Zgemma H7s Guide

So no storage is listed in menu or not ? What make?

Samsung should be okay. Did you say in rear or internal drive .

If in rear power off and remove drive and insert and see if it feels like its sitting into slot and not too thick as some drives are smaller in height and power on again and see if storage is listed.

That rear slot is a bit of a balls tbh. I had 3 standard 2.5" SATA drives at home when my h7s arrived - 1 Samsung, 2 WDs - and none of them would fit. I had to open the cover and fiddle with the slot and loosen the plastic bracket or they wouldn't slot in, too thick. It works fine now but technically I have voided my warranty.

On another note does anyone have any experience with 'Flashexpander'? Apparently it creates a link on the flash drive which effectively moves the /usr folder to the hard drive. Sounds great in theory if you're planning to install a lot of stuff. But when I tried it it broke a few plugins/settings.

In the end I didnt pursue it cos all I really want is watch/record tv with crossepg, autobouquetsmaker & slyk which should be a very vanilla scenario. But wondering should it just work transparently with no hassle?

Hi. I'm struggling to get 2nd satellite tuner to tune in. On signal finder it has a signal and then disappears 2 seconds later, showing no signal. Tuner a is showing very strong signal. Changed cables around and opposite happens. Am I using wrong settings or cable issue?

If it moves from one to the other when you swap cables implies either a bad connection on the problem cable, damage to that cable or a problem at the LNB. If you can safely access the LNB check for water in the connection. If you have a spare outlet on the LNB try that instead.

@eam77 set tuner B exactly same as Tuner A and green to save. Job done. And yes settings are wrong.

Dangerous disinformation here.

Pure2 is by far the best.

Visually stunning and works wonders right out of the box!

They were all the rage for years - the original dreambox etc - but were outmanoeuvred eventually and that was the death of them and along came a new technology anyway and times moved on. I may be wrong, maybe they made a comeback, I'm not an expert but I think one would have heard...

My triviar box died so I got another zgemma H7s via amazon.de. The box came with openatv 6.4 installed but I want to put on vix. When I go to the online image it only shows openatv. The reason I want the vix image is that I have another zgemma box with openvix 6.3.007 and I want to keep the same setup.

Can I check if the following is the correct approach:

• Download image from http://www.openvix.co.uk/index.php/downloads/zgemma-images/zgemma-h7/, but is there a specific directory that I should copy the file to?
• Change password on ftp to allow access
• Browser on the box to the image file and install

I did notice that the plugin from crossepg is not on this box either.

Any advise appreciated.

The Zgemma h7s has 4 partitions and that means you can have 4 different images. NB It is not advisable to flash the box with a new image using a USB stick as it can cause problems. As you want to keep the same Vix as on the other box this is how you should proceed.

1. Put a formatted usb stick in the box with Vix 6.3.007. 2. Go menu setup Vix click ok select backup manager , now at this point press menu and it should give an option to select backup location so select USB. GREEN to save now select new backup ie green button and a backup will be made to usb
2. Then when backup finished it will show name of backup and todays date.
3. exIt out and take out USB from ZGEMMA.
4. Now put usb with backup into rear usb on new ZGEMMA. go menu setup software management press ok select flash local/online and next menu should show full backup images, select that and your backup should appear select it and here is the bit 4 slots should appear and it will show the slot with the openatv6.4 and you want to keep that so select an empty slot and press ok and wait and your back up will be installed in new box and will boot into it. And be exactly the same as other one.
5. go slow and let us know how you got on.
6. if in doubt post back.

As an aside I would not use Crossepg with Vix

Did you setup a password on box with remote and saved it?

Filezilla and correct ip needed and same password entered.

Ok all of the above was from memory and I don't have the zgemma connected so give me a little while. Can you check usb slot at rear that box has usb 3 as well, its coloured blue the 3 one. I would use the USB 2 slot.

And can you check that the usb actually has the back up on it!! Go to other box with vix and go through the procedure above.

Yes with filezilla you could back up vix to HDD on the first zgemma and then copy that to hdd of new box. I was going the easy route!!

When you change the PW make sure to press green. And case semsitive.