Zgemma H7s Guide

OK so managed to get to thr house this afternoon. Zgemma has openvix on it, and I've gone through the autobouqets manager setup and scan. It pulled all the channels down, but naturally the channel list is heavily populate with all the regional bbc's and so forth. I can switch between the Saorview bouquet, the BSkyB bouquet, and the Freesat bouquet,and obviously the All bouquet too. Just not sure how to dilute the channel list down to a manageable level now....

I switched to the favourites section, and then all the normal bouquets were there...all nicely sorted etc, so twas my mistake. Setup seemed to have been relatively painless really, obv the box was flashed with openvix etc and had plugins already installed so that took all the work out of it.

Will the EPG stay refreshed and updated automatically? Some of the EPG seemed to disappear after a reboot, and I had to force a refresh...

Make sure epg is stored in hdd or usb and not internal flash

Hi there. I sorted my channels into a "favourites" bouquet. This bouquet was already set up by the vendor but unpopulated. I used e-channelizer to do this. Seemed to be fine. Now some channels not showing epg info even though they do in the other bouquets like "all channels". Any idea what causes this? Thanks in advance.

The box was set up when I bought it. I will check the settings. I've managed to rectify for some channels. When I'm in e-channelizer there is a master list of channels. There seem to be some duplicates so by using the other "copy" this has solved it. For a few channels there is no alternative copy of that channel e.g. great movies +1

No and no I'm afraid. (virgin +1 is only on satellite, and isn't fta)

You can't use the red button as such but you can access the red button as a separate TV channel in SD only

10773 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK

Is there a site where you can get all the tuning codes? And does the box need to be connected to the internet via a LAN cable to recieve them?

The red button function uses proprietary software not available on non-freesat/sky branded boxes. The complete list of free channels is here https://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear

During the summer the BBC adds some temporary extra red button channels for Wimbledon. I'm not sure if they have the rights for the full Olympics on satellite so they add web streams instead. (open to correction on that)

https://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/59939987

There will be more than 300 hours of live coverage on BBC One and BBC Two, plus a second live stream on BBC iPlayer, Red Button and online.

Hi guys, Managed to resolve problem with missing EPG info. Not sure how I fixed it! Was playing around with settings and then noticed they were there later with 7 day epg.

Noticed a couple of things with the box.

1. The timeshift is great in one sense in that you can get many programmes back. I often have kids channels on for little one and can jump back through a full day's programmes as far as I can tell. On Foxsat it was only a couple of hours I think.
2. A question - is there a way to jump back to timeshift from watching a recording. I think I could do this on Foxsat. In other words you jump back to the channel and it's still recording in background while you watch the other recording.
3. Another thing - I seem to have limited timeshift on saorview channels. Sometimes it refuses to pause. Other times it only timeshifts after pressing pause. On the UK Freesat channels it works great. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

on openvix?

press down then menu

should be there

So having lurked here and read all the posts I decided to buy the Zgemma H7S. Got it the other day and with OpenVix installed and all ready to go. I swapped the two LNB inputs and the Saorview input from my old box. I just had to change the Saorview mast it was set to look at and away I went. So thanks to all who have contributed to this discussion, it has been really helpful.

Now for my first newbie question. When I was setting up boquets yesterday for my favourites I added RTE 1 HD and RTE 2 HD. Today neither of these was receiving anything. RTE1 and RTE 2 (not HD) work fine. And I can't find the RTE HD channels in any bouquets on the system. Not sure if I deleted something by mistake or how I can get these back. I've done a couple of scans but no joy. Help appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Gerry. On a similar note, when I had sour view straight into telly I'm pretty sure I had tg4 in HD. Now it seems to be standard definition. Could that be right? Thanks

Here's a little niggle I have: On OpenVix I have set RTE1 as the startup channel. Works grand, but it's RTE1 from the complete service list. Is it possible to have it choose my Favourites bouquet as its default startup list? - so that when I press Channel Up I get RTE2 from my Favourites?

Strange - I thought I had tried this already. When looked at from my favourite list it already was set as startup - so I deselected it and reselected it there and it now works. - Thanks!