Posts by sakos

Thanks for your valuable advice regarding Sat>IP solution.

Let me ask one more question. petediscrete Does Digibit twin support sending full transport stream (pids=all)?

petediscrete

elonesna

Thanks for your responses. I am not familiar with this Sat>IP technology at all. Currently, the Wetek box works as a headless tvheadend server. A couple of LNBs are connected to the two input ports via DISEqC switches. It also runs Oscam for decrypting channels. There are some tvheadend clients configured. The number of concurrent subscriptions is generally low, however the box can serve more than two subscriptions if the requested channels located on same DVB muxes. If I understand well, an Sat>IP server transports only selected channel and not a complete mux. In this sense a twin Sat>IP server could provide less capacity than a conventional twin tuner setup, could it?

If I go for a Sat>IP server

- can it manage DISEqC switches and multiple LNBs?

- do I still need a tvheadend server for decrypting and serving multiple Kodi clients?

- I could feed a 4 port Sat>IP server. Digibit R1 price is comparable with an USB twin tuner + an RPi4. The Vbox android gateway does not seem good choice for a headless server use

Hello,

I would like to replace my old Wetek play box. Can you please recommend DVB-S2 tuner which has good support? Is Sundtek SkyTV Dual 2x (DVB-S/S2/S2X) a good choice? Is it supported?

Hi,

I have been using a Wetek Play1 box for ages. Unfortunatly neither newer LE nor Tvheadend builds suport it anymore.

What is the recommended hardware replacement if I need two DVB-S2 input? I think about a setup with an RPi4 with two low cost Tevii S650 USB tuners. Are those tuners supported?

Still no reponse

Nevertheless, I have found a workaround.

Quote from Jezza1222

Hi guys. I am thinking of upgrading to 8.9, what is the safest way to do this. I would love to just add the TAR file to the update folder but the partition rename from ""libreelec disk"" to ""storage"" , I am guessing this would cause problems. What is the easiest and safest way to upgrade

Thanks

I think you can copy the TAR file to the update folder then rename the disk label to "storage" by this command:

e2label /dev/data "STORAGE" 

Then reboot the system to start upgrade.

This is the most simple solution. Anyway, do a backup, should this procedure fails.

Quote from foxyboy

Thanks for the response sakos.

I did have an issue on the wetek play straight away on a fresh install of LE9.0 - boot loop ! Disassembled, removed security sim and remote usb dongle, all ok afterwards. Then box simply went OFF in the middle of configuring LE9.0, my fault this time, i was using a NowTV power adapter, replaced with 2Amp and all good :-).

So looks like im in for a rocky ride ahead with LE9.0

That might explain why i could not play my satellite tv channels in vlc after configuring TVH4.2 - although radio appeared to work !

I now have an access denied issue with TVH HSTP Client, think thats just a user/password or hostnaming issue that ill try to fix tonight.

So Is the VLC issue a tvheadend4.2 or LE9.0 issue ?

Is there any point in trying the latest nightly builds of each or should i simply install LE8.2.5 ?

Appreciate your input.

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If you saw "Missing (target) kernel.img or SYSTEM!" at boot loop then you probably suffered from the issue described in upgrade/downgrade fault topic.

My VLC problem is an LE9.0 issue, therefore I cannot upgrade to LE9 and cannot test latest tvhedend builds. This is why I asked if possible to build them for LE8.x.

Quote from foxyboy

Can you explain why LE9 is useless in a Wetek Play1. ?

i was just about to install LE9 on a Wetek Play1 and use it for Live TV Only with TVHeadend (and possibly IPTV later if possible)

Could you share your findings ?

Yes, ofc.

- VNC is not working. Wetek Play1 no picture (black screen) with LE 8.95.002 if monitor connected later. - LibreELEC Forum

- Upgrade issues. Wetek Play 1: After upgrade to Alpha 006 (from LE 8) no upgrade/downgrade possible

- I also read in a local forum that audio pass-trough is not working on the SPDIF out meanwhile the box is getting very hot

Hi,

Would be good to have latest Tvheadend nightly builds for Libreelec 8.x as well, because LE9.0 is useless in Wetek Play1.

Quote from CvH

LibreELEC 9 Beta 3 was released

Is there any specific improvement for S905?

Due to no response ticket #53 opened.

I neither can downgrade back my Wetek play 1 box from LE 8.95.002 to LE 8.2.5.

(There was also a strange thing seen twice. After upgrade from LE 8.2.5 to LE 8.95.002, copying some files and doing a power cycle the system started with reporting file system corruption error. I let it to correct them - thousands of lines running on the screen - and finally the system was recovered without any obvious loss.)

LE 8.95.002 is installed on a Wetek Play box. I intend to use this device in headless mode (no monitor attached) and access the GUI by AML-VNC. It worked fine until LE8. However it is not working in LE9 beta. I got black screen via VNC connection.

Finally I performed a hard reset and found that the screen is black if the HDMI is not connected at boot but connected a bit later. The system is up and running, I can even hear the Kodi GUI clicks if I use the remote but the screen is black on the connected monitor. I can reproduce this issue with default configuration of LE, no add-on installed, nothing configured.

If the HDMI is already connected when the device boots then everything is fine. If it is not connected before boot then I cannot get picture later.

Update: Tested again with LE 8.2.5. It works fine. It is a degradation in in LE 8.95.002

Thanks for the great work!

I did a quick test. See my observations.

- If you come from 8.2.3.1 (or similar) kszaq build and "Boot from SD card, use internal memory for data" is active then the 9.0 will fail to boot after the upgrade. To prevent this apply this command after putting the tar file to update folder and before rebooting:

e2label /dev/data "STORAGE"

- There is no sound on HDMI output if audio output is set to HDMI. If audio output is set to analog then HDMI output works.

- CEC is unreliable. It happened twice that CEC was not working after a restart. Once Kodi also crashed during CEC connection establishment.

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Could you please clarify your recommendation?

I got also this error message:

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ERROR: LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2.4.2-S905Test-1529136339.tar is not compatible with S905.arm hardware - update cancelled.

Current system: S905.arm

Update system: S912.arm

The box is X96 (S905X). What do you mean on "bad version"? Shall I really try with the v8.2.4.2-Test2-wetekdvb build on this box?

Hard to believe that nobody can tell me which image to be installed my S905X box.

Now I downloaded the LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2.4.2-S905Test-1529136339.img.gz file and it contains the LibreELEC-S912.arm-8.2.4.2-S905Test-1529136339.img.

Up.

I just put together the hyperion config with my S905X on LE 8.2.3.1 and observed instabilities after several minutes of running.

Is there any news regarding this issue? Any solution to make it working?

Quote from Emerson

This version is bad, use this, or look at ext4 version.

Could you please clarify your recommendation?

I got also this error message:

ERROR: LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2.4.2-S905Test-1529136339.tar is not compatible with S905.arm hardware - update cancelled.

Current system: S905.arm

Update system: S912.arm

The box is X96 (S905X). What do you mean on "bad version"? Shall I really try with the v8.2.4.2-Test2-wetekdvb build on this box?

This command works fine.

ifconfig eth0 down && ifconfig eth0 up