Ultimo owner to be

[Rob van der Does]

And all this possible trouble also applies to all contacts and all parts in the box. Do you really worry about all that too?

And what about your car...

[parkher]

There is a big difference - if the contact with the battery is lost once - ET9000 becomes a brick. If contact is lost somewhere else, you can hit it with your fist and it is working again. Or clean the pins.
Likewise, if something else fails, you can try to fix it, to replace the failed component, with the battery failure you can do nothing as its failure initiates the evil self-destruction, basically.
I actually fixed once my satellite receiver myself the same day when it stopped working - replaced a failed transistor and it was as good as new.
True, it was in analog days and it was in the power supply, but still.

[Stanman]

Have the ET9000 and Ultimo here and battery issue has never been a concern. Its securely fixed in there and unlikley to lose contact, as for oxidisation, its stainless so unlikely to start rusting.

For what they do both are excellent boxes, the ultimo has the advantage have being triple tuner but you pay more for it, so swings and around abouts.

if you have the money and "battery" is such an issue buy the Ultimo.

[parkher]

I am leaning towards Ultimo, if not for any other reason - because I already have ET9000 but don't have Ultimo.

Still, I have some issues with Duo - some channels are not recorded (just begins about 190 KB and that's it).
No such issues with ET9000. So I'm afraid if Ultimo may have similar issues as Duo.
So far I noticed two such channels, one of them initially was recorded fine, only later something happened (although possibly the transponder changed).
The other channel has a lot of audio tracks. Anyway, they both are recorded fine on ET9000 (so far).
Other channels are recorded fine on Duo, though, even HD channels, so I don't think the hard drive is responsible.

[Rob van der Does]

Still, I have some issues with Duo - some channels are not recorded (just begins about 190 KB and that's it).

This is not a known problem for the DUO (or any other box). So either your box suffers from a hardware problem, a wrong set-up or a problem with your feeds.

[parkher]

OK, I just got Ultimo. So I will try if it can record that particular channel.
I got it for testing - if there are problems, they will come and take it back.

It was manufactured in January of 2012.
It is still in the box. What should I do next?

Flash ViX 2.4.96 and then online update to 2.4.124?

[Larry-G]

OK, I just got Ultimo. So I will try if it can record that particular channel.
I got it for testing - if there are problems, they will come and take it back.

It was manufactured in January of 2012.
It is still in the box. What should I do next?

Flash ViX 2.4.96 and then online update to 2.4.124?

why not just download the 2.4-124 image and flash that directly without having to go through the online update process ?.

you can get the image here.

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/enigma2/openvix/index.php?dir=Vu%2BUltimo/

[parkher]

Thanks! Downloaded.
I found myself a link only to 96.

Is it stable enough?

Perhaps it is not very diplomatic to ask here, but what image is recommended for Ultimo right now?

On ET9000 I have ViX and I am very happy with it.
On Duo I have OpenPli - I updated it several times, but I'm sure it is time to update again.

I did not try any other images so far, VTi, BlackHoles or anything.

[Larry-G]

I am using the ViX 2.4-124 image on all my receivers Uno, Ultimo and Duo and all are very stable with no problems. of course thats my own personal opinion as to what i consider the best image available, for you that may be different so try a few for your self and see which you like.

[parkher]

I heard somewhere that in BH there is such a thing that allows to specify which softcam to use for which channel.
I may need this on one of my receivers as I need cccam for some channels and mgcamd for others and they do not want to be active together.

[parkher]

So, I flashed ViX 2.4.124 to my new Ultimo.
Tested the supposedly problematic transponders - everything is ok so far, the signal is stronger than with Duo. No digital garbage on the screen either.
Tried to record those channels that Duo does not record - ok, recorded fine, including the HD channel with 11 audio tracks.

I put a 2 TB 5400 rpm cold-running Samsung in Ultimo, and when I tried to initialize it, I immediately got back the hard drive menu.
So I was not sure what happened, was the initialization instantaneous, or was it running in the background, or was not done at all.
Info showed initially 1 MB free, but after a while began showing 1907 or 1906 GB free. Still when trying to record - error "write error, disk full?".
I did not know - to wait or to reboot. Finally, after rebooting - everything ok. So this background initializing without any progress indication is very confusing. Or something went wrong.
I don't remember now what happened when initializing hard drive in ET9000 (also with ViX, but 2.2.100 - it was months ago) - but I don't remember any such uncertainty then.


I see in info that I have:

RAM
Total memory: 275220

FLASH
Total: 439.3 M

Do those numbers correspond somehow to 512 MB and 1 GB respectively?
Or they gave me some lesser Ultimo?

BTW, initially info showed this:

Version: Dec 27 2011-vuplus_experimental
Image: Experimental 20111-12-27

Experimental as in "let's try to sell with half of memory and half of flash"?

[Larry-G]

all ultimos have 1GB of flash memory however half of this is kept back for system and future use, the experimental wording is the image it self i believe that is the last OpenPli image made that used the older Linux 2.6.18 kernel.

[parkher]

Thanks.
So those two numbers are the same as anybody with Ultimo would see?

[Larry-G]

Thanks.
So those two numbers are the same as anybody with Ultimo would see?

Yes pretty much

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[Rob van der Does]

the signal is stronger than with Duo.

There's no way you can compare those digits from one box to another. It's not a (calibrated) meter; it's just a read-out you can use on that box only (to compare transponders and to allign your dish).

I see in info that I have:

RAM
Total memory: 275220

FLASH
Total: 439.3 M

As stated above: atm half the flash has been reserved for future use (and half is pretty much enough).
And RAM only shows the amount of RAM that is available in the user-space. The rest is reserved for the system itself (e.g. for frame buffer).