WETEK Play/OPENELEC user discussion, tips n' tricks

bonkers

Got the wetek play openelec today and it loads fine but won't let me select an audio output at all. Not seeing my sharp tv like my intel nuc kodi install does straight away.

So no audio - any ideas?

upandcumming

Just managed to get my hands on one of my shiny new DVB-S2 tuners. Trying to setup the tuners to scan for channels. However in the above image it can be seen that I have no tuners! There is no further dropdown! Has anyone else experienced this?

wiz569

_dof_ wrote: »

I tried to use VDR but it wasn't great, it seemed to scan all the ensrypted channels even though I had deselected the option to scan the scrambled channels.

So I decided to give up on that and try tvheadend. But, I can't find it, I looked in the Add-Ons and I've installed the tvheadend client, but I can't see the backend add-on anywhere, so I'd appreciate any help.

I found a video on youtube to install it on OpenElec 5, but I've got OpenElec 6 and when I go into the Add-Ons in the OpenElec Media Centre repository and then in Services but tvheadend is not listed.

You need to install the Unofficial OpenElec repo first,which is in the official repo,then the TVHeadend server will be in that repo services

wiz569

upandcumming wrote: »

Just managed to get my hands on one of my shiny new DVB-S2 tuners. Trying to setup the tuners to scan for channels. However in the above image it can be seen that I have no tuners! There is no further dropdown! Has anyone else experienced this?

You need to click on the Networks tab next,then click add

GY A1

Have u s micro sd card
U can be up and running in a few minutes with a back up enigma 2 image.
Very easy to set up

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

I just got my box a while ago and am trying to setup live TV via TV Headend and OSCAM

I followed this tutorial

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

I disbaled VDR and installled TVheadend + OSCAM

The problem is that I only got 440 services when the box scanned and the EPG isnt working

Lots of the entries in the scan result column of show as "FAILED"

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Rock Paper Scissors

GY A1 wrote: »

Have u s micro sd card
U can be up and running in a few minutes with a back up enigma 2 image.
Very easy to set up

I have a misco SD card but Id like to give TVheadend a shot first

I managed to get all the channels and EPG after a scan but when i select any channel, the kodi buffer bar appears up the top and it just hangs and doesnt zap to the channel

Any ideas guys?

tommycahir

Here's a handy guide from step 2 for people looking to use openelec on wetek to view live TV...

http://forum.kodicommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=362&p=2002#p2002

Hattip to @scooterbuk for this

Block (8

spent 5-6 hours trying to get the sat tuner working! Had one tuner going for a couple of mins before it lost picture and froze the box.
Had to unplug the power and lost the settings now for some reason the tuner would not scan even trying the force scan might have to reset the box and start all over again.

_dof_

tommycahir wrote: »

Here's a handy guide from step 2 for people looking to use openelec on wetek to view live TV...

http://forum.kodicommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=362&p=2002#p2002

Hattip to @scooterbuk for this

That page looked like it was just what I was looking for, but the ZIP file linked from that page just contained some rtf file describing how to setup streaming to a PC using openwebif

dodzy

Block (8 wrote: »

spent 5-6 hours trying to get the sat tuner working! Had one tuner going for a couple of mins before it lost picture and froze the box.
Had to unplug the power and lost the settings now for some reason the tuner would not scan even trying the force scan might have to reset the box and start all over again.

It appears tvheadend setup is causing difficulty for quite a few users. If it's purely SAT channels you are after and android type setup, an option is to flash The custom week android build to the box. This is very easy, you just need micro Sd card to flash to.

http://wetekforums.com/vb5/forum/wetek-play/android/14042-have-wetek-openelec-but-want-android-on-nand-and-openelec-on-sd/page2

Once done, the SAT setup is literally a few clicks, and very similar to setting up channels on a FTA box which many of you may have done before. Eitherway, here's a quick tut.

http://youtu.be/_YOgXj1E5E0

Anything you do can be undone, so worry not

Oh, and happy Christmas

Block (8

dodzy wrote: »

