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HobbsAu

I did not have the machine looked at back then - no idea who to send it to was one thing, but the other thing was that there was a stream of firmware updates, each of which would sort out some problem or other so I just kept on updating. I suspect that there is a dry joint / bad connection in the fr...

HobbsAu

Thanks for your replies, folks. As far as the -P2 is concerned it has chewed up a few disks including the one it came with; just seems to lose the FAT and not be able to find the recordings. Take the disk out and look on a PC via UFS and the files are there and copy-able, no obvious problem. But it ...

HobbsAu

I have a DP-P2, bought because of the increased disk size to replace a bullet proof DP-P1. It has power supply problems and is continuously losing its disk. I am 99.8% sure that this is the case as no matter what I disk or SATA cable I have tried the machine eventually craps itself and loses the dis...

HobbsAu

Well I opened up the T3 this afternoon after finding the files missing once more. I checked the connections, could find nothing obvious but, since I was there and had a 1.5TB WD green drive available doing nothing I thought I would swap it in. However, after re-building and plugging back in, there w...

HobbsAu

Hi, folks, No avoidance of the firmware updates here; all is bang up to date (I did a check on Saturday for any updates available via the menu and network connection). Nope, not moved recording files anywhere, I have a 2TB disk (certainly a WD, possibly a purple drive) in it. This morning the proble...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, My T3 is 2 years old soon and, aside from the not-yet-ready multitude of fw updates, has performed well enough. In the last couple of weeks, though, we seem to have a problem. If recordings are deleted, the next time the machine is switched on (from stand-by) the Movies folder does ...

HobbsAu

G'day, folks, Update follows... When I repeated play-back of files to reproduce the switch off problem it did, indeed, switch off. And on... and so on. So I tried the tea-towel option over the front. As soon as the towel touched the front panel, the power off button was activated. Often. Until I rem...

HobbsAu

No new items in the house, no. This problem occurred last night (ie when house lights were on) and today (no lights on). It is very significant, I think, that it only started to happen after the bootloader upgrade but, like you, I cannot really imagine why it would be. I think the most likely sugges...

HobbsAu

Addendum: Apologies, I missed a bit of information. By "switching off" I mean it goes into Stand-by mode as you described it, with the date/time displayed. Then it powers back up and resumes playing the file (if it is video) with the "Do you wish to continue from *time*?" prompt....

HobbsAu

The update to which I refer is the boot loader update. As per: Dear T3 owner, Please head to the following link for further information and to download the Bootloader update. This will increase stability of your T3 when connecting multiple USB devices. http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, Yesterday, I installed the new version of the whatever-it-was-that-I-need-to-install-this-week-to-get-a-working-box software, hoping that the improved stability regarding USB devices might mean fewer crashes while using the T3. For me, this mostly involved when chase-playing somethi...

HobbsAu

Is the stutter playback really fixed in the next software release? I ask because it is getting worse - occurring on every recorded file, regardless of the channel it was recorded from. I rarely watch live TV, so difficult to say if it is a playback only thing. That said, I am now using live TV and n...

HobbsAu

Hi, Gully,

That did, indeed, sort the problem. Never had to do that before, but thanks for the info.

Cheers.

HobbsAu

Hi, Gully,

Not had to do that before and I don't know how it is done -other than doing a complete re-scan. Do you mean just getting rid of the old SBS channels? If so, how?

HobbsAu

Hi, folks, That Kingray splitter/amplifier was the one I got from Jaycar. I got the money back from them, though, and did some more research. Interestingly enough, with the amplifier out of the system (and also the splitter that sent signal to the USB tuner and to the Toppy) the signal on the Toppy ...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I have a riddle, one that I am seriously puzzled over but I am hoping that someone has seen it and knows how to get round it. Fairly recently, SBS in Sydney changed frequencies. Good enough, the TV and my Toppy 7160 duly sought for and were rewarded with SBS on new frequencies, Chan...

HobbsAu

@blip: I had the USB tuner and the lead to the Toppy connected to the T3 output connector via a passive splitter, so splitting the signal. I have since tried it with the USB connected directly to the T3 output and with a variable amplifier coming off the T3 output and the USB and Toppy connected to ...

HobbsAu

I got the fourth USB tuner, too, as I have come into a few instances when three or four programmes have been on at the same or similar time. I have spent a long time trying to get the thing to work, not to mention $100 on a signal amplifier (which is not fully functional anyway and needs to be retur...

HobbsAu

Hi, Paul, Thanks for the response, it looks like a Kingray variable output amp would be the way to go and yes, I suspect a four-way would bt a good step. Coming in on the co-ax chain after the T3 is a Toppy 7160 (which may or may not be swapped out yet), a Panasonic VCR/DVD-R, the TV antenna input a...

HobbsAu

Hi, Peter, Thanks for the reply, at least I know that the internal tuners are all working correctly. The USB tuner is, indeed the problem and I doubt I will be able to do anything other than get an amplifier for it. I will try the latest software release first, though. I tried upgrading from the net...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I bought a barebones model, successfully installed an HDD and the three recent software updates, got the hang of backup/restore (sorta! enough, anyway) and am banging my head against the un*x and network share location... but that's for another thread. What I have found is that I am...

