Box stop working

[cga]

Hi,

I just came home today and my box doesn't work

It shows all the channels but nothing is playing and the satellite dish on left hand side corner keeps flashing trying to go from 28 degree to 28 degree

I re-flashed the box with a back up image I have and still no joy


I have a dish with a motor and I can move the dish along all my satellites but channels free to air are showing

What could be this problem?

[cga]

The Tuner A. Letter A shows in red, not in white as other vu box I have. Will that be the tuner?
This box is 3 month old only

[judge]

It's probably either recording or streaming Tuner A so.
Have you checked either of those? Opened ports on your network for external streaming?

[cga]

I don't see recording anything. How can check Opened ports on network for external streaming? I never do any streaming unless somebody connected to my box and messed it up

There is a green light beside recording icon on the screen but I checked my other box and it is the same but the tuner A is white. Green light flashing

[abu baniaz]

I have a dish with a motor and I can move the dish along all my satellites but channels free to air are showing
I don't understand this sentence. Can you help me understand what you mean?

Also, if you disconnect the network cable, can you select any channel you want?

[judge]

The green light is the software update available icon.
If you telnet into the box & issue:

netstat
Do you see any external IPs connected?

[cga]

I don't see any external ip connected

I have this box connected to a twin LNB so my girlfriend switched to hotbird sat in box upstairs because she couldn't watch anything downstairs and left hotbird on downstairs (VU - SOLO SE)

When came myself I switched the SE downstairs to astra 28 while she had hotbird upstairs to try to sort the problem and the box downstairs was trying to go two 28 degree but no joy, then I switched of the box upstairs and the ES went to Astra 28 degree

I tuned the box upstairs to astra 28, so both boxes to 28 degree, I can get one or two channels now on the box downstairs Vu-SOLO ES but I keep getting tune failed and No data on transponder, time out reading PAT

It seems that the tuner is jammed

I telnet to the box and run killall enigma2
reboot

But still the same problem

Anything else I can do to fix the LMB is that is the case?

[judge]

Ah, yes. The tuner will show as busy too while trying to get a lock.
Don't fully understand your set-up so can't really offer any further help, sorry.

[abu baniaz]

How do you control one motorised dish with two differnt receivers? Surely only one of them can control the motor.

[cga]

Ok I have two boxes SE downstairs and Amiko upstairs, both are connected to a twin LNB, I use a motor. VU SE box is the one with Tune A in red and the dish flashing on the screen. I can see all channels but when I click on them(free to air) they don't display. I have tried disconnecting the Ethernet cable as well, leaving only the dish cable connected but it doesn't work

In the box upstairs you can only watch channels that are in the same satellite than the SE box downstairs, the box downstairs (SE) is the one that control the motor

If you have downstairs astra 28 degree and change upstairs to hotbird you can't watch any channels upstairs, so both boxes have to be on the same satellite

The box upstairs was in hotbird and when switched downstairs from hotbird to astra the dish wouldn't move and it was like that for a while, still it is like that

If I do a factory reset will that help?

If I switch on the box upstairs pointing to astra 28 degree , it plays all the channels, the box downstairs is the one with the problem

[abu baniaz]

Forget the receiver that is on the 2nd output of motor for now.

Setup the reciver that is in control of the motor asit should be. Double check it works fine and you can select any satellite channel you want. Once you have confirmed this is fine, then progress to the other receiver.

[Huevos]

So the Solo SE moves the motor but receives no signal. Most likely cause is the cable between the motor and LNB. And if not, then probably the LNB faulty.

[cga]

Solo SE moves the motor but receives no signal but the box upstairs receive channels signal. Should that still be the LNB faulty?

[widar]

Try to change the feed from the Twin LNB, if half of it works, the one on the upper floor, not the one to the SE box.

[Huevos]

Yes, could be one LNB output faulty but probably the cable between LNB and motor.

[cga]

Guys you made a good point. I swapped the cable from the receiver upstairs to receiver downstairs and the SE works but I didn't want to jump to conclusions so I went to the shop and I bought a new LNB and everything is working now. SE LNB port was faulty

Excellent

Thanks for the help

Cheers

[cga]

Today I got the same problem with my new LNB. No channels and my tuner is in red sometimes and I get tune failed

Any help much appreciated



I telnet my box and netstat and I get this output

Can someone translate it for me? I can see two IP address connected to my box. Does that mean my box is hacked


vusolose login: root
root@vusolose:~#
root@vusolose:~# net view
-sh: net: not found
root@vusolose:~# netstat
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 vusolose.local:46062 ip-229-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:10750 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 vusolose.local:47155 ip-228-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:50500 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 100 ::ffff:192.168.0.12:telnet ::ffff:192.168.0.22:51363 ESTABLISHED
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 7 [ ] DGRAM 547 /dev/log
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1754
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 596
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 17152
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1615 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 568
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 17737
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 581 /tmp/nxserver_ipc
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 574
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 565
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1565
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 266
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 17139 /tmp/.listen.camd.socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1564
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1613
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 267 /tmp/nxserver_ipc
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 580
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 569
root@vusolose:~#




Tracing the IP I get time out


carlos@ubuntu:~$ traceroute 229.131.189.5
traceroute to 229.131.189.5 (229.131.189.5), 64 hops max
1 * * *
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
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16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
19 * * *
20 * * *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * * *
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 *


