[VU+ Duo] New VIX Image Vu+ Duo Version 2.4 15/05/2012 - DISCUSSION ONLY -

[basilyoung]

yes it is, since going to starting via the vix panel, with out the auto start option...its been perfect

 

[fintannl]

nice to see that others are experiencing exactly the same issues I have which has led me to revert to the old version of VIX

 

[Hamram]

All in all, this is for me the best release since 2011, and so far I haven't noticed any new bugs. No spinning VIX, no problems with cams, and not anything else, as I can recall... That is... The problem introduced around december 2011, with the picture freezing and pixelling under timeshift and/or playback of recorded shows, is still there. That was a bit of a disappointment. I'll try some of the older drivers, as I did last time, and maybe it will be better this time as well. Hope the Vu-dudes soon will address this problem, so the VIX-guys can fix the rest. Thanx guys!

 

[judge]

The problem introduced around december 2011, with the picture freezing and pixelling under timeshift and/or playback of recorded shows, is still there. That was a bit of a disappointment. I'll try some of the older drivers, as I did last time, and maybe it will be better this time as well. Hope the Vu-dudes soon will address this problem, so the VIX-guys can fix the rest. Thanx guys!

I watch on timeshift & playback of recorded shows all the time & never have an issue.
Are you sure it's not your HD?

 

[Hamram]

I watch on timeshift & playback of recorded shows all the time & never have an issue.
Are you sure it's not your HD?

Pretty sure.. Most often appear on HD-channels. I have two boxes, and two of my friends have one each, and we all have the same problem, and if I'm not totally wrong, it was first seen last december.

The drivers from december 2011 seems to be more stable, but they don't cure the problem 100 %. It looks like the sync is lost, and when the box is trying to get things together, the picture might freeze or pixel. Sometimes it might even freeze. The solution then is to do a ffw or frw for a sec or two, and then press OK. Usually it will then work fine. Maybe for the lest of the show, or maybe only a minute or two. Simply very annoying.

 

[fintannl]

not trying to knock new version of vix but cams do not work consistently and hard drive is off the radar it is spinning so much. great to be back on old release

 

[judge]

Pretty sure.. Most often appear on HD-channels. I have two boxes, and two of my friends have one each, and we all have the same problem, and if I'm not totally wrong, it was first seen last december.

The drivers from december 2011 seems to be more stable, but they don't cure the problem 100 %. It looks like the sync is lost, and when the box is trying to get things together, the picture might freeze or pixel. Sometimes it might even freeze. The solution then is to do a ffw or frw for a sec or two, and then press OK. Usually it will then work fine. Maybe for the lest of the show, or maybe only a minute or two. Simply very annoying.

Odd, I'm currently watching a HD-channel recording from earlier tonight, recorded on a DUO & watching over the network on a TM-Twin & not a single glitch.
When on the DUO, I often rewind & play live TV on HD channels as well as watching pre-recorded HD shows and never have a single glitch.

 

[Larry-G]

not trying to knock new version of vix but cams do not work consistently and hard drive is off the radar it is spinning so much. great to be back on old release

There could be many explanations as to your problems and most will likely lie with your own individual setup, such as do you have Debug logs activated ? and if so are they set to the HDD ? as that can cause the HDD to spin constantly due to it writing to the log every few seconds.

 

[fintannl]

thanks phoenix, i'm as simple as you get. put the cam in, put the bouquet in, put the picon in. absolutely nothing else. just a simple user

 

[MarsArtis]

my two cents here regarding cccam problem.
On my 3 Vu-DUO, the 2.4 was a blessing.
Since installed it over, and used CCcam 2.3.0 I had no kind of issue or black screen. On the other hand on the 2.3 I was affected by many crashes.


Anyhow,
In this post I want to point out that at present I've posted about three issues and had no reply at all:
Network Browser not working
OpenVpn not starting
A867 installation not working

more details on A867:
first installed af9035 driver from plugin feed: usb pen not recognized
second installed dib0700 driver from plugin feed: usb pen not recognized
at this point I extracted some files from the .ipk installer made by Sifteam for the latest Koala (based on Pli)
so I installed dvb-usb-a867 in etc/modutils
dvb-usb-a867.ko in modules/3.1.1./kernel/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb

but I noticed that in the latest path there was missing the dvb-usb.ko and I put it there. Rebooted (not simple e2 restart) and the Tuner was there. Choosed the right setting for Italy started a scan and 0 services found.

