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Amiko Alien2 / SAB / GM / ST7162 ** ENIGMA ** Discussion Thread

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    givecredit wrote: »
    To add Rats picons to skin just FTP usr folder in zip to usr folder in image and reboot, then go to plugins and download rats picons.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/c62abvv54aea8rm/Rats%20Picons.zip

    Yeah I know that, it's just the mymetrix skin doesn't display them right


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,931 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    Yeah I know that, it's just the mymetrix skin doesn't display them right

    It seems strange that OpenATV have such a bloated and demanding skin as MyMetrix as the default skin.
    I stopped using it on the Dm800 as it was crippling the receiver ,its a very demanding skin as its essentially more than a skin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Hi

    Tried to ftp rats picons and saorview picons to openatv image. No problem connecting and transferring files to usr/lib/enigma2/python/plugins/extensions.

    Also tried to transfer to system plugins but the files won't stay when I reboot. Is openatv image not compatible with files?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    lsjmhar wrote: »
    Hi

    Tried to ftp rats picons and saorview picons to openatv image. No problem connecting and transferring files to usr/lib/enigma2/python/plugins/extensions.

    Also tried to transfer to system plugins but the files won't stay when I reboot. Is openatv image not compatible with files?
    The picons folder needs to be in usr/share/enigma2 on open ATV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Thanks. I was putting it wrong folder


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Gave OpenATV another go today and this time it's a keeper. I'm still using the mymetrix skin for now although it makes the box a little sluggish and the small picon looks out of place. Anyone have any nice colour tweaks for it? It's great the way this skin contains so many plugins, CrossEPG, Autotimer, I've even spotted a auto bouquet maker though givecredit has autobouquets installed. Gonna back up oscam now and see if there any updates for it today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    Gonna back up oscam now and see if there any updates for it today.

    No updates today. First day off since they started.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    I've even spotted a auto bouquet maker though givecredit has autobouquets installed. Gonna back up oscam now and see if there any updates for it today.

    I find that autobouquetmaker interferes with my saorview channels. Also with the swap and supplemental options in autobouquets my preferred option is autobouquets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    givecredit wrote: »
    I find that autobouquetmaker interferes with my saorview channels. Also with the swap and supplemental options in autobouquets my preferred option is autobouquets.

    Auto bouquet maker also is missing a couple of channels. One of them being setanta Ireland. Never had a problem with AB e2 so I'll stick with that .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Anyone know how you go forward 24 hours in CrossEPG in mymetrix?


  • Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭bappelbe


    championc wrote: »

    I also never tested the scanning or Terrestrial channels on an AA2+ so I'm not sure if it's working okay on for the DVB-T2

    tried Openatv
    saorview tuning works fine on my dvb-t2 version


  • Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭bappelbe


    givecredit wrote: »
    I find that autobouquetmaker interferes with my saorview channels. Also with the swap and supplemental options in autobouquets my preferred option is autobouquets.

    Are they both in the downloads?
    I only saw autobouquets e2, it didn't work for me :-(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    I'll be restoring my backup tomorrow, failed the missis test, too slow and glitchy. This image is just too heavy for this box with the mymetrix skin. CrossEpg is still freezing, gets stuck on parsing needs a reboot to fix.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Still struggling with rats picons.

    Put the unzipped file in usr/share/enigma2 but the file is not appearing in plugins on openatv.

    I assume I have to unzip the file before transfer?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    lsjmhar wrote: »
    Still struggling with rats picons.

    Put the unzipped file in usr/share/enigma2 but the file is not appearing in plugins on openatv.

    I assume I have to unzip the file before transfer?

    What file? Rats picon updater should be an itk. You copy it to /tmp then telnet to the box, cd /tmp and then opkg install enigmapluginname.ipk

    The picons themselves go in usr/share/enigma2/picon


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    I am confused. I downloaded file from boards and unzipped file.

    I am left with usr/lib/enigma2/python/plugins/system plugins

    There are four files there

    _init_.py
    Maintainer.info
    Plugin.png
    Plugin.py

    There is no ipk file and no icons

    Do I have the wrong file?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    lsjmhar wrote: »
    I am confused. I downloaded file from boards and unzipped file.

    I am left with usr/lib/enigma2/python/plugins/system plugins

    There are four files there

    _init_.py
    Maintainer.info
    Plugin.png
    Plugin.py

    There is no ipk file and no icons

    Do I have the wrong file?

    Download this
    http://www.satelliteworldz.co.uk/?dl_name=enigma2-plugin-extensions-rats-picons_1.0_all.ipk

    Ftp it over to the tmp folder and then install it in menu go to software management and install local extension


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭championc


    I'll upload an image by tomorrow lunchtime :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Did that but no joy. Did I need to unzip file before transferring to tmp folder?

    What I looked in local extension there were no files available. I may try again tomorrow as I can see from the box the folder is correct.

    Not sure what went wrong with ftp.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    lsjmhar wrote: »
    Did that but no joy. Did I need to unzip file before transferring to tmp folder?

