Beyonwiz Australia

DaveJ

Hi all. Long time user/lurker - very infrequent poster. Just advising my T4 announced there were updates available ... And I've today allowed the machine to do them. All's well. More detail: Networked T4. I'm on the "Public release", not in beta releases. Despite the displayed caution abou...

DaveJ

That's definitely the case when I compare the heatsinks on our in-use T2 (very early production unit) with the same heatsinks on my pre-production test unit. In the production unit, it was some sort of white goop. The pre-production unit looks like a clearish epoxy like Araldide was used. IIRC, Mar...

DaveJ

When I was talking to Warkus about the problem, he told me that breakdown products from the thermal cement used to hold the heat sinks onto the regulator can, in some cases, damage the circuit board beyond what he is able to repair. As owner of a T4 so affected - I believe the first he had seen, I ...

DaveJ

Old thread, but still just as relevant now as way back then. Mark has just done major repairs on my T4 and the wizzer is now is back and working properly. I do not fully understand all the technicalities, but I do believe what he found on the mainboard was a first for Mark and it caused him some gri...

DaveJ

Yes.

Whilst I was aware he had some health issues as a result of reading comments in this forum, I confess I forgot to ask after them when speaking with Mark. What I can say is he looked to be in good health. He certainly is currently doing electronics repair work.

Dave

DaveJ

Another bump. Had my old but much used S1 sorted by Mark in the last few days. Aside from the power supply, I know he had a bunch of other issues to deal with inside the unit and, among other things, required parts which were eventually supplied from the UK. Of course that took extra time and effort...

DaveJ

tb123 wrote:Ha, yeah, some of us still use the old stuff To be honest, it still does everything we want and (until now) has been virtually flawless. We have a DP-Lite as well that is still trucking along nicely too...

You are not the only one. Three oldie wizzers here - all working well.

DaveJ

One possible cause of timers failing we've encountered with the older Wizzers are old timers not being killed from the "timer list". Whilst on screen - press menu "Popup" on your remote. From that onscreen menu, select "Timer List". We've found any past timers that stil...

DaveJ

The DP power supplies would tend to clap out at the 2 to 3 year mark. My DP-S1 had two replacements over its lifetime, one by Beyonwiz and one from Warkus...... I must be lucky. I have a S1 bought new that is now well over a decade old still in daily use. The power supply is original and untouched.

DaveJ

I cannot make informed comment about the T series power supplies. My T4 works well is all I can say. However, for the older wizzers - the S and P series - Warkus is your man. PM him from this forum. If required, he can rebuild your power supply better than new efficiently and affordably. Good luck w...

DaveJ

Oh dear that all seems so tedious! I can edit out commercials quicker by transferring to via ProjectX or TSDoctor and do the edits there. If the recording doesn't have any glitches or require subtitles, then do it in Womble with a proper timeline. That is essentially what I do too. Pull the recordi...

DaveJ

Why would an average user of a TV recording appliance want or need to know about "add-ins" ? I'm not talking about "power users" - those of you/us who are familiar with computers and networks and forums. I'm talking about your average Ma-in-law (or my wife) who simply wants to ti...

DaveJ

prl wrote:
prl wrote:I'll ask Jai (Wiz HQ).
Done.

Thank you muchly Peter.

DaveJ

It's something that Beyonwiz probably needs to deal with. The Yahoo weather developer page ( https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ ) says: The above feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. To clarify: Should I (and, per...

DaveJ

prl wrote:....

It looks like the server now needs some sort of developer key.

Oh.

Is this something you and/or the other techie folk around here might be able to address with the Beyonwiz people? Or is it something I as a user should approach them directly over?

DaveJ

I'm getting the same error. There's nothing logged in the debug logs. I'll have a look at the source code in the next couple of days if it doesn't sort itself out. Ahh.... Thank you prl. I will await advice. It certainly isn't urgent to me, just it was a bit of a concern that I'd somehow done somet...

DaveJ

Hi all. For the last four or five days my T4 has been unable to connect to the Internet Weather page ( Menu => Weather Info ) returning the two display boxes with the left hand side one endorsed with the text: Error: Connection failed! . I do not think my network connections or internet is the probl...

