SD card mounted working: Movies, EPG, Swap, Time shift, in VIX Zgemma-Star.H-2s
This is a work around the dreaded 50% hang up when initialising to mount a micro-SD card.
After spending 12 quid on a 64gb Sandisk card I was determined to get some use out of it!
1. format card as "Ext4" with "Mini Tool Partition Wizard Free" or similar but must be Ext4 format.
2. insert card and go: Menu - Setup - System - Storage Devices - File system check - OK - select your card - OK File system is checked and Mounted, takes just a few minutes.
Alas the mount is not seen in VIX- Mount. menu, so its not a quick fix, to select, use as hdd. so on we go .
3. Using FileZilla go to dir, media/ and if successful see "mmcblk0p1" that what my card came up as.
4. Not all the required sub directories will be there, but you can soon do that in FileZills , right click and make in turn: timeshift, movie, crossepg, backup, imagebackups, lost+found (think "lost+found" may be there already) and xbmc, and IPTVcache, if you are setting up Kodi or IPTV. These and any others can be added as required.
5.Now, because its not possible to set "use as hdd" You must go through and edit all the settings that you want to write to the SD card. changing the directory to: media/mmcblk0p1/xxxxx
xxxxx = choose destination dir to match the setting.
a) Vix swap. b) Time shift. c) Record and Playback settings, 3x entries Default, Timer, Instant. d) Backup. e) Image Backup. f) EPG (located@ Menu - setup - system - EPG - settings - EPG Location.) g) Cross EPG (located@ Menu - Setup -System - EPG -Cross EPG -Configure - Storage Device - select "External storage mmcblk0p1" green to save) and KODI and IPTV settings if you use them, there will probably others I don't use but you get the gist of what's needed.
6) Best to do a settings back-up first, and definitely one when your done to save all your hard work.
If you are not familiar with the in's and outs of the file and menu systems, you will be after all this!
SD card mounted working: Movies, EPG, Swap, Time shift, in VIX Zgemma-Star.H-2s