vu+ duo

Thanks for all the help and advice folks.I ended up starting from scratch,seemed like the easiest option.All back working again.

any idea how much a second hand duo would sell for?

I have mine 3 years now and thinking of getting the Duo 2.

greasepalm wrote: »

second hand box prices think have fallen alot,depends if original or clone you have and what internal hdd fitted?

its an original with 500Gb HDD.

Deleted User wrote: »

My beloved duo has the red light of death!

Does anyone know where I can send it for repair? Woudnt feel confident enough to do the job myself. Thanks

I don't know where to send it to, but have you tried leaving it plugged-out overnight, then trying again in the morning? In truth, 10 minutes might do it, but the overnight test is best.

If it's still banjaxed, remember, basically it's just a LINUX PC, so an an affable local PC repair person might figure it out. .. do some forum scouring first to see if you can find a likely cause.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My beloved duo has the red light of death!

Does anyone know where I can send it for repair? Woudnt feel confident enough to do the job myself. Thanks

Happened my one, I left it unplugged for around 6 or 7 hrs, plugged it back in and all fine again.

yabadabado wrote: »

Happens to mine an odd time and unplugging for 10-15 minutes sorts it out.

That will only work in the short term and not recommended. can't remember exactly why but you are at risk of burning out a harder to replace part.

Not too hard a job. did my own and had never soldered before

regulator,like this:eek:


Repair kit for the Vu+Duo red light issue.

The kits consists of 1x Capacitor and 1x Regulator.

If you have a redlight on the duo it is normally caused by the Capacitor (C807) drying up but it can also blow the regulator (U801)

We can't guarantee 100% that the red light on your VU DUO is caused by this issue, however on most forum discussions this is identified as the cause of red light.

The capacitor value is 220uf same as the original that you will need to replace.

The rugulator U801 is AOZ1021AI (SOP-8 Z1021AI)

In some cases you have to replace all 3 regulators and capacitors!


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-PCS-AOZ1021AI-SOP-8-Z1021AI-AOZ1021-Vu-Duo-Red-light-Fix-Vu-VuDuo-/221695363637?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_146&hash=item339e12ca35

Dose anyone have an issue switching between satellite channels and saorview channels i.e the box freezes and i have to manually reboot it. There is no problem switching from saorview to a satelite channel.

byte wrote: »

Hasn't happened to me, that I recall. Mind you, I don't watch Saorview too often.

What DTT stick are you using? I'm using the Nova, if it makes any difference.

Thanks for the reply, I'm using : hauppauge wintv, I've had it since 2011 and have only experienced this issue in the last 3/4 months, I regularly upgrade the openvix image, it on the latest at thr moment.

greasepalm wrote: »

ahh you upgrade the image but would question if the usb stick might/may need an updated driver?got fan switched on ,swapfile,cacheflush enabled?

Cheers grease palm, if just created a swap file and downloaded the cache flush plugin and it seems to be fine I have switched back and forth between sat and saor a good few times now with no freeze, nice one it was doing my head in the last few months not to mention the grief im getting from the wife ( I'm just getting sky bla bla bla)

greasepalm wrote: »

box is old and not staying the pace with new bigger images,i myself may upgrade to a quicker newer box that can take everything thrown at it lol.

and is your fan on or off

Ya I guess its due an upgrade alright, can't afford it at the moment thought what box are you thinking of getting? Vuduo2?

Does anyone know why changing channels sometimes causes the HDD to spin up? I'm using Openvix, with no picons and EPG stored in flash memory. I've also tried moving the EPG to a separate USB stick but it makes no difference.

STB. wrote: »

Do you have permanent timeshift enabled ? Sounds like it.

I don't think so. Under Setup-System-Timeshift Settings-Automatically start timeshift after = Disabled.

greasepalm wrote: »

you need to format a usb to fat 32 on pc then setup on box initialisation and mount usb then get epg to go to usb,that stops hdd starting up for epg.

you will end up having to reflash with new image and no settings restore when you bugger up the flash with corrupted epg data,hence using usb is better.

Thanks but I've tried that already and it doesn't stop this behaviour. For clarification, the HDD isn't constantly spinning up, but if I'm watching a movie on one channel for 1-2 hours, then press UP to move to new channel, the Vix logo appears as the HDD spins up.

I can prevent this if I stop the HDD going into standby, but I don't think that's great for the lifespan of the HDD.

just to let people know plenty of non working channels= tune failed as sky were moving fecs around,either a new abm scan or rescan 28.2.