I got my Alien2 back, after a few years, heh... Here are the results...
http://www.pur-e2.club/OU/imag…ex.php?dir=6.5test/fulan/
amikoalien-PurE2-6.5-20200219_usb.zip
Patience is the word one can not overstate with these old beauties... They have their own... rhythm... ;)
Procedure:
Get the image for Alien2 and unpack it onto a USB stick formatted in FAT32.
Switch OFF Alien2 at the back switch.
Then, USB stick is pushed at the back port of Alien2.
We PRESS AND HOLD the OK button on the A2 front panel, when we switch ON the receiver at the back switch.
When you see FORC on LED let go of the OK button and press the > (right) button next to OK button.
The installation starts and last some 5 minutes...
Booting might last a bit, too, kinda stuck on 34 or 39 (starting home network?), then 49 (it's starting PurE2 at that point)... PATIENCE!
Go make yourself a drink or summat... :rasta2bigsmoke0gf1:
When I finally figured out that it is not going past the 49% I figured out that the HDMI cable was not agreeable with my Alien2, so I changed it and then I could start playing...
One starts configuring PurE2 at that point... language, HDMI, network etc. Past the wizard and then the real fun starts after a reboot...
I have not killed off the Spark OS/partition. But I only use Enigma2 with PurE2 v. 6.5.
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First, I have added a 32GB USB stick partitioned in 2: HDD partition of 30GB and 2GB for USB partition, for Flash Expander.
Then, I installed Flash Expander and Swap Manager 2 (this one creates a permanent Swap, as opposed to the built-in Swap Manager) from PurE2 feeds (MENU > Plugins > Extensions and System Apps, respectively). Then, I put them to good use...
Done like this: How to expand ROM and RAM in PurE2
And this: Mounting devices/partitions in PurE2's Device Manager and which files to send where!
I created 512 MB SWAP file on partition 1, because Flash Expander went to USB partition 2.
My results in words...
PURE2-TEAM 2020
http://pur-e2.club
~ Kernel 2.6.32.71_stm24_0217 (18:47:04). Have a N.I.C.E. day on amikoalien ~
pure2 6.5 amikoalien
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (C.UTF-8): No such file or directory
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_TIME: cannot change locale (en_GB.UTF-8): No such file or directory
root@amikoalien:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 119.0M 70.4M 48.6M 59% /
devtmpfs 69.0M 4.0K 69.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs 64.0K 0 64.0K 0% /media
tmpfs 69.1M 18.5M 50.6M 27% /var/volatile
/dev/sda1 25.3G 528.0M 23.4G 2% /media/hdd
/dev/sda2 1.7G 158.2M 1.5G 9% /usr
Display More
root@amikoalien:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 141500 116016 12200 764 13284 8220
Swap: 559648 58616 501032
...and in (poor quality) images (had to do it with my phone as WebIF is a bit much for an old Alien2...) ;)
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ahmed gazye FFmpeg and Python 2.7 are present and with it Exteplayer3 - they work well when playback is needed!
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Yify and Streamlord could not be installed, for various reasons... Maybe it will be fixed, we'll see...
Sooo....
Sat TV is fine!
ahmed gazye Manual scan works fine!
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IPTV via Ciefp's channel list works fine when Exteplayer3 is chosen in ServiceApp.
OLM-FNC (and similar plugins) is working fine...
Playback from NAS on home network is great!
Image quality is fabulous!
Oldie but goldie... :)
I say "alleged" because we see the same kind of irrationality in men every day, in every direction, wherever we look, all the time...
:hello:rasta2bigsmoke0gf1:
:eye-tongue::tongue1::chuckle::saint:)
