Edision Optimuss OS 3 Plus

glic83

Try changing to advanced and runner b equal to A

glic83

glic83 wrote: »

Try changing to advanced and runner b equal to A

Nearly sure I've B = A but I'll try the advanced settings later.

NegativeOne

Don't want to jinx it but I think hdfreaks image is a keeper.Not perfect but working a lot better than openAtv.

Irreverent

Does anyone know how to add a NAS for playing back movies etc on the box? Also is the default media player up to the job or do I need to download something better? Cheers.

This is getting really weird.

On the good dish the channels that were missing work and the channels that worked are gone ???

This is driving me insane, I've never come across anything like this before and I've literally installed hundreds of dishes in my day !!!

The channels that work give a signal of 89% and 60% on the ones that don't work.

On the dish that doesn't work I was getting 0% on the channels that were missing ?? going mental !!!

THE ALM

Deleted User wrote: »

This is getting really weird.

On the good dish the channels that were missing work and the channels that worked are gone ???

This is driving me insane, I've never come across anything like this before and I've literally installed hundreds of dishes in my day !!!

The channels that work give a signal of 89% and 60% on the ones that don't work.

On the dish that doesn't work I was getting 0% on the channels that were missing ?? going mental !!!

Did a rescan last night as a few channels had changed frequency. I have tuner A equal to tuner B and tuner B set to simple single 28.2e. Did an automatic scan with network scan no, clear before yes, tuner A yes and tuner C no. Scanned and picked up 950+ channels.

THE ALM

Irreverent wrote: »

Does anyone know how to add a NAS for playing back movies etc on the box? Also is the default media player up to the job or do I need to download something better? Cheers.

If you go into setup, system, network, mounts setup, network browser and hit rescan - does you nas appear in a list then? I know when I added the wd tv live this was all that was required and I can play the various files in the media player.

Cheers will try a full scan later.

THE ALM

NegativeOne wrote: »

Don't want to jinx it but I think hdfreaks image is a keeper.Not perfect but working a lot better than openAtv.

Have openatv running well for now, may give hd freaks a go again if it starts acting up. It would appear that the various images are becoming more stable for the os3+

THE ALM

THE ALM wrote: »

If you go into setup, system, network, mounts setup, network browser and hit rescan - does you nas appear in a list then? I know when I added the wd tv live this was all that was required and I can play the various files in the media player.

Still the same.

Let me explain this again.

The channels that work on one dish don't work on the quad LNB ( I've tried a few LNB's)

The channels that don't work on the quad show 0 signal and the channels that don't work on the other dish show 66% signal but no pic.

Only thing I can think about is that the cables are damaged somewhere but I can't figure out how it could be 3 cables or why different channels work with different dishes , this would mean the cables are fine.

MY god this is frustrating to say the least !

This all happened when I adjusted the other dish with the single LNB to 28.2 which I had actually intended to align to 19 E for my partners German channels.

It couldn't be possible that there is interference between the two ?

Gerry Wicklow

Channels showing a good signal but no pic could be the wrong satellite. Basic meters, and signal indicators in boxes cant tell which satellite they are seeing. 19 and 28 have common frequencies. You could be trying to watch 28 but the box is seeing 19 and reporting a good signal or vice versa.

Gerry Wicklow

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

Channels showing a good signal but no pic could be the wrong satellite. Basic meters, and signal indicators in boxes cant tell which satellite they are seeing. 19 and 28 have common frequencies. You could be trying to watch 28 but the box is seeing 19 and reporting a good signal or vice versa.

Both dishes were aligned by a loan of a meter from a friend who bought it off of tv trade. Cost I think about 400 quid.

While I was sure I aligned the single lnb dish to 19 E I obviously didn't because both dishes pick up channels the other won't from 28 E. And my other sat box scans 28 E for channels and 0 on 19 so it has to be on 28 E

Irreverent

THE ALM wrote: »

If you go into setup, system, network, mounts setup, network browser and hit rescan - does you nas appear in a list then? I know when I added the wd tv live this was all that was required and I can play the various files in the media player.

