Beyonwiz Australia

Greg Hudson

I have been putting up with this AD 'feature' for years. I'm back again to see if anyone has way to permanently switch off Audio Description PLEASE.

Im sick of seeing AD on TV then having to choose the AUDIO button on the remote, then going from Aus to English mode.

Thanks, Greg.

Greg Hudson

I watched the ABC program "Australia's Ocean Odyssey" about the East Australian current the other night, and the AD was driving me crazy. I deleted the recording before realizing I needed it to figure out how to kill the AD. I still haven't figured it out, but fingers crossed I will soon...

Greg Hudson

Hi Mr Quade.
Thanks for the info on the FAT32 format. Just what I was looking for.
I will keep it in mind next time I send my sister an HDD.
Thanks again.

Greg Hudson

Changing channels instigates a black screen of death while it thinks about what to do, then it comes good. {Mr Quade} It's a fraction slower than the T4 but not vastly so. It should be less than half a second to change channels. Your unit might be taking longer if it is having trouble locking onto ...

Greg Hudson

V2 arrived today, got it up and running fairly quickly, set a few timers to record and waited... Note: My BW-T4 signal strength shows 97 to 99% Started watching Channel 7 News at 6pm and found... picture / sound freezing (for a few seconds), and very bad sporadic pixelation. Basically, it was unwatc...

Greg Hudson

OK, maybe I am asking the wrong question ?

For the DP Lite, what are the 'known' working formats for external USB drives?
FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc ?

Thanks.

Greg Hudson

It's taken a while for my sister to get back to me. The situation is: I've sent her a new 3.5 inch 500GB drive, formatted in FAT32 She has it plugged into one of the 2 USB ports on the rear. Power is on, she can hear the drive spinning. She has All media and USB selected on the main menu. All she se...

Greg Hudson

Thanks to all for your tips & suggestions. I'm not 100% sure of my sisters technical prowess attempting to explain what was happening with regards to folders being visible but not files. It sounds a bit sus to me now I think about it. In the interim I have sent her a 500GB 3.5 inch HDD (FAT32 fo...

Greg Hudson

G'Day. I've just sent a 2.5 inch NTFS formatted drive (which works fine in my BW-T4) to my sister, with her DP Lite... When she plugged it in, no files were visible. Does anyone know what drive format (NT, FAT, Ext FAT) the DP Lite supports please ? It should be able to read NTFS formatted drives, ...

Greg Hudson

peteru wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 16, 2017 20:46
It's probably a spammer, since the posting IP is registered to an ISP in Houston, Texas. Or a VPN user with minimal clue.

Hang on a sec... I run my own web site from the USA, and all my emails go through that site.
That does not mean I'm a spammer does it ?
(Member here since 2008 !!!)

Greg Hudson

G'Day. I've just sent a 2.5 inch NTFS formatted drive (which works fine in my BW-T4) to my sister, with her DP Lite...
When she plugged it in, no files were visible.

Does anyone know what drive format (NT, FAT, Ext FAT) the DP Lite supports please ?

Greg Hudson

(BTW, your quoting got messed up somewhere) I've fixed up the quoting in Greg's post so that should help. And you have responded to most of it. I'll just add there is a lot of material here so going through and reviewing all the changes could take a while though I appreciate it can be a trap for ne...

Greg Hudson

No, that is not correct though. Gully's point was that the T3 and T4 are *identical* in that regard. The is no difference in the way you manage and access favorites between the two. The reason the instructions are different is because the instructions were made a while ago when the default button s...

Greg Hudson

I Also went and read the 'Creating managing and using Favorites lists' and that also appears to apply to the T3. However, after reading that, at least now I know what a 'bouquet' means. The other info on that page was also useful. Thanks for the link. Regards, Greg. As already posted when you are r...

Greg Hudson

I went and watched the Video on setting up favorites again, and discovered that the video seems to apply to the T3, not the T4. Pressing the up arrow does nothing for me. I had to press Menu, Channels, Terrestrial to get to the list. The T3 and T4 are practically identical in operation. The differe...

Greg Hudson

Thanks again for all the information on the potential disaster that may happen by deleting things from the T list (Or bouquet for those in the wedding planner business). I went and watched the Video on setting up favorites again, and discovered that the video seems to apply to the T3, not the T4. Pr...

Greg Hudson

Just got my T4 after many years with older machines, and wow, what a change... After reading you can't assign channels in your favorites list, I figured it was just easier to delete them from the Terrestrial list, then re-delete if I do a re-scan in future. At least this way when my brain says go t...

