WETEK Play/OPENELEC user discussion, tips n' tricks

stanley1

The 2 enigma2 images i tried would not play ball with remote at all.

DopeTech

stanley1 wrote: »

The 2 enigma2 images i tried would not play ball with remote at all.

In the openhdf image anyway you can pick which remote you are using. It's set as Wetek play remote as default but you can choose our Wetek Openelec remote or the amiko alien 1 or 2 remote if you have one.

RossieMan

How do you sort out the channels list in enigma2? Having trouble with mine, showing all the scrambled channels and a million channel 4s. Struggling to sort it out.

GY A1

RossieMan wrote: »

How do you sort out the channels list in enigma2? Having trouble with mine, showing all the scrambled channels and a million channel 4s. Struggling to sort it out.

Use auto bouquet maker
It puts channels in the different groups.
Ie sport news fta etc

And it will auto update for u aswell

DopeTech

RossieMan wrote: »

How do you sort out the channels list in enigma2? Having trouble with mine, showing all the scrambled channels and a million channel 4s. Struggling to sort it out.

You can either use the autobouquetsmaker which is built in to some images, or autobouquets e2 which is a similar program that can be installed on e2 images. Or if you prefer you can use dreamboxedit for windows.

What I do is use autobouquets e2 to load up the channel lists on the box. Then load it from the box into dreamboxedit and add my favourites to the favourites bouquet. Then send it back to the box. You'll only need to update the favourites once.

stanley1

Have a look at Rats channel updater, handy little tool.

RossieMan

Cheers lads, having a little play with the box today, will be hard to beat tvheadend. Other than the crappy EPG, its brilliant.

DopeTech

RossieMan wrote: »

Cheers lads, having a little play with the box today, will be hard to beat tvheadend. Other than the crappy EPG, its brilliant.

Crossepg in e2 is quite good. Full 7 day listings for all channels. Haven't managed the tvheadend setup yet. I managed to get some channels loaded but it only found about 60. Then tried to import my e2 list but it kept failing so i gave up for the evening.

headonyou

Lads, spent the day yesterday trying to get tvheadend working and no joy, followed every tutorial I could find too.

Can anyone one that has it set up correctly particularly with a DVB-T tuner offer any advice, particularly on the muxes that they used?

To summarise what I've done is:

On the wetek play - enable tvheadend front and back end, disabled any other pvr, enabled TV.

On the laptop - used my IP to access tvheadend and the tuner, create a network for use with a tuner, enabled just one of the available tuners (also tried with both enabled), I've tried all generic muxes and Irish muxes, I've my Upc/Virgin plugged into the port nearest the USB on the back of the box.

I only want saorview channels but any scan I've done results in a fail, half think tuner might be faulty, I also put android on the wetek briefly for a test and even using wetek theatre which seems straightforward to follow, it could not pick up any channels.

Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help.

DopeTech

headonyou wrote: »

Lads, spent the day yesterday trying to get tvheadend working and no joy, followed every tutorial I could find too.

Can anyone one that has it set up correctly particularly with a DVB-T tuner offer any advice, particularly on the muxes that they used?

To summarise what I've done is:

On the wetek play - enable tvheadend front and back end, disabled any other pvr, enabled TV.

On the laptop - used my IP to access tvheadend and the tuner, create a network for use with a tuner, enabled just one of the available tuners (also tried with both enabled), I've tried all generic muxes and Irish muxes, I've my Upc/Virgin plugged into the port nearest the USB on the back of the box.

I only want saorview channels but any scan I've done results in a fail, half think tuner might be faulty, I also put android on the wetek briefly for a test and even using wetek theatre which seems straightforward to follow, it could not pick up any channels.

Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help.

You need to link up a saorview compatible aerial, not UPC cable.

headonyou

FrostyJim wrote:

You need to link up a saorview compatible aerial, not UPC cable.

