Posts by musogeek

  • Setting up XBMC Frodo 12.xx as an Enigma2 Frontend with EPG

    I have tried this on Windows, Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu. It seems most stable on XMBC Ubuntu installs


    first you need to install XBMC on your device (12.xx frodo needed as has Live TV and works stable)


    Code
    http://xbmc.org/download/


    I won't go on about installing XBMC - it is usually straightforward, and any issues can be resolved best by the various xbmc forums and wiki


    Once it is installed, and connected to the network (this can be verified in the settings that you are connected) you can use it as a frontend for your Enigma2 Receiver so to stream to a PC or another connected TV


    First you need to go to 'Settings' and choose 'Live TV'



    Once this is selected, then you will be presented with this



    You need to select 'Enabled' - and then you are presented with this



    Select OK so you can then select the Vu+ plugin



    Once selected you need to configure



    For basics configuration and speed of getting it working, just enter the IP address of your receiver



    If you have a single tuner receiver then you need to allow zapping



    And once you have done that, then you can enable it



    Once it is enabled, there will be a progress bar in the top right of the screen, as it grabs the channel data and EPG from the receiver. You need to wait for this to complete - and initially can take a while. The 'Live TV' option will be available, and once it has grabbed the Channels and EPG, you can get an EPG, switch channels, view recordings, set recordings, and it also supports Teletext and DVB subtitles.


    The biggest drawback with this method, is that you cannot pause live TV - but if you want to use XBMC to stream from your E2 receiver, there are a couple of other ways to do this as well that will support pause (but not EPG) I will touch on that later!

  • HD Channels distorted or juddering

    Just a thought here - I had an SH4 receiver a couple of years back (Qbox HD Mini), and had issues with juddering channels, which was improved by setting up a swap. I think there was some issue such as a memory leak. and having a swap seemed to improve the situation. Just a stab in the dark, but if you haven't alread done so, may be worth a try. Again not familiar with the image or receiver, but there is often a way to do this in the setup menus.

  • how to delete fileson hard drive?

    I take it you have had this initialised on a different receiver. Could be a number of things - file format, could be mounting in read only, you might not have permissions to delete on that drive. I once had an issue like this where the group/owner was set differently to wha it needed to be for me to be able to do anything. My simple solution was to copy the contents to my PC, format and initialise the drive in Enigma2, then paste back the contents. This will work, unless there is a physical issue with your drive. There will be other ways to sort this out I would imagine with putty/console commands etc, but if you only have 10 movies then my suggestion won't take forever

  • Instant rewind

    Quote from Bardinho

    Thanks for the clafications.
    I'm asking because I have a box from a telecommunication company that contain this feature even if it works only for few channels. I was thinking about doing the same thing so it doesn't seize a lot of space in th HDD. Thus, I don't know if this could possible by connecting to certain server or somehow else...


    the permanent time shift plugin will be the nearest thing you would come across for what you are after. I don't use it myself but it is configurable to a point, but you simply can't just rewind a random channel to an earlier point, this would require hundreds of channels to be recorded at the same time.

  • S## uk au update

    Quote from cookie1983

    i am using my server pal but for some reason it doesn't au on any unless this 1 receiver of my friends is turn on ?


    Post your configs as thatfellow requested - hard to see otherwise - au should be on if you are telling it to be on.

  • getting rid of voiceover

    It is an E2 image so as mostly the case - press menu, setup, system, A/V settings/audio settings/auto language selection - or whatever is like one of these settings on your image - you need to set prefer AC3 track to yes - and if it asks for "prefer audio track stored by service" (if you are in auto language selection) - set this to "no" or it will revert back to what you last had it at.

  • Instant rewind

    Firstly can you nip over to Introductions and introduce yourself per forum rules?


    Now - just consider the practicality of what you are wanting. Consider the amount of channels, and think about how much HDD space it would take, and not to mention resources (processing) needed to record every single channel while you are watching another, and also that you would need multiple tuners and feeds.


    There are features to rewind the channel you are watching, record one channel while watching another, but consider how difficult it would be to get what you are wanting.

  • satellite BG to close 1st June 2013

    They must be broke, they couldn't even afford to pay for someone to flick the off switch! :wank: It is still clearing, although the card has no entitlements, and there are no updates being sent, so it is just a matter of time.

  • problem with ubuntu server

    The way around this is to use Oscam as a server. It is a learning curve, and needs to be calmed down with a lot of messing, but if you get it right, you can ignore reshare values for the account you set up for your local receiver. NEVER do this for remote share, because this would be considered stealing.