Cheers, that worked for the Nas mount. Thanks.

Prisoner6409

Will the Edision OS3 box behave much like a Sky+ box as in Pause/Rewind, recording programs and series link.

NegativeOne

Prisoner6409 wrote: »

Will the Edision OS3 box behave much like a Sky+ box as in Pause/Rewind, recording programs and series link.

Pause and rewind act the same. Series link is a little different. You just need to find the programme you want to series link in the EPG and set up an autotimer. Its basically the same thing, just slightly less user friendly but by no means hard to do once you've set up one.

NegativeOne

Anyone else having problems with recordings stopping half way through episodes? Using hdfreaks image.

glic83

Prisoner6409 wrote: »

Will the Edision OS3 box behave much like a Sky+ box as in Pause/Rewind, recording programs and series link.

with a hard drive installed, and 2 feeds from a dish then yes it will be similar to a sky box, just a word of caution you need to be somewhat savvy with linux boxes to get the best out of this receiver, also have a good read of this thread, this box still has a few flaws, you make sure you know what you are getting into.

Palmyra

glic83 wrote: »

with a hard drive installed, and 2 feeds from a dish then yes it will be similar to a sky box, just a word of caution you need to be somewhat savvy with linux boxes to get the best out of this receiver, also have a good read of this thread, this box still has a few flaws, you make sure you know what you are getting into.

When you record a program it records from the point at which you press record, not from the point at which you started watching.
When you are watching live TV you can pause it but you cannot go back unless you are in catch up mode already so the best way to watch is to record what you want to watch and then watch the recording that way you can fast forward or reverse as you wish.
Personally I prefer the Sky design but it does not warrant the monthly bill!

Prisoner6409

glic83 wrote: »

with a hard drive installed, and 2 feeds from a dish then yes it will be similar to a sky box, just a word of caution you need to be somewhat savvy with linux boxes to get the best out of this receiver, also have a good read of this thread, this box still has a few flaws, you make sure you know what you are getting into.

Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of getting this box as it appeared to have all I needed and I like the idea of it being customisable even if there is a learning curve. I was also hoping to get a box that had an RF outlet from the box to another TV and there is one on the Optimuss OS 3. I was also considering the VU+ Solo2(no RF out) but really I have only picked these boxes as they seemed to have what I wanted, are easily purchased and are very popular and feature full. I would be appericative of any other suggestions but as this is the Optimuss OS 3 thread, maybe not the appropriate thread for one versus the other discussion.

THE ALM

NegativeOne wrote: »

Anyone else having problems with recordings stopping half way through episodes? Using hdfreaks image.

Never had a problem with any recordings although using the openatv image. Do you mean it stops recording through a single program or have you set it up to record a number of episodes and it stop recording them all?

THE ALM

Prisoner6409 wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of getting this box as it appeared to have all I needed and I like the idea of it being customisable even if there is a learning curve. I was also hoping to get a box that had an RF outlet from the box to another TV and there is one on the Optimuss OS 3. I was also considering the VU+ Solo2(no RF out) but really I have only picked these boxes as they seemed to have what I wanted, are easily purchased and are very popular and feature full. I would be appericative of any other suggestions but as this is the Optimuss OS 3 thread, maybe not the appropriate thread for one versus the other discussion.

It is a good box and well supported. I am sure reading through this that you have seen that it is not without problems, none of them are by the looks of things.

It does appear however that the images are becoming more stable and problems are not as common with each update seeming to sort out the niggles. I think once they are set up and left alone then they are fairly reliable. (touches wood)

There are loads of plugins, skins, settings that can be downloaded and I think this is were the issues start to appear as at some point one of these will cause a problem. I tend to leave updates now for a couple of weeks and then I will do a factory reset and then flash the latest image onto the box. At the start I was nearly applying updates nightly and was having more problems as a result.