here are some results of telnet:
mesg | grep dvb
dvb_bcm7335: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
dvb-usb: found a 'AVerMedia A867 DVB-T Recevier' in warm state.
dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
dvb-usb: AVerMedia A867 DVB-T Recevier successfully initialized and connected.
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb-usb-a867
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9035
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dib0700
usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_dibusb_mc

lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 13fd:0540 Initio Corporation
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 07ca:a867 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lsmod
Module Size Used by
tun 16458 0
nfsd 285146 11
zd1211rw 55901 0
8192cu 542837 0
rtl8187 54063 0
rt73usb 24424 0
rt2800usb 13089 0
rt2800lib 44771 1 rt2800usb
rt2500usb 18185 0
rt2x00usb 10921 3 rt73usb,rt2800usb,rt2500usb
rt2x00lib 40442 5 rt73usb,rt2800usb,rt2800lib,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb
r8712u 169530 0
pl2303 12486 0
keyspan 32756 0
ipv6 348670 10
ftdi_sio 30425 0
exportfs 3994 1 nfsd
dvb_usb_dibusb_mc 3254 0
dvb_usb_dibusb_common 4822 1 dvb_usb_dibusb_mc
dvb_pll 8404 1 dvb_usb_dibusb_common
dvb_usb_dib0700 69808 0
dib7000p 27910 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib0090 22622 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib7000m 14940 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib0070 8368 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib8000 30230 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib9000 29991 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
mt2266 4051 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
tuner_xc2028 19906 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dib3000mc 11212 2 dvb_usb_dibusb_common,dvb_usb_dib0700
xc5000 12405 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
s5h1411 8457 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
mt2060 4211 2 dvb_usb_dibusb_common,dvb_usb_dib0700
lgdt3305 14600 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
xc4000 19738 1 dvb_usb_dib0700
dibx000_common 6837 6 dvb_usb_dib0700,dib7000p,dib7000m,dib8000,dib9000,dib3000mc
dvb_usb_af9035 11403 0
mxl5007t 7531 2 dvb_usb_dib0700,dvb_usb_af9035
af9033 15600 1 dvb_usb_af9035
tda18218 3573 1 dvb_usb_af9035
tua9001 2263 1 dvb_usb_af9035
dvb_usb_a867 211662 1
carl9170 83694 0
belkin_sa 6809 0
usbserial 30919 4 pl2303,keyspan,ftdi_sio,belkin_sa
ath9k_htc 63975 0
mac80211 211445 7 zd1211rw,rtl8187,rt2800lib,rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib,carl9170,ath9k_htc
ath9k_common 1442 1 ath9k_htc
ath9k_hw 310668 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
ath 16979 3 carl9170,ath9k_htc,ath9k_hw
appletalk 28439 0
psnap 1836 1 appletalk
llc 3665 1 psnap
brcmfb 1127 2
dvb_bcm7335 4932784 19 brcmfb
procmk 1397 1 dvb_bcm7335

 

[Sicilian]

very dedicated vix fan but have gone back to old version. i know for a fact that there is a cam issue as it is in front of my eyes with a local card. basil is what you suggest the solution so i can revert to the current version of vix

No issues whatsoever here with Oscam, maybe you should provide logs.

 

[Rob van der Does]

I am not saying you dont experience any problems with various cams and your setup, but i am saying that i categorically do not and never have had issues with CCcam and the 2.4 ViX image.

Same here: no problem whatsoever. So if there are problems they are more likely to do with a specific setup than with ViX-2.4. And that seems logical, as in that area nothing has been changed.

maybe you should provide logs.

Indeed: working around a problem will never get it solved........

 

[Tkr001]

I have a vanilla install apart from Magic-HD Night skin and Oscam and CCcam. No problems at all

 

[BALDRICK75]

Would like to say what a great image vix 2.4 is. I only have one small problem and was hoping some one can point me in the right direction on earlyer vix images i could access the vu duo from my pc network and move large files onto my vu hdd but since installing 2.4 my pc can no longer find the vu on the network any help with this would be a great help. i have read some info on this site and installed samba and also nfs setup when i try to enter nfs set up again it asks me if i want to install again???
keep up the good work vix team from the first image it just gets better every time

 

[Maxwell]

Can you access the duo with telnet, filezilla etc ? I assume you have tried a full restart after installing the network services, try a power off reboot

 

[BALDRICK75]

Hi Maxwell4321 thanks for your reply i have filezilla but find this is not good foe moving large hd files to and from my vu hdd to my pc and visa versa? and i have done a full reboot (power down ) after instaling nfs and samba am i missing something more?
Before on older vix images my vu was found under network devices on my pc then i could access the root dir or the hdd dir. would very much like to get this back...

 

[Maxwell]

I wasnt suggesting that you use filezilla for transferring your files, merely trying to determine if you can actually access your duo on the network :thumbsup:

What is the exact version of 2.4 are you running ?
Have you enabled autostart for Samba ? Is it actually running ?
If you go to menu>setup>system>network>samba setup and press the blue button it will show you a log - can you get a screen grab
Try enabling uShare

 

[Tuporaky]

Please, don't came back to 2.3 times! Now 2.4 is the best image I have never installed, and I have tested ALL!

 

[BALDRICK75]

Hi maxwell4321 i can use filezilla to connect to the vu :thumbsup:
i am running version 2.4 build 135 last updated 2012-05-25 18:50
i have installed samba and the samba log is empty it will not start from green button press or enable auto start from yellow button after reboot the samba setup is asking me to install service again and this is the same for nfs setup and also ushare?
glad i have no hair to pull out lol

 

[Rob van der Does]

Sometimes Samba doesn't install properly; most of the times it does after a reboot.