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Amiko Alien2 / SAB / GM / ST7162 ENIGMA Discussion Thread

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This thread is for discussion of the ENIGMA operating system on ST7162 Based Satellite & Terrestrial Combo Receivers

The boxes covered would be the
Amiko Alien2
SAB Unix Tripple
GM Triplex

Enigma is a Linux based alternative to the default Spark operating system on these boxes. Enigma is a more customisable OS and provides the ability to add plugins which can accomplish many tasks enabling users to have a box which might look and perform like a Sky box, giving a 7 day EPG and an alternative to series link

A detailed FAQ type post with most installation instructions is below in Post 2

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cyndale

[QUOTE=Slevster;9296113
(Will take this oppurtunity to thank all who put up back ups, utilities,information and any contribution to this repository of valuable knowledge. I know these things arent just plucked from the air, but are hard gained and shouldnt be taken for granted. Thanks)[/QUOTE]

And so say all of us!:cool:

Slevster

hi folks,

the brother in law got himself a new AA2+ during the week. All fine,
went over to set it up. Took a backup image from my own. (Hyperion V4 ) Loaded fine, but the terrestrial channels wouldn't scan. Tried a few other back ups of hyperions. no joy
Brought it home, started from scratch, but could not scan any terrestrials. Just get the status bar in the corner, with no progress on the scan. left it at it for about 1 hour just to see would some thing happen.
Still no picture on the channels when i loaded channels via dreamboxedit. The BBC's and sat channels scanned fine.
The terrestrial works and scans fine in Spark.
Its as others have reported , that there seems to be something in the T2 tuner in the newer boxes and the Hyperion image that don't get on with each other.
Have just downloaded and flashed GiveCredits ATV backup (a big thanks owed!). and it has scanned the terrestrial channels.
Will have a look tomorrow to see if i can see a manufacture date on the box.

(Will take this oppurtunity to thank all who put up back ups, utilities,information and any contribution to this repository of valuable knowledge. I know these things arent just plucked from the air, but are hard gained and shouldnt be taken for granted. Thanks)

Zardoz

Fresh Pots wrote: »

It'll be Openatv 4.2. Ondemand plugin only works on that and vix4sh4 but nobody is using that!

Its actually Vix

cyndale

Fresh Pots wrote: »

It'll be Openatv 4.2. Ondemand plugin only works on that and vix4sh4 but nobody is using that!

Thanks for that!:cool:

Fresh Pots

cyndale wrote: »

What image is it?

It'll be Openatv 4.2. Ondemand plugin only works on that and vix4sh4 but nobody is using that!

cyndale

givecredit wrote: »

Here is my latest backup for anyone interested. After installation make sure you hdd or usb stick is formated in EXT3

It has all the usuals including ondemand with tv3 and rte player.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmc4vt3i8xqm6mh/back_of_e2%20%28Laptop%27s%20conflicted%20copy%202014-11-06%29.zip?dl=0

What image is it?

givecredit

Here is my latest backup for anyone interested. After installation make sure you hdd or usb stick is formated in EXT3

It has all the usuals including ondemand with tv3 and rte player.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmc4vt3i8xqm6mh/back_of_e2%20%28Laptop%27s%20conflicted%20copy%202014-11-06%29.zip?dl=0

Anchises

Last night my Alien2 triple lost picture.

After rebooting it is now stuck on 00:00 boot and goes no further.

Can't even switch back to Spark.

Any pointers on how to fix this ?

Thanks

A

EDIT: Tried it again a little while ago and it came on to 00:00 boot. I continued to hold the power buttton while it was powering up and it came back to life. Baffling .... but ok ! it's working again.

Could it be that the USB hard drive was disconected ?
A.

Nowso

Harold Finchs Machine wrote: »

A thread about who is using what image would be handy, since so many are giving bother.

i thought the Machine knows everything !! lol

Harold Finchs Machine

A thread about who is using what image would be handy, since so many are giving bother.

