly there are plenty of working images. The discussions are all about improvements..

same ol sh1te · 15-05-2014 09:19AM

cant touchthis wrote: »

Popped in here after what must be 14 months for a look to see how it's going and dammmmmmmmmmn, ye are still having all the same problems!!!!

I have a AA2, didn't have the time to give it before + don't have reliable internet which adds lots of extra issues, jaysus thought it would be working by now though.

So you've read the whole thread then?

Fresh Pots · 15-05-2014 11:22AM

zefer wrote: »

I have the same symptoms on saorview channels and i'm using kernil HD skin using frsh pots hyp 4

I'll have a look at it tonight, seems to be working fine on one of my boxes and not on the other, only difference I can think of is the working box is using a usb 3.0 hard drive and the other is using a 2.0 one. I left the old sky skin in the new image if anyone wants to go back to that until it's sorted.

Zardoz · 15-05-2014 01:19PM

givecredit wrote: »

I think something not quite right with that new skin. Can some try to repeat my experience.

Works perfectly when tuned to a satellite channel. But when tuned to a saorview channel the receiver slows right down. Accessing menu etc slows right down only when tuned to saorview.

Change skin and the problem goes away.

Browsing Saorview channels is slower than Satellite channels on almost every image and skin I have tried bar a few .
Its something to do with the EIT data ,it seems to cause the box to slow down slightly.
I found AR-P to be the fastest and PKT/Hyperion the worst .
Different skins vary too.

I've also noticed that if you tune the receiver to a channel that has 0% snr ,it causes it to slow down dramatically .
I found this extremely annoying when trying to setup a receiver without a live satellite feed ,it was very unresponsive.
Could be something to do with scanning transponders in the background perhaps ?

elvis23 · 15-05-2014 10:13PM

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

Just a suggestion for those having CrossEPG issues. Some versions of satellites.xml don't include 11778 V 27500 which is the EPG transponder

This worked for me! Nice one gerry

cant touchthis · 15-05-2014 11:10PM

Is their a detailed step by step guide around to install an image?

zefer · 15-05-2014 11:14PM

cant touchthis wrote: »

Is their a detailed step by step guide around to install an image?

Search this thread or even better check out the firmware thread..http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056882713/18/#post90388205

hotwhiskey · 16-05-2014 08:15AM

Anybody got any ideas why receiver will not shutdown in standby in menus or red button on remote getting green screen. I have to reboot the receiver everytime. I installed RTEplayer and 1Channel last night i thought it was this as it work perfect before that. But I have deleted these two plugins put issue is still there. Very annoying. Any help appreciated.

Fresh Pots · 16-05-2014 08:52AM

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Anybody got any ideas why receiver will not shutdown in standby in menus or red button on remote getting green screen. I have to reboot the receiver everytime. I installed RTEplayer and 1Channel last night i thought it was this as it work perfect before that. But I have deleted these two plugins put issue is still there. Very annoying. Any help appreciated.

Are you using multiquickbutton?

championc · 16-05-2014 09:14AM

These boxes don't have Quad Core CPU's and 4gb of RAM !!!

There are only so many plugins that you can load and so you have to balance functionality with available resources. That's why I built my image with the basic but essential parts to give you a fully functional box, suitable for 90% of users, and which will therefore pass the "wife" test !!

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Champions Image Download Link - http://goo.gl/2DuVm0

hotwhiskey · 16-05-2014 12:14PM

championc wrote: »

These boxes don't have Quad Core CPU's and 4gb of RAM !!!

There are only so many plugins that you can load and so you have to balance functionality with available resources. That's why I built my image with the basic but essential parts to give you a fully functional box, suitable for 90% of users, and which will therefore pass the "wife" test !!

_______________________________________________
Champions Image Download Link - http://goo.gl/2DuVm0

@freshpots. No not using Multiquickbutton.

Champs its your image I'm using added some extra plugins but have recently deleted all I have installed but issue still persists. Wife was not happy with loosing Sky had a few minor hicups before this but this will not go down well. So do I need to delete some more plugins or would I need a full re-install.

Just one other note I received 500g samsung harddrive today maybe when I get it formatted and linked up to Alien2 would this re-leave some of the internal memory. Noob Q.

Just noticed I have only 1.12% free memory space.

hallo dare · 16-05-2014 12:23PM

hotwhiskey wrote: »

@freshpots. No not using Multiquickbutton.

Champs its your image I'm using added some extra plugins but have recently deleted all I have installed but issue still persists. Wife was not happy with loosing Sky had a few minor hicups before this but this will not go down well. So do I need to delete some more plugins or would I need a full re-install.

Just one other note I received 500g samsung harddrive today maybe when I get it formatted and linked up to Alien2 would this re-leave some of the internal memory. Noob Q.

It wull help definitely as your epg would be saving to your internal memory if you had no external hdd, killing the box. Quickest option is to reflash and once you're happy, make a backup and you'll have all for again should anything go wrong.

Zardoz · 16-05-2014 12:43PM

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Anybody got any ideas why receiver will not shutdown in standby in menus or red button on remote getting green screen. I have to reboot the receiver everytime. I installed RTEplayer and 1Channel last night i thought it was this as it work perfect before that. But I have deleted these two plugins put issue is still there. Very annoying. Any help appreciated.

Have you automatic timeshift on ,that can cause this issue.
Uninstall it if and see if that improves things.

RTE Player wont work properly on Ar-P ,the audio is garbled.

hotwhiskey · 16-05-2014 01:00PM

Zardoz wrote: »

Have you automatic timeshift on ,that can cause this issue.
Uninstall it if and see if that improves things.

RTE Player wont work properly on Ar-P ,the audio is garbled.

I dont have on automatic timeshift Zardoz. But I do have a number of programmes on Zap. I will delete these and hook up the hardrive later when I get time to see will this resolve the issue. Thanks.

hotwhiskey · 16-05-2014 08:46PM

hallo dare wrote: »

It wull help definitely as your epg would be saving to your internal memory if you had no external hdd, killing the box. Quickest option is to reflash and once you're happy, make a backup and you'll have all for again should anything go wrong.

Yep I formatted and installed Samsung 500g and it worked. Memory was low that was the problem. Its turning off normally thank God, I'm out of the dog house.:D

hallo dare · 16-05-2014 09:52PM

hotwhiskey wrote: »

Yep I formatted and installed Samsung 500g and it worked. Memory was low that was the problem. Its turning off normally thank God, I'm out of the dog house.:D

Good stuff. Make your backup at some stage.

Amiko Alien 2 Triple Tuner Combobox

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