I have read god knows how many threads asking the same questions, so thought Id write this - its a complete idiots guide to installing sucmnsee's image with every step explained in great detail.
Anyone who needs to ask any questions after reading this shouldn't be allowed out of the house on their own, lol.
Its best to read thru this guide before hand to see which parts you decide to follow / use.
Updated 18/9 with a few more bits n pieces added, and a few bits removed, eg Setanta HD now included in the whitelist so no need to add to favouites)
Setting up the usb stick:
Download the HD Low Level format tool from here:
HDDGURU: HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool
Low level format your usb stick (click on continue for free, select your drive, choose continue, then choose the 2nd option near the top to low level format the drive.
Once done, then do a full format (ie not a quick format) in windows as a fat32 drive.
Expect each of the above to take up to 40 minutes a pop on a 32gig usb stick.
USB sticks confirmed as being able to flash the zgemma:
Integral 4gb, quick fat32 format (confirmed by Soberish).
Kingston 1gb Data Traveller, quick fat32 format (confirmed by Soberish).
Kingston 32gb usb sticks (confirmed by Satboynoob).
Kingston 16 Gb DataTraveller (confirmed by mtpockets).
Lexar 8Gb and 16Gb (confirmed by mtpockets).
Play.com branded 32gb usb stick : had to low level format & full windows fat32 format it twice before it would flash the device (confirmed by me!)
Sandisk Cruzer
Blade 16gb, first time no issues (confirmed by Mitchb).
Sandisk Cruzer Slicer 8gb from 7 day shop (£2.69!) : opened packaging, copied the
zgemma folder onto it, and it worked instantly (confirmed by me!)
TDK 16Gb Flip (confirmed by mtpockets).
Flashing the zgemma:
Now download the sucmnsee image from this site, and unzip it so that the image folder (the one called zgemma) goes on the usb stick, then put it in the back of the zgemma when switched off and power up the box.
Will say boot on the display, then FLSH.
If still says FLSH after 20 mins the flash has failed, and if the box boots normally, the flash hasnt started, meaning its probably ignored the usb stick (an all to common problem).
Lets assume its went ok - your box will now have booted up and the image has installed ok, so switch it off again to safely remove that usb stick you flashed with, and plug in the hard drive you wish to store your recordings etc on. This should be formatted to NTFS, or you will get an out of disk space error when recording HD programs after about 50 minutes (as the file will be over the 4 gig fat32 file size limit). You may need to convert the drive as detailed later on if you have recording issues.
Entering your "line" to decode the channels:
Once flashed, enter your line details before doing anything....
This assumes your using an nline (is there anyone these days who doesnt?!)
Have a look on this forum for the amount of people who have problems with entering lines.
This way avoids connecting to a pc using filezilla, or anything messy- do it via your zgemma remote control in seconds.
Get a hold of your Newcamd.list or CCCAM.cfg file from your provider and write down the line (or open it in wordpad on a laptop if your lazy).
Go to menu, Ts panel, Files explorer, Usr, Keys.
In this folder you will see the newcamd.list file.
Highlight to edit, and you will see 2 nline details within the file - its the top one you need to edit first, so use the remote control like txting on an old mobile phone to enter your details, so it looks like:
CWS_KEEPALIVE = 60
Once your happy, you must go to the very end of the line and press ok before then pressing exit, then ok when it asks if its yes to save ("prev" and "next" move back & forward if needed).
Now move down to the second line, which is where your actual line "code" is to be entered.
It should be in the format:
CWS = abcde.no-ip.biz 12345 rog123-4321 7654321 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
Again use the remote control, and again once your happy, you must go to the very end of the line and press ok before then pressing exit, then ok when it asks if its yes to save. Everyone's line will be slightly different, but you MUST have the "01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14" bit present. No idea why people keep asking me if its needed..... Anyway, thats your line entered - its that simple!
Now ready to scan for channels - how many "feeds" does your box have?
To do EPG and bouquet stuff you need 2 feeds.
If you have 2 feeds (which a typical Sky HD box will have), ignore the section below.
if you havent got 2 feeds, with the default settings your scans will fail giving an error message, so if you live in a flat etc and only have one feed do the following now: (if you ever get a second feed you will need to re enable it by reversing the below and do the scans again).
Go into menu, set up, service searching,tuner configuration.
go to tuner b, press ok, then in the next screen at Configuration mode, disable it by choosing Not Configured. Press ok then green to save then red to exit. You need to reset the box to take effect, and as a bonus, the line details you just entered will start running with the same restart.
Now do the scan for your channels:
Menu, setup, service searching, autobouquets maker, providers. (may need to wait a few secs for them all to appear).
Change Sky ROI Area to ROI HD (so as to get their equivalent BBC and ITV etc in HD - handy!) - irrespective of where in Europe you live.
So, settings should be, from the top:
no, yes, ROI HD, no, no, no, yes, no, yes, yes, [ your custom area ], no, then 6 yes's all the way to end.
Then press green to save.
Choose Delete Bouquets, then once deleted,scroll back up and "Start scan". This will take a few mins and should say "Reading Sky uk" at bottom.