It appears tvheadend setup is causing difficulty for quite a few users. If it's purely SAT channels you are after and android type setup, an option is to flash The custom week android build to the box. This is very easy, you just need micro Sd card to flash to.

http://wetekforums.com/vb5/forum/wetek-play/android/14042-have-wetek-openelec-but-want-android-on-nand-and-openelec-on-sd/page2

Once done, the SAT setup is literally a few clicks, and very similar to setting up channels on a FTA box which many of you may have done before. Eitherway, here's a quick tut.

http://youtu.be/_YOgXj1E5E0

Anything you do can be undone, so worry not

Oh, and happy Christmas

Thanks for that I'll take a look later. Eventually (11.30pm) have the sat working after a reset though there's a lot sky channels thrown in the mix which (at first I thought I had sky to watch) but it's a nuisance making it longer to scroll through the channels.
Some channels seem to be missing so for now I'll plug one of the sat cables to the humax and one to the wetek.
I'll tackle the repository and iptv later on today or tomorrow I think, was really frustrated but had the eureka moment when the sat worked!

Dcully

I installed beast kodi lastnight all working well, booted up the wetec just now and getting some debug menu and its saying device is broken beyond repair.
Any ideas?

BrendanD

Dcully wrote: »

I installed beast kodi lastnight all working well, booted up the wetec just now and getting some debug menu and its saying device is broken beyond repair.
Any ideas?

Not an expert on this but you can just download openelec from the wetek site on to an sd card and reinstall , there's a reset button underneath that you need to press while booting again
and it wont work with a usb stick must be a sd card

Dcully

Got it working with usb stick would you believe, took a chance installed files to usb went through the procedure and a menu popped up with option to boot to ext,once I navigated to that with remote I could get to the desired folder on usb stick.
Back up and running now with beast kodi 1.5.

Rock Paper Scissors

Has anyone here got TVheadend + Oscam + full EPG + Picons + Bouquets working 100% on this box?

spongerobinson

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

Has anyone here got TVheadend + Oscam + full EPG + Picons + Bouquets working 100% on this box?

Yes to all of that, plus recording to external HD, plus Saorview on top as well, with a USB tuner. It is doable, but it's not exactly plug 'n play.

Rock Paper Scissors

spongerobinson wrote: »

Yes to all of that, plus recording to external HD, plus Saorview on top as well, with a USB tuner. It is doable, but it's not exactly plug 'n play.

Can I ask if you enabled both tuners to do a scan in the TV headend GUI (because some tutorials say enable just 1 and some say enable them both) and also what version of openelec are you using?

Would you be willing to upload a backup of your settings mate for those of us that are struggling to get this working?

spongerobinson

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

Can I ask if you enabled both tuners to do a scan in the TV headend GUI (because some tutorials say enable just 1 and some say enable them both) and also what version of openelec are you using?

Would you be willing to upload a backup of your settings mate for those of us that are struggling to get this working?

To be honest I can't remember the exact process, as I've had mine quite a while at this stage...I bought it when they were first released. Think I possibly followed this tutorial.

I do know I'm not using the latest version of openelec though...I think it's possibly 5.95.5 that I'm on...I chose not to upgrade as everything was working the way I wanted it.

As for uploading the settings, I'd have no problem doing this but I'm currently away from where the box is, so will be a week or so before I'd be able to do it.

EDIT: Oh and at the bit in the video where they map the channels, I'm nearly certain I used the Bouquets option instead, to get them in the same channel order as I was used to.

Rock Paper Scissors

spongerobinson wrote: »

To be honest I can't remember the exact process, as I've had mine quite a while at this stage...I bought it when they were first released. Think I possibly followed this tutorial.

I do know I'm not using the latest version of openelec though...I think it's possibly 5.95.5 that I'm on...I chose not to upgrade as everything was working the way I wanted it.

As for uploading the settings, I'd have no problem doing this but I'm currently away from where the box is, so will be a week or so before I'd be able to do it.

