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Many years ago we acquired an “all-for-one” remote which had bigger buttons for parental use. The TV was a less common brand and thus not present the the 5 pages of fine print of “enter this code for model….”. By luck we picked a model that had a “custom” capability and they offered a service of “if...

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+1 on a death of sata to usb controller. Had an old hp 2TB enclosure which seemed to "die". Broke the drive out of its enclosure and tested on a PC and the drive was just fine. A few dollars for a new enclosure and back to business with the upside that the enclosure was usb3 giving a littl...

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I have been following this and thought, hang on, surely you could just change the remote code using open webif, went in and yes you could. But thought for 10 seconds more and went, ah no, after a usb flash, network is not configured. Without remote, no way to restore, so no network, bugger. If the n...

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FWIW, I saw a related issue when switching from T4 to TV with our harmony. It was all working as expected since original setup. Then at some time in recent weeks switching from T4 to TV resulted in TV being switched off. Eventually guessed at CEC signal from T4 going into standby being a root cause....

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Seeing the reference to OverlayHD 1.70, my instinctive response was that I had only 1.6x installed. I got a copy of Version 1.70 and upgraded the U4. And yes, I had 1.68 installed. After the upgrade, the crash problem been corrected. Red button after change now gives a message like "do you real...

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Thanks foe extra pointer. I had been digging through the likely groupings without success. For anyone else, it is in the “Show panel and plugin colour settings” Group. Additionally, the crash is readily reproducible, by me at least. Open overlay HD settings, turn on/off group settings, cancel => cra...

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Thanks, I had seen that discussion. For me, it was coincidental with the update, and as we all know, "Correlation IS causation... :) ". I had simply never seen the bit-error stuff before. Maybe I should reseat the antenna connections and see it it "goes away". I am a little puzzl...

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Recently updated U4 with online update to beyonwiz 19.3.20210726 (20200822-138-gb9ea638). I then noticed the flashing bitError indicator in OverlayHD that I had never noticed before. Anything that is likely to have triggered this, or has it always been there ? Having read some of the recent message ...

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I had disabled IP6 in the routers some time ago after I noticed a bunch of sources banging away IP6 at addresses on the router in its log entries. On verifying that today, I did notice that it was still enabled for the disabled guest network, so I have disabled it there as well. Currently the resolv...

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OK, to confirm or deny a suspicion, I power cycled the Netgear router and it looked like that was enough to see the resolv.conf to be overwritten. I rebooted the router, checked the resolv.conf and it had gone back to the router address. Gotcha, I thought, then thought, hang on, I did not actually c...

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OK, so some digging around has revealed that odhcp6c and / or udhcp6c may be the culprits. Looking at /etc/udhcpc.d/default50 suggested that it is a participant in the overwriting of resolv.conf. Manually executing udhcpc on the command line (questionable tactic, I know) very clearly overwrites reso...

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Seems that I am not quite out of the woods yet :( This afternoon the "Socket not connected" resurfaced. After I had put all the Samba stuff back to normal, of course :cry: . I went through my dance of the hours again before I twigged that I had the same problem. That is, the Wiz was using ...

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FWIW looking through the samba log files (which grow *really* quickly :lol: ), the Mac OS connection seems to the protocol SMB 3_02 whilst the between Wizen (U4 mounting T4) appears to be protocol SMB 2_10. Curiously, the log also shows record of the the GUEST user not existing on the Mac, thus it l...

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OK, problem appears to be resolved and :oops: OK, it was me....... The name lookup failure was the key. I run split brain DNS server on the Synology to ease remote VPN access. The .local domain is from long term use of Netgear routers. Whilst the Netgear DHCP is basically OK, the one thing that it d...

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OK, changed to secure, no success. Upped the log level to 9 ( not that I understand a fraction of the output) One interesting line that shows up in the log is [2021/05/04 12:42:19.031017, 3] ../source3/smbd/smb2_negprot.c:294(smbd_smb2_request_process_negprot) Selected protocol SMB3_02 also looking ...

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Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. OK, so I've tried a couple of things. Full reboot and set min protocol = SMB3 in smb-user.conf Validated that it is being accepted using testparm, which gives testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to ...

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Thanks for that, yes my guess is that (*#$ Apple have gone over the top with "SECURITY". I have just tried using beyonwiz after using smbpasswd to set the password (you learn something new every time :) ). Sadly no change, but I many need to reboot the box (which is not possible for me cur...

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This is a boringly recurrent issue with Apple. Apply updates and stuff that was working stops working :roll: This time, have allowed the latest security updates, I can no longer mount SMB shares from either U4 or T4 Wizen. Mac can mount smb shares off of Synolgy NAS and Win10 boxes, just not the Wiz...

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FYI.

Another viable option for IOS is vuplustv. By comparison, for me, a plus is it works over a VPN (well, at least using the OpenVPN on my Synology) whilst telly'mote does not, a minus is that it does not decode the broadcast closed captions.

Regards,
Alan.

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WD Blue drives are rated for 300000 Load/unload cycles. So after 9 years it will have reached its nominal life :D Not really going to be a big deal is it? The poor hardworking T4 may well have reached its own end of life before then. Diagnostics are sometimes more alarming than useful. When you see...

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Recently had an older WD Red in NAS start to fail. Caused me to wonder how the WD Blue in the T4 might be going. OK, so I ran the smart short and long checks and it all looks good. However....... Looking at the stats it showing just under 40,000 hours power on - about 4.5 years - which is about righ...

