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When it goes black, press the OK button on the remote. If you get the infobar, it just means you are not tuned to any service. If that is the case, press the MENU button and rescan to get a new set of services.

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It depends on the .ts file. If there are discontinuities, it can take several seconds to parse. One of the simplest ways to check, is to repeatedly press the down button to highlight each recording in turn. Moving from file to file should take a fraction of a second. If a particular file takes longe...

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It would be fairly simple to plug in a usb thumb drive (on both units), do some recording (on the thumb drive) and then playback/skip. It should tell you straight away whether the issue is drive/unit related. Just keep in mind that many USB memory sticks are horrifically slow and may not be able to...

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My guess is that someone deleted some of the metadata files (or somehow they became invalid) and the .ts files are being parsed during directory load.

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Go on, rub it in while most of us are not even allowed to leave the house without a mask!

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Was your storage device formatted by the Beyonwiz? (If it is possible to read the contents of the HDD on a standard Windows PC or a Mac installation, then the HDD is not formatted correctly and could be the source of the problems.)

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The ODM that makes the various variants of the hardware used in Beyonwiz V2 also makes other, very similar, models for specific markets and brands sold around the world. Unfortunately the ODM institutes a copy protection / hardware cloning defeat mechanism that stops the firmware for one brand of a ...

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The problem is with your network infrastructure. If your DHCP server assigns a different IP, the old mount definitions on your Beyonwizes will become invalid. You need to instruct your DHCP server to always assign the same IP address to each device. Usually this can be done by associating a specific...

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Thanks for the bug report. The next beta update should fix the crashing problem.

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Good catch!

This is definitely something that should be fixed before the beta is promoted to release candidate and then goes official.

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I'm looking at adding a startup wizard screen to allow the preferred audio track language Please don't. The installation wizard should do as little as possible and not get in the way. Pull requests that complicate the initial set up process and slow it down will be rejected. The sensible approach w...

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Give it another decade and people will not even comprehend that an antenna would be so big it doesn't fit in your pocket, let alone be mounted on a stick on the roof of a house!

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I've had the V2 recording to my NAS without issues for about 3 months during early V2 firmware development. That V2 now has a 2.5" USB drive attached so that I can test typical usage scenarios. However, during development, I even used the NAS for timeshift. It worked fine. I have GigE network w...

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Great to hear.

tl;dr - When experiencing reception issues, have your antenna and cabling checked by a professional first. It will avoid a lot of frustration and wasted time.

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There are several different APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) available for querying the tuners and frontends. Different drivers provide different APIs and statistics. On top of that, different hardware will report a different set of values to the driver. And just to make sure that the probl...

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I'm guessing here, but given the amount of effort that Pearce has put in, getting a working solution at this stage is probably more important than a $30-$50 savings on am RF amplifier that he probably won't need because the antenna installer will supply one as part of the package. It's reasonable to...

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There are at least 19 firmware versions in the 16.1 family and at least 21 firmware versions in the 19.3 family (so far). Those counts don't include versions that were only ever available as online updates. More trivia from the nitpickers club... :lol: V2 firmware revisions in 19.3 series = 100 U4 ...

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This part of the EPG code is quite robust To be honest, it's nowhere near where I'd like it to be in terms of code quality, but it used to be a lot worse. When I took over the Beyonwiz fork of the enigma2 code 8 years ago, the EPG implementation was a lot harder to read, had many memory leaks, lock...

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I have split this topic to move the unrelated EPG discussion, which can now be found in the General Discussion section.

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When you get the installer in, you are looking for readings that will put Q: in the 95-100% range. S: can sit anywhere between 66-99%, but it should be steady. If S: moves up and down a lot, that indicates a problem. Basically you want high quality (so that there is no missing data) and constant sig...

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I suppose FileZilla may be the best tool on Windows boxes. Windows may not support secure FTP out of the box.

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Not sure how Windows does it, but under Linux it's as simple as using sftp://root@beyonwizt4/

That also works in Firefox, but not in Chrome.

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Try using (S)FTP rather than SMB.

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While amplifying the signal often helps, it is not a universal fix. It could be that all you need to do is rotate your antenna 5% clockwise or perhaps just straighten the pole that it is mounted on. It could be that you need to adjust the gain on your existing amplifier. Or it could be that you need...

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OK, thanks for letting us know.

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I had an antenna guy out to look at improvements and after measurements etc he said I have an adequate or Ok signal strength. Also I have an antenna booster n the system. If the only thing that the installer measured is signal strength, then get a better technician to check the system. What you wan...

