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by blonk
Sat Nov 18, 2017 07:57
Forum: General Topics
Topic: T3 stuck on displaying Beyonwiz T3
Replies: 306
Views: 52889

Re: T3 stuck on displaying Beyonwiz T3

Mine died of the same fault recently. Rather than stuff around I just contacted Warkus. He sent me a rebuilt power supply, which only took a few days from Perth to Sydney. Install took about 10 minutes, now working fine again. Sent the old one back to him for exchange. Incredible service from him. G...
by blonk
Thu Apr 06, 2017 17:56
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

Still getting some timers out by an hour. The only way to update is to delete the timers, and then a new one will be created that matches the EPG. I assume this is a glitch that no-one else is getting, so maybe it's time to bite the bullet and install the latest firmware, and hopefully a new install...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 20:41
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

... Setting is "All non-repeating timers". If I make a change to an Autotimer it will update fine, it's when the EPG data changes (e.g. program start time is updated by the network), the EPG gets updated, but the Autotimer doesn't. Well, I just showed that when the times of an AT-generate...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 19:19
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

Hi Blonk, I kind of expected this, but I thought the autotimers automatically updated when refreshed EPG data was generated. Is this not the case? I also ran EPG refresh prior, but this didn't update the existing timers either. This is perhaps my greatest disappointment in AutoTimers, once created ...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 19:13
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

... Timezone setttings is GMT + 10, with sync time set at Transponder time. I haven't touched these settings anytime recently. Not really specific enough. There are three GMT+10 settings, for Hobart, Brisbane, and Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney. They differ on the specifics of their DST settings, so a...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 19:12
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

mike007 wrote: There's a setting in EPGrefresh to run auto timer after refresh.
Thanks, it's already on, and I ran EPG refresh, but timers still didn't update.
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 16:06
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

... Edit- I don't have any symptoms, all my timers are right. Just from previous posts I assumed they were going to fire an hr early anyway. My misunderstanding, but perhaps those whose timers are out might want to check their timezone settings. Timezone setttings is GMT + 10, with sync time set at...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 16:04
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

Hi Blonk, I kind of expected this, but I thought the autotimers automatically updated when refreshed EPG data was generated. Is this not the case? I also ran EPG refresh prior, but this didn't update the existing timers either. This is perhaps my greatest disappointment in AutoTimers, once created ...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:33
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

... Any thoughts or ideas? ... The traditional semi-annual lottery that is the TV broadcasters' handling of DST time changes? I kind of expected this, but I thought the autotimers automatically updated when refreshed EPG data was generated. Is this not the case? I also ran EPG refresh prior, but th...
by blonk
Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:40
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

Daylight savings has highlighted an issue with my auto timers. Most were an hour out. The Epg was right, but any timer not on 7Flix was firing an hour early for some reason. Only way to get them to update was delete them, and then make a change to one and save, which updated them correctly. My auto ...
by blonk
Wed May 18, 2016 13:39
Forum: Official Firmware Images
Topic: New Firmware for all T-Series Models (T2/T3/T4) 19/04/2016
Replies: 58
Views: 13299

Re: New Firmware for all T-Series Models (T2/T3/T4) 19/04/20

I upgraded to the latest on my T3 on Monday. Since then I've had a GUI crash, when I pressed the prev button to go back to another channel, and last night it just kind of locked up. It was on a channel, sound and audio kept working fine, but the pin wheel of death was spinning in the middle of the s...
by blonk
Sat May 07, 2016 23:41
Forum: Skins
Topic: OverlayHD Skin...
Replies: 1013
Views: 126680

Re: OverlayHD Skin...

Apologies if this is answered somewhere already, but what happens to this skin when doing an online update of the Beyonwiz firmware? Do I still need to download and install the latest version?

Blonk
by blonk
Thu May 05, 2016 19:59
Forum: Plugins
Topic: Removal of non essential plugins
Replies: 59
Views: 11937

Re: Removal of non essential plugins

EPGRefresh and OverlayHD skin, are the only two that I would request are included as default.

Edit: Autotimers to be included too! How can I forget that one!

Blonk
by blonk
Wed Apr 20, 2016 16:50
Forum: General Topics
Topic: It's not in HD!
Replies: 6
Views: 991

Re: It's not in HD!

