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Most provider issued and "maintained" routers have that, that isn't limited to Huawei.

 

I've worked a lot (in the past) with both their 3G / 4G and their enterprise routing and switching equipment, and its pretty decent stuff. I personally think the entire security discussion is heavily politicised. They only have access to equipment if that is given to them (most telco contracts include on-site and remote maintenance by huawei staff), and I wouldn't trust americans with the same access any more...

 

The HiSilicon chipset are pretty decent as well, especially given their price-point. And a big plus, instead of relying on codecs in hardware like Broadcom, they use hardware accellerated ffmpeg, which means they can potentionally support any codec as long as support is added to the software.

You are so right, Trust must me earned, i agree, Huawei material (gear) are very good, but it was the first time in 30 Years an ISP resetted my router without asking me first, but may be it is different with Fiber connection are different than ADSL, i am still new to Fiber world.

PS : What is a RAT ?

90% if not more of the brands out there are OEM brands: distributors that have a box made, usually from a pre-existing design, with their own logo (and sometimes a different casing).

 

There are only a few hardware manufacturers, mainly in china.

 

Now that Broadcom seems to have left the OEM market for SoC chipsets, the only one left (that we support) is HiSilicon, a Huawei brand. 

 

Most boxes on the market therefore use the same few SoC's that are available, and the design and features are all similar.

 

As for the SF8008, it is identical to the Gigablue Trio 4K, the Ustym 4K Pro, and I'm pretty sure the Qviart Dual and the Zgemma H9 too (if not, the slept in the same bed ). In many cases, the only difference is drivers (as the SDK is supplied by the manifacturer, but the OEM needs to compile and tune the drivers themselfs).

 

Octagon is a brand focussing on Germany, hardware that in many other countries is branded Mutant (the Octagon AX series is the same as the Mutant HD series).

 

I think VU+ is struggling with what to do at the moment, as they were a large and dedicated Broadcom customer, and since they're not bsaed in China, I wonder if they will make the switch to HiSilicon too...

The box seem very powerful, but to be honest i don't like Huawei, for example on routers i am using Netgear, Linksys since many years, and since i went on fiber i got a Huawei echolife hg8245h (Gpon), when i tried to upgrade the gpon with latest huawei firmware, i asked Huawei by mail for the firmware (nothing was on their support site), they refused and sent me to my provider. More than this, they keep hidden the router real root account, the login password they give us is a user account. I changed the superuser login and password but my ISP were able to distantly reset the Huawei Gpon, meaning Huawei keep backdoors in their products.

I really not feel confident with that.
 

You can speak about anything that isn't illegal or commercial .

Understood

After I rebooted in recovery mode, another time i got no signal on TV, until i remove the HDMI cable, and reconnect it.

It seem working now, thanks to everybody for your help ...

By the way, something i should have asked before I got this Box, was it a good replacement for my VuZero ? I mean it is the first time i heard about Octagon, is it a good brand/setop-box ?

 

 

It looks like there is something wrong with the software that you have installed now.

You have to enter the Recovery Menu in a different way, @WanWizard explained that in post #5

 

1. Power off the receiver using the back on/off switch.
2. Ensure no other USB devices are plugged in to the receiver.
3. Insert the USB stick containing the multiboot image in to the rear USB port.
4. Hold down (keep pressed) the front Standby button, then Power the receiver on using the back on/off switch.
5. Release the front button when ‘updt’ appears on front display of the receiver.
6.  Wait for the recovery menu to appear on TV

 

regards

stro11 

I was in recovery mode, but nothing showed on my TV (NO SIGNAL), It is only after i returned the box to my main TV, powered the Octagon first, then powered the TV 3 minutes later it worked...

Could it be a non supported TV Signal ? I have no idea.

 

 

I don't know why that happens, but atleast you have the Recovery Menu now.

If you have an image installed and working, you can make some tests to see if the tv or box still shows the same behaviour. 

 

Weirdly this problem didn't happen when the box was completely booted in Openpli or OpenATV, on Openpli 2160 (4K mode was not working, i had a black screen), and on OpenATV 4K 2160 30 (not sure what 30 is) was working perfectly, but if i wanted to test different images, it was because i have a problem with a plugin which is not working (not working on OpenATV 6.4 and on Openpli latest version), but I am not sure if it is allowed to speak about softcam on Openpli forum (Can we ? )

It looks like there is something wrong with the software that you have installed now.

You have to enter the Recovery Menu in a different way, @WanWizard explained that in post #5

 

1. Power off the receiver using the back on/off switch.
2. Ensure no other USB devices are plugged in to the receiver.
3. Insert the USB stick containing the multiboot image in to the rear USB port.
4. Hold down (keep pressed) the front Standby button, then Power the receiver on using the back on/off switch.
5. Release the front button when ‘updt’ appears on front display of the receiver.
6.  Wait for the recovery menu to appear on TV

 

regards

stro11 

I was in recovery mode, but nothing showed on my TV (NO SIGNAL), It is only after i returned the box to my main TV, powered the Octagon first, then powered the TV 3 minutes later it worked...

Could it be a non supported TV Signal ? I have no idea.