Zgemma H7s Guide

What's the chances of the zgemma being more sensitive to a aerial gone dodgy? My ebay bought playtv tuner is a have break up issue too,while my sony tv seems OK with the same feed.

Any recommendations for a attic placed aerial on the off chance it has gone bad. I have been using this one.

https://www.satworld.ie/revez-t12-5g.html

Thanks the aerial should be good for kippure. It had been working alright for a long time lying flat in my attic. Really strange the zgemma has horrible breakup on both muxes while the playtv only badly breaks up on one mux.

Drivers loaded all good

I'm in Maynooth Saorview site suggest kippure over 3 rock both look fairly close.

Just checked with a compass and think I'm pointing at 3 rock

Yup slightly off realigned and no break up

The second mux the box was tuned to was channel 23 Mount leinster I believe. Sort it all with a manual tune.

Kippure and Three Rock are pretty much the same distance from Celbridge, and have exactly the same power output at 125kW ERP, so I'm surprised you can't pick up both. Also Kippure is over 750m, and Three Rock 450m.

One possibility I can think of is that maybe you were scanning using an outdated XML file for the various transmitters and muxes, as Kippure changed back in 2020.

I live in Bray and can see Three Rock from my window, but I get an equally strong signal from both transmitters even with the "wrong" aerial (a band specific one for the old Kippure frequencies) pointing somewhere in between the two :)

It still represents the best bang for buck IMO. It is noticeably faster than the Tiviar. Mine has been rock solid for some years now. Better boxes are available such as the Gigablue or VU+ but these are a good bit more expensive. In practice it's hard to justify the added expense.

So have I , VU+ DUO 4K SE , the main difference between it and my 2 zgemmas , an inside loading hard drive unit and a back slot drive unit , is that the VU+ box is still alive and not dead with swollen caps.

All I wanted was better build quality , and got it , and if you shop around , they are not that much more expensive than the Zgemma

Amazon.de do regular deals on these and gigablue boxes

Never tried multiple images , its not something that interests me , just using standard openvix skin and picons , and its fine at that.

Ive had Tiviar Alpha Plus , Zgemma , and now this , and one thing I learned the hard way is you start messing with skins and builds and you break the install very quickly.

I did have the dish swapped out for a new one with Unicable LNB and 2 feeds , one direct to the VU+ which gives me 8 tuners , and the other split to other TVs around the house.

So , anything running kodi can use the enigma 2 plugin to get all the channels from the VU+ box and there is always a tuner free for them , and unicable can be split to any amount of other TVs if required , for example the cheapo Walker 43 inch smart TV in the kitchen.

No way was I wasting another 170 or so quid on a Zgemma , it was either going to be the Gigablue or the VU+ , got the VU+ on Amazon.de for a reasonable price.

Ive had a Tiviar , 2 Zgemmas , and a VU+ along with the autotune Triax box since 2013 , every single one of them tells me Three Rock works and Kippure does not for Celbridge ..... so I'll go with the weight of that evidence.

OK so i ran a software update and all the channels were gone. So I went to my image backup and loaded my old 5.4 backup, i thought I had a more recent backup. Anyway how do I get it back to 6.4?

Hello,

I did try the button at the back but the recordings were still missing, I tried to record something and it said it couldn't and said hd might be full.

Anyway, I have now reflashed back to 6.4. I dunno what happened to my recordings but at least I'm up and running again.

Thanks 😊

Hi, just bought this box, can someone recommend a known SDD for it please?

I've had trouble with amibo boxes and "device too slow to record" messages in the past

samsung, crucial are good, for 500gb look here

https://www.memoryc.com/storage/ssd/sata.html#Capacity[]=500GB&page=0

If you look carefully there should be a slot at the rear where you PUSH the SSD into and thats best. If no slot you take off cover and connect SSD, cables are in situ.

I dont ever use USB HDD 's.

I wouldnt buy again of memory C , had a big order with them for 8TB hard drives to populate a server and the way they shipped them was a disgrace. There was long delays and when they did arrive Half the drives were DOA and the returns process was amateur at best.

They just chucked each drive in bubble wrap and shipped em in a cardboard box , for the record , seagate ironwolfs should arrive in their own individual box with foam protection. Clearly they were penny pinching on shipping and killed the product as a result.

Only bought from them because they are local , wont make that mistake again.