The problem,is, up until 17th of April, they were all recording the HD channels fine. Ahh, OK, that is important information to have left out of the original post :) So that TenHD change was made well before the 17th, as in more than a week? And you're not running beta firmware? Yes, it was only wh...
by blonk
Tue Apr 19, 2016 22:05
Forum: General Topics
Topic: It's not in HD!
Replies: 6
Views: 991

Re: It's not in HD!

The problem,is, up until 17th of April, they were all recording the HD channels fine. Since then all the new timers are set for the standard channels. I haven't even turned the Beyonwiz on in that time, let alone changed anything. The last change I made was when I added ten hd to my favourites, but ...
by blonk
Tue Apr 19, 2016 17:47
Forum: General Topics
Topic: It's not in HD!
Replies: 6
Views: 991

Re: It's not in HD!

Thanks, I'll change them to that. I think it makes the auto-timer a little less robust though. If the network decided to move it to a non-HD channel I'd like it to still pick it up. It would be nice if it could limit to only my favourites for this reason.

Blonk
by blonk
Mon Apr 18, 2016 22:59
Forum: General Topics
Topic: It's not in HD!
Replies: 6
Views: 991

It's not in HD!

Any thoughts on why my auto timers, seem to keep recording the non-hd channels? I have them set to record only channels in my favourites, but still seems to revert to SD, despite them being deleted from favourites.

Blonk
by blonk
Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:03
Forum: General Topics
Topic: FTA/EPG autotimer anomaly?
Replies: 26
Views: 2024

Re: FTA/EPG autotimer anomaly?

I'm in Sydney and noticed yesterday that my T3 had done some dodgy recordings. All shows we watch, but the actual recording was an hour early, and therefore the wrong program. I figured it was some sort of issue with day light saving. Checked future timers and they all seem OK now, so maybe it was j...
by blonk
Mon Mar 14, 2016 18:37
Forum: Networking
Topic: T3 Freezes on minor network issues
Replies: 13
Views: 1811

Re: T3 Freezes on minor network issues

Not sure if it's related, but I recently transferred some files to my T3 (via wireless), which happened to be on and in use at the time, and it was pretty much unusable whilst the transfer took place. Couldn't change channels, or access any menu's until the transfer was complete. We were watching fr...
by blonk
Wed Nov 18, 2015 18:01
Forum: Pre-release Discussion
Topic: AutoTimers are cool!
Replies: 66
Views: 20948

Re: AutoTimers are cool!

I don't seem to be able to update Autotimers via Webif. I've tried from my iPad and IMac via Chrome. I make a change, then select save. It pops up a small message saying Autotimer saved, but when I look at it again, nothing has changed. Any thoughts?

Blonk
by blonk
Sun Nov 08, 2015 13:06
Forum: Plugins
Topic: EPGRefresh
Replies: 86
Views: 22429

Re: EPGRefresh

A second reboot seemed to have sorted it, thanks guys.

Blonk
by blonk
Sun Nov 08, 2015 12:57
Forum: Plugins
Topic: EPGRefresh
Replies: 86
Views: 22429

Re: EPGRefresh

Just installed the latest firmware on my T3, and can't install the epgrefresh plugin. I get the error below in the attached screenshot. Any idea what it means?

Blonk
by blonk
Thu Oct 22, 2015 18:18
Forum: FAQs, Tips & How to Guides
Topic: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers
Replies: 246
Views: 48581

Re: A quick guide to Beyonwiz T series AutoTimers

What's the best option to prevent the pop-up asking to go to standby, when an autotimer ends whilst I'm watching something? All of mine are currently set to "go to standby" Would auto, or Standard be the best option?

Blonk
by blonk
Wed Jun 10, 2015 21:04
Forum: General Topics
Topic: I'm a little upset.
Replies: 64
Views: 13146

I'm a little upset.

Just saw the Beyonwiz e-mail announcing the all new T4, and I must say I was pretty upset. As an early adopter of the T3 I knew it wouldn't be smooth sailing but to have it superseded so early, it feels like I've been used to beta test an interim model! the T4 looks to be the model the T3 should hav...
by blonk
Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:04
Forum: Ice TV
Topic: Missing EPG data
Replies: 14
Views: 2424

Re: Missing EPG data

My EPG was missing data again this morning. I'll try enable/disable again, and mention it on Ice Tvs forum.

