Zgemma H7s Guide

Clo Clo is on 6.2 and not 6.5 and maybe update image to a newer version?

@swoofer you sir are a legend I was missing the step “ now press menu and see 1 set as start up, select it.” all will be happy in the universe I must have already deleted the favourite bouquet but the custom one appears to be working

It's a decent SSD - Crucial Mx500.
I would have thought a USB stick (under the same load) was way more likely to fail over time compared to an SSD.

I guess SSD may be overkill but it was a spare one I had

Agreed. I have an SSD that is at least 8 years old in one box and still working perfectly. The box is more likely to die before an SSD.

I seem to have lost now 60s or is it that's 60s turned to that's memories, anyone else.

Hi there,

My box crashed a couple of days ago and since then i can't get hard drive working. In my folders just a usb i use for epg/ backup is showing. When i go into storage i can see the hdd. Thanks

Can anyone point me to a list of OpenViX plugins with at least a one line description of what each does? Or, failing that, what are your "must haves"?

I'm surprised that there's no onscreen display as you browse these to indicate a bit more about what they do, with a URL perhaps. Asking because I've installed a couple that didn't do what I expected (indeed didn't appear to do anything) — I'm not sure if they're "legacy" items that no longer work — and in a few cases it's a case of "guess what this is"?

Why did you update to 7.4 as its not stable in fact they have moved to 7.5. Did you make a backup of 6.4? It may appear easy to upgrade but did you follow the onscreen prompts correctly?

To get the channels back you would need to run ABM but needs configuring. Can you go back to 6.4?

Re the plugins you need to tell me a bit more like the verions of the vix you are using? with VIX it will come with all the usual plugins installed and they will only need adding to for a specific purpose. PLUGINS is the generic term as it covers a multitude, like drivers, picons, settings, skins, extensions, languages, softcams, sytemplugins and so forth so for 28 east you should need nothing. but to give an example, say you want to add a usb dtt tuner then you would need to go to plugins to add the correct driver, or say you wanted to use IPTV you would add a pluigin like XCplugin, in other words you need to know what you need in the first place. say what you are tryig to acheive and i'll see if i can help.

plugins

Apologies, I upgraded from OpenViX 6.4.011 to 6.6.003. I hadn't really bothered with plugins up to now, but was aware of many things I hadn't a clue about under the Plugins menu, that is extensions, not things like skins and picons, and I tried to figure some out.

Your instance of XCplugin illustrates my point somewhat. It's got a subtitle as "plugin for the free streaming". This might immediately mean IP streaming to you, and I might well guess it, but it would not to everyone.

Not far away on the same page we have a plugin called vierg, another called xpower. I have no idea what these do. I can't make an informed decision whether they might be useful. xmodem rings a bell (or did once, but what's it doing here?). vlcplayer is something else I recognise. Searching on "enigma2 plugin vlcplayer" yields no README information https://github.com/opendreambox/enigma2-plugin-vlcplayer and a purpose I can't imagine—unless from here should read "via"? Yes, I can and probably will try that.

I found myself putting the names of some extensions into a web search and not finding much useful information, and tbh I wasn't impressed at having to do so. I'd like to think I have simply overlooked a resource and that this isn't the best way to discover their purpose. After all, some conscious decisions must have been made about what to include. Have I? I appreciate the offer of help, thanks! In the short term the main thing I'm looking for is an IP server plugin, but in general I would like to see better information readily available with the extensions.

Great, I didn't understand you were answering someone else and I actually looked back! sorry.

Anyway, I think I know what's going on with my problem but don't know how to solve it yet: it seems the settings in CrossEPG go back to the default which is No scheduled downloads. i.e. it doesn't save the CrossEPG settings after changing them. There is no Save button.

Is there a config file on the disk I can edit manually? Maybe the file permissions are incorrect?

No specific reason I use OpenATV. Somewhere 13 years ago I got the Amiko Alien and installed OpenATV. I like the Metrix skin.

I thought the different distributions of enigma2 were largely the same? Well I hope they share code!

Wouldn't mind trying Vix though I am not sure I can flash it alongside OpenATV from OpenATV.

Another option would be to ditch CrossEPG and try another EPG plugin, but I don't know any good ones.

In the mean time, I will try to find OpenATV 7.5

I have been away, but you have a glitch in Crossepg that I have not seen before when you change schedule download to once a day you should get a second line showing the time you want it to download. Here is a pic

I am using the 29 June image and if you go to flash online u will see quite a few versions, note the dates and then while there press yellow button and you will see 7 different images go to vix and use 6.5 don't use 6.6 but first go back and see which version of 7.3 you are using, menu information about if its 29 June then its your box . You can remove the plugin and download again but only after a hard reboot. ie white button. If you are not on latest 7.3 flash it.

When you decide to flash vix put it on a new partition and do as a clean install do not use settings from openatv.

They have croos epg on vix as well but you wont need it. If you stick with openatv you can use epgimporter instead.

If you flash 6.6 I dont want to know.

If you are confused just say so. You may have gleaned I have more than one box.

Thanks Swoofer,

Is there a single master repository for CrossEPG plugin? It's confusing as I see a version that looks like the original repo on Github that hasn't changed in years. Very hard to find the source code for my version which is 0.91:

root@zgemmah7:/# opkg list-installed | grep -i crossepg
enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-crossepg - 0.9.1+gitr558+7e763380+7e76338c8d-r4

I will look into flashing OpenVix. Not sure yet how to do that from OpenATV without losing OpenATV 6.4

And last, hopefully a quick question: what does epgimporter do? Is it just similar to CrossEPG?

"You should only use a plugin when you know what it will do, it not a case of looking and seeing if one matches your needs. Say you would like to test the BB speed on your box then you would ask on a forum that supports the image or the box. In this instance. The plugin is under extensions and called netspeedtest(2.1.4)."

I wouldn't dream of using a plugin without knowing something about it, which was the point of my question. I don't believe I should have to ask "What does this do?" in an online forum in order to discover what's possible. It's not the approach taken for any other software repository I've used to date, whether applications or plugins/extensions. And it's not the approach taken for many Enigam2 plugins/extensions which DO indicate their purpose, either in the name or in a subtitle. Many, however, do not.

"What do you mean by an IP- server plugin and I may be able to help! "

Thanks. A difference between OpenATV and OpenViX that I'm aware of — a potential consideration in deciding which to use — is that the former supports IP streaming to client devices. Currently my ZGemma H7S is in a location with only one satellite connection available and installing another there isn't practical, but I do have wired Ethernet in place. If the device was able to function as an IP server I could look at moving it to the attic and installing, say, a raspberry pi running Minisat IP streaming software or something similar. (I already have one in place acting as a Kodi client for a LibreElec based PVR).

"This is the vierg plugin"

This appears to be a game of some kind and even to discover this I had to spend time clicking on a dozen denials of collecting data on grounds of "legitimate interest". What this is doing in an Enigma2 repository beats me—if the link is what it's supposed to be. The word "game" (or spiel for that matter) in the name or the subtitle would have save us the time spent discussing it. I wonder how you discovered what it was.

Hi, can anyone help me here please. Don't know what is going on. Happens with all plugin downloads