That makes sense, cheers, as is though should I be able to pick up UPC channels through the DVB-t tuner? Would like to make sure tuner is working before getting another aerial.

DopeTech

headonyou wrote: »

That makes sense, cheers, as is though should I be able to pick up UPC channels through the DVB-t tuner? Would like to make sure tuner is working before getting another aerial.

Don't think you'd get the 13 or so analogue channels since you have a dvb-t/c tuner. You would pick up 1 or 2 random channels that they haven't encrypted on their digital package if you scanned the right frequencies but these would be useless to you and it would also be theft of service technically so I won't be encouraging you to do it.

You need a aerial to receive saorview, simple as that. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. Even the rabbits ears on top of the tv will pick up signal depending how close to the mast you are.

Dcully

While the remote included does the job is there a better remote for this device guys? and maybe a keyboard?

GY A1

Dcully wrote: »

While the remote included does the job is there a better remote for this device guys? and maybe a keyboard?

Depends are u using it for enigma 2 or openelec
There is a specific enigma 2 remote
Or I also have a wireless keyboard that I use for openelec and used it on the android side on my other box.
I got the ba k400 keyboard here

Dcully

I'm only using it for the beast kodi for streaming.

dodzy

Dcully wrote: »

While the remote included does the job is there a better remote for this device guys? and maybe a keyboard?

I use the logitech but these do the job just fine. Tho one pictures is backlit. Handy feature. Picked up a batch of them from Alie last year. Available on Amazon if you dont fancy waiting on the slowboat.

bonkers

got the tvheadend working and have it set to scan for 28.2 with the cable from the sky dish into the back of the wetek play which i got on bargain alerts mass order recently.. dvb-s selected etc but no channels coming up..

any ideas what im doing wrong?




http://imgur.com/yga936m
http://imgur.com/nRw86a0

RossieMan

Looks like its not finding your satellite. Make sure your connection is fitted correctly in the back

bonkers

thanks will try to force the cable in more..

Dcully

Dcully wrote: »

While the remote included does the job is there a better remote for this device guys? and maybe a keyboard?

Less remotes I have the better , I've been getting by for the rare times I need a keyboard in Kodi with the phone app. I'm actually impressed at how well that has worked.

This has also reminded be to look into whether kodi supports hdmi cec? Works in android and lets me use my tv remote , but obviously you need the pointer on the wetek one or the phone app there as android isn't fully optimised for a remote only control, but powering on/off the box and TV with the one remote is very handy.

Oh not sure if this was posted or not but might be useful for someone else

Wynnie12

bonkers wrote: »

got the tvheadend working and have it set to scan for 28.2 with the cable from the sky dish into the back of the wetek play which i got on bargain alerts mass order recently.. dvb-s selected etc but no channels coming up..

any ideas what im doing wrong?




http://imgur.com/yga936m
http://imgur.com/nRw86a0

Make sure the VDR pluggin is disabled in services addons also.

DopeTech

bonkers wrote: »

got the tvheadend working and have it set to scan for 28.2 with the cable from the sky dish into the back of the wetek play which i got on bargain alerts mass order recently.. dvb-s selected etc but no channels coming up..

any ideas what im doing wrong?

http://imgur.com/yga936m
http://imgur.com/nRw86a0

Was getting alot of fails on that too. Actually gave up trying to get tvheadend working as I couldn't figure it out either, what I think may be the issue is the predefined frequencies on 28.2 look to be out of date which means alot will fail and after a full scan you will only have a handful of channels.

Gave PBNigma 5.0 another go and so far its been working very well. Loaded the image on a 2gb micro sd, and added hdd for recording etc. Figured out to get the second tuner work you need to set it up "equal to a" otherwise the box locks up.

