Posts by pheonix

HbbTV is a interactive system but to use it you must be on a channel that is broadcasting HbbTV content ( you can see this when the HbbTV icon illuminates in the OSD ), Personally I dont the browser as in my opinion it is wasted on a STB and it would be a very painful thing indeed to try and surf the web via a STB with a remote control, it certainly was last time i tried it many moons ago.

p.s in order to comply with the forum rules you must make a introduction thread in the introduction section.

I dont have a Duo2 on which to test but i cant see how it would make a difference, I have it working on the following.

Vu+ Uno
Vu+ Ultimo
Vu+ Duo
Vu+ Duo LE
Vu+ Solo2
TM-TWIN-OE
TM-2T-OE

will also test it on my other box too when i have time but that one has yet to have a image officially released so cant name it. we would need to know more from other users of the Duo2 along with debug logs and softcam logs for these times in order to see whats going on, but yours is the first i have heard of this issue.

Quote from Mee®kat

..vix is a clone of open pli i think? pheonix who knows me from old will confirm..?

It's as much a clone of Pli as BH is of the VU+ OI. Yes ViX 2.0 was loosely based on Pli in the same Way that Pli based their own work on DMM's original OI but the difference between the two is now more than ever. ViX 4.xx which is in early alpha now is even further from that. Basically we maintain our own OE, The OE-Alliance OE and merge parts from Pli and others as needed, and because it's all open source any one else is free to do the same in return.

Quote from Mee®kat

has the green screens stopped on vix as thats all i seen when i used it:(

MK

Depends on the plugins you use, My main receiver for family use ( a Ultimo ) is always running the latest build and very rarely if ever crashes, but then again it has only two external plugins installed one being Oscam the other being OnDemand.. The other Eight boxes are used for testing so get a bit more of a hammering.

Quote from thatfellow

I thought you might not have encountered this one before pheonix as you have "6 box's running flawlessly for over a year"
But I on the other hand have no agenda and no need or desire to pretend that all is always well 24/7 with ViX..
I am simply looking for a solution for this ViX bug or at the very least find out which ViX update introduced it..

Did all that steve & cleared all timers, timeshift disabled (as always), still happening..
Might just re-flash latest image...

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I have no agenda but if you want fixes you first have to report the issues, rather than magically expect them to appear.

yes i run several receivers on ViX which are updated online every time a update is available and rarely encounter issues, i have never seen this recordings in process error except in cases where a recording was actually in progress while going down for a reboot, i'm not saying it does not happen but i have not seen it. as for box nation no problem what so ever here.

Quote from bobbyduke

Hello, never tried a vu+duo before, can anyone tell me if theres any known bad bugs in them? also can i playback a recording while the program is still recording smoothly? and do all timers works ok?

Thanks guys Bob.

The only major issue with the Duo is the memory leak associated with the newer kernel 3.1.1 images. It's totally hit and miss as to whether or not yours will be affected, but if it is you must use plugins such as cacheflush and others to regurally flush the ram, otherwise the box is almost unusable.

Also worth pointing out that neither of my two duo's are affected but I know plenty that are.

Yes you can watch recordings while still recording just fine and timers work perfectly for me too.

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well if you dont bother to report those so called software issues, no one will know to fix them. none the less I have not encountered this issue my self so cant confirm it but then again i very rarely turn my box off.

slight correction to the above.

Update Box Image & plugins

Using Open PacKaGe Management
Update Image
opkg update updates the image feeds located in /etc/opkg/ ( off the top of my head may be a slightly different path ) if you run this command it will not update any thing on the image but allow the image to know updates are there.

Update Plugins

opkg upgrade is the command that updates the image and or plugins as identified by the above opkg update command. when using these commands i recommend you first place enigma into a sleeping state so that any changes that are made have less risk of becoming corrupted as they may when being updated while there in a live / running state.