Blonk
by blonk
Fri Jun 05, 2015 23:35
Forum: Ice TV
Topic: Missing EPG data
Replies: 14
Views: 2424

Re: Missing EPG data

Following the instructions above seem to have fixed it. I keep,getting an error when updating the timers and EPG, but everything seems to be correct.

Blonk
by blonk
Fri Jun 05, 2015 22:43
Forum: Ice TV
Topic: Missing EPG data
Replies: 14
Views: 2424

Re: Missing EPG data

Thanks for the info. I'm in Sydney. The only e-mails I've received lately are sales pitches for Skippa. I'll follow,the instructions in Mr Quades post and see if that resolves it.

Blonk
by blonk
Fri Jun 05, 2015 20:57
Forum: Ice TV
Topic: Missing EPG data
Replies: 14
Views: 2424

Missing EPG data

Has anyone noticed chunks missing from the IcTV EPG? Mine seems to be missing from various channels. For example, nothing shown on Eleven until 10:30pm tonight. If I put the channel on, there is nothing shown for the program. I have tried updating the EPG, but it doesn't change. All my timers seem t...
by blonk
Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:06
Forum: Official Firmware Images
Topic: Bootloader Update for T3 Only 12-03-2015
Replies: 27
Views: 9804

Re: Bootloader Update 12-03-2015

I use disk utility to format my USB stick as fat16. Always works for me. I have found that deleting the previous version on OS X doesn't free up the actual space on the stick, hence why I reformat.

Blonk
by blonk
Thu Jan 29, 2015 15:31
Forum: Ice TV
Topic: New IceTV Offer
Replies: 19
Views: 5051

Re: New IceTV Offer

I used this one recently.

JimsSubscription

$124.50 for 5 years. Still seems to work.

Blonk
by blonk
Wed Oct 22, 2014 15:06
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: IceTV problem with program repeats
Replies: 33
Views: 4922

Re: IceTV problem with program repeats

It's all part of the set-and-forget model of IceTV. If only it was, it's just not configurable enough. Like I said before the T3 is hugely configerable and then IceTV takes it all backwards It's not configurable enough for you . I've been using IceTV since I got a BW DP-S1 and H1 7 years ago. I pre...
by blonk
Tue Oct 21, 2014 19:34
Forum: Ice TV
Topic: Do we need IceTV?
Replies: 84
Views: 9551

Re: Do we need IceTV?

Still haven't seen anything good about it really. It's buggy, unreliable and inaccurate Since the last update (whenever that was) IceTV has been working perfectly for me. Much better than Autotimers, which were good, but painful to set up and fine tune. Not everyone's experience has been negative, ...
by blonk
Sat Oct 18, 2014 13:39
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Recording playback freezes when skipping
Replies: 31
Views: 6878

Re: Recording playback freezes when skipping

I had one [USB stick] that worked, updated front panel as suggested, bingo it no longer works! That's just a random coincidence. The front panel firmware or electronics have absolutely no effect on the USB port. Maybe it was the boot loader, can't remember, my point is the T3 seems to be fussy abou...
by blonk
Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:54
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Recording playback freezes when skipping
Replies: 31
Views: 6878

Re: Recording playback freezes when skipping

My T3 is not a bare bones unit. It came with the drive already installed. So that could not be the problem. Regards Lance You're missing my point. If you read my posts you'll see that my issue of freezing/stuttering was introduced with a firmware update. I was adamant that the drive could not be th...
by blonk
Mon Oct 13, 2014 08:11
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Recording playback freezes when skipping
Replies: 31
Views: 6878

Re: Recording playback freezes when skipping

I have a barebones unit, and mine pauses at times when skipping, although this was introduced by a firmware update. Can't remember which one, but it was a while ago. Previous to that it skipped flawlessly.