    What I looked in local extension there were no files available. I may try again tomorrow as I can see from the box the folder is correct.

    Not sure what went wrong with ftp.

    The ipk file is fine as it is, you could download dream explorer from the downloadable plugins section on the box and use that to navigate to and install the ipk. Otherwise I'd say wait for champs image tomorrow.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Cheers. I get the feeling it is something I did. Will try again tomorrow or work off new image. Thanks for help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭championc


    championc wrote: »
    I'll upload an image by tomorrow lunchtime :)

    OK, here you go folks

    http://goo.gl/j8y5fW

    This image is working with the following plugins:-
    AutoTimer, AutoVolumeAdjustment, AutoBoquets (AutoUpdate turned OFF), CrossEPG (0.8.1) (AutoUpdate turned OFF), CoolTVGuide v7.0.0, Various Skins (Default Sky.NEW), all Picons, Rats Picons, OSCam v9810 (with blank sample C-Line and N-Line Readers), SDA1 already mounted as HDD (will also mount NTFS drives in addition to EXT3, PermanentTimeShift (Turned Off), OpenWebIf, Samba Server, Streaming / Recording of $ Channels while watching another $ channel, OnDemand and separate RTE Player plugin and TSMedia. CrossEPG is also automatically flushed out once a week.



    I've had two instances in the morning where the box is stuck on a channel. I don't know if it's because of Timer recordings or CrossEPG auto updates (which I have disabled as default now) so any feedback gratefully received.


  • Site Banned Posts: 4,925 ✭✭✭Agueroooo


    Anyone redone their bouquet without HD channels etc and wanna share it with me......pleasssssse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭hallo dare


    Agueroooo wrote: »
    Anyone redone their bouquet without HD channels etc and wanna share it with me......pleasssssse.

    Just scan them on sd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,931 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    Agueroooo wrote: »
    Anyone redone their bouquet without HD channels etc and wanna share it with me......pleasssssse.

    You can patch autobouquets to only select the fta HD channels and the rest SD .
    File here
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rgqdxriaivl9v3e/AAAPFLhDJpNybO2wUQ6q9oUSa/Universal%20Plugins/Autobouquets%20HD%20channel%20replacement%20Lraizer%20mods.zip


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Zardoz wrote: »

    What's the point, picking SD in autobouquets lists SD but HD are listed too later in bouquets. Although we lost HD, some like BT Sport still work in HD. It's better to just make a Favourites bouquet with all RTE's, BBC's, ITV's, Ch4, E4, More4, Channel 5, and all the +1's, autobouquets will not touch it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    Zardoz wrote: »

    The version in feeds of openATV image has the patch built in. Set to custom 3.
    I believe it leaves BT HD, Film4hd in bouquets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    @ ChampionC
    Just tried your latest image. Crashes on boot, green screen says autobouquets issue. :(
    Thanks for the work though. For now I think I'll stick with Hyp4.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭championc


    @ ChampionC
    Just tried your latest image. Crashes on boot, green screen says autobouquets issue. :(
    Thanks for the work though. For now I think I'll stick with Hyp4.

    Strange one that. It does mean that it boots completely if you get a green screen so you would have the option to FTP into the box and delete the folder from /usr/lib/enigma2/python/plugins/entensions (from memory)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Technofobe


    Still on Hyper 4 AA2
    I tried rats picons and it works great lovley shiny new picons :-) used to have just pkt there

    Then tried rats boquets and it wiped all my favorites :-( Bummer it replaced RTE 1 with BBC1 upwards
    lucky I had a backup that I made in dreambox edit

    If I try autoboquets will it deffo leave my favorites alone ?

    Thanks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Technofobe wrote: »
    Still on Hyper 4 AA2
    I tried rats picons and it works great lovley shiny new picons :-) used to have just pkt there

    Then tried rats boquets and it wiped all my favorites :-( Bummer it replaced RTE 1 with BBC1 upwards
    lucky I had a backup that I made in dreambox edit

    If I try autoboquets will it deffo leave my favorites alone ?

    Thanks

    Autobouquets does not touch favourites


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Technofobe


    Autobouquets does not touch favourites
    Will give it a run now
    Cheers :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Getting Creating Hardlink to Timeshift file failed on Champions new image.

    Filesystem does not support hardlinks

    Make sure it is formatted in EXT2 or EXT4?

    What does this mean? Will it affect recording?
    !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    lsjmhar wrote: »
    Getting Creating Hardlink to Timeshift file failed on Champions new image.

    Filesystem does not support hardlinks

    Make sure it is formatted in EXT2 or EXT4?

    What does this mean? Will it affect recording?
    !

    Your usb drive is best formatted in the linux filesystem EXT3, rather than Windows FAT32 or NTFS. You can do this in windows with Easus partition manager but you will wipe the drive so will need to backup and restore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Thanks. I am using lxle Linux as I have an old laptop. I assume I can format with gparted in Linux.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭championc


    My disk is NTFS and seemed to Timeshift OK. You did have it inserted before you turned on the box - yes ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    lsjmhar wrote: »
    Thanks. I am using lxle Linux as I have an old laptop. I assume I can format with gparted in Linux.

