This morning warkus emailed me to recommend a few tidy-ups in the S1's power supply, including telling me that I could undo the cobble I'd undertaken to keep the voltage converter from overheating, if I replaced C36. I did, and he was right as usual. When I powered the S1 up on standby to check the ...

This is embarrassing to relate. Having installed YARDWiZ on the PC, I just tried to set up WizPnP on the S1, and it was possible to do so (up to now I didn't seem to be able to do anything of the kind). Still in setup, I went to Setting, LAN, DHCP, selected Apply, and it filled in all the data. Went...

I copied getWizPnP.exe into the YARDWiz directory and YARDWiz now works. However when I ran it (just booted up the S1 and let it show TV on the monitor), YARDWiz told me it was unable to discover any wizzes. That seems to fit the hypothesis that the S1's LAN port is not operating I suppose, though I...

My daughter tells me an elevated command window should do it. I'll work on it in the morning.

The process of pasting the files into the YARDWiz directory will not work for the application file. Windows 10 Pro tells me I don't have permission, despite being the administrator. Are there alternatives?

I've tried that several times, but when it has finished installing and I run it, I get an error message "Missing GetWizPnP". It gives a URL to get that file from but of course it's a dead link. On top of that, this morning I can no longer persuade the S1 to copy saved files to my USB thumb...

peteru, I connected the S1 to a new gigabit switch with a new cable, and connected the switch to the LAN (which is gigabit also) with a tested cable. The switch illuminated the port connected to the LAN but not the one connected to the S1. I moved the cables around from one port to another, and the ...

Geoff, I installed YardWIZ, but when I try to run it, it tells me I have to install getWizPnP first. I found lots of sites that talk about getWizPnP but didn't succeed in downloading it. Has it been packed up and put away as irrelevant?

Thanks Geoff, I'll try to set up that software. It would indeed be nice to have a convenient GUI to handle that activity. I had a disaster a year or so ago converting multiple files with an elevated command line script, resulting in ffmpeg.dll disappearing from my copy of Windows 10. I'm not to be t...

Thanks Peter, there are no status LEDs on the S1. While there there are on the router, and on whichever switch the S1 connects to upstream of the router, it would be hazardous to my health to take the LAN off-line while I investigate - there is a reason I had to build an 11 port LAN, in the form of ...

Grumpy_Geoff, your prescription worked admirably once my daughter inserted the title of the file to be concatenated into the script. Avidemux happily converted it to MKV and removed the commercials, so it seems you have advanced me to the point where I can actually capture shows and convert them by ...

I appreciate the thought Ian, but her tolerance for non-current technology, or for proprietary setup issues, is negligible. She holds her nose if there is any mention of 5 year old tech, let alone this situation.

Thanks Paul, I emailed Mark about my latest trials and travails a couple of days ago and have not yet had a response to that one, though he has helped very effectively when I was working on the power supply. I agree he is vastly better informed about the innards of the S1 than I am, and he may be ab...

Thanks Ian. I'm probably too much of a klutz to do that. If I enter a reserved address into the router in the fixed IP address range (below the bottom limit of DHCP addresses) the router will not accept the reservation. If I choose one in the DHCP range it happily accepts the reservation, but then w...

Thanks Grumpy_Geoff, that sounds like the right kind of solution, I'll have to work on it. My command window syntax skills are sadly lacking, but hopefully I'll catch my daughter in a good mood and she'll give me exactly the right script to suit my circumstances. Having you tell me that the files ca...

Thanks Iansav, I tried doing that a few times, with DHCP enabled, then when I couldn't get it to work I switched to DHCP disabled and nominated a non-DHCP IP address. Each time I'd press the red and green buttons in turn a few times, but didn't have any success. It is interesting that when I choose ...

First, I think all of the replies on formatting a 64 GB thumb drive to FAT32 were correct. Windows won't do it. The special software nominated above did do it but it didn't help because the DP-S1 then won't recognise the thumb drive anyway. It seems 32 GB is the maximum. I used the S1 to format a 16...

I unplugged the LAN cable from the DP-S1 and plugged it into my computer in place of the usual cable. I'm using the S1's cable to send this post, so if you see the post, the cable, switch and router are all doing their jobs. My guess would be that the router is not issuing an identification to the S...

Thanks for that, you have given me grounds for hope that my problems are operational rather than hardware. First, on the subject of network functions, when I try to set up for LAN (either DHCP or manually) I get the same response: "Notice: LAN link down". I do not understand the firmware s...

Here is a picture of the S1 main board. If someone has information on what happens in various parts of it, or what voltages should be on one that works, it may help others as well as me.

The power supply was not unduly difficult to fix (though it did kind of stop the music for me the first time I took the cover off and found 6 visibly bulged capacitors in the power supply - I've never seen that many bulged ones in such a small space before, and a couple of them were oozing substanti...

I can only agree with the assertion that I've bought obsolescent equipment of a kind that may not age well. As an update, with some pointers from warkus I fixed the power supply by replacing 16 capacitors (warkus' 15 plus C9) and a diode (D36), and redesigning one detail so that the 12V regulator, t...

I like to do things the cheapest way I conveniently can, and have made a minor hobby of doing some physical tinkering in support of this. However that is beside the point I think, it is a personal quirk. The value that matters is the pleasure, utility, or profit a think brings you. I don't have an o...

I haven't yet been in touch with Warkus, though I should send him a PM when I figure out how, to thank him for his instructions on repairing the power supply. The truth is it's unlikely I'd have done all that it took to fix that board if it hadn't been for his insistence in that document. So far as ...

Update: I have installed the recommended app onto a phone with IR transmission capability, but unfortunately it had to be a borrowed one as my S3 does not handle IR. Therefore I have begun using the phone to teach the controls to a learning remote control so I can return the phone to its owner. The ...

Thanks for those suggestions. Ian, I use an old Samsung Galaxy S3 which I believe is Android-based. I'll look into whether it is within my technical resources to do as you suggest. The Harmony solution seems very expensive for a what, 15-year-old Beyonwiz, though I don't doubt it could work. I'm ver...

I have followed Warkus's instructions, which were very clear and effective. At the end of the process the power supply now works properly; kudos to Warkus, and to this forum for getting me this far. When I reinstalled the power supply the DP-S1 booted up immediately and wants me to initialize the HD...

Thanks for that. One thing that has mystified me is why wires 4 through 12 coming out of the power supply all have 18.75 Volts on them. Why have so many wires to do the same thing? Can anyone tell me what the voltage should be for each wire? I'll take your advice and focus on the power supply board,...

I'm brand new here and I hope I'm not going about this the wrong way. I just bought an old DP-S1 with the HDD missing because it had failed and not been replaced. I noticed immediately that the power supply board had 6 bulged electrolytic capacitors which I replaced. It now has 12.04 Volts on wire 3...