Zgemma H7s Guide

@swoofer So my devices now shows the following. The internal HDD capacity is 499GB with 465GB. Not sure where the other data came from? Perhaps having the external HSS on caused some issue? Anyway this looks to be correct now.

I only turned on the external HDD when I had issues connecting to the internal HDD. Usually I leave it turned off but plugged in.

The internal HDD has standby set to 5 minutes. I think that was the default when I got the box and I've never changed it. Thanks

Well I like your patience!! When you do a flash it asks if you want to do a backup etc and then when flashing it asks if you want to restore so if you said yes then its an update and not a clean install but things are looking up. The idea of a clean install is to leave any corrupt files behind.

That HDD had me foxed but by jove I think its right now, ie 93% free and yes the usb plugged in can be tricky.

The next bit is the final bit BUT if the USB is not recognised I would be cautious and stick with the EPG going to the HDD for now. Sometimes when you plug in a USB the system may not not recognise it and the way round it is to do a hard reboot ie press the white button. However as your box gave you trouble it might not recognise the HDD again and back to square one.

So turn off with remote plug in USB and watch it. light should flash wait and then power on with remote. go to devices and see if its there, then you initialise it and the go to epg and change to usb. With a bit of luck your good to go.

That HDD is 2016 so consider getting an SSD soon. Its about 46e or so but worth it.

joe to save you in thinking you are going blind there is no TERMINAL function with webif and openvix, it caused a fuss a while back.

Are you using windows or mac? do you know FTP?

@swoofer Thanks I'll see about the usb and have a look out for an SSD. All working fine now so maybe just see how it goes for the moment. I'll keep this all bookmarked for the next time!

Didnt know that, sorry Joe

I have the box configured for satellite & saorview and all is working fine. Is there a way to scan just for the radio channels specifically the satellite ones. Rte radio is fine but when I click on BBC radio 1 the SNR is 0 and no audio. I do see a list of the satellite radio channels but no audio from them and similar to bbc radio 1 the snr is 0.

Im on 6.5 or whatever the latest openvix is at the moment.

There is a Terminal function , now at least !

It may depend on the box or chipset the box uses. They are different builds after all.

The two boxes I have are VU+ Duo 4K SE and Octagon S8008 Supreme , one uses Broadcom and one uses a Hisilicon Huawei chipset. Both have the Terminal function under Openvix.

H7s uses an ARM chipset , so maybe that has something to do with there being no Terminal Function under openvix , or maybe there is now with the latest version of Openvix.

Now that is interesting and good to know. Well well I just checked my spare Zgemma H7S box and UPDATED to 6.5.002 latest version and terminal is back!!!

Crossepg doesnt work in 6.5 , its the first item in the release notes.

It will start and then just sit there on " downloading" , nothing happens , all you can do is reboot the box.

Openepg importer is installed by default , very very simple to set up and run , all you need to do is activate it and set a time. Its just as effective and simpler to set up than crossepg. This suggestion is directly from the release notes as an alternative to crossepg.

It works just fine.

TBH Andy i didnt even read the release notes. Just bunged it on one morning to give it a lash with my backed up settings.

The box won't ever 'offer' you an update. You need to seek it out and install yourself.

Errm, yes, I know all that and a) it will "offer you an update" by displaying the green dot on the info bar (which it isn't), and yes, the automatic check IS enabled! and b) I checked manually for an update as well and it said everything was up to date :)

Is there a possibility it's been pulled?

As I said, 6.4.011. I've re-checked just now, and no updates available, even if I select the option for unstable releases.

Looking on the forum there are reports of people who downloaded 6.5.002 on April 1st (!) seeing 6.4.011 in the version info, but if they downloaded it at a later date and reinstalled, it then showed the correct version. That doesn't seem to be the case for me though as everywhere the version number can be seen (Image Manager, Backup Manager, Multiboot Image Selector, Version info) it all shows 6.4.011 installed on 23rd March.

Very odd ..

No problem, it was always set to on on my box I think. It was a customized image installed by the supplier, so probably a lot of settings were preset by them. I've had loads of updates since I got the box, all signalled by the green flashing blob, so I'm at a loss as to why it seems to have stopped now.

I still haven't fully switched over from Sky yet… I'm still testing and getting the Mrs used to the idea of this.

One thing I noticed was that when I was pointing to a NAS share for the timeshift was that there didn't seem to be a limit to how long a timeshift could be. Is that right??
Luckily I had a quota set on the share (1TB) and so it didn't fill up the entire storage pool!

Is there a way to limit a timeshift to, say, 1hr? or do I have to remember to turn box off before I fill my storage?

It will offer updates say on 6.4.xxx and install them automatically if you have it set that way.

It will never update between major revisions , so 6.4.xxx to 6.5.xxx will never be an update ,

Ah, yes, that would explain it.

I always set boxes up by scratch and if you have a laptop connected to network use your box IP to login and match the settings while you use the remote of new box.

You have tv with new box and using webif to connect to h7s on your laptop.

It is but I don't have to point it directly at the box like the H7. I can use the remote from any direction on the H8

You want to setup your new box like i assume.

Do you have a laptop or desktop at home if so enter your box ip like 192.168.0.24 into the browser and you get an entry into H7S.

The easy way out is to get this remote for 10 euro at amazon, "" New Replacement Zgemma Remote Control for Zgemma Star Satellite Receiver - No Setup Needed '' Free delivery with prime.

Just put that in the amazon search and the one that pops up is the one you need, the 10 euro price is also a hint.

Upgraded from Tiviar to ZGemma on OpenVix 6.5. Got it from WOS and all is going fine. Very easy setup.

One problem I am having is the the Zgemma keeps dropping off the network. It's connected via wifi using a USB dongle I had with tiviar and just switched it out. I can go into network settings and restart network and it comes back online, but drops again after a couple of hours.

Right now I'm watching TV and it's telling me no network connection.

Any ideas what it might be?

you would need to say name of the usb wi fi dongle and then can check for a driver. 6.5 is very new and may have a glitch. did you dwonload a driver when using dongle on tiviar?

And thats all you should have to do. I have the generic €10 wifi dongle for usb from freesat.ie and no problem. Is the box in a funny spot where the signal may be weak?

sorry if this has been posted before but spent literally hours searching everywhere for info. I added a few add ons to kodi and whenever I have tried to play any programs or videos it stuttered a lot. Checked all I could settings etc and no avail. Keeps happening on all apps and I’ve yet to get a clear playback also from downloads. I’ve just seen now going into summery that the memory usage is stuck at 87% when idle. Which now I’m assuming is what’s causing the playback issue. Has anyone any advice on this? The box is only a couple of months if even old has an ssd with it etc and was bought and also set up by world of satellite. I am afraid to mess around in case it bunches the box or kodi on me as I remember from years ago they could be seriously temperamental.

Edit I haven’t changed or done anything for kodi itself like new skins or anything it’s just the default ones. Programs I added were Asgard and the crew.