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So far all the signs point to marginal reception/signal quality. I don't think there is anything wrong with the USB tuner. Get your antenna and distribution problems sorted and you will find that everything will just start working. There's very little value in collecting any more logs if you don't h...

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Check the detailed specifications of the external drive. If it never draws more than 950mA@5V, it will be fine. The spin up power consumption is usually the highest. Please note that you need to know the total power consumption of the installed HDD, the USB interface and the enclosure. If you can, c...

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The overnight update to 20210801 has fixed the power timer-induced crash at startup in the previous version. Thank you for confirming the fix. I've got some more updates cooking. I want to push several online only updates over the next few weeks to see how my changes to that part of the firmware ar...

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could you update your git tag? Which one? :lol: There's many dozens of repos. Some are tagged rather well, some are not tagged at all and many are somewhere in between, with ad-hoc tag tactics employed. If you let me know which particular repo you are thinking of (or at least what you are looking a...

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Brian, While not impossible, it is very unlikely that the T4 hardware has somehow failed at the same time as you were making software changes. The most likely scenarios I can see: Some configuration change has caused another device in the system to lockup or at least misbehave. A complete power cycl...

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The factory reset option in the firmware is not a great choice as it can not ensure that all user configuration has been removed. The only true "factory reset" is a complete firmware reinstall from USB, without restoring settings.

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It's unlikely there is anything wrong with your hardware, you just have an unsupported HDMI-IN audio format that causes the DSP firmware in the T4 SoC to lock up / crash. The only way to recover from that DSP firmware lock up / crash is a full reboot, although a power cycle is even better. Just swit...

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prl wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:20

prl wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:06
20210731 crashes at startup if there are any timers in pm_timers.xml.
Fix submitted.

Merged, building, will push overnight.

I will also upload USB images for a quicker recovery.

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adoxa wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:09
Could you update the plugins, too, so my IMDb update can be included?

Done.

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Merged both and pushed out an online update so that it can get some testing.

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I merged the BER changes that prl submitted as they were clearly an obvious bug with a well documented commit that is low risk. If that change enables OverlayHD to work (or be updated to work) correctly, then great. If there are more bug fixes that have a similar characteristics (obvious coding erro...

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imageversion is definitely required for all T-series. I can not give definitive answers for U4 or V2, as I have no access to the relevant source code, but I would not be surprised if imageversion was not required.

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The current beta has been around for a long, long time and is a significant improvement over the last "official" or production release. I had a chat to "management" and it was agreed that it is time to polish the current beta a little more and bless it for general release. I have...

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I intend to submit it for inclusion in the firmware It would be nice if this (or a similar feature) was integrated with the existing primetime setting. At the moment, the primetime setting just defines an arbitrary start time. If a duration (or end time) was added to primetime, then all entries in ...

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The V2 does not have to have an external HDD connected. You can easily insert a microSD card into the rear slot and use that for timeshift duties. For recording, you can connect a Gigabit Ethernet cable to the V2 and record to your NAS. Your NAS can be located elsewhere in the house and the V2 will ...

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First things first, try a different HDMI cable and different HDMI input on your TV. If you can get a low resolution (PAL) signal, but not HD signal over HDMI, it could indicate a poor connection/cabling. Please also provide a video of the TV screen during the USB firmware update process. The sequenc...

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I didn't read the whole thread, but the problem shown in the screen shot at the beginning is due to a bug that was fixed a long time ago. Upgrade firmware to latest beta version, do not restore settings. You need to connect the T2 HDMI output to a TV that will support 1080p/1080i/756i/756p/480p/480i...

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Not trying to say "I told you so!", but your experience is pretty much what I was angling at when I talked about the maturity. It sort of kind of works most of the time, except for when it doesn't. I'm certainly not the kind of person who is willing to spend thousands of dollars on consume...

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The V2 is likely to run out of memory if you try to mount an exabyte sized volume. Someone should test the practical limit.

I suspect it will be on the order of tens of petabytes, perhaps less.

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Good start. No signs of severe corrosion, such as the solder mask peeling off. However, if the last picture is the cleaned PCB, you could do better. :wink: There is some brown residue around a few solder joints - the voltage regulator leads are the most obvious. It could just be flux, but scrubbing ...

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I don't think it is helpful to compare Beyonwiz to Topfield. The software architecture between the two is vastly different and the Beyonwiz does not have as many limitations as the Topfields, even when using a similar hardware platform.

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You can still clean the area with IPA even without detaching the heat sinks. It's better than doing nothing.

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The main limitation will be due to hardware demuxer allocation, which depends on the number of source transport streams, not on the target number. That translates to the total number of in use tuners, playback and transcode streams. Whether you are making one or four recordings from the same broadca...

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