Greg Hudson

Just got my T4 after many years with older machines, and wow, what a change... After reading you can't assign channels in your favorites list, I figured it was just easier to delete them from the Terrestrial list, then re-delete if I do a re-scan in future. At least this way when my brain says go to...

Greg Hudson

Hi Greg, I suspect that the WizOTT never got the attention to detail from Australia that the other products received. The WizOTT is the only Beyonwiz model that performs updates directly from the Internet. I don't believe the firmware images were ever handled locally. This will probably require som...

Greg Hudson

Can anyone at BW please tell me why the WizOTT firmware upgrades are not visible on the BW downloads page ?

Every other product has files, but not the WizOTT...

GH

Greg Hudson

Further to my msg from yesterday, I have now inserted a 32GB USB drive as well as the 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive. The WizOTT can see and browse folders on both drives. Attempting to run a firmware update (Automatic mode) is still failing, telling me there's not enough disk space for firmware d...

Greg Hudson

After a gap of 18 months, I just installed the WizOTT again, this time with the HDMI output going to one of the 5 HDMI inputs on my new(ish) Denon receiver, and a LAN cable to a spare GigaBit port on my router. Initially, it booted up OK, but would not allow me to perform a firmware upgrade (telling...

Greg Hudson

Hi Greg, Are you sure the message is coming from the Beyonwiz? This could be a message from your TV. My Samsung TV recently offered a firmware update. Regards, Ian. G'Day Ian. You may be on to something there... I don't have a TV, I have a projector with no Net connection. But I *DO* have a network...

Greg Hudson

G'Day All.
My BW DPP2 (ver 1) has recently started displaying Firmware Upgrade available msgs on screen when I start up. I've just checked the downloads section, and I can't see anything later than 01.01.350

Anyone else getting these msgs from their machines ?

Thanks, Greg.

Greg Hudson

Thanks for the suggestions / tips. Wizott is now working (but now I have a different problem with my DP-P2)

Regards, Greg.

Greg Hudson

G'Day. An obvious question, and the answer is yes, it is on HDMI 4. It is like the Sony is trying to sync to the Wizott, but failing for some reason. The screen is indicating Stereo, 1080p, Stereo, 1080p in a loop, but nothing appears. Disconnecting the power from the wizott, and the looping stops. ...

Greg Hudson

G'Day. I have just unpacked & installed my WizOtt, connected Power, Net & HDMI cables. No initial indication of any power to the device. Hit the Power button, blue light started blinking, and now is solid. Sony Bravia now recognizes a device plugged into HDMI port 4. And that's as far as I g...

Greg Hudson

I run a NAS (QNAP) but as part of my home network with an address in the home network range (192.xxx.x.x) No problem seeing it from either of my BWs, my Topfield 2400 or WDTV Live. G'Day Paul. Can you give me a specific model number for the QNAP you have please ? I'm tempted to go for the RAID-5 fo...

Greg Hudson

G'Day All. Just installed a Netgear Stora Media Server yesterday with 2 x 2TB drives, got it all up & running on my network, copied some videos to it, then went to my DP-S1 (and DP-P2) and did a Network RESCAN... Neither machine can 'see' the media server (which is in effect a web server). I've ...

Greg Hudson

G'Day. I pulled my S1 apart & replaced the 160GB HD with a 500GB drive BUT... I also wrongly assumed the drive would be a SATA drive (It's not - it's an ATA drive instead). My S1 is quite old, & newer ones may use SATA drives - you need to check FIRST before going out & spending money on...

Greg Hudson

You need to do that on the remote to enable the power up to bootloader support, where it gets setup enough through the bootloader to support a firmware upgrade using the special upgrade tool. You must use that technique for power-up (i.e. do it from standby). AhHa !!! It all makes sense now. I was ...

Greg Hudson

I've just installed the wrong update in mp DPP2 & have error 0022. Tried cold boot (several times) - still stuck - and I have no video output on my HDMI screen either - which makes life difficult. Downloaded the RemoteUpdater, ran it, but it can't 'see' any IP adresses other than the IP address ...

Greg Hudson

Is it possible to rip out the standard DVD player in the DP-S1, and replace it with a BluRay player ?

Thanks, Greg.

Greg Hudson

Can I purchase a new crystal & install it myself? Yep. It's just a regular 'low profile HC49S package' type crystal (54MHz I think). Probably $1 at your local DSE or Tandy etc. 10 minutes with a philips screwdriver and a soldering iron is all it takes. http://www.dse.com.au/isroot/dse/images/pr...

