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    Tuner A or B

    Apologies if this question has been queried.
    Having given up with Sky Q because of cost I'm in the throws of purchasing my first satellite receiver. Because I want 4K and FBC tuners my option will most
    likely be a Gigablue UHD UE 4K. I have gone with FBC tuners because I shall need multi channel recording.
    My main question is if I'm using a Unicable 2 LNB with single output do I connect to tuner A or B.
    This all still new to me but I'm slowly learning and gaining advise from the experienced members of this forum and DigitalworldZ.
    I look forward to any comments to this question and further advice from members that already own this receiver.
    I have been advised to use the Openvix operating system so I'm currently studying the manual to help when my coming purchase eventually arrives.
    Thanks to all

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    Quote Originally Posted by gedwal View Post
    Apologies if this question has been queried.
    Having given up with Sky Q because of cost I'm in the throws of purchasing my first satellite receiver. Because I want 4K and FBC tuners my option will most
    likely be a Gigablue UHD UE 4K. I have gone with FBC tuners because I shall need multi channel recording.
    My main question is if I'm using a Unicable 2 LNB with single output do I connect to tuner A or B.
    This all still new to me but I'm slowly learning and gaining advise from the experienced members of this forum and DigitalworldZ.
    I look forward to any comments to this question and further advice from members that already own this receiver.
    I have been advised to use the Openvix operating system so I'm currently studying the manual to help when my coming purchase eventually arrives.
    Thanks to all
    I don't think it really matters which tuner you use. If you are only connecting to 28.2E and you have a unicable 2 LNB then just connect the coax from the LNB to tuner A and set all the other tuners up as "connected to tuner A". There are useful posts on here on how to do it (you need each one on its own SCR frequency). Look for the guide by Abu on here, got me up and running first time.

    In my case (with a gigablue ue4k) I have tuner A connected to a unicable 2 lnb with tuners C - H connected to tuner A, each on their own SCR. Tuner B is connected to two "legacy" LNB's (via a diseqc switch) pointing at 19.2E / 13E . You only need to use the second tuner connection if you want to use satellites other than 28.2E. Plenty of useful info on here and the contributors are very helpful if you run into trouble. It was pretty straight forward getting my receiver working using the advice available on this site.

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    It does not matter which one you use.

    If the signal wire is hooked up to A, all the other tuners must select tuner A as the one through which they are connected. If you decide to use B, then all the other tuners must be set as they are connected through B.

    That being said, I would use A as it is fewer remote pushes when configuring the tuners

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    Thanks all and I shall certainly check on Abu's article on setting the box up when I purchase it. Starting to look forward to the challenges.

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    Hi everybody, I'm looking at the Gigablue UHD UE 4K. I know it requires a 2.5" HDD or SDD but can anybody let me know what thickness 9.5mm or 7mm or will it take either.
    Thanks in advance

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    Quote Originally Posted by gedwal View Post
    Hi everybody, I'm looking at the Gigablue UHD UE 4K. I know it requires a 2.5" HDD or SDD but can anybody let me know what thickness 9.5mm or 7mm or will it take either.
    Thanks in advance
    Just did a check on what I installed on my box and its 7mm
    Gigablue Quad 4K & UE 4K
    .........FBC Tuners:
    ------------------> GT-Sat unicable LNB to 1.5M dish(28.2E)
    ------------------> Gigablue unicable LNB to 80 cm dish(19.2E)
    .......................
    Vu+ Uno4KSE, Dreambox dm900
    AX HD61, Edision Osmio 4K+, Zgemma H9Combo, Octagon SF8008 , gbtrio4k, h9se using unicable ports
    Zgemma H9 C/S into Giga4K

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    Quote Originally Posted by gedwal View Post
    Hi everybody, I'm looking at the Gigablue UHD UE 4K. I know it requires a 2.5" HDD or SDD but can anybody let me know what thickness 9.5mm or 7mm or will it take either.
    Thanks in advance
    I don't think the thickness will matter really. I just put in a 2.5" SSD I had lying around doing nothing (Western Digital WDS500G2B0A). It only holds timeshift and 2 days of recordings anyway, anything older than two days gets copied to NAS.

    For fitting it, see post 6 -> https://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...-UHD-UE-4K-box as it wasn't immediately obvious to me (I was expecting some sort of bracket or "cage").

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    Thanks for that both but Morini mention recordings getting stored to NAS, that's a term I've not encountered with satellite receivers or computers. Explanation would be welcome and why would the recordings not stay on the drive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gedwal View Post
    Thanks for that both but Morini mention recordings getting stored to NAS, that's a term I've not encountered with satellite receivers or computers. Explanation would be welcome and why would the recordings not stay on the drive.
    Nothing wrong with recording to the local drive on the machine and if that works for you then by all means stick with that approach. But the benefits of using such a configurable, open system is it allows you to be more flexible than you could be with (say) Sky DVRs. If you have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) available on your network or any other network share (even Samba share maybe?) then you can either record directly to the network share or record to a local disk and have a scheduled task to copy / move recordings to the network storage. It is then simple to access these recording from any other devices.

    I only had a small 500GB SSD available to put in my receiver, so rather than fork out for a larger one I just NFS mount a dataset on my NAS and move anything I want to keep longer term over to that. There are many ways to go about it, a NAS works best for me with the other devices I have on my network. Do what works best for you.

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    Thanks Morini, the world of satellite receivers is still a learning curve for me. I am sure with the help of the OpenVix manual and help for from you guys I shall get up and running and learn as I go along.

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    Hi everyone, tomorrow I plan to set up my newly purchased Gigablue UHD UE. It arrived from World of Satellite with Openvix installed. Does Openvix have its own EPG or will I have to set up a custom one. If any one feels there is any thing, with setting up of this box, I should be aware of I shall be grateful for comments.

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    When you sent me a PM I responded with links to a topic on difference between EPG and bouquets/channel lists. Please read it, it will make things easier once you accept/distinguish the two.

    ViX does not come withs it's own bouquet list. AutoBouquetsMaker plugin is pre-installed and will make your channel lists very similar to an official receiver.

    In the other EPG section, there is a stuck thread on how to obtain EPG ( what Sky calls Synopsis), the event details, what programs are on.

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    Hi all, I'm looking at Dreamset but how do I install it to my Gigablue UHD. Do I need internet connection or can I save the Zip to a memory stick and install from there or does it need to be unzipped first. Please bare in mind I'm still very new to this sat rx venture so any advice will be welcome. I've managed to get the box up and running, done a channel scan and using the Openvix Magic skin. Before I start experimenting further can someone advice how to save the settings I have, and how do I save Bouquets. Have looked for folders on hard drive but nothing obvious, do I have to set up my own folders as I would with a PC.

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    Dreamset is a program for manipulating bouquets/channel lists. It is installed on the PC, not receiver. It communicates with receiver over the local network.


    Until you get your preferred channel list configured, please use AutoBouquetsMaker (ABM). Do not not manually edit bouquets created by ABM. If you want to manually edit them, hijack them first.


    Make a settings backup using Backup Manager before you start playing around. You can the restore using backup manager if it goes wrong.
    Alternatively, as your receiver has hardware multiboot, have one image for main usage and another for trialling.



    In response to your query about wi-fi device, there is no specific one. The important thing is to install the correct drivers for the wi-fi device you purchase. Homeplugs are the better option if you can.

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