DaveJ

A further small observation for those who run several older units together. I have one each of S1, P1 and P2. Before the latest round of TV changes and such, all three were networked (wired) and each could see and play back files/recordings from the others. All were running the last official firmwar...

DaveJ

I noticed yesterday Perth now has two audio tracks for 7 flix ... AAc and MPG1.

DaveJ

I am considering buying a T4 but a few things concern me: .... <snip> - Is the unit viable without the IceTv EPG? I am not interest in this additional cost as my recording needs from free to air TV are simple. I find it so. I have IceTV EPG Guides for our older S1/P1 boxes, but rely on the FTA TV E...

DaveJ

Quick check just now... 7flix only has one track in Perth. which is not to say it isn't coming. But, perhaps, Seven have received more complaints from the Melb area and are trying a "fix" where most of their complaints are? I might have thought using AC3 for sound - like 9HD - might have b...

DaveJ

A big THANK YOU to MrQuade and Grumpy_Geoff for your advice. You gave me the confidence to give it a go on one of my DP-P2's. I selected the 1.07.351 update as that was the only update since 1.05.350 listed for download under the DP-P2 heading, 1.07.350 was listed under the DP-P2TB so as my units a...

DaveJ

... I'll test my simplified procedure over the next few days. When the NINE Network reshuffle happened, a few of us in Perth (at least) had messed up services - leftovers, wrong LCNs, and duplicates. We then rescanned, clearing all services - Manual Scan, Complete scan, with 'clear before scan' set...

DaveJ

Thanks. I went ahead and ordered the T4 yesterday. Got a receipt after paying via paypal, but nothing else - no letter to say it's going to ship or anything. One would have thought that if it were in stock (as the online store said) that it would have shipped today? Now i've ordered, i'm hanging to...

DaveJ

I cannot speak about Topfields - I've never owned or used one. This household has three older series Wiz boxes (S1, P1 and, I think a P2) and has had them for quite a number of years. All fed by IceTV and we have been happy with the service provided by those units. Recently we installed a new T4 int...

DaveJ

Maybe they decided to keep the jobs in WA and have some poor sod typing in the EPG from 9-5 with an hour off for lunch and an RDO every fortnight! :lol: Once they turn off their PC for the day, the EPG is gone. :roll: Sadly, with the budget they are likely working off, there is probably a lot of tr...

DaveJ

Lol, I knew I couldn't have been the only one to have noticed WEST TV unpopulated... At least I know for sure now I'm not going nuts... Mark Thank you. You were certainly not the only one to notice. Nice to know a reason for it. My EPGRefresh is set to go off at about 7.30 am - so, clearly, West so...

DaveJ

prl wrote:How does this look.....

That's a "very good" from me.

DaveJ

I am trying to download TSDoctor Trial, it is an exe file on their site, It bombs out just before it completes...... Any thoughts or clue gratefully received :D http://www.cypheros.de/tsdoctor2_e.html Sorry - I cannot offer any reason for your download issue, but I was able to download the exe file...

DaveJ

prl wrote:I think it would be a good idea in the standard skins, too.

Enhancement request #453: Show program end time in [GraphicalEPGPIG].

Yes, please....

DaveJ

Just a few thoughts from a general user who recently upgraded to a T4. We previously had three older series Wiz boxes (S1, P1 & P2) all networked (wired). They worked very well for us recording TV when required and streaming from our Network Server when wanted. The old boxes had great Wife Appro...

DaveJ

Ditto here. T4 remote. Occasionally I note the remote back light on long after the remote has been put down. Can't say if it remained light from the last use, or if it came back on. Also definitely noted the "double bounce" on some presses of the remote - especially the down arrow button. ...

DaveJ

.... I don't understand the techie talk about how to do it, just that I'd rather see it work that way. ... That techie talk is coming from the people who would most likely implement it if it was decided to go ahead with it. That much I do understand! :) My point was more that I have no idea how har...

DaveJ

Wouldn't have thought so. What's in your advanced settings? Did some more testing and it needs the advanced setting of... "force scan even if receiver is in use" To seem to trigger while box is operational and not in standby. Have that option now on and it runs at each time I set it, Than...