Blonk
by blonk
Sun Oct 05, 2014 16:25
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: No sound on channels without Dolby digital
Replies: 5
Views: 847

Re: No sound on channels without Dolby digital

I don't have the volume control mapped to my Harmony, I use the receiver to change volume. Don't see how I could have changed it any other way. I updated, rebooted, then no sound. If there's no code then I guess it's one of those "beyonwizish" things that go askew for no apparent reason fr...
by blonk
Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:29
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: No sound on channels without Dolby digital
Replies: 5
Views: 847

Re: No sound on channels without Dolby digital

MrQuade wrote:Is the volume on the T3 set down to the minimum value?
Well that's embarrasing! I actually thought of checking but never did. Sure enough, something in the updates set the volume to 0. All good now, move along, nothing to see here!

Blonk :oops:
by blonk
Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:01
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Text Display on Favourites List
Replies: 3
Views: 644

Text Display on Favourites List

The text above and below the timeline on the favourites list cuts off the bottom of long letters (g, y etc.) See screenshot below.
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by blonk
Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:55
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: No sound on channels without Dolby digital
Replies: 5
Views: 847

No sound on channels without Dolby digital

Hi, I just did an online update, (33 packages from memory) and now have no sound on any channels, unless it has Dolby digital audio. I can't seem to find a new setting that may have changed anything. Could the updates have inroduced something new? I have restarted both the GUI And rebooted the box, ...
by blonk
Sun Oct 05, 2014 07:44
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Remote Control Signal Boost
Replies: 13
Views: 2108

Re: Remote Control Signal Boost

I use a Harmony One and it needs to be pointed at the T3 to work reliably. I found the original remote no different.

Blonk
by blonk
Fri Sep 05, 2014 23:20
Forum: General Topics
Topic: USB Tuner - Eureka! MkII
Replies: 17
Views: 1783

Re: USB Tuner - Eureka! MkII

So what has changed that's now got,it working?

Blonk
by blonk
Thu Aug 28, 2014 16:45
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Request - Shutdown button option
Replies: 25
Views: 4197

Re: Feature Request - Shutdown button option

My issues are really due to the 3 power states it has. On, Mostly On and OFF. I prefer OFF despite the ludicrous boot time (double my P1) simply for the power saving. Would you leave a 20-30W lamp on 24/7? This is why I requested some more options around the power button functionality. Discrete code...
by blonk
Mon Aug 25, 2014 20:34
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Request - Shutdown button option
Replies: 25
Views: 4197

Re: Feature Request - Shutdown button option

Are all other USB devices unplugged from the T3? Did you unzip the firmware such that there is a "beyonwiz" folder in the root of the USB that contain files (and not another beyonwiz folder). Are you seeing "Press OK to upgrade" on the front panel on bootup? (I forgot to press O...
by blonk
Mon Aug 25, 2014 19:05
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Request - Shutdown button option
Replies: 25
Views: 4197

Re: Feature Request - Shutdown button option

That's because it's not rebooting and returning control to the front panel where the boot is started and where it checks for the upgrade USB. "reboot" is a command you type in to the T3's commandline shell after you've telnetted in. Failing all else, power it off at its mains switch at th...
by blonk
Mon Aug 25, 2014 18:49
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Request - Shutdown button option
Replies: 25
Views: 4197

Re: Feature Request - Shutdown button option

Is there a way to force the T3 to upgrade from the USB via Telnet? Nothing works, it's just in an endless loop once powered up, and won't recognise any of my USB sticks for a firmware reflash. Total brick at the moment.

Blonk
by blonk
Mon Aug 25, 2014 17:50
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Request - Shutdown button option
Replies: 25
Views: 4197

Re: Feature Request - Shutdown button option

You can still telnet in, halt the GUI, fix the problem in keymaps.xml (or use the backup copy of it that you surely made) and then restart the GUI. Or plug in the USB stick and run "reboot" Can I telnet in if it's not booting? I'll have to figure out how to do it first though. I did make ...
by blonk
Mon Aug 25, 2014 17:40
Forum: Bug Reporting and Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Request - Shutdown button option
Replies: 25
Views: 4197

Re: Feature Request - Shutdown button option

Well, now it's totally screwed! Made the change to use the radio button for discrete ON, restarted GUI, but it crashed, and now won't boot. I can't even reflash the firmware as it won't even recognise the one USB stick I've used for all previous upgrades! Just stuck in a constant reboot cycle on the...

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