Now sort out the EPG:
Choose menu, setup, system, EPG, settings, and make sure the top setting EPG Location is NOT set to internal flash,but instead is on your plugged in hard drive.
Now choose menu, setup, system, EPG, Cross EPG, and Download now.
This can take upto 10 minutes.
Once done restart the box (hold power button etc).
Now if you dont like the dark boot image by sucmnsee:
Press the Portal button on the remote then press green to list the plugins, then press ok on bootlogos, then ok on the one you want (eg aurora), then ok for yes to install.
This will be seen when you restart the box.
Change infobar settings :
Menu, setup, system, user interface, settings, and change the first two infobars to 7 seconds, and enable info bar fadeout just below, and make sure fadeout speed is 40 - this is quite classy looking....
TV Resolution:
Sky's native resolution on their HD box is 1080i, so this is the best setting. Press Menu, system, AV Settings, and change mode to 1080i, and ensure refresh is 50Hz before saving.
Fraggle sky skin settings that arent quite right:
Choose any channel category and bring up the EPG for it.
Now press menu.
Ensure the number of rows is 6 so only 6 channels of EPG is shown at a time (less clutter).
Event font size 8, 3, 175, 70, 50, 10, yes, 120 (or 150 mins or 180 - depends on how far ahead you want to see whats on).
Then press green to save.
Now go into your recorded program screen by pressing the "file list" button on your remote, and on the screen that appears, press the menu button, then ok on settings at the very top.
Change Font size to 5 or 6, and number of rows to 12.
Now, again, choose any channel category and bring up the EPG for it. But now press EPG again.
You will see the next 18 or so programs for that channel listed on the left. Press menu and change the number of rows to 16 (or less if you think its cluttered looking) and change the Event font size to 7, then press green to save, then exit out. Next time you go back in you will see the effect.
Also...
Change "Remove items from trash" to 1 day as your usb stick can fill up VERY quickly, and change "disk space to reserve" to a much lower number, eg 10 gig.
You still hate the fraggle sky skin and want to try the Blue HD one:
I personally think the font is far too small on this and you cant adjust it, but, if it rocks your boat.....
Choose menu, TSPanel, addons, linuxsat support addons, Skins Opnvix, and look in there for Bluehd v3.
Then go into settings and change it.
Menu, Setup, System, User interface, Skins, and select blue hd.
You have used the box, but dont like how transparent the menu's are, or the menu's are out the screen to the left:
This allows you to change the transparency of the menu's as well as making the EPG etc fill more of the screen. As a fail safe, the zgemma has a fair sized border round the screen options, but you can change these settings to fill out the screen, or move it about.
Go to menu, setup, system, user interface, and position setup.
My preference is 240,4,714,5,565, but, you can experiment to suit. Move left/right and up/down is your centering of the EPG and menus, and you can see the effect as you adjust the settings - just remember to save.
Having problems getting channels? Check what your sat signal is like:
Press menu, setup, service searching, sat finder, and this will show your signal strength
Stop your hard drive spinning when not in use:
Press menu, setup, system, storage devices, hard disk setup.
Change Hard disk standby after to something suitable, eg 2 or 5 minutes by pressing left or right then press green for ok.
Making an image backup:
** this tends to give a timeout error if timeshift is running when you attempt to create a backup, so stop timeshift if making a backup (Menu, setup, system, timeshift settings) **
Menu, setup, vix, image manager, and press green for a new backup.
When you press green press ok when asked if ready to create a backup.
Takes about 15 mins and can sit at 18/100 in the progress bar for between 9 and 10 mins and at 90/100 for up to 5 mins, so dont panic - its not crashed.
Backing up settings:
Menu, setup, vix, backup manager, and press green for a new backup.
The backup will then start and only takes a minute or 2.
Now set up a swap file (like windows on a pc does for when it runs out of RAM):
Menu, setup, vix, swap manager.
Now press blue, then ok, then choose to create 256mb, then ok. You will get a "Wait" message whilst this is in progress but should only take a couple of minutes.
Once done, choose yellow to autostart, and green to activate, and status should now be green, so press red to exit, and reset the box.
Timeshift if you want:
Not required, but can come in handy if you want to rewind and see if that goal really was offside!
Go to Menu, setup, system, timeshift settings.
The top line should be showing your usb stick or HD.
Now set"automatically start" to something like 30 seconds, incase your box is slow to start up or whatever, and we dont want an error message saying it cant start.
Now change "stop timeshift when recording" to yes, then green to save, and a reset for the settings to take effect.
If you have enabled timeshift, you probably want the infobar to appear so you know how far you are behind "realtime" when fast forwarding or rewinding:
Press menu, then system, user interface, settings, and in move down to about halfway down screen to "Show infobar on skip forward/backward" to yes, then green to save.
If your recordings are failing and / or initializing your USB storage device:
Choose menu, setup, system,storage devices, initialisation,and select your drive here.
Then press red to initialise (and wipe!) your drive, then exit out.
As your drive is wiped, you will need to download your EPG data again, so see above for how to do so.
