Zgemma H7s Guide

Storage full?

I meant more like the root partition /dev/mmcblk0...somethingorother but long shot ye

what does 'df' say at the command line?

My one is at 37% and I barely installed anything, so its possible.

root@zgemmah7:~# df
Filesystem      1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p8     1037616  356156  610704 37% /
devtmpfs        190200     4  190196  0% /dev
tmpfs            64     0    64  0% /media
/dev/mmcblk0p1      3050    18   3032  1% /boot
tmpfs          513956   5224  508732  1% /var/volatile
none          513956     0  513956  0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1      979531780  8481732 921218816  1% /media/hdd
/dev/sda1      979531780  8481732 921218816  1% /export/movie
tmpfs          513956   5224  508732  1% /export/tmp
root@zgemmah7:~# 

Triviar is same as zgemma as in openatv or openvix or so right? In this case easiest is the openwebif plugin and its 'terminal'.

I learnt most of what I know about these boxes and enigma 2 from reading posts on here and on the WOS forums where I bought my boxes before brexit.

From day one , the key idea is to use autobouquetmaker for automatic tuning and to set up your favourites.

This I have always done.

If a channel moves , it stops working from my favourites , but will have been re-tuned at 3:30am by Autobouquetmaker , and its just a question of finding it in the other bouquets and copying new for old into my favourites.

When Autobouquetmaker runs at 3:30am , it wipes the previous tunings to replace them with the latest , so If I try to do a manual tune , then depending on exactly how that manual tune is done I might end up wiping the EPG , until autobouquetmaker does its thing again at 3:30 am !

The way mine is setup , if a channel goes missing , I run autobouquetmaker , which can be done at any time by going into it and selecting download now , it only takes a few minutes.

If I re-set the box , then its going to take the best part of the day to get back to where I was set-up wise.

There is a lot to do when setting up from scratch.

FTR , I dont bother with EarthX , it is not in my favourites, but it is there and working fine under the FTA HD Bouquet.

@CalamariFritti

I set mine up when Channel 4HD was still not on the Freesat or Sky EPG's , so it had to be set up to grab that channel and put it in a bouquet at that time.

Screenshot below from my webif , and EarthXHD shows up in Sky UK FTA HD bouquet as you can see.

To do this , I have the " providers " ordered as shown on the left , that's all there is to it.

I didnt create that Sky UK FTA HD bouquet , it just showed up when I added BskyB as a provider.

I do nothing and see it listed in ABM in FTA HD channels

Freesat UK yes and

Sky UK as providers

There is a set of bouquets for Sky and a set for freesat , so yes , there must be some duplicates in there , but none of that matters , as the favourites bouquet is the only one that is ever used , its the one that is there when the box starts up and the only one ever used.

The main thing is that any FTA channel I want , or will ever want , is there in one of the bouquets if and when I need it. No manual tuning required. ABM wipes and refreshes everything at 3:30am daily. The only bouquet it does not touch is the favourites bouquet.

It is by far the best way to set up these boxes.

No faffing about with manual tuning every time something moves , its there in one of the bouquets , always!

My favourites bouquet is set up with about 70 channels , in the order I want them , that is what my EPG looks like.

Im on openvix , if I need a channel from one of the other bouquets , I just hit the up arrow and the rest of the bouquets are shown.

Very good. Updating nightly (presumably full scan then ABM) seems a bit excessive but overall I really like that - never occurred to me.

I assume since favourites are only references to channels even when frequencies change you dont even notice there was a change since you're only using favourites? Only thing you'd notice was when say BBC turned off their SDs and replaced them with their HDs or so but then again you probably never had the SDs in your favourites anyway.

So you have like I dont know 50 favourites and they always stay the same and presumably saorview and SAT mixed and everything? Correct?

I really like the sound of it cos realistically how often do you go into section bouquets anyway unless for red button maybe or so. Me not much. Mostly Im in 'Saorview' and in FreeSAT 'Entertainment'. Mostly watching say maybe 20 channels unless there is a match on somewhere else.

I dont know 99% of my TV happens on the main channels like RTE, BBC, ITV etc the only time I'm in my bouquets is when I want a news channel or BBC red button. The rest is Netflix etc. TV could easily be done from a single favourites bouquet I reckon. I'll give this a try and see how I like it I think.

Thanks in that case I dont really see the big advantage over having a small number of bouquets which I occasionally rescan.

The only advantage 'favourites' has then is it doesnt get deleted by ABM rescan. A manually created 'Others' bouquet for example would.

Yup , only have the HD version of channels in favourites where they exist.

I was oblivious to the entire BBC SD thing , only read about it on here , as Im only interested in the HD versions.

ABM recommended default is to scan nightly at 3:30 am , I didnt make that choice , I just left it at default , if that is what is recommended then that is what I do.

ABM is installed by default in the latest openvix. It is already setup in the EPG section.

The only changes I made in ABM were to enter my local Saorview settings and add BskyB as a provider to make sure all FTA channels were available. ( Some channels have an on / off relationship with "Freesat" like Channel4HD and CNN HD for example. )

My favourites start with all the Saorview channels , then the BBCs then the ITVs , then Channel 4/E4 /More4's and so on , basically anything worth watching ( to me ) is in there.

Occasionally a channel moves , in which case the one in favourites just shows a blank EPG , but ABM will have caught the move , so I just open webif , delete from favourites , and re add it from its relevant bouquet and Im done. Takes less than 5 minutes.

Just to clarify. In ABM 'BSkyB' is called 'SkyUK' right?

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