Beyonwiz Australia

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Your best option is to get the T4 repaired.

The other options are in the "second best" category.

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Probably the easiest option is to go to the toolbox menu and select the gaffer tape option. You may need to apply more than one patch to get the result you are after.

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It's the same problem. It manifests itself in many variations. Completely AWOL pair of tuners means complete regulator failure. It's certainly worth attempting to repair it.

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Here is a story from my end. I don't expect that you are in the same boat, but here it goes... I have a V2 on the pile of " see if I can fix it later " things. It's a pre-production or very early production unit that I used to develop the V2 firmware. Initially it would have a random crash...

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Was your replacement capacitor a high quality, low ESR part? A generic Jaycar capacitor is probably not sufficient for power supply duties. And are you now using the new (high quality?) external power supply? I would be a bit wary of the original Beyonwiz power brick after a couple of years of conti...

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Overscan settings can be per-input. Thus turning overscan off for the Amazon Firestick input does not necessarily mean that overscan will also be turned off for the Beyonwiz input.

Check all settings again while viewing the Beyonwiz.

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If the T4 has one heat sink spanning two voltage regulators of different heights and/or the factory original heat sink adhesive has not been completely removed, the a complete shut down, when not in use, is probably better. If the T4 has no circuit board damage, all the gunk was cleaned off, the vol...

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TV.
Make and model?

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Oh, if you can, bring your V2 with you and make sure that the power brick plug makes good contact. This kind of plug comes in two variants for the centre pin and when mismatched it's either loose or won't go in. There are a few manufacturers that use plugs that can accommodate both variants, with an...

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Those are 3.5" drives. The datasheet for WD40EFRX shows the peak 12V DC current at 1.75A (that's 21W during spin-up) and sustained power draw between 3.3W (idle) and 4.5W (write 180MB/s). By comparison, a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro drive consumes between 0.055W (idle) and 8.6W (write 6,900MB/s). Power...

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I don't think anyone ever made 5.25" 4TB drives. Even if they did, you'd need to take into account that they need both 5V and 12V rails. 5.25" HDD platters are heavy, so it takes a fair bit of power to get them spinning. SSD power draw (and consequently the heat generated) is very variable...

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Jaycar will have one. 12V DC, 2.5A. Just under $40. or High quality 12V DC, 5A. Just under $70. It may be overkill for a V2 without peripherals, but it is a high quality unit. It's got enough capacity to be used for other devices, if needed. Don't buy the cheap $20 units of eBay or other marketplace...

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NASA Electronics

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No consumer grade file system (capable of running on PVR hardware) is reliable when it comes to flaky hardware or power loss. "Flaky hardware" includes many USB drives, especially those that enter various power saving states without being told to do so by the operating system. The most lik...

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Best bet would be to use the RS-232 serial console of the T2 to collect the output during the time this problem occurs. There's a good chance it would include some useful messages.

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Yep. Look after your T4. If you haven't had the tuner voltage regulator heat sinks checked and / or replaced, consider doing so before the thermal compound deteriorates enough to damage the motherboard and make the T4 unrepairable. If your T4 is flaky or does not work any more, do not put it in stor...

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Mixedemoticons wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 16, 2024 13:55
Not sure what else you want me to do or say, but you're making it seem like it's my fault?

I think he's trying to get enough information to understand and reproduce the problem so that it can be fixed.

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A refurbished T4.

There's nothing else like the T4 available in Australia.

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It's unlikely (though not impossible) that a lightning strike would give you glitchy HDMI output. The symptoms you describe could be a result of poor or deteriorating cabling / connection. I'd try a different (high quality) HDMI cable and would also test a different HDMI input on the AVR / TV. And o...

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As an alternative, the web interface API provides an endpoint for renaming recordings.

See: source code

You need to pass two arguments:

sRef is the service reference of the recording
newname is the new name.

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Some of the menu hooks have changed over the years, so firmware compatibility is the most likely cause. I can't think of any good reasons to stay with 16.1, over upgrading to 19.3, except for the effort of redoing all the settings. That process can be made somewhat easier by taking screenshots of th...

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Is a new bootloader needed for 19.3 (I think I have 20150312 currently)? That is the latest public release for the T3. You should be good with that one. Can I backup settings on 16.1 and restore OK on 19.3 ? Unfortunately no. Too many things have changed since 16.1 and the old settings backups are ...

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It's unlikely, but perhaps not impossible, that it would work. It really depends on whether the plugin code is backwards compatible with such an old version of the firmware. I was going to say that adoxa will probably know, but I'm pretty sure that the 16.1 series firmware predates the plugin by man...

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Are you using the Current firmware - 19.3_20211010 ?

