Zgemma H7s Guide

nearly there but send me a pic of the bit where you press yellow button after file list and a pic of the screen where you go menu information about.

And when you did a test recording did it go to HDD??

Its raining here and I'm waiting on a delivery, that skin looks an old version

You wont be doing any updating but I can see the pics and tell you how to select HDD so that when you use file list all your recordings will appear but with different skins buttons may be different.

Vix 6.3.007 is same as me and that mean you are up to date but there is a new version 6.4 and NB don't be tempted to update whatever you do.. On your recording and playback screen you should be able to cursor down and with right arrow change location to match default movie and press green to save BUT with some skins it wont allow you. Do same for timeshift.

With an SSD you should go menu setup storage settings, hard disk standby make no standby and save.

With a few tweaks you will be good for years.

Thanks swoofer. I'm a bit confused, sorry. You're saying I can set up so that when press filelist button, I can see a)the old recordings ( was I correct that these were saved to the box itself?) and b) the recordings on the HDD, in the same list?

My timer recordings are currently going to the default movie location ( the HDD). I can see all the stuff that I thought wasn't recorded during the week.

In case I forget to say it, thanks so so much for your help today.

@swoofer Yes it is the H7S, i'm using the internal SATA connection

My location yellow button is handy as all my boxes have access to hdds.

+ on some boxes having a partition on the hdd i have other recordings but not done anything about it.

At least you have found them

That is a very old skin but will work. Yes when you did that location bit box should remember and when you press file list should go to all recordings.

Its a quirk that can happen and it looks as if recordings have disappeared. I don't have that skin so buttons will be different.

I'd say you are sorted. So if it ain't broke etc.

All your recordings are on the HDD.

Your good to go.

And I have to go out now.

If you formatted it to ext4 it should be good to go. As I understand it, initialising just formats the drive to ext4. Linux should be well able to cope with 2TB. You may just need to mount it in the drive manager. MENU>SETUP>VIX>MOUNT MANAGER to see if it shows there. Also check MENU>SETUP>STORAGE>FILESYSTEM CHECK to see what it says.

EDIT: you may need to reboot after the file check.

Thanks folks, still cant get it to work right. The box wont setup the drive at all. If I manually (via Gparted) set up GPT table & EXT4 partition, the box sees the drive & sets up the MOVIE location. It will record but the playback is unwatchable ! I'll try with a smaller SSD & see what happens :o

Since the changes to BBC I have lost the BBC Red Button. On checking here I found that the new frequency was

10788 V 23000 3/4 8Psk....however...I have tried inputting this manually and it finds nothing.

I also have an old SAB box and I recently noted after a Blind Scan that the RB was coming in loud and clear.I checked the frequency and it showed

10788 V 22999....couldn't see the rest .I tried this frequency on the ZGemma but again nothing. This frequency btw does not show up in the list of transponders on the ZGemma...the 22999 looks odd to me.

Hope some of u knowlegable guys might know what's going on here.

Ah Thanks very much Gerry-got it. My settings were showing DVB-SX and QPSK...must get new glasses

cheers

You are omitting a vital piece of information = Location😏

Setup is same

Check out techkings.org who can guide you how to setup box as wealth of info there

Autotimer Help, Please

Let's say I want to record Sherlock Holmes on ITV4. And let's say they broadcast two programmes each day, one early morning and the other mid morning, the early morning one being a repeat of the previous day's mid morning one. How do I set Autotimer to record the mid morning ones and skip the early morning ones? The starting times of the programmes vary quite a bit.

Also, I've been experimenting and now have several unwanted timer recordings in the list of programmes to be recorded. I've tried pressing the red delete button and the yellow disable button but they keep coming back!

Can you say the image you are using as that makes it a bit easier to give help, go menu information about.

For autotimer go to itv4 press ok arrow up press epg arrow across to sherlock holmes press blue untick exact match press green now on next menu scroll down to page 2 and enable only match during timespan, now you can do a few more things if you wish, change length of timespan, but leave for now, press green exit and ok and pause then a pop will appear and once gone you are set.

To delete autotimers go menu timers autotimers selct one you want to delete press yellow and select 1 and red to close.