Fan settings...

[Larry-G]

I always though the fan came on when recording?

Anyway more to the point is fancontrol2 is a good solution then why not have it embedded in VIX for boxes with fans?

Not all boxes with fans have the required hardware needed to support fancontrol2, such as the Duo.

[marty]

Not all boxes with fans have the required hardware needed to support fancontrol2, such as the Duo.

OK, didn't know. I take it only the 4pin types?

[marty]

Found a user manual for Fancontrol2. Might be useful to some

FanControl2 Manual.pdf

[Larry-G]

OK, didn't know. I take it only the 4pin types?

Not 100 percent sure mate, but it should be in the feeds for those receivers that do support it.

[Rob van der Does]

The DUO has no fancontrol at all. Only On/Off is supported.
Quite a lot of the boxes we support do support fancontrol2. Normally that plugin will only show in the feeds of a box if it is supported. But as we don't have all boxes to check, this might not be 100% correct.

And it is actually quite difficult to give an advise on the settings: it's more like being happy with what you do and see.
Speaking for myself, I like low temperatures; that's why I set the temperature rather low. See the screenies of my Ultimo settings.

[nsw9154]

found this in the pdf so it looks like it works with both 3 & 4 pin fans

Function
Automatic regulation of a 3pin or 4pin (PWM) fan.
Based on the average temperature from the 2 highest temperature values.
Slowly regulation, because temperatures do not change too quickly and there should be no unnecessary CPU load.

[Rob van der Does]

Actually the Ultimo, Solo2 & DUO2 have only a 2-pin fan (so no real RPM-sensor). The sensor is emulated in software, hence the setting must be '3-pin'.

[moparopkop]

I have just set up my vu solo 2
With it on and watching TV the temp was sitting around 30 - 32
When I checked it this morning after being in standby it was at 36
Is this to high?

[2stein]

imho everything below 40 is ok.
standby by the way does not save a lot of energy... so there shouldn't be a big difference in temperature.

[Larry-G]

standby by the way does not save a lot of energy... so there shouldn't be a big difference in temperature.

Thats a understatement.
Standby does absolutely nothing other than to cut the video and audio feeds to your TV, every thing else and I do mean every thing else is still running pretty much the same as if you were actually watching tv.

[abu baniaz]

Best to add a power timer to shut box off.

There is absolutely no need to wakeup the box to do EPG at 4 am. Do it whenever it suits you.