Posts by carmine

Guessing I have done it correctly then lol ?

Morning All, Hope we are all well and keeping this sunny morning or is it afternoon now lol ?

I read up on forum about backing up my receiver ,

I looked at tutorial but some of the options on Menu etc are different on my box so this is what I did, as I have mentioned before I have Zgemma H9S running Openpli 7.3 Image.

I press Menu on Remote then Setup then I get these options listed System, Tuners & Scanning, Auto Backup, Softcam/CI Parental control, Factory Reset, Flash Image and Software Update.

so obviously i select Auto backup and these are options i get on Menu they are as follows, Backup location so i change to USB as its plugged in back, then daily automatic backup which i leave red, Automatic start time is automatically set to 0.400, Create Autoinstall which is already green, EPG cache backup left red and finally Save previous red. On same screen at the bottom options for color keys on remote red for cancel green for ok yellow for manual and blue for Options/restore.

So i pressed Manual and Back took about 2 minutes and now says Last Backup date: Today 11.54

Is that okay ?? Have I done it correctly or have I missed something out, lol Apologies and

Many Thanks

Carmine

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Best both:

USB for picons, EPG and so on...

HDD for recording and timeshift (plus Kodi, if... ;) )...

never use picons

Is it easy doing a full back up with these images, may try a different image although i only downloaded latest Image as it was stated as Openpli 7.3 Stable version

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Are you using a HDD ?? a Hard drive on that box ?

No I havent

E2 boxes are not meant to have epg on the internal flash, you should have a hard drive or at least a usb stick for epg data, and so you can timeshift and record.....

I never taken much notice of epg with older image it never crashed, and with this version nothing crashed when i say that i mean green screen and have not had that yet.

I have no intention of recording anything on it anyway as there bbc iplayer or itv hub etc lol

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Are you using a HDD ?? a Hard drive on that box ?

No I havent

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Professional needed....

you still looking for work lol ?

its fine now so must be firmware issue

getting stronger signals than I use to get so all good except for that hiccup

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God is merciful after all.... :)

well you say that,

I was changing channels and obviously changing satellites then all of a sudden lost all signal I think i was on 28.2 east so moved back to FTA sky news channel on 0.8 west and still no signal then changed to another FTA channel on 0.8 west and was getting signal but still no picture but with signal was okay and strong so tried other satellites strong signal but still no picture so just did a restart with remote and now all okay again strong signal on sats I use and getting all channels I use to.

Could this be what I though and a receiver and firmware problem ??

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God is merciful after all.... :)

:loolz::loolz::loolz::loolz:

Just wanted to say I spent 30 mins today after yesterday re assembling dish motor and mount to pole on side of wall after using compass roughly get due south.

Making sure that motor was set to zero then, downloaded Satellite Channel List from within my Openpli Image version 7.3, restarted Zgemma box and then moved to 0.8 west as I live in the South East.

Then all i did was loosen 4 bolts holding all of dish set up on pole so i could move either east or west very slightly and nothing else and also used Signal meter app on mobile so i could see and her with slightest movement until got signal for BBC World News Channel making sure i got strongest signal that I could get.

I have just tried all 4 satellite positions and channels that i use to watch I can now see. Hooray

Thank you to you all for all your help advice and patience :thumbup:

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I positioned dish motor to 0

then moved to 0.8 west got strong signal tuned in all channels on 0.8 west so tightened everthing up on dish mount motor etc went to tune in other satellite starting with 4.8 east motor doesnt turn nothing back to 0.8 west works then went into signal finder and before thatPositioner set up sent back to 0 signal comes in again for a second then disappears what the hell is going on lol ??

Forget about signal finder and scanning channels.

Install a channel list and use that until you have finished setting up the motor.

Just zap to the channels and use that to setup, again on 0.8w - 30w and 42east. Do not bother with anything else until it works on those 3 sats.

I have just double checked and triple checked motor to dish and in is slightly out going to start again

are there any turorials on this great forum i can go by step by step ??

I positioned dish motor to 0

then moved to 0.8 west got strong signal tuned in all channels on 0.8 west so tightened everthing up on dish mount motor etc went to tune in other satellite starting with 4.8 east motor doesnt turn nothing back to 0.8 west works then went into signal finder and before thatPositioner set up sent back to 0 signal comes in again for a second then disappears what the hell is going on lol ??

I have new motor assembled with original dish etc.

Pole its all on is level and spot on Latitude is correct for where i am

I used signal Finder in Openpli Image on Zgemma H9S when opened up signal finder menu its already on 16 east

so i then move to 0.8 west which it does Lock comes up in green i get signal strength and other pop up for about a second or two and then disappears

WTH lol

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Dud LNB?

No, Lnb No more than a year old, at begining of this thread i said i was still getting just the one satellite position with good signal on all channels left on 16 east.

New motor moves just cant get o.8 west so i can set up arc for rest of satellites as before use to be able to get 42 east to 30 west

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Call a professional. If you are in London I can help with a proper pro. ;)

Thanks for the offer but will give it another go tomorrow.

I have been trying to sort this out for 3 hours now just given up.

this is what i did -

Bought the new motor arrive this lunchtime, put it all together.

Took my complete dish and old motor down.

Checked that existing pole was spot on and totally level.

I mounted H Bracket to Motor and set it to my Latitude.

mounted Dish to the Arm

Mounted Dish and motor to the Pole Loosley.

Tried to Tune in a 0.8 west Channel It moves the motor that is but get signal for about a second then it disappears

**Urgent Update**

Just been up the step ladder and double checked now motor is showing no lights at all no green or red lights WTH

I know for a Fact that New satellite cable is all okay and f connectors all tight etc

What Now ?

i better go and see in the loft then lol

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Right, that rules out software. Do you have another receiver you can try? Maybe a friends?

I have an old spiderbox what do you recommend to try ?

I have Just reflashed My Zgemma HS9 with new Openpli Image 7.3

Set tuner to Usuals for Positioner entered correct Long and Lat and still only finds channels on where motor is stuck on which is 16 East

Tried Hotbired finds Nothing

trying to do a back up just in case before i do anything else but went into tutorial and menu is not the same all i can find is auto back up