WETEK Play/OPENELEC user discussion, tips n' tricks

RossieMan

It's really not that hard to set up if you take your time. Oscam was the only thing I struggled with. But found great help when setting it up, I'd happily help anyone struggling to set it up.

jakdublin

stanley1 wrote: »

Running various sat boxes and media players a good few years now but I have to say the Wetek box done my head in, settled on a Technomate combo for Sat/Saorview and Amazon fire TV for Kodi, peace of mind at last.

I was thinking that would be the route I'd go down next. Very happy with the Amazon for Kodi and really all I wanted the Wetek for was the Sat/Saorview. I was hoping to have everything running on the one box but I reckon I'm asking a bit much. Have a USB tuner in the post for the Saorview so that'll be a bit of fun setting that up.

GY A1

If u want it for satellite then go enigma2 image.
Backups there that are ready to go

jakdublin wrote: »

I was thinking that would be the route I'd go down next. Very happy with the Amazon for Kodi and really all I wanted the Wetek for was the Sat/Saorview. I was hoping to have everything running on the one box but I reckon I'm asking a bit much. Have a USB tuner in the post for the Saorview so that'll be a bit of fun setting that up.

Interesting101

Hey Guys,

So ive got the box running video add-ons ect but struggling to get it to scan for live tc channels.
Ive installed and enabled tvheadend and setup the pvr tvheadend client.

However when i go to search for channels i get on live tv tab i get a message "none of the connected pvr backends supports scanning for channels"

After a bit of searching it looks like im struggling with the backend/ pc setup part.....When i open web browser and enter my ip address there is suppose to be a tv adapters tab but i dont have that.

Any ideas where im going wrong ?

GY A1

There's a great tutorial posted showing all instructions only a few posts back

Interesting101 wrote: »

Hey Guys,

So ive got the box running video add-ons ect but struggling to get it to scan for live tc channels.
Ive installed and enabled tvheadend and setup the pvr tvheadend client.

However when i go to search for channels i get on live tv tab i get a message "none of the connected pvr backends supports scanning for channels"

After a bit of searching it looks like im struggling with the backend/ pc setup part.....When i open web browser and enter my ip address there is suppose to be a tv adapters tab but i dont have that.

Any ideas where im going wrong ?

eamonnq

RossieMan wrote: »

It's really not that hard to set up if you take your time. Oscam was the only thing I struggled with. But found great help when setting it up, I'd happily help anyone struggling to set it up.

It is only pigheadedness that has me still trying to get it going, am going backwards with it at this stage!! :mad:

alanhiggyno1

alanhiggyno1 wrote: »

Just got my box from the group buy and the remote is very very sluggish.tried both remotes but still the same and they are very fast on my other box.anybody know why

anyone a fix for this

BionicRasher

GY A1 wrote: »

If u want it for satellite then go enigma2 image.
Backups there that are ready to go

Can you be so kind as to point to some links that have a backup for Enigma2 that I could put on SD card and just 'plug and play' (within reason!!)

RossieMan

There's an image on one of the threads here. 1.2gb zipped but you need a 16gb card minimum to run it.

GY A1

http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=104955&p=333369#post333369

Trevord

BionicRasher wrote: »

Can you be so kind as to point to some links that have a backup for Enigma2 that I could put on SD card and just 'plug and play' (within reason!!)

Proceed with caution. I was delighted to get PBnigma up and running on mSD with a freesat bouquet in just half an hour, but I could not boot back into Android afterwards.

Ended up having to use the recovery interface to get things back to normal.

PBnigma seemed to work very well with the box BTW.

Etnies

Enigma image couldnt be any easier to setup for FTA, it has a walk through setup.. not sure why you'd need a backup. If you think the backup will help with OSCAM it wont you'll still have to config it.

yllw.ldbttr

Just got my box and following the tvheadend instructions.
No tuners listed for me when I visit the wen interface. Anyone got any suggestions.
Google returns results of possible faulty hardware... Which would not be my first guess.

Etnies

yllw.ldbttr wrote: »

Just got my box and following the tvheadend instructions.
No tuners listed for me when I visit the wen interface. Anyone got any suggestions.
Google returns results of possible faulty hardware... Which would not be my first guess.

