Zgemma H7s Guide

Irishder wrote: »

Just on another thread but will a Sky Q LNB work with the Zgemma H7?

No, you'll have to switch.

thanks had a look outside and its this LNB that i have:

https://tvavwarehouse.co.uk/product/sky-q-lnbs/

I presume ill need to replace that, any suggestions?

if you look on ebay sky hybrid and go with the one with 6 outputs you are future proofed.

yes but not future proof, its the old style quad output hence the price

Irishder wrote: »

Another Newbie question, do i need to source a Sky card from somewhere to view certain channels

nope!

Webif is your best bet. Get the web addresse of the box, something like,
192.168.8.148
Put that into your browser, assuming your box is connected to your internet, and you can make any list you want.

Hedgecutter wrote: »

I was trying that earlier dreamset but couldn't get it to work. ill try webif.

Its hard to find where the satellite channel are gone. is there a setting to enable both terrestrial and satellite.

I stuck on last scan

go into Bouquet Editor on webif and you can sort your channels there

Hedgecutter wrote: »

Can't get the device to connect to editor, could the box be blocking me. can i hard wire with USB cable

have you ethernet cable going into the box?

A lot of the setting up is automatic but I am not sure where you started!! Did box come with pure e2 pre installed? Usually on set up you can configure ABM, epg, set tuners, set soarview, then with AUTO BOUGETS you just run it and you will have a nice list. I dont know pure e2. Any reason why you opted for pure?? And that box has 4 partitions so you can have 4 images.. Openvix is a very good one to start with.

swoofer wrote: »

A lot of the setting up is automatic but I am not sure where you started!! Did box come with pure e2 pre installed? Usually on set up you can configure ABM, epg, set tuners, set soarview, then with AUTO BOUGETS you just run it and you will have a nice list. I dont know pure e2. Any reason why you opted for pure?? And that box has 4 partitions so you can have 4 images.. Openvix is a very good one to start with.

Ya box was pre set up, i asked on here which firmware to select, im new to this stuff so struggling to find to issue.

You think its a setting issue, i could screenshot a particular set of setting if it would help.

swoofer wrote: »

Yes when its comes pre-loaded the assumption is the person is up to scratch but PURE E2 is a nice image but not used by many. I think its supposed to look a bit like Kodi. Are you able to tell if your box has only one image on it? Flexmuphy on here has the zgemma with multiboot and went back to openvix.

Post a few screenshots and it may jog memory. Did you do much when you got it? ie what did you tinker with? When you set ABM you actually choose a region and either HD or sd etc and you ignore sky, once you do it you will see the logic. You dont have to scan sats yourself.

Thanks, got sorted. Figured it out in the end.

While i was going through the setting i found open VPN. Worth while installing, is there a cost on it?

swoofer wrote: »

You should say what you did as others may have same problem. viz, did you find autobouquets etc. For VPN just select it and see.

I doubled checked the internet connection on my router, the box was not showing up there. The internet was disabled, so in enabled it. It was enabled earlier because it updated.

Still took a while to connect to E channelizer, but once i connected it worked fine. edited and sorted all my channels.

No i didn't use autobouquets, what would that have done. Is it easy to add the icons for channels or is there any point, too much trouble.

Openvpn is enabled but stopped, and when i start it it just stops again.

No i didn't use autobouquets, what would that have done.

Its kind of important.
You set it for both your preferred freesat zone ( northern ireland , london , whatever ) and your saorview area and tell it what time to update and then it automatically scans and gathers channels into groups or "bouquets" such as entertainment , news , movies , music etc.

It scans daily at a time you set , usually 3am or something like that ,a time where the box is likely to be in standby , this means that any new channels that appear , or any old ones that either change frequency or close , are automatically updated and added to or removed from the bouquets.

Without autobouquetmaker , channels are going to start disappearing on you or begin to stop working.

It also creates a favourites folder for you to put your favourites into which is always unaltered by future scans.

You are also going to need an EPG updater such as crossepg or epgrefresh , again , this is set to run at the time when the box is in standby , typcially an hour or so after ABM is set to run , and it automatically grabs fresh 7 day EPG data for the guide.
Both of these updaters rely on ABM having done its thing first , indeed EPG refresh , the new default updater for openvix , relies on autobouquetmaker having already created the favorites bouquet and you having populated it with all the channels you are interested in.

Without this , in about 7 days most of your channels will just have now and next information in the EPG.

andy1249 wrote: »

Its kind of important.
You set it for both your preferred freesat zone ( northern ireland , london , whatever ) and your saorview area and tell it what time to update and then it automatically scans and gathers channels into groups or "bouquets" such as entertainment , news , movies , music etc.

It scans daily at a time you set , usually 3am or something like that ,a time where the box is likely to be in standby , this means that any new channels that appear , or any old ones that either change frequency or close , are automatically updated and added to or removed from the bouquets.

Without autobouquetmaker , channels are going to start disappearing on you or begin to stop working.

It also creates a favourites folder for you to put your favourites into which is always unaltered by future scans.

You are also going to need an EPG updater such as crossepg or epgrefresh , again , this is set to run at the time when the box is in standby , typcially an hour or so after ABM is set to run , and it automatically grabs fresh 7 day EPG data for the guide.
Both of these updaters rely on ABM having done its thing first , indeed EPG refresh , the new default updater for openvix , relies on autobouquetmaker having already created the favorites bouquet and you having populated it with all the channels you are interested in.

Without this , in about 7 days most of your channels will just have now and next information in the EPG.

Thanks Andy,do i set these two programs up on the box itself?

Do you know anything about openvpn, its already on the box, enabled to autostart but stopped, i cant start it. Do i need to change setting some where?

swoofer wrote: »

You have me intrigued why you picked that Pure image. I'm going to have a play now and see how it behaves. Do you actually want a VPN?

I was advised here to select pure2 when buying the zgemma, i don't know one from the other if i'm honest. Not sure if im allowed tell you here why i want a VPN, just that i was advised to get one ;D