HobbsAu

Thanks, Peter, In the event, my T3 decided to go into the reboot loop this morning before I managed to check on the viability of the backup I had, so I had to upgrade the software anyway. When it finished I did a switch off and back on and you are right, it did ask if I wanted to restore the setting...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I see there is new firmware out (as of 5th May) and the recommended process is to do a backup of settings before upgrading. The thing is, when I try this I get a message saying that the file in /etc/somethingorother could not be opened. Has anyone else seen this problem and managed ...

HobbsAu

Well I splashed out on the keyboard that Beyonwiz were selling - the Xtreamer Mini Keyboard 2. Problem is, the instructions are minimal and I don't have a clue how to get the keyboard to talk to the T3. Does anyone else have this keyboard and successfully got it running? Does the T3 have a wireless ...

HobbsAu

As a general rule, I tend to prefer lots of smaller disks although the T3 not reducing the size of edited files makes bigger drives more desirable. That said, if copying to external drives is faster than the -P1 and -P2 then I guess we could live with it. As for asking Beyonwiz I was hoping to drop ...

HobbsAu

Thanks for the replies, folks, much appreciated. I can see that definitive answers on warranties are going to be difficult to answer, but selling the base model could well rely on such answers. Perhaps Beyonwiz are still working on those policies. I have replaced a few HDDs in a few different PVRs (...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, Apologies if this has already been asked but I cannot find a relevant thread if it has. Which HDD makes / models are supported or - perhaps easier to answer - any not recommended for internal use? I am toying with a base model and initially thought of adding my own 4TB drive. But th...

HobbsAu

Well, I have been away and hence the break. Since the Wiz lost the disk again while I was away I did a full reset, reformat and reconfigure of channels, timers, etc. So far, the disk is holding up, but there are still some recordings that get a slow period in them: a break up of picture, slow and no...

HobbsAu

I phoned (or, rather, my other half did) the support about the disk problems. They said that the .055 version wasn't current, the .350 was but here is the .351 file anyway - and sent it by e-mail. It must be reasonably stable for them to send it out but it sounds surprising that the beta testers don...

HobbsAu

Well, the problem *may* have been a firmware version problem. I thought I had the latest version installed. Why? Because I saw this page: http://www.beyonwiz.com/downloads.php not only when I first bought the unit and thought to check the firmware version but also when I double-checked the version w...

HobbsAu

Hi, Ian, Well we got a little more evidence this evening - I switched the machine on and it asked if I wanted to format the disk. I refused as I had recordings on it; however, trying to read the disk proved fruitless, so I did a reformat. I am inclined to agree that the disk could well be on its way...

HobbsAu

As it happens, I have a similar problem: I recently upgraded to a DP-P2 since the P1 I had was very impressive but a little old. There have been no real problems with its replacement until now... Even so, I am not entirely sure it is a problem and certainly no idea what causes it. To date all progra...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I have a DP-P1 and love it to bits - fantastic piece of equipment, wouldn't be without one. I am starting to feel the need to upgrade the HDD, though, as I only have the 200GB drive in there at the moment and the 320GB external drive is about 60% full at the moment, too (still *way*...

HobbsAu

Hi, folks, Thanks, Tony, I think you are possibly right about reception problems, since both programmes were on SBS. All other timers seem to have started ok and completed ok. Would the time listed on the display of recorded shows actually be 27 mintues, ie calculated from the size of the file? But ...

HobbsAu

In case anyone is curious, I think there may have been a network problem that I am hoping is now cured. Apparently, Vista (hhhaaacccckkkk, spit) tries to be clever and "help" download speeds by adjusting TCP variables. All that results is lousy networking performance that gives a number of...

HobbsAu

Now that is interesting. It sounds like I have a very similar set-up to yourself, with the Wiz connected to the NAS via wire (ok, via a few wires and a gigabit switch) but I am definitely getting some sort of "sticky" problem with streaming files. Not only from the WIz but also just audio ...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I made a couple of recordings last night on SBS - one the Richard Hammond Engineering programme and the other was Iron Chef. I am fairly certain that one was set from IceTV pages and the other from the guide. Both had problems, though. Apart from starting slightly into the programme...

HobbsAu

Thanks for the info, folks. I was not aware of the photo limitation (clearly!) but still curious on the movie files being slow to load. I have more information, however: I am wondering if my NAS is going to sleep during the streaming process as my laptop had troubles reading audio files from the net...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I have a Wiz P1 machine and it operates beautifully as a PVR, its primary function. I have it networked and it sees my laptop and my NAS, but when viewing photographs from the NAS, for example in jpg format, it will display some photographs but not others - notably ones that have be...

HobbsAu

Hi, Peter, I missed the $49 special, but got mine at $69, so not bad anyway, but thanks for thinking of me. On a more general note, the Ice system seems to try to record both SD and HD channels and this messed up on two recordings this weekend: One was on One HD which did not record the Swans' match...

HobbsAu

Thanks for the tips, guys. I hope Paul and Tony's experience is general. I am confident enough to delete my own weekly timers now. Ice looks good, especially if it does update timers. ABC and SBS play nicely but the commercial channels change things at a whim and the AFL matches in NSW are anyone's ...

HobbsAu

Good day, folks, I am a very recent user of IceTV having just purchased a 12 month subscription and finally got it working. I have made a few favourites and scheduled some series to record and downloaded the guide and timers to my Beyonwiz Dp-P1. First thing I notice is that all the timers downloade...

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