EDIT: Oh and at the bit in the video where they map the channels, I'm nearly certain I used the Bouquets option instead, to get them in the same channel order as I was used to.

Thanks for your reply mate

It would be great to get those backup settings whenever you get the chance

Really appreciate it

spongerobinson

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

Thanks for your reply mate

It would be great to get those backup settings whenever you get the chance

Really appreciate it

If your still stuck early in the New Year, give me a little reminder and I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, I would definitely recommend trying to follow that video tutorial, and also having a look on the Wetek forums.

upandcumming

wiz569 wrote:

You need to click on the Networks tab next,then click add

Tried that. Deleted and tried again multiple times! Still nothing showing up under tuners!

wiz569

upandcumming wrote: »

Tried that. Deleted and tried again multiple times! Still nothing showing up under tuners!

Hmm,at this stage I can only offer advice gleaned from various online tutorials as I havent started on my box yet,might get time tomorrow

I presume you added a new network etc from that tab

dodzy

upandcumming wrote: »

Tried that. Deleted and tried again multiple times! Still nothing showing up under tuners!

Did you disable VDR in Openelec at the start of the process?

Allyall

For anyone having problems - there's some great tutorials here - http://linuxsat-support.com/forumdisplay.php?f=992

Also an OpenELEC 6 image with everything setup. I couldn't find it just there while I was looking, but I know it's there.
If I had a little more time I'd look some more, but not at the minute.

stanley1

Im using OpenAtv enigma2 on sd card, I've been trying different keys etc on remote but for the life of me can't get subtitles to work, any help appreciated.

Sconsey

I have a feeling I am missing something really obvious here but I can't seem to get the device to remember my wireless network, so each time i turn it on I have to connect to my wireless and enter my password.

I am connecting to wireless under System > Openelec > Connection

Any ideas?
Thanks

Block (8

Sconsey wrote: »

I have a feeling I am missing something really obvious here but I can't seem to get the device to remember my wireless network, so each time i turn it on I have to connect to my wireless and enter my password.

I am connecting to wireless under System > Openelec > Connection

Any ideas?
Thanks

I find that especially at the beginning of the setup you have to reboot for settings to save so maybe try that.

Does anyone know how or where on the remote you can switch off the subs from a movie/tv playing through a usb hard drive?
And in one or two channels (eg. itv4+1) on the sat there's a voice commentary, is it possible to switch it off?

upandcumming

dodzy wrote:

Did you disable VDR in Openelec at the start of the process?

Did surely. Went at it again today trying to reset everything up but back at the same! Gah!

wiz569

upandcumming wrote: »

Did surely. Went at it again today trying to reset everything up but back at the same! Gah!

Had the same problem today,a simple reboot of the wetek box sorted it

upandcumming

wiz569 wrote:

Had the same problem today,a simple reboot of the wetek box sorted it

Afraid not. Removed the sat cable, rebooted, nothing, put it in again, rebooted and still nothing. Maddening! Might take out another box and see what happens.

wiz569

upandcumming wrote: »

Afraid not. Removed the sat cable, rebooted, nothing, put it in again, rebooted and still nothing. Maddening! Might take out another box and see what happens.

Did you try both tuners?

Rock Paper Scissors

Lads when you are setting up TV headend and you are in the web interface are you enabling both tuners or just one?

Some tutorials I've seen online say enable both and some say enable just one

wiz569

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

Lads when you are setting up TV headend and you are in the web interface are you enabling both tuners or just one?

Some tutorials I've seen online say enable both and some say enable just one

I enabled one first and it kept failing the scan,then tried the other one and with both showing up it worked and scanned fine

Sneachta

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

Lads when you are setting up TV headend and you are in the web interface are you enabling both tuners or just one?

Some tutorials I've seen online say enable both and some say enable just one

Would love to know how you do this.....

wiz569

Sneachta wrote: »

Would love to know how you do this.....

Do what m8?

Sneachta

wiz569 wrote: »

Do what m8?

Are you connecting sky dish to wetek and adding channels?

wiz569

Sneachta wrote: »

Are you connecting sky dish to wetek and adding channels?