Greg Hudson

Some people claim the problem is a capacitor on the S1... If so, I'm handy with a soldering iron & could replace it myself (if I knew which one. Any ideas anyone ? It's a faulty crystal, not capacitor. The 2 symptoms are, in standby, 1. The time does not increment past the next hour. 2. At the ...

Greg Hudson

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated. Based on your info, it is most likely the front PCB, so I'll begin by examining what I can by eye / magnifying glass. After that, disassembly / desolder capacitor(s). I'm unsure how to TEST a cap though... Resistance, no prob, but capacitance ? Can I as...

Greg Hudson

Having read the problems other people have had with their 'system' clocks not keeping time when in standby mode, I decided to run a couple of tests... Firstly the S1, which is about 2 years old, and has had this problem since day one... NOTE: Firmware upgraded late 2009. Current real time: 11:47AM. ...

Greg Hudson

I have an S1 (wireless) and have recently given it (the wireless connection) the flick, and installed a cat 5 cable to replace it. Since doing so, my S1 to network connection speed has gone up from 54mbps to 100mbps. The LAN itself is a full gigabit system, but the BW is limited to 100mbps. When usi...

Greg Hudson

tonymy01 wrote:And... did you set the volume of the Wiz to 50 and drop the volume of the TV? Result?

I've tried all combos, and get the pop 100% of the time.
Every channel change, or replay of recorded program.

Regards, Greg.

Greg Hudson

... I can view files stored on the S1 using my P2, but not view files stored on the P2 using the S1. They LOAD, and start playing, but only last about 15 seconds, then STOP. Moving forward say 15 minutes, and starting play again, and the same thing happens. It STOPS playing. ... Anyone have any ide...

Greg Hudson

IanSav wrote:Hi Greg,

The WizPNP protocol used to stream files between Beyonwiz units does not support file copy or move operations directly between Beyonwiz devices. You will need to copy or move recordings via a networked PC or USB attached disk.

Regards,
Ian.

BUGGER.

Greg Hudson

G'Day. I have a bunch of recordings on my (new) P2 located in my home office. I'm trying to view those files through my S1 / projector in Home Theater. I have Client & Server in WizPNP on both machines. Network is through a wired Dlink gigabit switch. I can view files stored on the S1 using my P...

Greg Hudson

G'Day All.
I'm getting the same thing here with the P2 - all out of the box settings left as-is.

Tried my S1, it doesn't do it.

I'm using an HDMI connection to a 24" LCD PC Monitor. No composite input on screen.

POP also happens when playing back a recording.

Greg Hudson

G'Day Desm. I see in your signature that you have a 750GB internal HD... After advisement from BW that 500 GB was the largest supported, I recently purchased & installed a 500GB Western Digital into my S1, which is now running fine. (No appreciable increase in noise level over the standard 200 G...

Greg Hudson

Gully wrote:
Greg Hudson wrote:Mr BW... Hear this. Next version... Give us an internal SATA drive, and allow much larger sizes (1TB or more).
Already done. The P2 is SATA and supports larger drives.

That's good to hear.
So... What is the new installed HD capacity ?
And what is the new maximum HD supported ?

Regards, Greg.

Greg Hudson

Greg... you are saying bit when you mean to say byte (not always, but sometimes). Wiz transfer rates are 3-4MegaBYTEper Second=24 to 32Megabit/s. LAN speed is 100Megabit/s=12.5MegaByte/s, wireless is 54Megabit/s (optimal rate.... real rates are plenty less). Regards OOPS. Sorry, yes I meant 1 to 3....

Greg Hudson

I am currently getting 2 mbs transfer through wired lan to a nas drive. Reading this i presume this is about as good as it gets? G'Day Jim. I recently gave the wireless connection (supposed 54Mbits) from my S1 to my server the boot & replaced it with a hard wired cable to my gigabit network. Ye...

Greg Hudson

Maybe this comes close to fulfilling grl's wishlist. Unfortunately, no mention of networking, though, and the price tag's a bit of a shocker. G'Day. This is actually old news. NHK (or was it Sony) have had a 14 channel receiver out for several years in Japan, however from memory, it was in the $50,...

Greg Hudson

I guess the optics on a chip will be cheaper (I finally succumbed and looked at the link you provided), but this is still just a press release about something that doesn't really exist yet, apart from in a lab. It is probably more to drum up potential investor interest than any kind of real release...

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