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Hello, I'm looking for some help flashing an Amiko Viper Combo HDD with Openvix. I found some help info on here for other brands, but none for the Amiko Viper Combo HDD. I have tried extracting the Openvix image to a usb, and copying the amikovipercomboHDD folder to the usb, and had no luck. I even changed the name of the noforce file to force but still not loading from power up. Any help would be much appreciated.
I have this morning created a guide based on previous guides for other receivers but specific to the Amiko Viper Combo HDD. I have created a new thread and uploaded the guide HERE (https://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?61643-How-to-USB-flash-Amiko-Viper-Combo-HDD).
I have this morning created a guide based on previous guides for other receivers but specific to the Amiko Viper Combo HDD. I have created a new thread and uploaded the guide HERE (https://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?61643-How-to-USB-flash-Amiko-Viper-Combo-HDD).
Thanks a lot for that. I'll try than and let you know how I get on.
Thank you that worked just fine. I have another question regarding time-shift, is that something you can help with?
I flashed my Amiko Viper HDD with your most recent image. I plugged in an 8GB USB and initialised it. I restarted the box and pressed pause. The picture stopped as you would expect, BUT it jumps back to live TV when I press play. However, if I press pause again, it pauses just fine and starts to play from the correct position. In short, live pause only works for me if I press Pause-Play-Pause. Any help would be much appreciated.
I could be wrong but from what you describe it is sounding like a more generic OpenViX 'thing' rather than specific to the Viper Combo HDD and it is something I've seen in the past on other hardware and I've got an idea it might have just been as simple as in my rush to test the feature I wasn't giving it long enough to record, say like only a second or two between pause and play (I was only testing not using in a real environment), something like that anyway, never the less I will check this out later on the same hardware as you and report back on how I get on.
it jumps back to live TV when I press play. However, if I press pause again, it pauses just fine and starts to play from the correct position. In short, live pause only works for me if I press Pause-Play-Pause.
Just as a small test try pressing pause, wait a short time, then press play, then press stop. Does the message then come up about exiting/stopping timeshift? If it does then this at least confirms you really are in timeshift mode or not.
I've had a good try out of this over the past half an hour and for me it is working OK, I pause and it pauses, I wait a while and then press play and it starts playing back from *almost* the point of where it was paused though not quite, I would agree there is a slight jump maybe a second or so from the point of where the 'picture is paused to where the playback starts from but 100% not jumping back to live. If it is a really short timeshift/recording then I guess this small second or so jump on playback could give the impression of jumping back to live even though it's not, it becomes much less apparent the longer the pause/recording as it's then clear when you start playback from pause/timeshift that it really is timeshift you are watching and not live especially if/when you exit timeshift mode and go back to live.
Just for reference I have been using OpenVix 5.2 build 045 with a Kingston 4GB USB flash drive which I formatted to ext3/4 via the box/firmware.
Andy_Hazza
08-08-19, 07:59
How have you setup your Timeshift, can you list your settings?
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In timeshift settings enable timeshift.
Just as a small test try pressing pause, wait a short time, then press play, then press stop. Does the message then come up about exiting/stopping timeshift? If it does then this at least confirms you really are in timeshift mode or not.
I've had a good try out of this over the past half an hour and for me it is working OK, I pause and it pauses, I wait a while and then press play and it starts playing back from *almost* the point of where it was paused though not quite, I would agree there is a slight jump maybe a second or so from the point of where the 'picture is paused to where the playback starts from but 100% not jumping back to live. If it is a really short timeshift/recording then I guess this small second or so jump on playback could give the impression of jumping back to live even though it's not, it becomes much less apparent the longer the pause/recording as it's then clear when you start playback from pause/timeshift that it really is timeshift you are watching and not live especially if/when you exit timeshift mode and go back to live.
Just for reference I have been using OpenVix 5.2 build 045 with a Kingston 4GB USB flash drive which I formatted to ext3/4 via the box/firmware.
I will set up two TVs with the same channel to establish the extent of the lag or jump. I'll come back to you tomorrow. Thanks for your help.
In timeshift settings enable timeshift.
Yes, time shift is enabled.
Andy_Hazza
08-08-19, 20:05
How many seconds you set Timeshift to?
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Just as a small test try pressing pause, wait a short time, then press play, then press stop. Does the message then come up about exiting/stopping timeshift? If it does then this at least confirms you really are in timeshift mode or not.
I've had a good try out of this over the past half an hour and for me it is working OK, I pause and it pauses, I wait a while and then press play and it starts playing back from *almost* the point of where it was paused though not quite, I would agree there is a slight jump maybe a second or so from the point of where the 'picture is paused to where the playback starts from but 100% not jumping back to live. If it is a really short timeshift/recording then I guess this small second or so jump on playback could give the impression of jumping back to live even though it's not, it becomes much less apparent the longer the pause/recording as it's then clear when you start playback from pause/timeshift that it really is timeshift you are watching and not live especially if/when you exit timeshift mode and go back to live.