    Yes, ext3 will even give better performance too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Not 100% sure if I did have it inserted or put it in after. I will wait til recording is finished and check.

    Everything else is fine so I will sort this out later. Thanks very much for the image. More efficient than mymetrix openatv I had installed. That image lagged a lot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 884 ✭✭✭zefer


    Was going to test out championc's new image last night but when I went to do backup of my current image, I didnt have the option to do backup.

    So I assumed I must not have installed the e2 plugins from post 2, so did this and and they installed fine. Went to do backup again and same issue, no option to backup.

    Anyone else ever have this issue?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭championc


    zefer wrote: »
    Was going to test out championc's new image last night but when I went to do backup of my current image, I didnt have the option to do backup.

    So I assumed I must not have installed the e2 plugins from post 2, so did this and and they installed fine. Went to do backup again and same issue, no option to backup.

    Anyone else ever have this issue?

    Check your Spark plugins again. You'll have two of the e2upgrade plugins now so you need to use the other one


  • Registered Users Posts: 884 ✭✭✭zefer


    championc wrote: »
    Check your Spark plugins again. You'll have two of the e2upgrade plugins now so you need to use the other one

    Ahh right, cheers C


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nowso


    zefer wrote: »
    Ahh right, cheers C

    if your loading new plugins on spark its better to delete the old copys of any your installing 1st


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    NEW E2 flashing procedure for Amiko 7162 (Alien2) (Golden Media Triplex)

    Start with this
    -download an E2 image
    -I presume you do have a decompression application installed on your laptop/PC (7-zip or so)
    -plug a USB memory stick into your PC/laptop
    -format it in FAT32, using Windows capabilities (cursor on the device > right click > format > quick format > FAT32 > OK)
    -double click on E2 image file - you should see (not always but most of the time) the content of the file - choose only the enigma2 folder and unpack it to the USB device you just formatted
    -if the compressed file does not have enigma2 folder, then create one on your USB stick and unpack the two files needed for flashing (uImage and e2jffs2.img) into it
    -unmount/eject the USB stick, take it out and go to your Alien1/2 receiver/multimedia centre

    Preparation
    -switch off your Alien1/2 using the switch at the back of A1/2 (electricity off, not just to Standby!)
    -unplug all the USB devices from A1/2
    -plug in your USB stick with E2 for A1/2 - at the BACK USB port, in Alien2 case

    Flash it!
    -press and hold the OK button on the A1/2 front panel, then switch A1/2 ON at the back, never letting go of the OK button
    -display should show you various messages, the last one being “FORC”
    -let go of OK button and press the V (arrow pointing downwards) button, just under the OK button
    -when display shows “ENIG” > press the arrow pointing to the right (the ">" button), as you face A1/2
    -you should see (briefly) "FACT" on your display, then U LD (it means "uploading"), then some numbers going fast (percentages of various parts of the image being uploaded)...
    -wait between 5-10 minutes maximum (if it lasts longer something's wrong and you should repeat the procedure, possibly using a different USB stick, plus check the files are OK)
    -when you see SUCC it means you "succeeded"

    Finito!
    -when you see A1/2 display showing "BOOT" take out the USB stick
    -if A1/2 boots into the STANDBY mode (front display showing only the red lamp) then use your remote control unit (RCU) to start E2

    Thanks to Gorski.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nowso


    thats simular to how you load the spark rescue image


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭hallo dare


    @givecredit, as mentioned before in enigma firmware thread, that's not a new way of flashing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭givecredit


    hallo dare wrote: »
    @givecredit, as mentioned before in enigma firmware thread, that's not a new way of flashing.

    It will be new to most of the users on this thread. Now that the "proper" enigma 2 builds are in place we can now do backups in the enigma image and flash without the need for spark. No need to load plugin in spark.

    The idea being that spark will eventually be removed from receiver when bootloader is cracked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭championc


    givecredit wrote: »
    It will be new to most of the users on this thread. Now that the "proper" enigma 2 builds are in place we can now do backups in the enigma image and flash without the need for spark. No need to load plugin in spark.

    The idea being that spark will eventually be removed from receiver when bootloader is cracked.

    They'll need to crack the problem of this method only seeming to work with Kingston USB sticks before becomes a viable option. A huge amount of the old thread was taken up by this problem whereas we are 13 pages into the new thread and we are free of all flashing assistance. Sorry but I won't be updating this into post #2 :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4 OTTERSTOWN99


    Being having a problem for last few weeks with internet on Alien Box using Engima. Cannot download plugins or do updates. Get error - wget: bad address
    I can see the box on Filezilla at 192.168.1.5 and internet in available on all other devices in the house. happens with all recent enigma backups posted here
    Anyone got any ideas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Anyone got any ideas

    How are you connecting the box to the net?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4 OTTERSTOWN99


    regular cat5 cable from router


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