Hello, m8! Allow me to try, from what 'little' I can... :) Like so:
PurE2 general flashing/setup tutorial... or
The world's first pretty comprehensive E2 tutorial and its predecessor...
My answers will be in red, between your quotes...
Display MoreHi all. I've had my H7.AC for about 3 months now. I'm moving in from ku band over here in the States.
The H7.AC is the USA version which has a single plugin dual tuner Si2169D DVB-S2 and MSB1237 ATSC tuner.
Aha, different HW - important when it comes to drivers, I guess... Not sure about it but worth testing PurE2 , if the drivers are compatible - you have 4 partitions to have fun with...
See my "how to" on that issue: H7S MultiBoot "How To" - installing multiple images in H7S's internal flash!
For my region it came loaded with OpenATV 6.1
I did not think (uneducated at the time) to backup the unit before upgrading to version 6.2.
Preloaded channels and transponders are not the same as what is provided in OpenATV 6.2
So, please perform a complete backup before you upgrade.
You guys have no ready-made US channel lists, like we have in EU? Weird, I always thought US is full of "ready made" stuff... :)
Hard drive. I have installed a 2.5" 1tb laptop drive. Yes, they only supplied 3 screws and no spacers to protect the drive pc board.
Certainly getting a small bag of washers is easy. Job done once I scoured my pc parts bin for the missing screw.
The rest is just simple drive initialization and setup in the menus. I'm running a swap file on my setup, although it's said it's really not needed.
Do not consider an SSD for your box. Platter drives are more suited for sequential reads/writes that recording and playback does.
I don't think you need more than 3 screws and I have not put anything extra in - all fine here...
Okay. Blind scan. NO. I put a post on tvrosat to address a very detailed blind scan how-to.
It will not do a hardware blindscan. Something hard to believe after using Dreamlink and Linkbox receivers.
And for me, turbo8psk is out of the question also. I've searched for a plug in tuner with the capability and drivers for the H7.
For now, the H7 is c band only for me. And that's cool.
I'm using a Titanium Satellite ASC 1 dish mover.
If you use a dish motor and setup diseqc to move it. Using the blindscan files as is then moving your last scanned to bouquets (mine are labeled by satellite)....your dish will not move if you choose a blindscan channel. Easy fix!
I use satellite.xml by Reinhardt, so if you have all the TPs in the xml file - it should be fine scanning a whole satellite position or all of them at once - I have T90 + 1 smaller dish and 12 QUAD +LNBs... H7 always found the most channels at my end...
As for all of the other things mentioned, it really has a nice picture. Mine was a bit expensive, but within my budget.
PIP? 4:2:2? Perhaps in the future. Or drop a pile more samolians and find one that does now.
Samolians? You lost me... :)
Agreed, PiP is NOT working at the moment and 4:2:2 only if you stream it back to PC...
And H7 is dirt cheap when compared to Vu+, for instance. A much weaker Vu+ model, which does much less, costs only £10 less than H7, so go figure... :)
I have lots to learn still. I'm an EE, so this is a fun piece of equipment.
EE? Eh? :)
We all have a lot to learn... unless we are developers/professionals - we know little...
I wish full blown Kodi, Kodi builds could be moved entirely to my HDD. Initial Krypton install all but exhausted internal storage.
A brief trial with IPTV watching 4K content was nice with the gigabit ethernet port.
An app-to-sd like Android application has would be a plus. You eat up internal storage and the box gets sluggish.
It is a full blown Kodi, if slightly different, for obvious reasons (Gstreamer [not ffmpeg] as the basis in E2)....
See, I have loads of stuff in my H7 and I still have 200MB free, so you lost me, again. Have a really good look (FNC plugins are specially made for PurE2 and they have their own section, so as not to overwhelm the Plugin section, hence 3 different images for it):
FYI, Kodi plugins and settings ARE on HDD, not in 'flash', hence when you reinstall Kodi everything is there, as soon as you start it for the first time... In fact, I believe across 4 different images installed in H7's 4 partitions - the same will happen... ;)
Use Dream Explorer (see Plugins image no. 1), you will not see it when you FTP into your HDD (with FileZilla Client, for instance):
Btw, one must set it up properly, with USB stick and HDD, then send EPG, picons, IPTV Buffering and cache etc. to the USB stick, only recording and timeshift to HDD (I haven't removed some of these folders from IPTV Player's initial default installation - but they are not used on HDD, I sent them afterwards to USB stick!) and all will be well. No need for SWAP.
Have a look how that is done:
Oscam works well on it. Once you find all of the right settings.
Indeed, on all encryption systems... even with the EMU... :)
Plugins are in ipk format. Not widely supported here.
The above mentioned compatible chipset receiver files for Oscam sometimes don't work so well.
No need, it's all included in PurE2. Including the settings. {But I put them here, as well, just in case (OSCam Emu config files by Mario, edited a bit by me)}
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If you consider using OpenPLI on these boxes, get ready to learn how to navigate the menus and confuse yourself with the remote buttons.
OpenPLI went to sleep when they put out firmware for these receivers. OpenATV "Just fits".
OpenPLi are... not there yet, true, in various ways...
OpenATV are better in some ways, sure...
The remote control buttons do what you want to on OpenATV. In PLI, good luck.
I addressed that in their forums. Posted a Youtube video. They argued, denied, and disagreed that if you want to hit the guide, press the guide.
If in the program guide you want to switch bouquets, you needed to leave the guide....switch to a different one, and re-enter the guide.
So life is easier on an H7 using OpenATV.
Try PurE2. You have 4 partitions to play with. But don't try installing OpenPLi in there, you'll possibly mess it all up!
Jenseneverest. Thank you for helping me get my feet wet again on C Band. It's been a fun couple of months!
Yo, Jens! :)
Enjoy! ;)
in 2 languages... It was translated into a few more, thanx to some enthusiasts...;) It was an original FW for AZbug HD models...
