[ET8500] Is it possibly for the STB to turn itself on - and why?

[Flyingpig]

Hello All,

Came down this morning and my ET8500 was turned on. This is tne 2nd morning in a row where I have come downstairs and it is on?

I have checked with the wife and kids and they never turned it on. So 2 mornings in a row, come down stairs and it is on. Why would it do this, would it turn itself on to download the EPG?

THanks,

James.

ANywas, as I am typing this, the box has gone into loop when I tried to change the LCD skin. Come back my ET9000 which was no trouble... nothing but littel niggles with this... Help..,.!!!!!!!

 

[Andy_Hazza]

May have failed on the CrossEPG downloader, thus why it was still on.


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[Andy_Hazza]

Out of curiosity where are you storing your EPG data to?


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[Flyingpig]

Would that possibly make it lose its network connections and prevent my box upstairs connecting to it via a mount?

Thans,

 

[Flyingpig]

Out of curiosity where are you storing your EPG data to?


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On my USB,, it is set in the menu to use my USB mount, but when the EPG is downloaded it shows up on my USB and my HDD.

 

[Andy_Hazza]

Why using a usb. Use your HDD to store your EPG data. I can understand if your receiver can't take an internal HDD then a usb is the only option, but as you have an ET8500 with internal HDD capacity use your HDD for storing the EPG data.


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[Flyingpig]

I will change it to that... I was under the impression that Picons and EPG was to be stored on the USB.

Should I keep picons on the USB or HDD?

 

[Andy_Hazza]

I will change it to that... I was under the impression that Picons and EPG was to be stored on the USB.

Should I keep picons on the USB or HDD?

Looking at the ET8500 flash memory specs which is 512MB, I would personally do away with the usb and install your Picons to the root (flash).
Picons are not suitable to be installed on a HDD.

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[dfox]

Looking at the ET8500 flash memory specs which is 512MB, I would personally do away with the usb and install your Picons to the root (flash).
Picons are not suitable to be installed on a HDD.

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Just out of curiosity, why should they not be installed in the HDD?

 

[Andy_Hazza]

Your HDD tends to spin constantly when installed to the HDD and they tend to be slower at loading the pictures, whereas on flash they are instant.


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[bellejt]

question concerning : I keep picons in root and epg on usb.Does the HDD not spin up everytime you access EPG ?

 

[Larry-G]

Just out of curiosity, why should they not be installed in the HDD?

Because every time you pull up the EPG or change a channel the HDD would have to spin up to access and display the picons. This can easily add 5 to 8 seconds to the zap time. Just place picons in the internal flash or a USB stick.

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[Larry-G]

question concerning : I keep picons in root and epg on usb.Does the HDD not spin up everytime you access EPG ?

Because the EPG is stored in live flash and is only read from or written to the HDD when updating or when the receiver is shutdown or powered on. All other times its in the ram and instantly available.

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[bellejt]

ok thx then I practically do not need usb stick anymore on my DUO2.

 

[Larry-G]

ok thx then I practically do not need usb stick anymore on my DUO2.

Agreed.

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[1554leslie]

Just out of curiosity, why should they not be installed in the HDD?

You could end up deleting your epg by mistake on the hard drive when you are deleting old recordings,If the epg is stored on its own usb stick then that cant really happen

 

[Flyingpig]

Just checked the Picon folder on my USB and it is 232Mb,, It does contain MK Picons, and some for 13 east? Is it okay to put this much into the Flash?

Also, how do I transfer these into the flash memory of the ET8500?

Thanks,

James.

 

[Andy_Hazza]

You could end up deleting your epg by mistake on the hard drive when you are deleting old recordings,If the epg is stored on its own usb stick then that cant really happen

Eh.......... And it can easily be generated again. Pretty useless statement that is. [emoji13]


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[dfox]

Your HDD tends to spin constantly when installed to the HDD and they tend to be slower at loading the pictures, whereas on flash they are instant.


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Thanks will change to flash now then. Cheers for that

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[dfox]

You could end up deleting your epg by mistake on the hard drive when you are deleting old recordings,If the epg is stored on its own usb stick then that cant really happen

Unless you change location on the HDD you shouldn't delete epg.dat as it is not stored in MEDIA/HDD/MOVIE, but I will change the location of picons now.

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