So far I've installed autobouqets, imported xmltv listings, recorded 1 channel and watched another and all running smoothly. I have a amiko alien 2 remote control which works vey well with it also. Will need to map a couple of new keys but altogether very responsive. Quite like the skin too.

tommycahir

For those using pbnigma or openatv and like the look of a sky box then have a look at either blue had skin or the slyk1 had skin (link)

Some people have reported that the slyk skin locks up the pbnigma image so use with caution..

wiz569

Anybody having trouble with the openelec remote on enigma2,when scrolling through channel lists or menus,sometimes it just keeps scrolling on its own ?

I have ordered the wetek E2 remote anyway but was wondering was it a normal thing with this remote

DopeTech

wiz569 wrote: »

Anybody having trouble with the openelec remote on enigma2,when scrolling through channel lists or menus,sometimes it just keeps scrolling on its own ?

I have ordered the wetek E2 remote anyway but was wondering was it a normal thing with this remote

Yeah I have the same problem, seems to be the remote as when I use any other remote the scrolling problem doesn't happen.

wiz569

FrostyJim wrote: »

Yeah I have the same problem, seems to be the remote as when I use any other remote the scrolling problem doesn't happen.

Bummer, hopefully the E2 remote is better,I can use the Rii keyboard but its not family friendly

Was looking through some of the skins today and came across 'Box' Lovely skin if you like something clean and simple.

Took a couple of screenshots, couldn't see an option to resize for posting here so I'll just link to them http://imgur.com/a/BRynM

BTW it's ctrl+s on a keyboard to do a screen grab in kodi.

DopeTech

wiz569 wrote: »

Bummer, hopefully the E2 remote is better,I can use the Rii keyboard but its not family friendly

Which e2 remote is this you're buying?

I have one of these. Works great but would prefer something with a keyboard for kodi.

wiz569

FrostyJim wrote: »

Which e2 remote is this you're buying?

I have one of these. Works great but would prefer something with a keyboard for kodi.

This one m8
https://wetek.com/shop/wetek-play-enigma-2-rcu

On the subject of remotes I mentioned earlier I didn't check what the situation was regards hdmi-cec was in kodi. My samsung tv one works with no additional set up or config on kodi , once anynet+ is enabled on the TV

gillamandango

Booted up my Open Elec Box and got the file system corruption message and to press any key within 120 seconds to reboot and prevent filesystem check.

It scanned, and rebooted and I still get the same message.

Am running latest stable kodi and openelec, only have tvheadend working, no other changes made to box, but had a powercut recently and am thinking an update or something was going on when it happened.

Is the box broken? Will a fresh install sort it out?

GY A1

gillamandango wrote: »

Booted up my Open Elec Box and got the file system corruption message and to press any key within 120 seconds to reboot and prevent filesystem check.

It scanned, and rebooted and I still get the same message.

Am running latest stable kodi and openelec, only have tvheadend working, no other changes made to box, but had a powercut recently and am thinking an update or something was going on when it happened.

Is the box broken? Will a fresh install sort it out?

a reflash of openelec should sort it
download from wetek forum

gillamandango

GY A1 wrote: »

a reflash of openelec should sort it
download from wetek forum

Thanks GY A1, I assume this will do the trick http://tutorials.wetek.com/tutorial/11

GY A1

gillamandango wrote: »

Thanks GY A1, I assume this will do the trick http://tutorials.wetek.com/tutorial/11

ya thats it
had to do the same few days ago

gillamandango

gillamandango wrote: »

Thanks GY A1, I assume this will do the trick http://tutorials.wetek.com/tutorial/11

Yeah thats it. I've brought mine back to life a few times and you can also use the same process should you want android on NAND.

Oh should add that you might want a 2nd pair of hands to help, can be tricky holding the reset button and trying to plug the power cable back in with out the pin or what ever you are using slipping off the button. Had to call my partner in to help and to be asked "Have you broken it again" or " I swear you like playing with it more than watching it"

wiz569

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh should add that you might want a 2nd pair of hands to help, can be tricky holding the reset button and trying to plug the power cable back in with out the pin or what ever you are using slipping off the button. Had to call my partner in to help and to be asked "Have you broken it again" or " I swear you like playing with it more than watching it"

I used a thumbtack as the pin,nice broad head on it so no slippage lol

gillamandango

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah thats it. I've brought mine back to life a few times and you can also use the same process should you want android on NAND.