Harold Finchs Machine

coughlt wrote: »

File resource link
dropbox.com/sh/rgqdxriaivl9v3e/AACtiW-BDsbi0cckTxIzJEJJa

Specific Hyperion 4 Link
dropbox.com/sh/rgqdxriaivl9v3e/AACHc0q5CHWL1_VmcgM0YMaEa/Hyperion%204%20%20Backup%20Sep%202014?dl=0

You should try all the images. Hyperion might not suit you. Its fine for what I need and its stable. Found open ATV to be good but not 'house' friendly!

Is this an image from someone on here or elsewhere?

ixtlan

I post this just in the interest of helping someone else with this issue.

When I started using Enigma I had many hangs and tried multiple images (mostly hyperion4 based). The hang/freeze/crash would always happen when I was trying to forward through adds. The box was still alive and I could telnet to it and login, but I had to reboot.

Now, I've been crash free for about 6 weeks with the same image, and the issue reminds me of the joke about telling the doctor that it hurts when I do this, to which the answer is, stop doing that.

I had found the number pad 30sec/1min/5min forwards very useful, and my usual method was pause... then click number. I've now stopped that. I only use the numbers when the box is playing, never when paused. Since I started doing this I've had no crashes, so I have to conclude this was the reason, possibly with some other unknown factor related to me. Maybe other people were not doing the pause/forward.

Anyhow, there you go.

Ix.

Nyquistic

Has anybody had a problem whereby the box no longer responds to remote control? This happened after a crash in OpenATV and even booting back into Spark doesn't help -- it seems like a hardware error. I tested the remote control handset itself and it works perfectly on another box.

I wonder is there some way to completely reset the front panel controller?

coughlt

Mr E wrote: »

Have you got a link to that image? I got a box last week with enigma on it, and I find it a bit unwieldy (and I'm the kind of guy that messes around with custom roms on android and dabbles with raspberry pi!)

File resource link
dropbox.com/sh/rgqdxriaivl9v3e/AACtiW-BDsbi0cckTxIzJEJJa

Specific Hyperion 4 Link
dropbox.com/sh/rgqdxriaivl9v3e/AACHc0q5CHWL1_VmcgM0YMaEa/Hyperion%204%20%20Backup%20Sep%202014?dl=0

You should try all the images. Hyperion might not suit you. Its fine for what I need and its stable. Found open ATV to be good but not 'house' friendly!

Mr E

coughlt wrote: »

Had some issues on my first out of the box experience running the OPEN ATV image. Played around with a few images before settling on Hyperion 4. This IMO is an excellent image for the Alien2. Its wife and kids solid! Go with Hyperion 4 and you'll forget you ever owned a sly box....

Have you got a link to that image? I got a box last week with enigma on it, and I find it a bit unwieldy (and I'm the kind of guy that messes around with custom roms on android and dabbles with raspberry pi!)

zefer

zefer wrote: »

Anyone got an issue with streaming from fresh pots open atv image working? Is default port 8001? I can't see where it is I n this image
Thanks

Bump: anyone? I can stream to my phone but cannot get raspberry pi to connect.worked on hyp4

illdoit2morrow

alanhiggyno1 wrote: »

hi guys have 2 of these wonderfull boxes.how many could a household have.wifi is a steady 30mbps even with 2 boxes on and tablets laptops etc.thinking of getting 1 for another bedroom

You might be limited by the number of outputs on your LNB.

I can't comment on the wifi end of things.

alanhiggyno1

hi guys have 2 of these wonderfull boxes.how many could a household have.wifi is a steady 30mbps even with 2 boxes on and tablets laptops etc.thinking of getting 1 for another bedroom

domel

Hi Guys,
Is it possible to use 2x amiko alien boxes and 1xNAS to store all recordings (from both boxes)?

coughlt

youngblood wrote: »

Just purchased this set with enigma preloaded
Please say it'll just work from the box?

An awful lot of v technical stuff here on this thread Im finding scary since I decided to purchase one.........heres hoping I wont regret it!