There are loads of boxes out there and a lot will have similar specs so which ever you decide to go with make sure that it is well supported and the images for it are regularly update.

NegativeOne

THE ALM wrote: »

Never had a problem with any recordings although using the openatv image. Do you mean it stops recording through a single program or have you set it up to record a number of episodes and it stop recording them all?

Yeah I had lots of problems with openAtv so I moved to hd freaks which seems to be a lot smoother apart from this one issue. I have a few autotimers set up. Out of 10 or so recordings 3 recordings gave up before the end of the shows. One said duration of recording was nearly half an hour but on pressing play it would only play for a couple of seconds and then kick me back out to the recordings screen. Another recording lasted about 18 mins of 40 before stopping. Very odd. Happens with dvb-t and dvb-s so not a tuner specific issue.

THE ALM

NegativeOne wrote: »

Yeah I had lots of problems with openAtv so I moved to hd freaks which seems to be a lot smoother apart from this one issue. I have a few autotimers set up. Out of 10 or so recordings 3 recordings gave up before the end of the shows. One said duration of recording was nearly half an hour but on pressing play it would only play for a couple of seconds and then kick me back out to the recordings screen. Another recording lasted about 18 mins of 40 before stopping. Very odd. Happens with dvb-t and dvb-s so not a tuner specific issue.

Had this once with one show not recording and the reason for it was that I did an epg search for the program and set the record from here and it turned out that it was a channel version that I could not pick up e.g. there are several channel 4's and not all of them can be viewed. I take it the recordings are not overlapping causing one to stop?

Are you using hdfreaks v5? might give it a go.

.G.

Had a problem last night so had to reflash my box. All set up now but the hard drive is giving issues. It shows up in the list in the storage device menu and I can access it via FTP but when I try to choose it as a download location for crossepg it's not showing up in the list. I tried to initialise it and got this error



Anyone know what that means?

NegativeOne

Yeah using hdf v5, not overlapping no, I can't see any reason for it other than the hard drive failing maybe. All the fails were on free channels that I do have so don't think that's it either. If you do try hdf v5 let me know how you get on. I haven't seen anyone else with this problem so it could just be my hard drive or something.

This problem aside it seems like a very good image. Similar to openAtv but not as sluggish and haven't had any random green screens yet either. Was having them all the time on openatv

THE ALM

superg wrote: »

Had a problem last night so had to reflash my box. All set up now but the hard drive is giving issues. It shows up in the list in the storage device menu and I can access it via FTP but when I try to choose it as a download location for crossepg it's not showing up in the list. I tried to initialise it and got this error



Anyone know what that means?

Got this error as well after reflashing although it was for the usb. Tried a couple of different ones without success. Ended up putting in the orginal, turning the box off and on again and it appeared back in the list working as normal

.G.

I was still getting it so I formatted the drive to ext4 on my pc, put it back in and all ok now. Must be a problem with that image I flashed, the latest OpenATV 5. I'd have left it as NTFS but it won't let me set up time shift unless its in ext format.

Irreverent

superg wrote: »

I was still getting it so I formatted the drive to ext4 on my pc, put it back in and all ok now. Must be a problem with that image I flashed, the latest OpenATV 5. I'd have left it as NTFS but it won't let me set up time shift unless its in ext format.

I got this message too when installing the latest Openatv from their website. I re-flashed with the latest download from Freetv.ie and that solved the problem. Definitely a problem with that latest 5.0 image. Otherwise box is running great from that stable freetv image.

NegativeOne

Anyone tried hdf 5.1 image yet? Might try it tonight and see how I get on.

Also does anyone know is there a way to label the harddive RECORD as some images require without taking the hard drive out and formatting with the likes of paragon?

Zardoz

NegativeOne wrote: »

Anyone tried hdf 5.1 image yet? Might try it tonight and see how I get on.

