[VU+ Duo] Turn ON issue

[satnav]

Hi guys, I have an new issue with powering on from standby mode. This only happens when left overnight! It doesn’t respond to the on button, the IR is seen as the light flashes in the display after around three ON button attempts it comes on. Sometimes it is then in a working state other times the rotating VIX is displayed over a frozen channel picture forever and it has to be powered off and on with the rear switch. No error logs are generated for this lock up. Whilst it is being asked to power on the screen is light grey therefore HDMI content is there and the no entry symbol is displayed top right of screen with some button presses.
It has worked for weeks without this issue so I have rebuilt the system from scratch in an attempt to remove this issue and what I thought was an associated issue of the scheduled EPG nightly update. The EPG download plugin caused the screen picture to clear in the middle of the saving data sequence, it then stalls with the rotating VIX for several minutes. Once finished pressing OK button displays the normal program banner but titled (DVB service) no other symbols or text. Re-flashing and using the backed up settings didn’t work but a complete reload removed the EPG issue. I have m8 Ultimo that I have just set up with exactly the same software releases and identical settings in all respects and that works fine in fact absolutely great! Any suggestions please?

 

[brdbch]

Same problem with my VU+ duo.
Will not start after staying in standby mode overnight.
Also the LCD shows wrong date/time.

 

[fintannl]

suggest you revert to release prior to christmas release until issues get sorted. no issues with kernel 2.6.18 which was released in november

 

[satnav]

Strang that my m8 ultimo works perfectly same settings exactly!

 

[fintannl]

all will happen in due course. assume vix will solve as they always do

 

[paul362]

My duo was doing the same too ! im now using BH instead of Vix cant be doing with all the hassle from the missus LOL.

 

[fintannl]

paul, could you confirm that older version of vix prior to xmas delivery works just fine

 

[satnav]

Can you please remember what version of VIX was showing this sympton?

 

[Rob van der Does]

There are several reports of the DUO 'freezing', both during active service as in standby. This has been reported on using several images.
There is an indication (and not more then that), that this might be a specific DUO problem related to using CCcam 2.3.0 , and could be overcome by using CCcam 2.2.1
Again: so far only suggestions, but please tell me which CAM you are using, and if it's CCcam, using 2.2.1 is worth a try.

 

[brdbch]

I have the problem on Duo and i'm not using CCcam (using OSCam only in local mode)

 

[Sicilian]

I have the problem on Duo and i'm not using CCcam (using OSCam only in local mode)

Please post your exact setup.

How many EPG sources are you downloading?
Where is the EPG stored?
What plugins do you have installed?
Are the storage mounts correct?
What file system do any connected HDD or USB sticks have?
What skin are you using?

 

[brdbch]

Version 204.
Skin: Magic-HD
Ntp activated
HDMI CEC off

Plugins: CrossEPG Force Reload, Dream-Explorer, Genuine Vuplus, Glass System Utility, MediaPlayer, MediaScanner, OFDb Details, OpenWebif, Remote Timer, Setup Partnerbox, VLC Video Player, Visualisateur, Webinterface, XMLTV-Importer

Corsair F40 SSD installed as internal drive, Hdd on Esata
fstab:
rootfs / auto defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/volatile tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/hdd auto defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/ssd ext4 discard,noatime 0 0
10.110.110.110:/files/more/records /media/net/archives nfs nfsvers=3,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,bg,soft,intr 0 0

df -k:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
ubi0:rootfs 104248 68404 35844 66% /
tmpfs 64 4 60 6% /dev
/dev/sda1 1953277700 810900 1952466800 0% /media/hdd
/dev/sdb1 39068508 878944 38189564 2% /media/ssd
tmpfs 69136 792 68344 1% /var/volatile
10.110.110.110:/files/more/records/ 5768579136 2314432416 3161119712 42% /media/net/archives

Everything mounted OK
swapfile, logs, picons and timeshift on SSD

EPG location: /media/ssd
EPG EIT,freesat,Viasat,Netmed activated (do i really need those ????)
XMLTV provider: Rytec France XMLTV
XMLTV-Importer active
Softcam: OSCAM (stable-1.10 local only)

 

[Sicilian]

@ brdbch, please re-flash your Duo WITHOUT installing Glass system utility. Why do you require this? What does it do that ViX doesn't?

Regards the EPG, are you using both Crossepg and XMLTV importer? Or are you using XMLTV importer through Crossepg?

Kindly report back.

 

[Rob van der Does]

@ brdbch, please re-flash your Duo WITHOUT installing Glass system utility. Why do you require this? What does it do that ViX doesn't?

I fully second that. Glass is a famous box-killer: it hacks a number of systemfiles.
And you can't just de-install it: it leaves it traces behind. So once your box has been infected, they only cure is a re-flash.

 

[paul362]

paul, could you confirm that older version of vix prior to xmas delivery works just fine

never tried it just changed completely to BH for now.

@Rob-van der does : I was running 2.2.1

 

[Sicilian]

never tried it just changed completely to BH for now.

@Rob-van der does : I was running 2.2.1

Please post exactly how your Duo was setup.

 

[brdbch]

I am puzzled about the EPG configuration:
I have Rytec France XMLTV selected in the crossEPG tab, and defined in the "sources" of XMLTV-Importer.
What is the correct configuration?

Also do i need to activate EPG EIT,MHW, freesat,Viasat,Netmed ?

 

[Rob van der Does]

I have Rytec France XMLTV selected in the crossEPG tab, and defined in the "sources" of XMLTV-Importer.
What is the correct configuration?

If you use XMLTV I suggest to disable Cros-EPG and to use the XMLTV importer (works a bit more advanced).
Be aware that if you activate many sources, the amount of data (and hence the memory used) will increase very much. Especially if the number of days for extended description is high.

Also do i need to activate EPG EIT,MHW, freesat,Viasat,Netmed ?

That is up to you. But the more data comes in, the more memory will be used.
Those EPG's will download data when tuned to a station. I suggest to turn them of, and see if you miss anything.

 

[satnav]

Thanks Rob I was using 2.3 but now reverted back to 2.2.1 cant see any difference! same issue.

 

[Rob van der Does]

Thanks Rob I was using 2.3 but now reverted back to 2.2.1 cant see any difference! same issue.

OK, it was worth a try. Thanks for reporting this.