Had some issues on my first out of the box experience running the OPEN ATV image. Played around with a few images before settling on Hyperion 4. This IMO is an excellent image for the Alien2. Its wife and kids solid! Go with Hyperion 4 and you'll forget you ever owned a sly box....

zefer

Anyone got an issue with streaming from fresh pots open atv image working? Is default port 8001? I can't see where it is I n this image
Thanks

FlexMcMurphy

topper1978 wrote: »

How difficult is it to set up an image from a default image? Does it take long?

I admire your initiative to learn how to set up your own image. Anyone who does this is far better able to fix their box when something goes wrong.

If you are new to the process however then there is little chance you will get an image set up from scratch with all the plugins working in one evening. Especially since there isn't a step by step guide that covers everything.

You could install the default image, get the box on your network and clear all the junk channels that may be stored in it then scan your own Sat and Saorview channels. Then load those channels into DreamBoxEdit to create your own bouquets and save it back to your box. Then you could learn how picons work and you could use Rats Bouquets and Picons to help you. Use FileZilla to browse the directory structure of your image to get a feel for what goes where.

If you get that far in one night that would be good going.

Flex

topper1978

Bit of a noob question. How difficult is it to set up an image from a default image? Does it take long? I am considering doing it.

Q1. Am I going to have to box off an evening to do?

Q2. After flashing the image, are the main steps retuning and installing epg, bouqets and other desired plugins?

Q3. Is there a lot of FTP'ing files?

Q4. Is the whole process more pain than its worth?

Any help/advise much appreciated.

Balmed Out

JORY wrote: »

I have the same issues as you describe, with two new AA2+ boxes - terrestrial tune issue 0% with most images.
However all images work perfectly on my AA box.

The only image that I found to work successfully so far as regards to terrestrial tune on the two new AA2+ boxes is Open A TV 4.2.

Does anybody know if there has been some internal hardware/ firmware changes in new AA2+ boxes that is causing the terrestrial tune issue in most Enigma 2 images?

Went back to an open atv 4.2 and got that going so wasnt me doing something wrong at least.

JORY

youngblood wrote: »

Cheers for that, great to know
Box is coming with Enigma2 preloaded-Should I ask them just to leave it at Spark???
This image and that image is what scares me!
Should I purchase wifi dongle? Cable won't reach back of box

I would recommend home plugs (twin sets), 200mbps.
Connect one plug beside your router and the other plug beside the sat box, the plugs transmits and receives Ethernet over your ac power line.

Simple install - just push a button on each plug to pair.

A TP-Link Twin set costs €30 approx., the kit comes with two home plugs and two cat5e cables.

Nowso

youngblood wrote: »

Cheers for that, great to know
Box is coming with Enigma2 preloaded-Should I ask them just to leave it at Spark???
This image and that image is what scares me!
Should I purchase wifi dongle? Cable won't reach back of box

its dual boot you can switch between the 2

wifi dongles work fine with a strong signal or buy a longer ethernet cable

youngblood

Cheers for that, great to know
Box is coming with Enigma2 preloaded-Should I ask them just to leave it at Spark???
This image and that image is what scares me!
Should I purchase wifi dongle? Cable won't reach back of box

cyndale

youngblood wrote: »

Just purchased this set with enigma preloaded
Please say it'll just work from the box?

An awful lot of v technical stuff here on this thread Im finding scary since I decided to purchase one.........heres hoping I wont regret it!

Look, if you just use the box in Spark and nothing else it is a great box and worth every penny. A lot of posts complaining about enigma2 not working with this image and that image is giving the Amiko a bad name. I use enigma2 and it works fine for me and if you just want to watch tv Spark is great too. Picture quality is excellent and you have three tuners so you watch satellite and record satellite and you record terrestrial and watch satellite! I love the box.:cool:

youngblood

Just purchased this set with enigma preloaded
Please say it'll just work from the box?

An awful lot of v technical stuff here on this thread Im finding scary since I decided to purchase one.........heres hoping I wont regret it!

Fresh Pots

alanhiggyno1 wrote: »

seeems to be a new update hyperion 4 image on pkteam website as its up and running again.many new bug fixes

Not for the aa2/sab/gmt boxes though as far as i can see.