Also does anyone know is there a way to label the harddive RECORD as some images require without taking the hard drive out and formatting with the likes of paragon?

I used this command on the Alien 2 with HDMU so it should work on the Edision

tune2fs -L RECORD /dev/sdxy

where sdxy is the partition you wish to rename (usually sda1).
Use the command

fdisk -l to find that out.

It wont ovewrite your data on the drive

joe_99

Only recently set this box up. Working well. The menu system is quite complicated so i am trying to figure out how to stop a notification regarding cacheflush popping every few hours. Anyone have any idea?

Really happy with it though. Very smooth and responsive. EPG and record function seems to be working well. Still on OpenATV 4.2. Any benefit to upgrading to 5.0?

alias no.9

joe_99 wrote: »

Only recently set this box up. Working well. The menu system is quite complicated so i am trying to figure out how to stop a notification regarding cacheflush popping every few hours. Anyone have any idea?

Really happy with it though. Very smooth and responsive. EPG and record function seems to be working well. Still on OpenATV 4.2. Any benefit to upgrading to 5.0?

>Menu
>Plugins
>Cache Flush
>Settings (yellow or blue button, can't remember)

There's an option in there to have messaging on or off, however I've removed Cache Flush completely and have been more stable without it. The system manages its cache quite nicely without any user scheduling.

Hackery

alias no.9 wrote: »

I've removed Cache Flush completely and have been more stable without it. The system manages its cache quite nicely without any user scheduling.

Interesting...might try that

joe_99

alias no.9 wrote: »

>Menu
>Plugins
>Cache Flush
>Settings (yellow or blue button, can't remember)

There's an option in there to have messaging on or off, however I've removed Cache Flush completely and have been more stable without it. The system manages its cache quite nicely without any user scheduling.

Excellent....thanks very much

doney84

Hi,

Have just cancelled Sky and looking at buying either this box or the Technomate nano 3T.

Which would be the better box ?

Also, I think the Sky box has a 500gig hard drive so if I took it out would it be possible to format it in one of these boxes?

Thanks,
doney84

codar

[QUOTE
Also, I think the Sky box has a 500gig hard drive so if I took it out would it be possible to format it in one of these boxes?

Thanks,
doney84[/QUOTE]
As far as i know, a sky hd box (amstrad drx890) uses a 3.5" hdd, both the optimuss and the technomate only have the option of installing an internal 2.5" drive so your only option to use the drive from a sky box would be to externally mount it within a 3.5" enclosure (open to correction of course)
A vu+ duo2 has the option of mounting an internal 3.5" or "2.5" hdd but your gonna pay serious bucks for one of these.
Only other ones that comes to mind for a 3.5" is a vu+uno and a duo (there are probably more though)

dubrov

doney84 wrote: »

Hi,

Have just cancelled Sky and looking at buying either this box or the Technomate nano 3T.

Which would be the better box ?

Also, I think the Sky box has a 500gig hard drive so if I took it out would it be possible to format it in one of these boxes?

Thanks,
doney84

Have a look at the Gigablue Quad HD Plus box as well.
I have it setup for my parents and it seems to be running well. It is still early days though. It has an Android App that allows streaming of live TV and recorded shows from your box as well.

I think the key is to have a receiver that is actively supported with OpenVix.
It is specifically tailored to UK/Irish markets so is less likely to have bugs for the things you need.

The specs are very good but it does cost a bit more than the Edision (~€100).

.G.

NegativeOne wrote: »

Anyone tried hdf 5.1 image yet? Might try it tonight and see how I get on.

Also does anyone know is there a way to label the harddive RECORD as some images require without taking the hard drive out and formatting with the likes of paragon?

Loaded HDF 5.1 this morning. No problems so far.

THE ALM

superg wrote: »

Loaded HDF 5.1 this morning. No problems so far.