Keep rebooting its buggy

Interesting101

Yet more silly question from me....Trying to get tvheadend working and not going well....I presume i use 28.2E for scanning channels?
I was only seeing 1 tv adapter showing in tvheadend earlier so i pop out the tuner and saw a wonky looking pin..Straightened that back up and popped it back in and now cannot get any tv adapter to show in tvheadend.
Do you need to have the cables connected to the tuner for it to be listed in tvheadend or would it be picked up over wireless connection? Getting fed up changing the cables in and out of sky box to try get this setup.

GY A1

Yes u will have to have satellite cable connected to scan and view sat channels

Interesting101 wrote: »

Yet more silly question from me....Trying to get tvheadend working and not going well....I presume i use 28.2E for scanning channels?
I was only seeing 1 tv adapter showing in tvheadend earlier so i pop out the tuner and saw a wonky looking pin..Straightened that back up and popped it back in and now cannot get any tv adapter to show in tvheadend.
Do you need to have the cables connected to the tuner for it to be listed in tvheadend or would it be picked up over wireless connection? Getting fed up changing the cables in and out of sky box to try get this setup.

eamonnq

Interesting101 wrote: »

Yet more silly question from me....Trying to get tvheadend working and not going well....I presume i use 28.2E for scanning channels?
I was only seeing 1 tv adapter showing in tvheadend earlier so i pop out the tuner and saw a wonky looking pin..Straightened that back up and popped it back in and now cannot get any tv adapter to show in tvheadend.
Do you need to have the cables connected to the tuner for it to be listed in tvheadend or would it be picked up over wireless connection? Getting fed up changing the cables in and out of sky box to try get this setup.

I was only getting 1 adaptor showing up the first time I tried it, had to reboot a few times while setting things up anyway and 2 showed up.

Have 2 showing now, but not getting ANY channels (whereas I had been a few days ago!!), am going backwards with it!!

Interesting101

GY A1 wrote: »

Yes u will have to have satellite cable connected to scan and view sat channels


Interesting101;98661135Yet more silly question from me....Trying to get tvheadend working and not going well....I presume i use 28.2E for scanning channels?
I was only seeing 1 tv adapter showing in tvheadend earlier so i pop out the tuner and saw a wonky looking pin..Straightened that back up and popped it back in and now cannot get any tv adapter to show in tvheadend.
Do you need to have the cables connected to the tuner for it to be listed in tvheadend or would it be picked up over wireless connection? Getting fed up changing the cables in and out of sky box to try get this setup.

Add your reply here. But to i need the cables connected to see the tv adapter listed in tvheadend before i do any scans?

iPhone.

Has anyone tried the 1.2GB Compressed backup image posted a little while back? Just wondering how it works or is it a no go?

eamonnq

iPhone. wrote: »

Has anyone tried the 1.2GB Compressed backup image posted a little while back? Just wondering how it works or is it a no go?

Am just downloading the OpenPli image to try now, (as every time I try to redo the TvHeadend/Oscam setup I end up worse off than the time before).

Planning on trying the 1.2gb one soon too!!

eamonnq

Interesting101 wrote: »

Add your reply here. But to i need the cables connected to see the tv adapter listed in tvheadend before i do any scans?

Yes, if you scan without it being connected it would not pick up any channels.

Are the 2 tuners showing in TvHeadend Configuration ?

Interesting101

eamonnq wrote: »

Interesting101 wrote: »

Add your reply here. But to i need the cables connected to see the tv adapter listed in tvheadend before i do any scans?

Yes, if you scan without it being connected it would not pick up any channels.

Are the 2 tuners showing in TvHeadend Configuration ?

Add your reply here.None of my tuners are showing up...The tutorial im following has me to configure the tuners before scanning thats why im wondering if you actually need the cables connected to see the tv adapters listed?

GY A1

Yes connect them first

Interesting101 wrote: »

Add your reply here.None of my tuners are showing up...The tutorial im following has me to configure the tuners before scanning thats why im wondering if you actually need the cables connected to see the tv adapters listed?

Interesting101

GY A1 wrote: »

Yes connect them first

Add your reply here. Ok cheers..will do.....Still no joy.......Will try again tomorrow

GY A1

Interesting101 wrote: »

Add your reply here. Ok cheers..will do.....Still no joy.......Will try again tomorrow

Add ur reply here
What's add ur reply fella ha ha ha

jakdublin

GY A1 wrote: »

Add ur reply here
What's add ur reply fella ha ha ha

Was wondering that too. Must be a default thingy on whatever device he's using. :-D

BionicRasher

Etnies wrote: »

Enigma image couldnt be any easier to setup for FTA, it has a walk through setup.. not sure why you'd need a backup. If you think the backup will help with OSCAM it wont you'll still have to config it.

