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Amiko Alien2 / SAB / GM / ST7162 ** ENIGMA ** Discussion Thread

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    #1202
    Fresh Pots
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    Mayo Yid wrote: »
    How do I create and enable a swap file on openatv, hunting through the menus but cannot find

    Menu - info panel - plugins - swap manager


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    #1203
    thunda
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭thunda


    hallo dare wrote: »
    If that's all your missing then manually scan it and add it into your bouquet of choice. You'll get the frequency on Google

    sounds good but I have no idea how to manually scan for just 1 channel


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    #1204
    Fresh Pots
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    thunda wrote: »
    sounds good but I have no idea how to manually scan for just 1 channel

    Here's how to get it, when watching TV press down, press yellow for provider, find bskyb and inside it you should find BBC Scotland, highlight the channel and press menu and select add service to bouquet. Then select the bouquet you want it in. Then to move it around in the bouquet enable move mode in the menu button while in the bouquet.


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    #1205
    Mayo Yid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 366 ✭✭Mayo Yid


    Fresh Pots wrote: »
    Menu - info panel - plugins - swap manager

    Yeah anyone who installs this openatv image should delete their old swapfile in /media/hdd and create new, it solves a lot of issues and makes it snappier.


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    #1206
    thunda
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭thunda


    About to give up on this, I get the message saying it cant hardlink for timeshift and could be that my filesystem is not formatted to ext2 or ext3. I formatted my drive in spark to ext3 but when it shows up in enigma mount manager it seems to say ext4 ?


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    #1207
    Mayo Yid
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    With openatv I keep having to flick the power switch to get the satellite tuners back working, a reboot from the menus does not bring them back. Seems to happen every few hours which is annoying for timers. Missus not happy so think I'll be restoring my Hyperion backup although other than this issue it seems to be good enough as a daily runner


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    #1208
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    Mayo Yid wrote: »
    With openatv I keep having to flick the power switch to get the satellite tuners back working, a reboot from the menus does not bring them back. Seems to happen every few hours which is annoying for timers. Missus not happy so think I'll be restoring my Hyperion backup although other than this issue it seems to be good enough as a daily runner

    Have you one or two sat feeds going to the box?


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    Mayo Yid
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    Fresh Pots wrote: »
    Have you one or two sat feeds going to the box?

    Two. Both tuners seem to die when this happens as I cannot stream either


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    #1210
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    Mayo Yid wrote: »
    Two. Both tuners seem to die when this happens as I cannot stream either

    Had that problem on vix4sh4 but hadn't seen it on openatv. Hopefully they get a fix for it soon so.


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    #1211
    cyndale
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭cyndale


    I've been using Hyperion V4 for a good while now, but unfortunately the box was beginning to slow down. I reverted back to Spark just to let the dust settle (my wife). I have to say I think that the Spark picture quality is better than Hyperion and my son thought it was better as well!

    Anybody agree?:rolleyes:


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    #1212
    hallo dare
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    cyndale wrote: »
    I've been using Hyperion V4 for a good while now, but unfortunately the box was beginning to slow down. I reverted back to Spark just to let the dust settle (my wife). I have to say I think that the Spark picture quality is better than Hyperion and my son thought it was better as well!

    Anybody agree?:rolleyes:

    It goes without saying that the picture quality is better, it's just a pity that Spark is dirt!!!

    The latest openATV has pretty good picture quality to be fair.


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    #1213
    cyndale
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭cyndale


    hallo dare wrote: »
    It goes without saying that the picture quality is better, it's just a pity that Spark is dirt!!!

    The latest openATV has pretty good picture quality to be fair.

    It's an awful shame that somebody hasn't come up with an image as consistent and reliable as Spark (which is as you say dirt, actually muck!).:(


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    #1214
    hallo dare
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    cyndale wrote: »
    It's an awful shame that somebody hasn't come up with an image as consistent and reliable as Spark (which is as you say dirt, actually muck!).:(

    Throw on openatv and have a look at it.


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    #1215
    cyndale
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭cyndale


    hallo dare wrote: »
    Throw on openatv and have a look at it.

    Where's the link for the best version?:cool:


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    #1216
    Zardoz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    cyndale wrote: »
    I have to say I think that the Spark picture quality is better than Hyperion and my son thought it was better as well!

    Anybody agree?:rolleyes:

    Initially I thought that too but its actually not the case.

    The picture is just as good in E2 as Spark if you tweak the picture settings on your tv.
    After alot of tinkering I increased the gamma settings on my set,boosted the contrast ,lowered the brightness slightly and did a few other adjustments and the picture is now superb (on a high end plasma)

    The Hyperion 4 picture settings out of the box are poor ,they are too dark and look soft but when adjusted the picture is sweet.


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    #1217
    cyndale
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭cyndale


    Zardoz wrote: »
    Initially I thought that too but its actually not the case.

    The picture is just as good in E2 as Spark if you tweak the picture settings on your tv.
    After alot of tinkering I increased the gamma settings on my set,boosted the contrast ,lowered the brightness slightly and did a few other adjustments and the picture is now superb (on a high end plasma)

    The Hyperion 4 picture settings out of the box are poor ,they are too dark and look soft but when adjusted the picture is sweet.

    I using Full HD Panasonic Plasma as well, I was really pleased with the Hyperion V4 picture quality (after a lot of tweaking), it was only when I went to Spark (temporarily) that I felt it was better.