Just for reference I have been using OpenVix 5.2 build 045 with a Kingston 4GB USB flash drive which I formatted to ext3/4 via the box/firmware.
OK, The time shift message comes up after pause/play/stop. I know I only initialised my HDD using the box, I have not formatted to ext 3/4. I'm using a Toshiba PCL200 500 GB internal HDD. HDWK105.
I'm using Openvix Ver. 6.3 build 0.
Timeshift settings:
Time shift Location : /media/hdd/time shift/
Auto record Location : /media/hdd/movie/
Enable Auto record : No
Automatically start time shift after : disabled
How have you setup your Timeshift, can you list your settings?
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Timeshift settings:
Time shift Location : /media/hdd/time shift/
Auto record Location : /media/hdd/movie/
Enable Auto record : No
Automatically start time shift after : disabled
How many seconds you set Timeshift to?
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Timeshift settings:
Time shift Location : /media/hdd/time shift/
Auto record Location : /media/hdd/movie/
Enable Auto record : No
Automatically start time shift after : disabled
I have just changed time shift seconds to 2 seconds and restarted the box. No change I'm afraid.
I have just tried to time the jump, it's difficult to tell, but it looks like at least 4 seconds, which does appear to be jumping back to live TV, even though I timed the pause to 10 seconds and then played back the entire piece to work out where the jump landed.
I'm using Openvix Ver. 6.3 build 0.
That can't be a release of OpenViX.
http://www.openvix.co.uk/openvix-builds/vipercombohdd/openvix-5.2.045.release-vipercombohdd_usb.zip
Sorry, that's the other TV pic I'm looking at to determine the gap in the live pause. This is the correct image I'm using.
I'm using Openvix Ver. 6.3 build 0.
That sounds like you are using OpenATV not OpenViX?
You can download OpenViX from www.openvix.co.uk
Just a little confused now is the timeshift issue showing in ViX and ATV or just one or the other, if so which one?
Andy_Hazza
09-08-19, 08:49
Timeshift settings:
Time shift Location : /media/hdd/time shift/
Auto record Location : /media/hdd/movie/
Enable Auto record : No
Automatically start time shift after : disabled
I have just changed time shift seconds to 2 seconds and restarted the box. No change I'm afraid.
I set all my boxes to 20 seconds.
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These are my settings. Apologies for the confusion with the OpenATV info.
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I set all my boxes to 20 seconds.
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I tried changing the time shift to 20 seconds, no difference.
Here you say you are have a Toshiba PCL200 500 GB internal HDD. HDWK105. Why aren't you using that as the HDD with ext4 format?
I had a big problem over the weekend because I was using a very slow USB stick.
I use usb stick primarily for my picons, and settings backups - other people can comment (I don't use timeshift) but I would put timeshift on your internal HDD.
It means setting up ext4 on teh internal HDD and then reset the usb stick mount to usb (use MountManager)
Looks like a possible bug, not sure if openvix or drivers. Need to look further. Work around as follows:
Set timeshift to 10 seconds ( that's what I normally use, you could set higher).
If you want to pause live TV, wait at least the 10+ seconds.
Press Pause then directly after press Play and then Pause straight away.
We'll need to check, but busy at the moment working on next OpenViX release.
So am I the only person experiencing this problem? Does live pause work for everyone else? Maybe I haven't set it up properly. Just in case, here's what I did.
I fitted the 25 Toshiba SATA drive inside my Amiko Viper Combo HDD. I powered the box and selected the initialise option. I formatted the drive and all wen well. Some people say I should also convert the files from ext3 to ext4 using the box also. any other advice much appreciated.
Andy_Hazza
14-08-19, 22:08
Once initialised did you setup your Mount point?
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No, I did not. Should I have? or how do i do that?
Thanks,
Andy_Hazza
15-08-19, 05:54
When I’ve initialised any HDD to Ext4, I then Mount using Blue button > ViX > Mount Manager. You need to highlight your HDD then I Setup Mounts. If done correctly, it will say your Receiver needs to reboot/restartGUI etc.
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When I’ve initialised any HDD to Ext4, I then Mount using Blue button > ViX > Mount Manager. You need to highlight your HDD then I Setup Mounts. If done correctly, it will say your Receiver needs to reboot/restartGUI etc.
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Ok, so are there three different things I should do when setting up my HDD?
1. Initalise it
2. Convert files to Ext 4
3. Create mount point
Andy_Hazza
15-08-19, 12:08
Only 2 points for me as a/ When I initialise the HDD on my receiver it automatically formats to Ext4 and then b/ Setup Mount
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