Setting up your external USB HDD with your Solo the easy way!

[jas]

Hi
I am having a problem with VU solo usb hard drive recording, i am using seagate 500gb usb portable hd. It records fine but when i put box on standby and try to record something next day it says " in order to record timer, the tv was switched to the recording service" after restarting box it works but same next day. Can anyone help please?

Thanks

 

[xarqi]

Hi jas.
That's normal I think. The solo has a single tuner and when you go to standby it is left tuned to the transponder for the service you were watching. When the time comes for it to make a scheduled recording, if that is on a service on a different transponder, then the box will have to set the tuner to that transponder. The message is just telling you what has happened. The alternative would be to have the recording missed.

 

[jas]

Thanks
Is there any solution for this issue?

 

[Stanman]

Thanks
Is there any solution for this issue?

Buy a dual tuner box

 

[Sicilian]

Have you tried simply switching channels again instead of rebooting?

 

[netswim]

5. Go to your PC, open a command promt and telnet to your Solo. As follows: -

Telnet 192.168.1.11 <<<<Use your Solo IP

When I try to telnet it says:
'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I have Windows 7 and my network is ok and the Vu+solo has normal ip.192.168.1.67

 

[Stanman]

You will need to enable telnet,

Click Start.
Click Control Panel.
Now, go to Programs or Programs and Features.
Click Turn Windows features on or off.
In the Windows Features dialog box, tick Telnet Client check box.
Click OK.

 

[netswim]

You will need to enable telnet,

Click Start.
Click Control Panel.
Now, go to Programs or Programs and Features.
Click Turn Windows features on or off.
In the Windows Features dialog box, tick Telnet Client check box.
Click OK.

Thank you I did it for recording but for timeshift we do the same thing but the last step is to choose usb/media and then what we have to highlight and push the green button? movie or usr?

 

[netswim]

I did a small recording and the result was a picture paused and audio broken.

 

[Stanman]

Thank you I did it for recording but for timeshift we do the same thing but the last step is to choose usb/media and then what we have to highlight and push the green button? movie or usr?

Sorry mate you've lost me, those instructions are for enabling telnet in windows Vista / 7.
Can you elaborate on exactly what you are trying to do?

 

[hardeep]

Guys help, have got 2TB drive, went throught the instructions as per Sicillian thread, and it seems to record, all being with broken picture and sound, but the question is when i do a df -h does not display the hard disk. So i did a fdisk -l and it was listed, can anybody tell me why it does not show when i do a df -h ? See output below:-
root@vusolo:/# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1999.7 GB, 1999696297984 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00050f90

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 243115 1952821237 83 Linux
root@vusolo:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 116.0M 55.3M 60.8M 48% /
tmpfs 64.0K 4.0K 60.0K 6% /dev
tmpfs 53.3M 612.0K 52.7M 1% /var/volatile
tmpfs 53.3M 0 53.3M 0% /dev/shm

 

[hardeep]

Initializing Questions

All,

My drive has been sat at 50% initializing for 24 hours, does not seem to progress any more, can anyone advise, as I guess this is not normal
I press the blue button on the remote and it comes up with the following:-
1 In Progress : Initializing storage device... (50%)

 

[Sicilian]

All,

My drive has been sat at 50% initializing for 24 hours, does not seem to progress any more, can anyone advise, as I guess this is not normal
I press the blue button on the remote and it comes up with the following:-
1 In Progress : Initializing storage device... (50%)

Reboot and try again, it's not done in around 5mins, flash with official firmware to initialise your hdd, then flash back VIX.


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[espen31]

Code:
Password = leave blank, just press enter

I cant get into my vu+solo login is incorrect???????? what is going on??

 

[tomt]

Installing USB HDD on VU+ Solo

Hi Sicilian,
Great thread and forum, thanks. Would your tutorial for installing USB HDD work on a VU+ Solo running Blackhole/enigma WBhite? I am new to the VU+ but would like to install a 2TB WD USB HDD.
Thanks in advance
Tom

 

[Sicilian]

Hi Sicilian,
Great thread and forum, thanks. Would your tutorial for installing USB HDD work on a VU+ Solo running Blackhole/enigma WBhite? I am new to the VU+ but would like to install a 2TB WD USB HDD.
Thanks in advance
Tom

Sorry I've never tried Blackhole or a 2TB HDD. Try and let us know how you get on

 

[tomt]

Sorry I've never tried Blackhole or a 2TB HDD. Try and let us know how you get on

Thanks for the quick response. Is there any reason to be concerned about a 2TB HDD? Would a smaller one be better? Thanks.

 

[Sicilian]

Thanks for the quick response. Is there any reason to be concerned about a 2TB HDD? Would a smaller one be better? Thanks.

Judging by reports I've read, i'd stick with a 1TB max.

 

[tomt]

Judging by reports I've read, i'd stick with a 1TB max.

Thanks, too bad I bought the 2TB HDD yesterday. I'll go exchange for 1TB. The new WD also has USB 3.0, but I guess that would not help with the VU+ Solo having only USB 2.0. I appreciate your feedback. I really do want to maximize the odds of this working well.

 

[satansoft]

A quick question! Why shouldn't we use drive's that don't have their own power supply? I have a 500gb WD Passport drive sitting idle and was thinking I might use it with my Vu+ Duo!

PCs Have big chunky Power Supplies, so have have no problem providing enough current for USB Powered devices. However not all USB ports are powered, especially on peripheral devices like Sat Boxes or Media Boxes. Plus if they are powered this is normally not enough to power external hard drives. . . Even if it was, I would recommend using a powered USB Drive, as this would take the strain from the Sat Boxes PSU.