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maverick#1

I just found this post which adds support to the idea that it's the SMR drive that was causing the recording problems on my U4: Stream writing to a non-fragmented file system on a shingle drive initially works well, BUT once the file system has become used and reused beyond some point shingle rewrit...

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UPDATE: A day or two after my last post I took the 3TB SMR hard disk out of my U4 and replaced it with a 2TB CMR hard drive. Since then I haven't had any timer or general recording failures. I definitely won't be using a shingled drive with any of my PVR's anymore. I'll only use CMR HDD's or SSD's f...

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I managed to get the messages file out of the box which I have attached. Not sure if there's any other log files I should look at? Do you have debug logging enabled? (Menu > Setup > System > Log settings > Enable debug logs) If so, check the debug log file. It might provide some more information. T...

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Thanks prl. I think I'm just going to have to try to be less forgetful.

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I had this error occur again recently. I'm now suspecting that my problems are because the HDD I'm using is a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drive. I suspect that the write buffer was full when the error occurred and the write speed of the drive dropped drastically. I've seen this in Windows when...

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I sometimes remove the external hard drive from my V2 for a variety of reasons but I've occasionally missed recordings when I forgot to plug it back in. Is there a way to set up the V2 so that if a hard disk isn't plugged in, timers will record to the microSD card instead? I want to use the hard dri...

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Hi Warren, I don't know if you got this sorted out or not. Hopefully prl's suggestion worked. If not, does anyone know if it would be safe to plug in a USB keyboard at this point? I know you're supposed to unplug all USB devices prior to a firmware upgrade, but after the upgrade has been completed (...

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I have the same problem every now and then on my U4. I have a 3TB HDD installed in it. The error seems to occur for me when there is a timer recording and I turn the U4 on. As soon as the PVR comes out of standby, the on-screen popup error message appears. The recording works up to the point where I...

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Thanks for everyone's help. I reverted back to 19.3 20191106 for a while to see how well the cutlist editor worked in the previous public firmware version and it seemed to have all the same issues, so I re-flashed the V2 with 19.3 20211010 and set it up from scratch. (I've now trashed the backups I'...

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(I have since restored a full backup taken immediately prior to downgrading the firmware, so my V2 is running 20211010 again.) That in itself doesn't mean the V2 is running 20211010. I just want to check if the backup/restore procedure I did would mean that it's running 20211010 again. I did an adv...

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What Wiz are you trying this with? I have found that the V2 just doesn't skip properly in the cutlist editor at all. My brand new V2 with FW 19.3 build 20211010. I even got so frustrated with the cutlist editor problems that I downgraded the V2's firmware to the version I have on both my U4 and my ...

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What about the coloured buttons? has anyone experienced this? The red and green keys seem to be working okay for me but the yellow and blue buttons, which should be "step back" and "step forward" respectively, are both jumping forward between 3 and 7 seconds for each press. On t...

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This forum topic is "Wishlist for Next PVR?" but I get the feeling that there may not be a "next" PVR from Beyonwiz. Is anyone aware of any information - official or unofficial (but reputable) - suggesting that Beyonwiz may be working on a new PVR?

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Gully wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 17, 2021 22:30
Warkus has retired from the "repairing business".

Damn! He did a great job fixing my P2 a few years back.

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I honestly doubt there will be any more PVRs like this any more. Yeah, I'm wishing I'd bought a second U4 when they were still around. I'll probably end up contacting Warkus to see if he's still doing T3 power supply repairs. If I can't get the T3 fixed, I'll ciheck if there are any other similar P...

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I think my T3 has developed the power supply issue. When it worked properly, it took forever to boot up so I'd love to replace it with a faster PVR but I just can't bring myself to buy a V2. I've gone back to my trusted old P2 instead. The biggest issue with the V2 for me is the external HD. I just ...

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Aren't you having "a serious issue with the currently installed firmware"? I'd classify it more as a minor issue with a plugin, not a major issue with the firmware I have installed (19.3, Build 20191106). I've had no major issues with this firmware and I'm an "if it ain't broke, don'...

