ET10k 4x hybrid tuner issue

[ccs]

I've just tried Hades 14 which the box came with. No settings or Plugins, and the problem is still there, so it looks like it has never worked.

Any ideas? I really would like to get this sorted. I'm willing to try debug images or whatever, if that will help.

[casuk]

All timers worked on all 4 tuners tonight 8-9 abc (cable) started at 8pm and d (sat) started at 9pm, I'm on hades 18

[ccs]

OK, I've set up 4 timers for tomorrow morning. Let's see if there is a difference between them and the instant timers I've been testing with.

[ccs]

Well, it didn't work.

But maybe a clue......

W1 = watching mux1, R2 = recording 2...etc

W1,R2,R3,R4 stops mux3 as mentioned before.

The clue, perhaps, recording takes priority is set to yes, the default, but it doesn't.

And, as I've said before, Webif sometimes says the current channel is DVB-S, so either Webif gets it wrong, or the box has got it wrong.

[ccs]

If I just disable tuner D,

W1,R2,R3,R4 works, with W1 switching to W4. "ABC " all recording.

If I just disable tuner C,

W1,R2,R3,R4 works, with W1 switching to W4. "AB D" all recording.

If I disable tuners C and D,

W1,R2,R3 works, with W1 switching to W3. "AB" both recording.

If I disable tuners A and B,

W1,R2,R3 works, with W1 switching to W3. "CD " both recording. (I don't think I've seen them both recording together before.)

[nsw9154]

Open Ports means that someone is accessing your receiver from outside and that is why it is switching itself on and your recordings are crashing

i have a ET10k with 4 DVB-C tuners and it is working perfect now that i replaced the faulty splitter that some how stopped me receiving the BBC News channel i have my cable plugged into Tuner "A" and then looped to "B" then to "C" and then to "D" without any problems and 50%/55% SNR is normal for the ET10k & the Mut@nt receivers as long as the picture is good don't worry about the snr

ET10k SNR.jpg

[ccs]

Open Ports means that someone is accessing your receiver from outside and that is why it is switching itself on and your recordings are crashing.

Thanks for the reply, I'm not seeing anything on netstat as far as I can tell.
My BT Homehub5 is pretty much defaulting everything.
One default option "Allow all outgoing connections and block all unsolicited incoming traffic. Games and application sharing is allowed." worries me.
Are you saying the ET10k is visible to the outside world, and if so, can I block this access via the hub??
Or is Webif the weak link?
All I want is local access.

[adm]

Thanks for the reply, I'm not seeing anything on netstat as far as I can tell.
My BT Homehub5 is pretty much defaulting everything.
One default option "Allow all outgoing connections and block all unsolicited incoming traffic. Games and application sharing is allowed." worries me.
Are you saying the ET10k is visible to the outside world, and if so, can I block this access via the hub??
Or is Webif the weak link?
All I want is local access.

Try running Shields Up to see which ports are open to the outside world

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

On that page go to the first "Proceed" button

On the next page select "all service ports"

[ccs]

Try running Shields Up to see which ports are open to the outside world

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

On that page go to the first "Proceed" button

On the next page select "all service ports"

Thanks for the link, it confirmed what I had already concluded that the problem wasn't being caused by open ports.

Last time I tried this sequence....

If I disable tuners A and B,

W1,R2,R3 works, with W1 switching to W3. "CD" both recording. (I don't think I've seen them both recording together before.)

I then enabled tuner B, and "BCD" recorded ok.

I then enabled tuner A but R4 this time hit tuner D.

I had a script "netstat"ing while these checks were going on - confirming no phantom tuner access, and deep standby as always gave "Recording(s) are in progress or coming up in a few seconds! Really shutdown now?" Answer Yes, and it still wakes up again 2 minutes later, when a deep standby works ok.

[adm]

Could the phantom recording be a background timeshift?

[ccs]

Could the phantom recording be a background timeshift?

I don't think so, I've got timeshift switched off, although I seem to remember the settings to change weren't too clear (to me).
I think pausing a live programme switches timeshift on regardless of settings, and I'm sure I didn't do that during testing.

[ccs]

I've got timeshift "disabled".

The box should have gone into deep standby at 22:00 after a recording had finished, but it didn't.

I switched off using the remote, but got the "Recording(s) are in progress or coming up in a few seconds! Really shutdown now?" message, which explains why it didn't close down earlier.

So I paused live tv for 30 seconds, and then played and then stopped the programme, and chose not to save the timeshift buffer.

The box then went straight into deep standby via the remote.

So something thinks timeshift is active even when it isn't. And maybe this is why the 4th tuner (C or D) can never record.

[ccs]

Still happening on OpenViX-3.2.005, one more clue, perhaps.

W1 = watching mux1, R2 = recording mux2 ... etc

W1,R2,R3,R4 stops mux3 as mentioned (many times) before.

If I stop and erase R4, R3 starts recording again, with a gap in the recoding while R4 was running.

Am I really the only person using 4*hybrid DVB-C/T/T2 terrestrial Freeview tuners on an ET10K?

[casuk]

I use 3 but set up for cable, no problems

[ccs]

Just in case anyone hasn't fallen asleep yet, I've also tried it on OpenXTA, with the same results.