I followed the procedure, saw the update install and when rebooted, I got the same file corruption message. The files i used on the card to flash were; factory_update_param.aml, OpenELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-6.0.0-update (compressed zip file) and recovery.img

Any ideas?

P.S. I just used the files from here http://releases.openelec.tv/OpenELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-6.0.0.zip I did not use any of the "Clean Install" files

RossieMan

Can not get my head around oscam at all.

None of my pnenigma images are stable either, crash every few minutes.

GY A1

RossieMan wrote: »

Can not get my head around oscam at all.

None of my pnenigma images are stable either, crash every few minutes.

im using open atv atm
or use pbnigma dated 1/12/12
that one is stable

gillamandango

Can anyone confirm that I am using the right files, I.E.none from the clean install files as per the link on Post 2.

gillamandango wrote: »

The files i used on the card to flash were; factory_update_param.aml, OpenELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-6.0.0-update (compressed zip file) and recovery.img

Any ideas?

P.S. I just used the files from here http://releases.openelec.tv/OpenELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-6.0.0.zip I did not use any of the "Clean Install" files

robbie67

gillamandango I had the same prob as you I just ran the clean install link and factory-update param and it worked

manster

Was in the middle of setting up tvheadend when the box rebooted and I lost some functionality. Did a hard reset (major mistake). The result is this is all I have now in Add-ons

Add-Ons

• My add-ons
• Install from repository
• Install from zip file
• Search
• System

This is the list that I'm looking for

Add-ons

• Check for updates (last updated on...)
• Disabled add-ons
• Enabled add-ons
• Get add-ons
• Install from zip file
• Search

Tried doing a reinstall using OpenELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-6.0.0.zip - looked ok but made no difference. Any ideas?

tommycahir

manster wrote: »

Was in the middle of setting up tvheadend when the box rebooted and I lost some functionality. Did a hard reset (major mistake). The result is this is all I have now in Add-ons

Add-Ons

• My add-ons
• Install from repository
• Install from zip file
• Search
• System

This is the list that I'm looking for

Add-ons

• Check for updates (last updated on...)
• Disabled add-ons
• Enabled add-ons
• Get add-ons
• Install from zip file
• Search

Tried doing a reinstall using OpenELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-6.0.0.zip - looked ok but made no difference. Any ideas?

That looks like you have updated the kodi version from 14.2 to at least 15.0 which implemented the new menu above in addons section.

manster

That looks like you have updated the kodi version from 14.2 to at least 15.0 which implemented the new menu above in addons section.

The splash screen says 15.2

How do I get my old add-on menu back? Should I install an older version of Kodi. Atm I can't open / configure packages after installing

tommycahir

manster wrote: »

The splash screen says 15.2

How do I get my old add-on menu back? Should I install an older version of Kodi. Atm I can't open / configure packages after installing

You can find them under my addons - all addons or you can go to videos- addons on the main menu.

manster

tommycahir wrote: »

You can find them under my addons - all addons or you can go to videos- addons on the main menu.

Not in either place.
Add-ons->My add-ons->All-Open ELEC MediaCenter OS Add-ons (Enabled)

If I open this, all options are greyed out (e.g. Configure, Uopdate, Launch, Uninstall, Diable, Rollback, Changelog)

Video->Add-ons-> Get more... has just the default videos

Head wrecked now

Where you using a different skin to what is there now?

I know i have a pain in my hoop having to switch back to confluence to get at settings that just are not there in other skins

RossieMan

Switch your skin settings when you download it. You can get then all back with a bit of tinkering.