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Your firmware is too old, install the latest. Thanks but I don't want to install a release candidate firmware. I always wait until the firmware has been an official public release for a few months before updating (unless I am having a serious issue with the currently installed firmware). I'll just ...

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Thanks adoxa. I installed the plugin update and, after selecting "preserve bookmarks in cuts" in the menu, it fixed the issue with the bookmarks being deleted in areas that are cut out. I particularly liked that you didn't need to select this each time you opened the cutlist editor (it rem...

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I installed firmware 19.3 on both my T3 and U4 a long time ago but have never been happy with the version of the "cutlist editor" plugin that is included with that firmware. It deletes the bookmarks between cuts, which is really frustrating with some of the recordings I make. For example, ...

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The EPG information for all Network 10 stations finally came back on sometime yesterday in my area. Hopefully that's also happened for the other areas where the EPG info was missing. There are still a number of times listed as 'To be announced' but that's pretty normal for Network 10 these days!

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Well, I bit the bullet, pulled the T3 out of the TV cabinet and tried to do the front panel update online. After a whole lot of stuffing around (and I do mean a lot of stuffing around - jeez I hate configuring networks!), I finally managed to get the T3 to share my PC's internet connection and was e...

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Thanks singlefished, it's reassuring to know that it's not just happening to me!

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Grumpy_Geoff wrote: ↑
Sun May 17, 2020 14:35
Do you have a wireless USB dongle you could try on the T3?

Unfortunately no, I don't. It's starting to look like my only option is going to be to pull the T3 out and connect it by cable to my desktop PC. I was really hoping to avoid that if possible.

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I normally look over the EPG each weekend to see if there's anything worth watching, but this weekend I noticed that there is nothing in the EPG for any of the Network 10 channels. Just in case it was an issue with my PVR, I checked all of my other PVRs and TVs and it's the same with all of them, wh...

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Note that there are reports on the forum of some T3s using the V20057 front panel version that fail to detect their HDD when booting from deep standby. I believe if the T3 is immediately rebooted the HDD is then detected and mounted. To avoid this issue, I think those T3s are kept in standby instea...

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Thanks peteru, I'll give it a try. Where can I download the update file? Go and re-read the linked post again - pay attention to the "To upgrade:" section :) Thanks Grumpy_Geoff, but those instructions appear to be online upgade instructions only. I was hoping that, like the firmware and ...

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peteru wrote: ↑
Sun May 17, 2020 01:09
Make sure that your T3 has up to date front panel firmware.

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Thanks peteru, I'll give it a try. Where can I download the update file? I can't see a link on the Beyonwiz downloads page (https://beyonwiz.com.au/downloads/).

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I have a Beyonwiz DP-P2 and a DP-Lite i in my lounge. Because they're so easy to use and reliable, the wife loves them, which is why they're our main PVRs. Years later I bought a Beyonwiz T3 but the wife hates it and, to be quite frank, so do I. It's slow (you can just about make a cup of coffee whi...

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Was the original .tvwiz recording (it's not a single file) edited before you copied it? Yep, all edits were performed on my P2 before being copied to an external hard drive. The only thing I did on the PC was use WizFX to convert the files in the .tvwiz folder to a single .ts file. Okay, that's not...

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kentdorf72, I had the same problem as you. I went through the same steps (copy from DP PVR to USB, convert .tvwiz folder to .ts using WizFX) and found some files would play on my U4 and others wouldn't. I found a very simple solution: rename the file from "<filename>.ts" to "<filename...

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... That it affects 3 machines says it is a broadcast signal error. Does it only occur on one network? No. I wasn't sure if the U4 got the time only from one channel/network or from whichever channel it was currently using, so I tried flicking through every network (ABC, SBS, 7, 9 & 10) just in...

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Not that I have seen any suggestion of a change but updating to the latest 19.3 beta firmware would be worth doing for lots of reasons and may also fix this. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with v17.5. It's been really reliable for me. I have pulled the T3 out of mothballs to use as a guinea pig for the lat...