Will be interested on how it goes so will be keeping an eye. Openatv has been running ok for me of late so don't want to change just yet although I have the hdf downloaded just in case.

Does the hdf bring anything extra to the party?

.G.

Not that I've noticed. Froze up on me last night just like the OpenATV images do every so often. Bit more involved with the setup too but have it all working as I want now. Just have to see what stability is like.

TM

Just ordered the Optimiuss OS3+ from FreeTV.ie.
I know it comes preinstalled with Enigma2 but I'm not sure which image this is (or is based on) yet.
What is the latest consensus on what is the best/most stable image and set of plugins to use right now?
I read the thread from start to finish but am still not clear...
Thanks a lot.

THE ALM

TM wrote: »

Just ordered the Optimiuss OS3+ from FreeTV.ie.
I know it comes preinstalled with Enigma2 but I'm not sure which image this is (or is based on) yet.
What is the latest consensus on what is the best/most stable image and set of plugins to use right now?
I read the thread from start to finish but am still not clear...
Thanks a lot.

Will be the openatv image. Think they are still using version 4.2 as far as I know. I'm running version 5.0 without too many problems.

TM

Thanks a lot.
I assumed that they were still using 4.2 but will check when I get it.
Are you using the 5.0 image from here?

http://images.mynonpublic.com/openatv/5.0/index.php

Is there a generally recommended/"mandatory" set of plugins?
I see that the FreeTV.ie image includes the following by default:

To Load This Open ATV 4.2 Back upon your Edision Optimuss OS3+ onto your box,

Unzip the update folder and put it onto the root of your USB Stick

Insert the stick into your box
Power the box on
After 3-5 seconds a screen will come up saying new firmware found and to press the channel - button to load it , ( I use the Program - button on the front of the box)

It may take 2-3 monutes to upload then your box will boot up with the new firmware on board

Whats on this image ?

Autoboquestmaker with a UK and Ireland Channel List
Cron Job
Cache Flsuh
My Metrixlite
Cool TV Guide
Cross EPG ( Make sure this is loading to a USB stick or internal Hard Drive)
EMC V3.7.4
Media Player
Media Scanner
OpenWebif
Picture Player

FTP/TeleNet
User root
Password blank ( type nothing )


Lots more plugins available in plugins and downloads , always make sure to do a back up before adding plugins and to do a software update at least once a week

THE ALM

TM wrote: »

Thanks a lot.
I assumed that they were still using 4.2 but will check when I get it.
Are you using the 5.0 image from here?

http://images.mynonpublic.com/openatv/5.0/index.php

Is there a generally recommended/"mandatory" set of plugins?
I see that the FreeTV.ie image includes the following by default:

Yip, that is the one. From the list of plugins I removed the cooltv guide which seemed to cause me problems.

TM

Sorry if this is a dumb question but did you then have to install something else to replace Cooltv?

NegativeOne

TM wrote: »

Sorry if this is a dumb question but did you then have to install something else to replace Cooltv?

The built in graphical multi epg works just as well.

TM

Ah - OK thanks.

NegativeOne

TM wrote: »

Ah - OK thanks.

Yeah I set it up on the epg button by going to

Menu
Setup
Devices
Remote Control
Hotkey Setup

Then assign Graphical Multi EPG to the Epg/guide button.

.G.

Is there any way to change button assignments in the built in epg? I want to change how you change bouquet, how you change day and how you page up and down through the channels in each bouquet. Also seem to have a problem with Saorview epg not populating in the built in epg.

NegativeOne

superg wrote: »

Is there any way to change button assignments in the built in epg? I want to change how you change bouquet, how you change day and how you page up and down through the channels in each bouquet. Also seem to have a problem with Saorview epg not populating in the built in epg.

No problems here with saorview in the epg. Is the programme info coming up in the channel list for saorview?

I assume you know each time you reboot you need to tune to each saorview mux for a second to pull in the epg for them.

Doesn't seem to be any way to change buttons in the epg guide.