Already tried my own enigma image and took me 2 hours to get anything going. Scan brings in loads of unwanted channels and its a pain to sort them. Got lip sync issues and HD channels sputtered and froze. Gave up after a while as it was not really going how I liked.
Might try this openpli as a last resort.

loopymum

I still haven't gotten around to doing my picons or even attempting them, my wetek is running pretty ok here thankfully except the odd crash and I just reboot the box, figured out the way to a successful and quick reboot is disconnect the usb drive(which I had read about before getting the wetek and was doing) but also to have the TV switched off or else disconnect the hdmi cable as well.
It might have something to do with my sound set up even though the hdmi is direct to the TV.
I love the series link on TVheadend, I dislike that kodi tends to freeze if I am recording two channels and try and watch another channel and it freezes in they don't share a transponder, I'm waiting on some more micro sd cards and then I've give some other peoples back ups a go. Glad I learnt how to to configure tvheadend myself first though.

GY A1

Use auto bouquet maker in service searching. It's scans channels into the sections for sd hd fta entertainment movies etc.

BionicRasher wrote: »

Already tried my own enigma image and took me 2 hours to get anything going. Scan brings in loads of unwanted channels and its a pain to sort them. Got lip sync issues and HD channels sputtered and froze. Gave up after a while as it was not really going how I liked.
Might try this openpli as a last resort.

Etnies

Also for anyone struggling with the standard remote, there's enigma2 remote apps you can use.

Allyall

iPhone. wrote: »

Has anyone tried the 1.2GB Compressed backup image posted a little while back? Just wondering how it works or is it a no go?

I installed it on my sisters wetek earlier. It is working fine.
It wouldn't install on her 720p Sony Bravia. It kept going out of range. Then it was stuck in a boot loop with the screen blank.

Had to wipe the MicroSD card and rewrite it. Then installed it on my TV. Showed her how to navigate and switch into Kodi, Gave it to her and she went home. I haven't heard anything since, so I presume it's still all good.

iPhone.

Might give it a try so and see what it's like. Must be a serious amount of addons to make it that size though. Muddling my way through a tvBellend setup at the moment .

eamonnq

loopymum wrote: »

Glad I learnt how to to configure tvheadend myself first though.

Will you be offering classes in the Dublin area anytime soon??

Trevord

GY A1 wrote: »

Use auto bouquet maker in service searching. It's scans channels into the sections for sd hd fta entertainment movies etc.

+1 to that.

It allows you to pick a Freesat or Sky type channel set up in a couple of minutes.

Note to anyone using PBnigma. Some of the builds don't have autobouquetmaker but more recent (jan 2016) versions do have it.

RossieMan

I found autobouquetsmaker to be fine. But preferred the look of autobouquetsE2. Looks a little better in my view.

walshy_c

Installed Andorid on this box yesterday. Sky Go won't work on it due to the box being rooted. Has anyone a work around for this or can the box be unrooted?

loopymum

eamonnq wrote: »

Will you be offering classes in the Dublin area anytime soon??

lol

loopymum

I wanted to download the 1.2GB compressed image from that forum so I had to join and did so, when I clicked back to the forum, I got a message saying I was banned and it wouldn't be lifted.

Jaysus, I didn't even type a word and I've never had linux before

Could someone be my referrer please? Maybe that would help, honestly I didn't do anything, wouldn't even know enough about linux to do so

branners69

Allyall wrote: »

I installed it on my sisters wetek earlier. It is working fine.
It wouldn't install on her 720p Sony Bravia. It kept going out of range. Then it was stuck in a boot loop with the screen blank.

Had to wipe the MicroSD card and rewrite it. Then installed it on my TV. Showed her how to navigate and switch into Kodi, Gave it to her and she went home. I haven't heard anything since, so I presume it's still all good.

I posted about this before, the image wont work by default on a 720p tv. You will just get the black screen after the boot screen. I saw a setting under setup to change the resolution to auto but by default it is 1080p!

branners69 wrote: »

For those using the PBnigma image. I had mine connected to an old Pioneer plasma which can only handle 720p. So when the image was installed on the sd card, I booted up and saw the PBnigma boot screen then the screen went black.