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    #1218
    Nowso
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    cyndale wrote: »
    I've been using Hyperion V4 for a good while now, but unfortunately the box was beginning to slow down. I reverted back to Spark just to let the dust settle (my wife). I have to say I think that the Spark picture quality is better than Hyperion and my son thought it was better as well!

    Anybody agree?:rolleyes:

    agree i use the recordings for my youtube so spark is perfect

    spark can be made a bit better once your use to it cant remember when i booted to enigma last might do it one day when im bored


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    #1219
    hallo dare
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    Nowso wrote: »
    agree i use the recordings for my youtube so spark is perfect

    spark can be made a bit better once your use to it cant remember when i booted to enigma last might do it one day when im bored

    Vice versa


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    #1220
    Zardoz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    cyndale wrote: »
    I using Full HD Panasonic Plasma as well, I was really pleased with the Hyperion V4 picture quality (after a lot of tweaking), it was only when I went to Spark (temporarily) that I felt it was better.

    In what ways did you think the picture was better exactly ?
    Better on sd or hd or both ?
    Sharper picture ,less noise ?


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    #1221
    FlexMcMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭FlexMcMurphy


    I've been using PKT 2 for the last year and I finally installed PKT 4 this weekend. When I went in to Spark to make a backup I was surprised at how much better the picture was. I've a mid-range 40" Sony HD LCD. The picture is way clearer in Spark and the colours are richer and brighter. I've never tried to tweak the picture though so I suppose I'll give that a go and see does it improve things under PKT 4.

    Flex


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    #1222
    zefer
    Registered Users Posts: 884 ✭✭✭zefer


    Does the box slow right down for anyone else using fresh pots open atv image when on terrestrial channels? Changing channel, going into menus etc.
    Flies along otherwise!


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    #1223
    Mayo Yid
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    zefer wrote: »
    Does the box slow right down for anyone else using fresh pots open atv image when on terrestrial channels? Changing channel, going into menus etc.
    Flies along otherwise!

    Yes but in fairness it does that on all images


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    #1224
    givecredit
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    zefer wrote: »
    Does the box slow right down for anyone else using fresh pots open atv image when on terrestrial channels? Changing channel, going into menus etc.
    Flies along otherwise!

    Installing the default ATV skin improves this vastly. (i am assuming the backup image does not have default skin installed)


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    #1225
    zefer
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    Mayo Yid wrote: »
    Yes but in fairness it does that on all images

    Not to the extent I'm talking about. My hyp4 image didn't slow the box in any noticeable way when on terrestrial channels. I'll try change the skin and see how it is


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    #1226
    Mayo Yid
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    zefer wrote: »
    Not to the extent I'm talking about. My hyp4 image didn't slow the box in any noticeable way when on terrestrial channels. I'll try change the skin and see how it is

    In using the mymetrix skin, not the horrible sky one, doesn't seem as laggy


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    #1227
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    I've seen this problem on openatv images and openarp ones too. It doesn't seem to be down to ram usage. It seems to be a signal/interference/power issue of some sort. Reason being is I had two boxes both flashed with the same image. In one room the box works perfectly and in the other room it will slow down on saorview. If I swap the boxes over the working one slows down and the slow one will be working fine in the other room. Gave up trying to figure out the problem though.


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    #1228
    gazzer
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    Does anybody get this particular issue (using Hyperion 4). I record a programme (can be a $ channel or a free channel) and maybe halfway through the recording the picture freezes and the only way I can continue watching is to hit pause, then play, then the number 3 on the remote (to fast forward by 15 seconds.

    While it is not very annoying for me it is starting to p**s my partner off. It happened 3 times last night during an hour long program I recorded from BBC2. I use a 1TB Samsung Hard Drive.


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    #1229
    Zardoz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    gazzer wrote: »
    Does anybody get this particular issue (using Hyperion 4). I record a programme (can be a $ channel or a free channel) and maybe halfway through the recording the picture freezes and the only way I can continue watching is to hit pause, then play, then the number 3 on the remote (to fast forward by 15 seconds.

    While it is not very annoying for me it is starting to p**s my partner off. It happened 3 times last night during an hour long program I recorded from BBC2. I use a 1TB Samsung Hard Drive.

    Yes ,I have that long standing issue on my receiver,I mentioned it on the old thread yonks ago.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87506872&postcount=3526
    I have tried 3 different hard drives ,both mains powered and usb powered and the issue is present on all .
    I also had the problem on HDMU ,Ar-P and Hyperion.

    It doesnt happen as much since I disabled the hard drive going into standby but it still occurs and is my main gripe with the receiver.
    I tried numerous changes but couldnt resolve the issue ,I think it was least noticeable in HDMU when I had no swap file but that image had other recording bugs.

    I guess you could program the 3 button to go forward 1 second ,that may help for the time being.
    Some people say the Samsung M3 drive works well but seeing that you are using a Samsung drive that may not be the case.


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    alanhiggyno1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭alanhiggyno1


    sorry guys but where is the best site to buy this box off


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    #1231
    Zardoz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    alanhiggyno1 wrote: »
    sorry guys but where is the best site to buy this box off

    This seems to be the cheapest place ,149 euro delivered
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171136350524?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
    Its the Sab Triple ,but its the same hardware as the Alien 2 and the Golden Media Triplex.


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