ColinB

Just go into that dir and type ofgwrite . (With a dot)

Is there a space between ofgwrite & the dot ?

Thanks, I normally navigate to the backup or file location first.

You can also flash from telnet if you have ofgwrite installed.

Type ofgwrite at the comand prompt and it will give you all the options.

ofgwrite -k -r "Directory containg rootfs.bin & kernel.bin"

For my et8000 it is

ofgwrite -k -r et8000

Stop calling an FBC tuner a twin tuner. It's really not the same and it doesn't help in understanding. An FBC tuner is an FBC tuner and a dual tuner is a dual tuner. Which are you going to have inside your Ultimo4k? It can have two FBC tuners and one single or dual tuner.

@Eric, well this is not the retailers info that I have searched through seems to sugguest.

As a minimum the STB for satellite use anyway, will have a tuner capable of both Twin DVB-S2 & FBC.

Sorry guys I really have tried hard to read on and googled but still can’t grasp the FBC and the Unicable stuff. Please bear with me.

I’m planning on buying the Ultimo 4k and set up a satellite dish with LNB’s that will point at three different satellites. They are:

1. 0.8W INTELSAT 10-02
2. 4.8E SIRIUS 4
3. 13E EUTELSAT 9A | EUTELSAT HOT BIRD 13B | EUTELSAT HOT BIRD 13C

I had the cable guy here today and the satellite dish would be fine to use, no trees or houses on the horizon so I can connect to three satellites. What bothers me a little is that he said, and I think he’s wrong, that I need three twin tuners in my box to make it work for watching a program on one satellite and record a tv-show from another satellite at the same time.

 

Ultimo 4k comes with a twin tuner. So, wouldn’t the twin tuner that comes with it be enough to have at least two of the satellites working, and if I need the third satellite I just need to add another twin tuner to the Ultimo?

 

He also says that I need to have two coax cables to the box from the satellite dish. Is that right?
I still don’t get the whole thing with the Unicable stuff. I thought I just needed one cable for the whole setup from the dish to my box.

 

All I need is to be able to receive 3 satellites. I would like to have the possibility to record a program on one satellite and watch another program on the other satellite. How many LNB’s and tuners do I need? And how many cables do I have to have from the satellite dish to the Ultimo 4k?

 

I would appreciate any advice before I do anything stupid. 

 

/kerm

@Kermith,

I've had a good read through this post and though a few of pictures might help clear up the confusion.

I found this which I believe is what your talking about (sorry for the size). It shows a Twin DVB-S2 FBC tuner card installed in the STB. I can be use either as a 2x DVB-S2 or a FBC tuner.

This example (better pic) has (2) Twin DVB-S2 FBC tuners. Which is equal to 4x DVB-S2 or 2x FBC tuners or 2x DVB-S2 & 1 FBC tuner.

Conventional Setup

This is a passive switch that will let you connect each DVB-S2 tuner to all of your 3 satelittes.Each tuner can record and play independantly. You will need one for each tuner. They are typicaly mounted at the back of the dish. Each LNB output will connect to one of the (4 / 8) ports on the switch and a single cable cable will come into the house to each DVB-S2 tuner. If you buy quad LNB's this will let you expand up to 4 DVB-S2 tuners for each satellite or use a multiswitch. This is what I have been using for years. All confuration is done on the STB via DiSEqC 1.1 in the tuner configuration menu and is realy simple once shown how.

or 8 way

A multi switch will need quad LNB's and need 4 inputs for each satellite and outputs for each tuner.

Exp 3 satellites 12way mutiswitch. 4 satellites 16way multiswitch It can get very expensive needs power and weather protection

FBC Setup

While I have no direct experience on this, my understanding is this.

Idealy you will need a FBC LNB for each satellite. An single cable will connect each them to a FBC multiswitch which could be located inside your house. From there you connect to your STB

Cabling

Depending on your dish location cabling is a big consideration. My main dish (4 satellites) is 2m high on south facing wall. It's easy for mantainance and cable runs are small. The other (single satellite) is at the roof line facing south west, but I still chose to run 4 cables to my switch location, however if I needed more satellites at that height then I would have to consider relocating the swiches there or in your option switching to FBC

Cheers Col

Just tried et8000 OPLi in flash & XTA on SSD.

Work like a charm. XTA even picked up settings backup from OPLi

Back to flash for now

"La Vuelta" has my attention.

Many thanks Colin

Have a look at the Tutorial. At the bottom of the page, on the right, you can sellect a Language of your choice. It is very well written and has lots of pictures.

http://echannelizer.com/tutorials.php

Colin

Zgemma Star working fine.

Many thanks Colin

Hi Pedro,

setup Zgemma Star S this morning.

Backup Suite working great. But Automatic Full Backup 3.9 not working, "No supported reciever found !"

@Acds, thanks, so many good plugins fail at the first step because there is no supporting instructions.

I will try to put together some screenshots from a new user perspective if that may help others following this thread.

They will be based on the 4 channel test bouquet from posts 28 & 29, which are easy to find on channels.xml. Also I use PLi-HD2 skin.

regards Col

Cancel that thought.

Just went into remove plugins and found "Henksat settings"

Well your learn something new every Day.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Colin

Two questions:
1 - what are the differences between 2.9 and 3.0?
2 - why version 3.0 isn't available from PLi downloads?

Thanks

Feed Version still showing ver2.8 which does NOT backup rootfs, although it make a 0kb file (XP1000)

Version 3.0 works fine