I then connected to my much newer Panasonic plasma and after the boot screen PBnigma loaded in all its glory. It much be set to display at 1080p!

Just in case anyone else has this problem!

Allyall

loopymum wrote: »

I wanted to download the 1.2GB compressed image from that forum so I had to join and did so, when I clicked back to the forum, I got a message saying I was banned and it wouldn't be lifted.

Jaysus, I didn't even type a word and I've never had linux before

Could someone be my referrer please? Maybe that would help, honestly I didn't do anything, wouldn't even know enough about linux to do so

The link has been posted on a few different forums - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98655461&postcount=2097

branners69 wrote: »

I posted about this before, the image wont work by default on a 720p tv. You will just get the black screen after the boot screen. I saw a setting under setup to change the resolution to auto but by default it is 1080p!

Sorry didn't see it, I'm finding this and the other threads very difficult to read through and remember which thread which post was on etc..:o:confused: so for the most part, just scanning them or skipping them.

GY A1

i saw there was a problem with downloading the image, and soneone was going to re-upload again shortly,
some forums you have to make an intro before you can download

loopymum wrote: »

I wanted to download the 1.2GB compressed image from that forum so I had to join and did so, when I clicked back to the forum, I got a message saying I was banned and it wouldn't be lifted.

Jaysus, I didn't even type a word and I've never had linux before

Could someone be my referrer please? Maybe that would help, honestly I didn't do anything, wouldn't even know enough about linux to do so

2smiggy

if anyone wants to send me a PM of where to start for the satellite side of things and TvHeadEnd. There are a lot of posts, work is looking quiet after dinner , so will do a bit of reading, but would appreciate a good place to start. Just collected from parcel motel this morning

loopymum

Thanks to anyone who pm'd me, I really appreciate it, it the linuxsat forum, I created an account and when I tried to look in the forum, it said I was banned.
Sorted now anyway, thanks again.

loopymum

Thanks to anyone who pm'd me, I really appreciate it, it the linuxsat forum, I created an account and when I tried to look in the forum, it said I was banned.
Sorted now anyway, thanks again.

eamonnq

2smiggy wrote: »

if anyone wants to send me a PM of where to start for the satellite side of things and TvHeadEnd. There are a lot of posts, work is looking quiet after dinner , so will do a bit of reading, but would appreciate a good place to start. Just collected from parcel motel this morning

http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=78286

This is the guide I used.............and about as far as I got!!

BluesWeeper

Imho, it's best to begin with installing android if you're not familiar with sat boxes and you'll be encouraged by your early successes.

Once familiar with android and its wetek theatre move on to one of the E2 images, my preference is for openpli but there's others eg pbnigma, openatv etc.

By then, you will be more familiar with terminology and be ready to tackle KODI and TVheadend, both not very difficult but perhaps not the best for a beginner to start using straight out of that black box.

2smiggy

Got my wetek from parcel motel this morning, I just had a quick chance to look at it before the Liverpool game. When plugged in, with ethernet cable also plugged in, all I got was 2 orange lights, which would only turn to red pressing the power button. I had a look back through the thread, but could not find anything about it. Any advise, or could it be something straight forward. Like I said I only had a quick look at it.

GY A1

2 orange lights is on
red is standby,
have u hdmi in

2smiggy wrote: »

Got my wetek from parcel motel this morning, I just had a quick chance to look at it before the Liverpool game. When plugged in, with ethernet cable also plugged in, all I got was 2 orange lights, which would only turn to red pressing the power button. I had a look back through the thread, but could not find anything about it. Any advise, or could it be something straight forward. Like I said I only had a quick look at it.

2smiggy

GY A1 wrote: »

2 orange lights is on
red is standby,
have u hdmi in

Hdmi slot 4 did not seem to work on my TV, had nothing plugged in to it. Tried in another slot and it showed up straight away. I'll start messing with it later on

yllw.ldbttr

Going to do some more tinkering at the weekend and try get Tvheadend working but just a quick question for those of you who've been through the process.

My box boots directly into Kodi, I had assumed Kodi sits on top of Openelec, rather than an underlying Android OS. Is this the case by default or have I missed something.

I know you can install Enigma2 (I have more experience with boxes like the GM Triplex or the Amiko Alien 2), but is Android not installed by default on this box?

The fact that it boots directly into Kodi makes me think I am missing something, maybe not, any advice appreciated.