Posts by musogeek

The SE model has 2 USB ports, and the standard model only has 1

Looking at the specs, the SE model has a Broadcom processor running at 333 Mhz, where the standard is quoted as being 400

The main difference to note however, is that the SE model has the option of adding a hybrid dvb-t/dvb-c tuner module (which are about 35 euro), however, if you went for the cheaper standard model, you could always add a USB tuner (some are reported to be working fine), but with only one USB you would have to look at getting a USB hub, or you can do as I have and set up a network share for pvr functionalily.

If you are looking for an alternative, then the Vu+ Solo will be close to your upper price range, you will probably pick one up for around 220 euro. This has much more support than the Gigablue, but hopefully the support for the Gigablue will get better given time.

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The Gigablue 800 sounds good,thanks for the info. Hopefully you can help with a couple of questions

1. Does the box accept standard Enigma 2 channel lists like Catseyes. VHannibal etc?
2. Can you install Cool TV EPG or at least something similar to the VIX EPG?
3. Is it easy to flash images through the USB?
4. Can it play movies through USB and via another receive like VU+ Duo?

Yes is the answer to all your questions!

I just bought a Gigablue HD 800 Solo and the potential is amazing for the price - look around and you could get it for about £150 including delivery - I don't think there is any UK stock, but there are UK companies that drop ship from European suppliers. Best get it direct though and you will get it at the price you want, and it takes less than a week to get it from Europe. It can run the Open AAF image, and the guys are working very hard to get this right, as well as other images. Worth a look. I am definitely sticking with mine and once I have had a bit more of a play you will hear more about it here...

I have tried 10.4, 10.10 and the latest 11 version. My old laptop is, well, old (old acer aspire 3612). I found that the latest version is real slow, which i tried first, with and without the new GUI. Dropped down to 10.10 and it worked a treat. You will find that it is best to run older versions on older systems. If you are just using it as a server, and you access it remotely, then once it is up and running there won't be much difference in server performance, put the pain is when you need to access the PC via the GUI.

But if you have a fairly new system then whatever you like really!

With each update there should be an overall improvement, otherwise there would be no point in further development... Best thing I would say is to try the latest versions and if it breaks something that you rely on, then revert back to the last one, report the problem and wait for the next update! I always update to the latest, and find usually that something new appears and most else is as it was before.

This could be the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it....

To try to answer your second question, sounds like you need to enable root access - see this link

http://linuxsat-support.com/li…ur-new-ubuntu-server.html

With root access you should have no issues editing files in Ubuntu.

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ECM times differ, for example, of the 3 cards I have tried I get 70ms on one and 520ms on the slowest one. Some cards like UK sly request more often than other cards, so do require things to be stable and reletively fast. You will find that the response times you are getting should be ok, what is more important is the stability and that every request is being served. The response times you are getting from your daughter are the local ECM times plus Ping so for 10 Kms away you should really be getting about 200-250ms assuming the cards have local times of 170 - 200 ms, but it also depends on server loads and network conditions. If there is no glitching or freezing then there is no need to worry!!

Not sure what you have been reading but from what I know about this receiver and a quick google in case I have missed something, I can't see where you got this information. You can certainly put clines on this box so will run as a client, but will not be able to share cards. I would love to be wrong!

No chance - Blade is client only.

America will rule the planet, let's face it, one day we will all be obese on a burger diet and driving oversized cars living in a false state enforced capitalist 'democratic' world!

so just to clarify, you have both cards being read in OSCam in your VU+ and you send them to CCCam server via newcamd?

Could be an old peer who has still got your details on their client, a duplicate user if you have it set to drop duplicate users, or if you tie your user accounts to a particular address and they are trying to log on from another. Best thing is to set up failban and keep your eye on it, if you get it often and if it gets worse then change your port, good peers will understand!

The world police strike again.. Team America - f**k yea!!!! - so the cat and mouse game goes on......

not without a bit more info - all we know by what you said is that one of your cards, the one running in OSCam has a high ECM time. Perhaps if you let us know more about how you have things set up, and maybe give us a hint of a clue about the card and maybe show us the reader entry for the said card in oscam.server, then I am sure someone will be able to help:still_dreaming:

Yes that shoud be plenty enough you'd think. Problem with recording over NAS as opposed to recording to a USB or internal HDD is that the latter would often be decicated, where over the network you might be using the network or shared drive for other things while it is recording. You woudn't notice this while you are viewing your full HD iso's because when you are watching something you would be less likely to be doing anything else! I have found that the recording over LAN is more of a gimmick and I only tried it to see if it works, and it sort of does. You could always go back to recording to a drive attached to your receiver, and mabe set this up as a SAMBA share, this works fine for me:scarf:

It seems that writing to the disk is the problem rather than reading as you said yourself it streams fine over the network from the NAS. Have you tested your write speed to make sure that it is writing fast enough to the NAS to be able to record? You would think so, but I found that when I was recording to NAS (can't do it now 'cause the latest Qbox update seems to have broken CIFS access!) it seemed to be struggling and found that my write speeds to the network drive were low.

I think this is called digging up an old grave. In this length of time, the corpse would have turned to dust!:feel_good:

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once im up and running i will get a sub card. cheers

Getting the sub card is part of the getting up and running, you might find yourself making a slow start without one.