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Hi all new to the ZGemma H2 - arrived yesterday.

Manage to load my gift onto it and setup the bouquets which is good.

Just wondering, does any one have any experience with using a USB tuner for Freeview attached to the box?

Bought the box to avoid a satellite dish.


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Cheers looks like an expensive USB tuner. Might be cheaper to use the zGemma as a second box leaving Freeview connected.

Would there be much to gain by putting a dish up? Apart from dual tuner functionality


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well it would be cheaper putting a dish up.
Another advantage with the sat feed is you can record one channel and watch a different channel at the same time. (You would obviously need a sly line to get all the sly channels)

I know that usb tuner is compatible. There is probably others as well that are compatible.
 
Cheers tried mine and after a reboot it just froze at 49 on the lcd. Pleased I had a backup.

Tried uninstalling the tuner driver via telnet but that didn't work.


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Burlesy said:
Good job you backed up, what usb tuner do you have

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Crappy £6 DVB-T eBay effort.

Just ordered one of the known working ones from the site in the link £47.79! Really hope it works as the box almost cost that much!


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Im sure it will but i dont see much gain from attaching an ariel to the box when its cheaper to get a sat dish put up

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Burlesy said:
Im sure it will but i dont see much gain from attaching an ariel to the box when its cheaper to get a sat dish put up

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Mainly down to aesthetic reasons - the other half won't have a dish on the house


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Lol always the case i dont see the problem with a dish on the house, if your neighbours have one, ask to use one of the lnb ports on theirs, if its not to far spaced apart

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Burlesy said:
Lol always the case i dont see the problem with a dish on the house, if your neighbours have one, ask to use one of the lnb ports on theirs, if its not to far spaced apart

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Wish I could neighbours don't have a dish. Nearest would be a 40m coax run which I don't think they would be happy with :)


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Looks like the crashing on boot issue wasnt just with the Realtek driver.
Appears to crash with any driver installed.

Reflashed with sucmsee`s image which works fine with drivers and also my cheap USB Freeview stick! Only downside is it appears to be awfully crashy.

If I try to go into timeshift settings, I get the message that the box has crashed and needs to restart.
Wonder if its to do with me doing a full software update on it or that fact its based on Vix.

Any recommendations for a stable firmware? :)
 
Bit of an edit. I retried sucmsees image and it appears to now be stable.

My cheap USB stick was detected but doesn't pick up anything on a channel scan despite a strong signal.

I'll wait for the one I ordered to arrive


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