Vu+ Duo 2 PowerRestart

[twol]

They get away with it Larry because nobody calls their bluff. Koreans are real hard business people,that take it as far as they can, as long as they can get away with it.
I have much more tolerance for the outfits from Taiwan and Japan.... and I have worked with Tech/IT outfits from all 3 countries.
When you look at all the (required) work put in by the various image groups to get the Vu 4k working properly, you have to question their dominance

[Larry-G]

They get away with it Larry because nobody calls their bluff. Koreans are real hard business people,that take it as far as they can, as long as they can get away with it.
I have much more tolerance for the outfits from Taiwan and Japan.... and I have worked with Tech/IT outfits from all 3 countries.
When you look at all the (required) work put in by the various image groups to get the Vu 4k working properly, you have to question their dominance

yeah well if it were upto me I would have called their bluff at least three times, instead of backing down at the last second as was the case. but i'm out of that world now and glad for it. There still up there as a market leader but there not the wonder company most think they are.

[Larry-G]

really confused, by installing the cache flush and swapfile it seemed to fix the problem though?

Generally speaking there no good for a powerful receiver such as yours but if there working then who am I to say not to use them. although I would at least try them one at a time and see if you could loose one of them.

[grantdavey91]

Generally speaking there no good for a powerful receiver such as yours but if there working then who am I to say not to use them. although I would at least try them one at a time and see if you could loose one of them.

okay, thanks, so long as it doesn't cause any damage or other problems to the box i don't see why it's a panic to use them however I will remove the swap file first of all to see if that makes any changes and see how it goes

[Larry-G]

It wont damage the receiver, but it may impact the receivers performance, causing it to become sluggish etc.

[grantdavey91]

It wont damage the receiver, but it may impact the receivers performance, causing it to become sluggish etc.

no problem, good to know, everyday is a learning curve with these boxes; linux will be the death of me lol; it's all interesting but can become very frustrating with so many drivers/extensions/settings/images/installations etc etc incompatibility issues and all the rest of it haha!

I know it's good to be different but in today's world of technology you would think they would be a little more user friendly without having to talk to it in binary for most things!

[grantdavey91]

i took off the swap file by going into vix swap manager, disabled swap, disabled run at startup, removed swapfile and rebooted, seems ok.
cache flush is still on there
and i have still the settings for fan control to operate whilst in standby

[grantdavey91]

This morning box was frozen in standby again I put the swapfile back on, put on standby but it is freezing after 3 mins every time. I am now leading to believe there is something wrong with the power itself maybe , virtually a brand new box bought directly from wos shop, for the price of these boxes I would expect their basic functions to work, I have contacted Vu directly and provided my serial number, just waiting for them to get back to me to see if I can get a replacement under warranty

[ccs]

I thought you had been told that there is a problem with the usb tuner and the latest version of VIX?

Does it work ok without the tuner connected, or have you tried an earlier vix release?

[bellejt]

nothing wrong with your box.Problem is USB tuner and Vix images.Try Blackhole and all will be working fine.If then not working fine it is the box but if working fine with original image you will pay a lot off money for nothing.Only Blackhole is based on original VU+ image.Google and you will find a lot off topics on the problem.Mentioned in #28

[Larry-G]

nothing wrong with your box.Problem is USB tuner and Vix images.Try Blackhole and all will be working fine.If then not working fine it is the box but if working fine with original image you will pay a lot off money for nothing.Only Blackhole is based on original VU+ image.Google and you will find a lot off topics on the problem.Mentioned in #28

Actually VTI is also based on the Vu+ OI too.


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[grantdavey91]

I thought you had been told that there is a problem with the usb tuner and the latest version of VIX?

Does it work ok without the tuner connected, or have you tried an earlier vix release?

yes i have been told that, just looking at all possibilities as they cannot guarantee my issue is around the bug in current openvix with the turbo tuner

it does seem to work without the tuner connected yes

i have not tired an earlier release as of yet as i have been told a new version of vix is due by mid August so i want to wait it out opposed to reflashing entirely again

[grantdavey91]

nothing wrong with your box.Problem is USB tuner and Vix images.Try Blackhole and all will be working fine.If then not working fine it is the box but if working fine with original image you will pay a lot off money for nothing.Only Blackhole is based on original VU+ image.Google and you will find a lot off topics on the problem.Mentioned in #28

hi yes i am looking into black hole, but i am a little attached to openvix as i know it quite well, to be fair i haven't even tried any other image on enigma2 ever, so it's something i will be looking into; thank you

[grantdavey91]

so guys i have a bit of an update, received an email from wos shop today


"Your freezing issue could be being caused by too weak or too strong a signal. You may need to use an attenuator on your feed.
This will not be a hardware issue with the Duo2.
You would have been better you remove one of your satellite tuner modules and replace with a plug and play twin hybrid tuner.
We'd happily exchange the USB tuner provided its returned exactly as new in orignal box etc.. in re-salable condition. You would need to pay the extra and cover postage costs."

I popped out to maplin earlier and bought a 0-20db adjustable attenuator; plugged it in and my agc level was around 70%; turned it down to about 25% which reduced the snr to about 69-74%

haven't tested the power/standby as of yet but am running the cable through the attenuator now

haven't tested yet as got a lot to do today! but will update later when i've had the chance

funnily enough i was talking to a member on another forum yesterday who advised getting a technetix hdu however these are as rare as you could imagine; nothing on ebay or amazon and the one's previously sold as used condition on ebay have gone for over £50

so basically the whole freezing/power issues i am having i am now being advised could be my signal, interference and something about the signal being either too strong or to weak; which i am guessing mine is too strong as without attenuator snr is 90-94% and agc is around 85-89%

any thoughts?

thanks

[Larry-G]

If it is indeed a signal issue it just reaffirms how rubbish the USB tuner really is. But to be 100 percent sure backup your current image and flash BH or VTI and see if it works in their images. If it does then it's not a signal issue but a driver related one.


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