Yes using tvheadend server and client

robbie67

Just got my live tvheadend working now I was trying since i got it last week could not get it to connect .Got up this morning unplugged the broadband turned on wi-fi on the Wetek box connected straight away

The wi-fi gave me a different ip address put that in plus :9981 and I am scanning away now on astra happy man

Sneachta

Got tvheadend working. Is there a way to separate working channels from non working?

Sneachta

Got tvheadend working. Is there a way to separate working channels from non working?

wiz569

Sneachta wrote: »

Got tvheadend working. Is there a way to separate working channels from non working?

You need to create bouquets,or if you have some E2 bouquets from a satellite receiver you can use the E22tv convertor to create them

Rock Paper Scissors

wiz569 wrote: »

You need to create bouquets,or if you have some E2 bouquets from a satellite receiver you can use the E22tv convertor to create them

Have you done this?

I tried to use that program but it only accepts a lamedb file and it gave me a runtime error message

How did you convert the bouquets because there are several of them?

wiz569

Rock Paper Scissors wrote: »

Have you done this?

I tried to use that program but it only accepts a lamedb file and it gave me a runtime error message

How did you convert the bouquets because there are several of them?

Yep done it yesterday m8,just pointed it at the lamedb file and it converted and transfered them to the box,bear in mind I only have two bouquets,

I might also add i did it blind,as I had not got it hooked up to the tv,so have not yet seen if they are working,but there were no errors reported,

I just used dreamset to transfer them from my satellite box to my pc and then used E22tv on them

lolliedog

Got a wetek play in the group buy.
Set it up today, not to much trouble. YouTube is your friend.

Donkey OTae

Allyall wrote: »

For anyone having problems - there's some great tutorials here - (Unable to reference Allyall's site as Im a newbie)

Also an OpenELEC 6 image with everything setup. I couldn't find it just there while I was looking, but I know it's there.
If I had a little more time I'd look some more, but not at the minute.

Thanks AllyAll I 100% agree that site is great. For anyone stuck the guides over there are really straight forward tutorials and video guides for everything that anyone would want plus the community there uses really simple language for newbies.
The Wetek channel on Youtube is pretty good too but jeepers you need to watch it on 50% speed, they fly around the place

You'd go bananas trawling across the net looking at different sites with slightly different advice.

Wynnie12

Anyone having trouble setting up the satellite adapters? Firstly for me, it only detects one adapter. It will scan and detect all the channels but for some reason after scan is complete my TV adapters are no longer detected in tvheadend.

Any help much appreciated

DopeTech

Wynnie12 wrote: »

Anyone having trouble setting up the satellite adapters? Firstly for me, it only detects one adapter. It will scan and detect all the channels but for some reason after scan is complete my TV adapters are no longer detected in tvheadend.

Any help much appreciated

Seems to be a problem on some of the enigma2 images also but not them all.

Know my way around e2/kodi but the Wetek does take some getting used to. For instance, what's the best way to set up partitions/ picons/ swap file.Not how but what way works best. Also is it better to flash the e2 image to nand or just run from microsd? Once I have the basics sorted I know how to set up the rest. Advice would be greatly appreciated!

gillamandango

Lads, I recorded something by error and filled the limited internal storage, the box hangs and crashes now at times, but was trying to get into it to delete the recording but none is showing. So i went to XXX.XXX.X.XX:9981/dev/data and XXX.XXX.X.XX:9981 and couldn't get in, it wouldn't open. Am i doing something stupid that I cant connect to the box over the network?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

How do I power the thing on guys? Have the power wire hooked up to the adaptor which is plugged in, HDMI to the tv, ethernet to the wifi, remote is working fine. Could it be a faulty adapter or something? Help please.

GY A1

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

How do I power the thing on guys? Have the power wire hooked up to the adaptor which is plugged in, HDMI to the tv, ethernet to the wifi, remote is working fine. Could it be a faulty adapter or something? Help please.

Any orange lights showin up on front