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Do you receive your tv over a regular antenna from a public transmitter, or are you on a private distribution system? Over a regular antenna from a public transmitter. Have you tried a reboot in case something has gotten stuck? Yes, I have all my timers set so the U4 goes into deep standby when the...

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I noticed today that the time on my Beyonwiz PVRs were 15 mins behind the actual time, ie if the actual time was 7.00am, the PVR time was showing 6.45am. The result of this is that all of my timers are starting 15 mins late. I have 3 Beyonwiz PVRs, a DP-P2, a DP Lite i and a U4 and all of them were ...

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Also, is there a problem with the website at the moment? I tried going to beyonwiz.com.au on my phone to check if the latest firmware was more recent than the one I have installed but I got a message saying "This web page has a redirect loop" on the default Chromium browser and a message ...

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I'm sure that my U4 didn't have v17.5 when I first got it I can't remember what version was on it then (maybe 16.1?), but I got one of the first batch into Australia (it wasn't a pre-release beta test machine) and I had to upgrade to v17.5 because my U4 wouldn't wake from shutdown to start timers a...

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Also, is there a problem with the website at the moment? I tried going to beyonwiz.com.au on my phone to check if the latest firmware was more recent than the one I have installed but I got a message saying "This web page has a redirect loop" on the default Chromium browser and a message s...

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Before you get started the first thing that you should do is backup your settings on the U4, this will ensure that all menu, network and timers settings will be fully restored once you have finished the upgrade - no it won't, at least not if you're upgrading from 16.1 a firmware version or earlier....

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Thanks for the replies everyone. I'd love to continue hearing from anyone who has a 12.5mm HD installed in a U4 over time to hear how it performs, especially in terms of heat & reliability. (I know that will be a very small number of people at the moment since the U4 hasn't gone on sale yet!) Th...

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A couple of posts have mentioned that the U4 uses a 2.5" HD but these come in 2 different heights: 9.5mm & 12.5mm. Does anyone know if theres enough space (& maybe extra power?) to fit a 12.5mm 2.5" HD internally? (I'm guessing power shouldn't be a problem.) Ive got a 3tb Seagate e...

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From the preceding posts it seems that when the recordings folder gets close to 1TB, a user cannot reliably network their Wiz... Given that the 68K index buffer is what is restricting this, will lots of small recordings "fill" the index buffer earlier than less bigger recordings? Reason I...

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A quick update... I checked the size of the index.txt files on the P2 & the Lite i last night. Sure enough, the index.txt file on the P2 was 84KB (this was the BW that couldn't be seen on the network) and the index.txt file on the Lite i was 58KB (this was the BW that could be seen on the networ...

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Well, after 3 years, it appears that I have finally found out what the problem with my BW network was. But first, a little bit of backgroung about how I found the answer... After following all the advice in this forum and still having no luck getting the P2 and Lite i to talk to each other 3 years a...

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Well, thanks to all the people who posted here, it appears that the problem has been solved. Just to be sure that I covered all bases, I tried installing a spare HDD I had lying around in the P2 before thinking about upgrading the firmware, just in case it was HDD related. Result: it still locked up...

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I would definitely NOT install .055 firmware... Use .351, its fine... Thanks, Warkus, I'll definitely give .055 a miss then. :) Yes you can definitely downgrade... Excellent! I always get a bit nervous about upgrades when you can't undo them. You are not looking very hard. The link to 1.07.350 is t...

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I'd try the firmware upgrade first - it is by far the quickest, easiest and cheapest. Wait for advice from others, but you may be better to go the .350 as manual file indexing may be broken in .351. Others please comment. Thanks for the tip about .351. This is the reason I wanted to try other optio...

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I was not talking about the digital switchover, but rather the subsequent retunes as part of the restack. Sorry, let me clarify. After the analogue signal was switched off in my area and the frequencies for some of the digital channels were changed (which was around May/June 2013), I deleted all of...

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Are you in Sydney? If so, how did you deal with the retune earlier this year? Did you delete SBS services and then scan on CH7 only? If so, did you make sure you deleted ALL the old services, both TV and RADIO ? No, I'm in Brisbane, but I wiped all of the old services and did a full rescan after th...

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