Zgemma H7s Guide

I wouldn't worry too much about wearing out an SSD by using it as a timeshift buffer. It was a concern when they first came out, but as an example the Samsung 870 EVO I'm using has a TBW rating (TeraBytes Written) of 600. Which means you can write 600TB to it until it's likely to start to degrade.

Assuming HD broadcast TV transmits at very roughly 0.5 MB/s on average, 600 TB (600,000,000 MB) would equate to

600,000,000 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365 / 0.5 = 38 years of continuous TV watching :) There's filesystem overheads to take into account as well, of course, but you get the picture!

An HDD is another matter of course.

My H7S only has 1 sat feed and 1 Saorview and works , wonder what issues do you have and not using Sky Q lnb?

What image are you using ?

No , have you got a working aerial and what area is it set to as I use 3 rock for Saorview.

Choosing wrong area screws up wrong info

No, half the channels disappear when its recording, it was good for Saorview/Sat clashes though or I thought it was until this issue.

Doesnt really matter anything I miss I can just download and it will show up in Plex later, annoying though.

To use the box correctly you need 2 sat cables. Using one cable you need cable connected to tuner A and B set to equal TUNER A. You should run another cable for optimum performance. The one tuner when recording makes that tuner busy and you can only watch channels that are on same transponder. thats why all the other channels are greyed out. There is also a setting in recordings where you assign the tuner to be used for recording and that will lock it. For SAORVIEW the same will apply but SAORVIEW has 2 muxes so if the channel you are recording is on Mux 1 you cant view or record a channel on mux 2 but you can record all the channels on each mux in one go but only one mux.

thats why sky has 2 cables = 2 sat tuners = record one watch another or record 2 and watch a recording.

Say how you have the tuners configured.

@ breezy, say the exact version of openvix eg 6.4.0.11 what skin are you using and what region are you using in abm? You will have to deletet all the bouquets and start again. And set ABM up correctly.

@ thargor, do this and you will get a better result. Plug the sat cable in the top connection, that's TUNER A, configure as SIMPLE, SINGLE 28EAST. Now go to tuner B and make it Equal to and press green to save. Now start a recording and although none of the channels are greyed out it does not mean you can watch all of them it will depend on the channel you are recording. I set my boxes to London and while say recording BBC1 can watch BBC2, , CH4.CH5 but its a case of figuring it out. NB one tuner = only record one channel. The equal is a software thing and links the tuners internally. Its a stop gap. With a unicable LNB you can use one cable from dish and a splitter at box end you could have 2 tuners as normal but UNicable a bit expensive and slightly tricky.

Greyed out , not vanished and it means you cannot use them if recording as Gerry mentioned.

Always best having 2 sat feeds for independent viewing.

If you have twin feeds check both tuners have a signal in SIGNAL FINDER.

Hi Swoofer,

Haven't had a chance to look at this since. The channels I had and now missing are: Sky Mix, ITV Be, news channels: Al Jazeera, GB news; now ITV 4+1 and ITV 3+1 seem to be gone. That's all I can think of for now. Thanks

Ok here is the defenitive way to find a channel that disappears and Al Jazeera is a good example. You need to find the new frequency so to do that you use

kingofsat, this has a continuous list of updated channels but you just need one Al Jazerra so go here

Now enter Al Jazeera HD in the channel search box on top left and hit zap, and as Al Jazeera is on more than one sat scroll down to 28 East and read the new parameters.

To input to box do this MENU SETUP TUNERS & SCANNING , press OK arrow down to signal finder and press OK. Now you will see signal a signal bar and below the tuner A and it will say predefined transponder but you want to enter a new transponder so arrow down and hit right arrow now it becomes user defined so you can change all the entries. Al Jazeera is DVB-S2 so toggle that, under system, enter new frequency , make it vertical, symbol is 23000, inversion toggle and make it auto, same for FEC make auto. Now that menu has 2 screens when its DVB-S2 so arrow down modulation make it 8psk, roll off make it auto same for inversion, leave transport stream as is ie dont touch. Press green to scan and wait. You will get more than one channel but you want Al Jaz so select that and hit ok. Channel Opens , hit ok and arrow up, press menu and arrow down to 7 Add service press ok and all your bouquets jump up , select news press ok and its added and menu goes back to last scanned. Next bit is putting Al Jaz in right place so press blue button , go to news and Al Jazzera will be at end so scroll down to it and press menu, press red to enable move mode Press OK on Al Jaz and it will turn red now with arrow up or down you can move it to where you want and when done press OK . NB you are still in move mode so press menu press red and voila job done.

All your missing channels are still available just changed parameters and there is a sticky at the top of this thread that lists the new frequencies so you dont need to search. The tricky bit can be DVB-S and DVB-S2 and people forget.

this is the sticky and much thanks to the poster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058333937/free-to-air-tuning-guide-jan-2024#latest

give it a go and say how you got on.

Not sure what you mean there greasepalm. Normally newly scanned channels should appear in the EPG view no? Lately I can see the channels coming up as they're scanned but then they don't show up in the EPG view. There's a folder there for last scanned but it's empty. Previous scans would have been there.

What do you mean "go into the channel"?

Is anyone else having trouble getting GB news? There's 2 different frequencies I've found online but just cannot get it tuned in since last year. I know it's not a popular channel with people here but there are a few shows on it that I like. TIA 🤔🙏

That is one I tried already but doesn't work. Thanks.

It is a weak transponder on my system, 9 dB compared to some of the strong ones 17 dB. It might be a signal issue if your set up is less than perfect. You could check if you are getting signals on all of the transponders on the King of Sat list, or the Lnygsat list which might be a bit easier to read.

Check on the menus what signal readings you are getting. The first one on the list 10714 H is very strong with me, but they are all SD channels. I find that HD channels like GB News are more prone to suffer if the signal is weak.

https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E-2F-2G.html

Thanks. Yes you are right it is very weak. Still no luck getting it. It's not the end of the world at all.

Yes using signal finder on zgemma h7s. It's the only channel that I cannot seem to get since I think November last. Thanks