Tracing contabo.net

carlos@ubuntu:~$ traceroute static.contabo.net
traceroute: unknown host
carlos@ubuntu:~$ traceroute contabo.net
traceroute to contabo.net (91.194.91.215), 64 hops max
1 192.168.0.1 0.232ms 0.156ms 0.149ms
2 * * *
3 109.255.255.254 7.347ms 7.628ms 13.348ms
4 84.116.238.42 7.292ms 7.859ms 7.893ms
5 84.116.134.85 7.950ms 7.888ms 6.420ms
6 213.46.165.2 7.723ms 7.867ms 8.009ms
7 213.155.136.120 63.231ms 63.330ms 63.416ms
8 80.91.246.177 33.168ms 40.723ms 92.769ms
9 213.155.132.155 39.999ms 39.579ms 38.077ms
10 62.115.143.88 40.538ms 40.398ms 40.105ms
11 80.91.248.29 46.973ms 46.479ms 45.776ms
12 213.248.101.78 47.420ms 46.388ms 46.453ms
13 91.194.91.215 46.356ms 46.315ms 46.926ms
carlos@ubuntu:~$

[cga]

How to set up a password in Openvix image?

This is not working for me

Telnet into the box
Login user name is root then hit enter
you should see a ~#
Type passswd ( exactly like that ) then type your new password and hit enter followed by the new password again

[cga]

I have added a password just in case using passwd, there is a typo in command above

[Tkr001]

If you have ports 80, 8001 or 8002 open on your router (port forwarded) then close them. That will stop hacking. It would appear those IP addresses come from USA. What exactly is the typo?

[cga]

I had port 80 and 81 forwarded to a server that is off at the moment. I have closed them


Also these ports below are forwarded to that server that is off, should I close them as well

8088-8089
32400-32401
58050-58051
9-10
8169-8170
9000-9001
4040-4041
4125-4126

I have also added password to my boxes

The typo is "passswd" which wasn't working to set up the passwords, then I got it to work "passwd"

Thanks

[Tkr001]

If nothing was forwarded to your Solo then it shouldn't have been a problem....you know I looked hard but missed the 3 s's in passswd. Just shows the brain sees what it wants to see.

[judge]

you know I looked hard but missed the 3 s's in passswd. Just shows the brain sees what it wants to see.
On any linux based box, type the first letter or two & then press tab to see what options are available. Saves many spelling mistakes...

[cga]

I don't have any forwarded to my solo
I'm not sure if these IP addresses are somebody connected to my box because it shows all the time there

vusolose login: root
Password:
root@vusolose:~# netstat
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 1 5 vusolose.local:43206 ip-228-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:50500 CLOSING
tcp 0 0 vusolose.local:36253 ip-229-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:10750 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 vusolose.local:43214 ip-228-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:50500 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 5 vusolose.local:36245 ip-229-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:10750 FIN_WAIT1
tcp 0 100 ::ffff:192.168.0.12:telnet ::ffff:192.168.0.22:43463 ESTABLISHED
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 7 [ ] DGRAM 582 /dev/log
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1684
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 585
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 552
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1691
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 612 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 751 /tmp/.listen.camd.socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 748
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 602
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 348
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 611
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 684
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 605
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 349 /tmp/nxserver_ipc
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 606
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 776
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1685 /tmp/nxserver_ipc
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 551

[abu baniaz]

Gents please respect the rules.

The only providers we support are the official ones.

[cga]

IP address is coming from US


228.131.189.5 US New York New York (manhattan) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Time Zone Latitude Longitude Organization
America/new_york 40.7497 -73.9738 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

229.131.189.5 US New York New York (manhattan) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Time Zone Latitude Longitude Organization
America/new_york 40.7497 -73.9738 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority


root@vusolose:~# netstat
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 vusolose.local:51903 ip-228-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:50500 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 vusolose.local:58393 ip-229-131-189-5.static.contabo.net:10750 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 100 ::ffff:192.168.0.12:telnet ::ffff:192.168.0.22:45015 ESTABLISHED
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 7 [ ] DGRAM 1607 /dev/log
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 646
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1636
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1610
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1535
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 691
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1637 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1627
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1293
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1730
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 1689
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1641
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1630
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1536
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1294 /tmp/nxserver_ipc
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1642 /tmp/nxserver_ipc
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 694 /tmp/.listen.camd.socket
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1631
root@vusolose:~#


How can I stop this?



I disconnect the dish feed from the box and connect it back and I get all channels back again. Will that have anything to do with the LNB or dish motor

[Huevos]

I don't have any forwarded to my solo
I'm not sure if these IP addresses are somebody connected to my box because it shows all the time thereIf you don't have any ports forwarded no external source can connect to the receiver. That means those connections are being established by your receiver to the external source, not the other way round.

[cga]

Something is faulty then. I have new lnb, my motor move fine. The box is new. What could be faulty?

[cga]

I want to block the telnet port from the rooter or the receiver to disable the telnet in the box

Which port is the one used by telnet?

[Tkr001]

Normally port 23

[cga]

I can confirm my box problem showing (Tune Failed) has nothing to do with internet cable connected to the box

I unplug the Ethernet cable and still I get "Tune failed" when I turn on TV in the morning or in the evening, then I unplug the dish cable from the box and plug it back and start working

The LNB is new and the box is 3 month old

Could that be the box tuner or the dish motor?

[cga]

Where can I get the original VU SOLO SE image that came with the box?

[electrocop]

The latest Vu+ images for your box can be downloaded directly from the Vu+ official website (not sure if i'm allowed to post a link here or not, so i won't but it's easy enough to find)

[cga]

Got them. I sorted the problem by replacing the tuner on the SE