Here are some other commands that i use regularly with ViX although most if not all are universal to all images, along with a brief description of what the commands do as i understand them ( so some may be wrong or not 100 percent accurate ) but all these commands work as i use them my self.

init codes.

init 1 closes all running files.
init 3 wake enigma from a sleeping state / GUI restart.
init 4 Kill enigma / places enigma into sleep mode allowing you to edit or modify files that otherwise would corrupt or become damages if edited while live.
init 6 Full reboot.

you can also use the following commands.

shutdown -r now = basically the same as the above init 6 command
shutdown -h now = Full shutdown.

lsusb = lists all attached USB devices

df -h = checks memory and storage stats.

nmap -sp 192.168.1.0/24 = allows you to map your local network ( change the address as needed to map your own network )

cat /proc/meminfo = memory info

opkg update && opkg list-upgradable = allows you to check what is available to update on the image.

opkg download = allows you to download plugins directly from the images own feeds in a installable .ipk format to the /home/root/ directory of your receiver for safe keeping etc. a couple of examples as follows.

opkg download enigma2-plugin-extensions-backupsuite
opkg download enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-autobouquetsmaker

opkg install = allows you to install plugins directly from the image feeds., a few examples below.

opkg install enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-autobouquetsmaker
opkg install enigma2-plugin-extensions-backupsuite
opkg install enigma2-plugin-extensions-ondemand

Quote from stevejo

As long as what you see is what you get is in force the lx3 looks good

Only time will tell if they get the drivers rite, if they do this receiver will do well in the market place.

Quote from stevejo

Im bitterly disappointed with the duo2 ram and flash issue it really is false advertising future use just doesnt cut it with me as it will never come to fruition as with the ultimo expectations

We were always told that the Ultimo had half of it's available flash put aside for future use, for what exactly were still waiting and now with rumours that the box has been discontinued, that really winds me up.

Quote from stevejo

the lcd on the duo 2 is a gimmick

well i said that from day one, both here and else where and in most instances got slated for that opinion, along with my opinion that the "LCD" if you can even call it that should have been handled by the drivers and not a thirdparty plugin which uses 10 percent of the CPU just to run it.

Quote from stevejo

The solo 2 is still a winner and value for money ,the duo 2 is just a false promise with an lcd

I'n my opinion the solo2 is the best value for money Vu+ receiver on the market and if it was not for the need of more than two DVB-S2 tuners my solo2 would have replaced my Ultimo as the main family receiver a long time ago. For me the Duo2 is priced a little too high in comparison to the solo2 but there are very few Triple / Quad tuner boxes ont he market, maybe look towards the Gigablue quad ?.4

From what I have been told there another OEM of the Venton HD brand albeit with different drivers.

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Quote from niall_b73

could the constant reflashing have done it harm

Doubtful I have flashed my boxes several thousand times ( no exaggeration ) and no harm has come ro them.

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Quote from carlcardiff

Can anybody help clear up the terminology for a newbie? I was sold a ***box f5 in the pub once and paid a sub for 6 months. Never saw the guy again and the box went up in smoke (almost literaly!)
I came here looking for help on the best new box to plug in the USB and upload my code to get *** channels. Can anybody let me know if I'm also scum for this?

I would not say your scum but it is becuase of people like you who support pay servers, knowingly or otherwise who ruined the cable TV scene and have now made long inroads to doing the same with B***B. If we dont put some money back into the coffers of B***B instead of expecting every thing for free we will loose it. Just look at ITV digital for that.

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yes like all other Vu+ receivers the solo2 supports USB tuners.

if memory serves the DM method is theirs and they hold the writes over the software that does it, i could be wrong though.

sadly in the twins case it's hardware related. at one point simply pressing the front power button would kill all power to the box like a physical on / off button, it took us a very long time to convince them this was a fault and needed correcting which they did with a VFD chip upgrade. you can now use standby and deep standby which was not fully possible on the first models but it still has its limitations, same as the very first duo revisions that could not wake for recordings.

Quote from RobTi

Hi looking for a couple of answers on a solo2 box.

Does it do pip
can it wake from deep sleep and perform an action (epg update\ recording)

Thanks

Robert

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yes to pip and yes to wake for a recording but not to wake for EPG update ( no box can do this ).

now for the shameless image plug.
ViX has a very advanced and totally original power timers function that allows you to set custom times for the box going in and out of deep standby among other things. you could use this feature to wake the box at a pre-set time say ten minutes before your EPG is scheduled to update, then go back to deep standby say 5 minutes after.

Quote from drfox

duo2 got two 512 flash=1000 but one of this is disabled probably will be available for future developing:47_002:

Same is true of the ultimo but nothing ever panned out for that.

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There are no issues with the solo2 and the new drivers as far as i know, are you sure it's the solo2 and not a cloned solo v2 ? as the latest drivers by Vu+ have anti clone counter measures.

As with all enigma based receivers the only way you'r ever going to see the full ram and flash values is to make a "serial" bootlog.