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20-11-15, 10:46
Crowded into my house are 4 media players (Dune/Mede8er) and an Apple TV used to play the 500+ video library based on 3 NAS boxes.
I have long looked for a better solution where I could use both Enigma2 (preferably OpenViX) and something like Kodi, so was instantly interested in the Wetek Play as a possible solution.
But 1st thanks to PB/Wetek for creating an E2 image on a ARM chip box, OpenATV for incorporating it into the OE-A and OpenVix for supplying my E2 image core from which I have built the "OpenViX" image.
Having tried to use the PBimage (and no available PB Git), I quickly wondered off to look at other alternatives and found that OpenATV were building an E2 image, so I incorporated all those changes into the OpenVix Wetek branch and ................... some months later I have an "OpenViX" full Kodi 15.2 image .... all on an micro SD card :)
So how does it run etc?
First E2 and Kodi 15.2 alternate - they don't run at the same time, which for me is fine but it does mean that it cannot run as your main E2 box, although my Wetek has 2 DVB-S2 tuners. The SD card is split into 3 file systems to support the E2/Kodi 15.2 requirements.
E2 features/Performance? Well as far as I have tested (Note: I don't run timeshift on my OpenViX receivers) everything runs like Vix :) You cannot stress it too much - recording 2 channels and then playing back one whilst still recording (to a very slow USB stick) kind of caused a few overhead issues and made it very slow to respond to the remote, but it didn't crash :)
Setup is like any E2 receiver, nothing special.
Normally boot time and general responsiveness is surprisingly good..... and apart from the fact that you cannot do a couch image update, everything seems like a normal Vix image.
The (optional) Wetek E2 remote is not wonderful (limited keys) but the RCU addon in E2 allows the Wetek to run with a collection of remotes and certainly my Xtrend remote works pretty well.
I have run the Wetek both direct and via the remote fallback tuner and picture quality on my Monitor (it outputs 720/1080P) is good.
Audio? - needs more testing as to get Dolby etc I am sure it will need to output via the spdif output ... not ideal.
ABM/EPG - haven't tried crossepg (I use XMLTV Importer) but otherwise standard.
Skins? A reasonable selection, although I have yet to force a 1080 skin onto the box, so don't know if that will work.
Kodi 15.2 - with (I have to say) my limited but developing knowledge of Kodi, its a normal Kodi 15.2 system except that you need to be careful which remote you are running with to get it to respond sometimes - I usually use the default Wetek (non E2 remote!)
So next steps, finish off my Kodi video library testing, Audio tests!!!! etc etc
Play Time :)
I have long looked for a better solution where I could use both Enigma2 (preferably OpenViX) and something like Kodi, so was instantly interested in the Wetek Play as a possible solution.
But 1st thanks to PB/Wetek for creating an E2 image on a ARM chip box, OpenATV for incorporating it into the OE-A and OpenVix for supplying my E2 image core from which I have built the "OpenViX" image.
Having tried to use the PBimage (and no available PB Git), I quickly wondered off to look at other alternatives and found that OpenATV were building an E2 image, so I incorporated all those changes into the OpenVix Wetek branch and ................... some months later I have an "OpenViX" full Kodi 15.2 image .... all on an micro SD card :)
So how does it run etc?
First E2 and Kodi 15.2 alternate - they don't run at the same time, which for me is fine but it does mean that it cannot run as your main E2 box, although my Wetek has 2 DVB-S2 tuners. The SD card is split into 3 file systems to support the E2/Kodi 15.2 requirements.
E2 features/Performance? Well as far as I have tested (Note: I don't run timeshift on my OpenViX receivers) everything runs like Vix :) You cannot stress it too much - recording 2 channels and then playing back one whilst still recording (to a very slow USB stick) kind of caused a few overhead issues and made it very slow to respond to the remote, but it didn't crash :)
Setup is like any E2 receiver, nothing special.
Normally boot time and general responsiveness is surprisingly good..... and apart from the fact that you cannot do a couch image update, everything seems like a normal Vix image.
The (optional) Wetek E2 remote is not wonderful (limited keys) but the RCU addon in E2 allows the Wetek to run with a collection of remotes and certainly my Xtrend remote works pretty well.
I have run the Wetek both direct and via the remote fallback tuner and picture quality on my Monitor (it outputs 720/1080P) is good.
Audio? - needs more testing as to get Dolby etc I am sure it will need to output via the spdif output ... not ideal.
ABM/EPG - haven't tried crossepg (I use XMLTV Importer) but otherwise standard.
Skins? A reasonable selection, although I have yet to force a 1080 skin onto the box, so don't know if that will work.
Kodi 15.2 - with (I have to say) my limited but developing knowledge of Kodi, its a normal Kodi 15.2 system except that you need to be careful which remote you are running with to get it to respond sometimes - I usually use the default Wetek (non E2 remote!)
So next steps, finish off my Kodi video library testing, Audio tests!!!! etc etc
Play Time :)