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Download the above mips file. Put the file in the root folder of a FAT32 formatted USB stick. Plug USB stick into T3. At this stage you should be prompted if you want to install the plugin. If that is not the case, you can use the File Commander (main menu, rightmost column, Sources / Files) to loc...

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MrQuade wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 26, 2023 23:30
Spamsung.

Is that a trevor or an intentional reference to their firmware bloatware / advertising?

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My T4 fell over in a similar way about the same time (however I was in Melbourne and could not do anything about it). I had the family turn it off at the wall until I had the time to look at it. Yesterday, I hooked up the serial port for debugging and discovered that the internal flash was somehow c...

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Sounds like the capacitors on the front panel needed replacing.

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Just FYI, "reset to factory defaults" doesn't actually do what it says on the label. At best it replaces some, but not all, settings files with default ones. The only proper way to get a clean firmware installation is to do full USB flash and not restore the settings when prompted. But, if...

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You'll find that most users would use the REC button for these tasks, rather than the coloured buttons. If there is a bug related to this particular usage pattern, no one has been bothered by it for many years. The T4 has been out of production for many, many years. In fact it has been several years...

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In my experience, 20TB drives are much faster than 4TB or 8TB drives. For use with Beyonwiz, any of those sizes are more than fast enough. Just to put some numbers to that statement. Running a full disk scrub on a Linux server gives these speeds: 2.5" 1TB WD Blue SATA: 73.86MiB/s 3.5" 8 T...

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Sending a simple keypress should be achievable with a browser bookmark that sends the code for POWER to OpenWebif.

Grumpy_Geoff should be able to provide a more detailed recipe as he has done some extensive scripting with wget.

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I paid a $540 for a 20TB high performance CMR + Flash NAS drive a month ago. That included delivery. That's only $27/TB and there are cheaper drives available, around the $25/TB mark.

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In my experience, 20TB drives are much faster than 4TB or 8TB drives. For use with Beyonwiz, any of those sizes are more than fast enough.

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If there are no obvious issues, I suggest that you stop fretting about that long gone warning and leave things alone.

You are more likely to break something if you go around messing with things.

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The standard picons-feed is preconfigured in firmware 19.3 20211010

Code: Select all

src/gz beyonwiz-picons https://peteru.net/picons/beyonwiz/19.3

As long as you are running the above version of the firmware you should not have to do anything to enable this feed.

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No.

What was the error?

Did you try rebooting?

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Gully wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 06, 2023 22:03
Just got the picon update through adoxa's feed.

How can you tell which feed it came through?

Version number?

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Should be available via the standard picon feed now.

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Try this simple page . You will probably want to select "Account Help". If you can not get through their website gauntlet and want to talk to a person, try: Atlassian Sydney (Global HQ) Level 6, 341 George Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia +61 2 9262 1443 If nothing else, they might give...

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Don't create a new account. Get in touch with Atlassian support and get them to help you with continuing using the account you've been using previously. Also, if you have set up ssh keys (and you probably did, in order to be able to push changes), these should continue working. Just be aware that Bi...

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The information given is less than precise, so I'd be inclined to take the details with a grain of salt. I'm fairly confident that the speed was never at 10GB/s. That would imply a connection in the ~100 Gigabit/s category and such throughput is pretty much unattainable with current consumer hardwar...

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Are you sure it is 2TB, not 2GB? A 2TB USB drive in a stick form factor would be either an external SSD (expensive) or a normal USB stick with fake capacity (usually at a price too good to be true, although some scammers will sell fake drives at same prices as genuine articles). Before you put any d...

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If the router speed drops down to 100 Mbps/s on more than one router port, it stands to reason that it's the cable or the thing connected to the other end of the cable that's causing the slow speed. Since you tried multiple cables and got the same results, that leaves the Beyonwiz as the most likely...

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hugson wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 26, 2023 14:08
Beyonwiz' rotten software.

Yeah - No!

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The AP-U1, IMNSHO, is not a great remote. It came from the factory pre-programmed with one set of Beyonwiz codes (only about 90% compatible), but these were just loaded into the "user" memory. If at any stage you reset the AP-U1, all the Beyonwiz codes would be lost and the only way to get...

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Make sure that the enclosures don't put the HDD to sleep. Or that the drive isn't programmed to go to sleep. Leave the HDD power management to the Beyonwiz, otherwise you will end up with what amounts to unexpectedly disconnecting the HDD. That's bad juju.

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If you are trying to record directly to a USB stick, then I am not surprised that you see problems. The majority of USB sticks are not designed for real-time recording performance and can have unacceptable write latency. If you require a small form factor solid state solution, an A/V rated SD or mic...

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