DaveJ

A different shade is basically the same as a different colour. I think the issue is more to do with causing less confusion on the screen rather than how to actually do it. The concern with making the effort to change is that some others won't like it as it makes the epg too busy. Maybe if you could...

DaveJ

That is good news! .... Yes thanks. It is. .... What I really do like about the RXV is the remote though, I use the remote for everything (mapping the wiz colour buttons to the numbers and "memorising" the colour arrangement, mapping menu, file player etc), makes turning on/off and switch...

DaveJ

....... I'm done with it. I now have a brand new RX-A3050 to install. Prolly tomorrow when I can get the cabinet out. New amp spliced into the cabinet and all gear hooked up. Everything now "lip syncs" correctly on channel 7. Thanks to those who provided comments and input earlier in this...

DaveJ

I finally managed to extract a copy of the amps firmware from Yamaha support. I applied it this morning. Then the fun started. At the finish of applying the new firmware, the amp reboots to a "safe" screen. The user is instructed to "hard" power down, then power up to the "a...

DaveJ

.... I've got the same problem as Dave, when I'm scanning in Perth. When I first did the automatic scan, I ended up with a whole lot of 'nine network' service channels that would not work at all. Upon trying Tezza's suggestion of a manual scan, I have ended up with the old channel nine, gem etc sta...

DaveJ

.... Same, same, me! I then chose a Manual Scan, complete scan, with 'clear before scan' set to yes. This got rid of the Perth 'extras'. .... Found the problem I needed to do a manual scan Type of Scan - Complete Network scan - off - this was causing the problem Clear before scan - yes Ummm - OK, I...

DaveJ

In Perth after a new scan Old 9 now has no sound 90/91/91/92/93/94/95 no picture or sound 99 Go! no sound 350 Extra 2 351 Channel 9 Perth 352 9HD Perth 353 9Go! 354 9Life 355 Extra 356 Channel 9 Perth 357 9Gem 358 9Go! Yeah - me too. Exactly. duplicates in the Terrestial listing. The original stati...

DaveJ

Yep. 9HD works fine on my old series S1, P1 & P2.

Dolby Digital 5.1 sound too.

DaveJ

AC3 5.1 audio track! Just out of interest, where do you see in the T4 that it's 5.1? The Audio menu just shows AC3 English and the Info bar shows Dolby Digital. Steve Just re-scanned my PVRs. For Perth, 9HD works on an S1, P1 and P2. My amps report they are receiving 5.1 channels from that station ...

DaveJ

Several emails back and forward between Yamaha support and myself then, after a weeks silence following a "what is happening" prompt from me, I received a general comment that a firmware update would be unlikely to help when "the TV station is broadcasting out of sync". This, des...

DaveJ

IanSav wrote:Hi Davej,
When I found out that they were going AC3 I didn't ask and they didn't offer any further details.
...

Ah. OK. Thanks.

I guess I'll just have to "wait and see" - like everybody else.

DaveJ

Hi All, I just spoke with Channel 9 and have some good news for Classic Beyonwiz owners. The new 9HD channel will be using AC3 audio and not HE-AAC so all older model Beyonwiz units should be able to record *AND* playback the new 9HD transmissions. Regards, Ian. Thank you for the advice, Ian. When ...

DaveJ

A general update on my lipsync problems. * I did ask questions of Yamaha. Not that impressed so far. Takes a long time for them to respond (3 working days after sending first email and now have waited 4 working days since I last answered their questions). They do advise not to use the US firmware fo...

DaveJ

I have the 3800 and there was definitely at least one firmware update for it, this was a long time ago now though. I am not at home to check the details for you though..... S'OK, thanks. I've a question in with Yamaha about the correct firmware and where to source it, so I'll see if they respond wi...

DaveJ

Hi Dave, The efforts in chasing down firmware are not for nought. My RX-A3000 has upgraded itself from 3.43 to 3.65. :D Regards, Ian. hehe - good for you! Can you see what has been altered/changed/updated as a result? [I'm wondering how your good fortune is going to help me later today when The Wif...

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