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OK, so I have eventually managed to get some time on the T4 to try a few things. TL;DR Problem has gone away (for now).... Reflashed to recent beta, go through basic setup (without restore), attempt to setup auto mount for U4 from T4, bugger, same problem. OK, this is household machine, better put i...

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Opps. Transfer thanks to Mr Quade :oops: Just blame trevor.... OK, So I shutdown the U4, the T4 got promoted to Master (I see that in messages). However...... problem persists, so I thought that I would test making it a permanent mount (fstab option) with a different name. Oddly the new name still s...

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Thanks for the responses. BTW the "vers=2.1" simply appeared with a GUI creation of the mount. No changes on my part, it would seem to be being automagically inserted. GG's first response was very useful, thanks, in messages I see multiple copies of Oct 12 14:01:21 beyonwizt4 daemon.err nm...

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Anyone had trouble mounting U4 on T4 ? I have encountered an intractable issue when I discovered that our T4 could not change location (yellow) to the U4 Movie share. Error dialog showing as "/media/autofs/BEYONWIZU4_Movie/ No such file or directory". OK, a cursory look around and all look...

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For reference, I have found that having the list of local appropriate rf channels handy. Useful site: https://ozdigitaltv.com/transmitters/NSW/4-Gore-Hill-Artarmon-Willoughby-Artarmon-Willoughby SBS uses 557.5 on its manly and king cross repeaters. I happen to be located such that all 3 Sydney trans...

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I have done some more investigation and I am getting a little more information. Following a suggestion found on the net, I killed the automount daemon and restarted it as a verbose foreground process. That showed the failure mount(generic): failed to mount //192.168.1.24/Movie (type cifs) on /media/...

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Thanks GG, I added in guest with no password, sadly no positive effect. I seem to be completely unable to cross reference the two Wizen (completely broken is better than intermittent :roll: ), although both can now reference the NAS, so one step forward. Looking around in enigma2, on the U4, I notic...

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Short story. Cannot reliably gain cross access between U4 and T4. Both wired. Symptons, select MovieBeyonWiz[TU]4 after pressing yellow Location from media list, spinner for a few seconds followed by "Directory '/media/autofs/MovieBeyonWiz[TU]4/' does not exist" error popup. Problem exists...

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What functions do you still need the original remote for? Not many. Probably more a reflection of my not having mapped the buttons to the Harmony, like the Home Button. I would say the mouse wheel function, but then I am using a 785 so, more recent remotes may help fill that.... And yes, I will say...

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FWIW recently went through a similar process. Ended up with a "last seasons" LG OLED 65 inch. Replacing a completely dead Panasonic Plasma from 2007 (no real complaints on life). Got a reasonable discount and lucked out that the local HN had a couple of the last few in the county in stock ...

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FWIW I have just given the 918+ NAS a bit of a performance hammering. Copying files off of three systems simultaneously to the NAS it was reporting a peak of about 180 MBPS, so living up to the advertising more or less. This is with the dual NICs connected as a LAG on a smart switch. So far a happy ...

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Thanks for the responses, the disk spinning up was something that I considered, and in some circumstances "may" have been a cause. However, when the better half is watching stuff off of the T4, then I was expecting semi-immediate response (which *is* what I am seeing when selecting the NAS...

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Hello, I am climbing that same learning curve as you right now on a 918+, so I am happy to share my discoveries. The Synology DSM seem to have its own kind of approach which to me was not "obvious". Anyone who has been there with DSM please feel free to chime in with any advice and / or wa...

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I've had an intermittent issue with the bedroom U4 accessing the main T4. Typically a popup saying "/media/autofs/MovieBEYONWIZT4 does not exist" after about ~30 seconds of the spinner. Until recently, using Yellow from the media list display and then reselecting MovieBEYONWIZ would eventu...

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Thanks for all the input. Progressively checking the aerial feed line is the tomorrow job on the to do list. I have also provided local tech support to my parents setup not so long ago. Repeated complaints of unwatchable Channel 7 in Gosford, NSW. It is also one of those locations where multiple sig...

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OK. A little more "systematic" testing shows reality somewhat different from casual perception. I set the preferred tuner and evaluated the signal strength for each broadcaster with the results, in frequency order, below; Tuner A 66 % - ch 28 (seven) 71 % - ch 30 (abc) 71 % - ch 31 (ten) 6...

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If re-seating the loopthrough connectors doesn't help, try swapping the D->C cable with one further down the chain (e.g. B->A). Does that move where the 25% signal loss happens? If so, it looks like a dodgy loopthrough cable. Thanks for that tip. Once I get it out I will try that test. Alan.

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Why did you need a contrived context to test the strength of each tuner? If you want to test each tuner, all you need to do is set the preferred tuner for live TV to one of the tuners, and then change channel to apply the change. Lazy. Seemed easier to trigger an instant recording off of 4 discrete...

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Had a somewhat broken up recording last night that caused me to look at signal strengths and wonder if I need to reseat the antenna cables. Created a contrived context in which I could access each tuner. A,B,C,D showed signal strength of something like 67%, 72%, 75%, 100%. With the recording in ques...

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For those who can look at these things,

It may “be just me”, but the BB quick link to “active topics”, my usual entry point appears to be stuck. The most recent entry that I see is dated January 20.

Alan.

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I did a firmware update was early in the setup I am on something like 4.10.6?. You know the game, go through a whole stack of setup and then a firmware update wipes them all out :x I was amused to have the thing prompt that another update (~800 Mb) was available within a day or so of setting it. Luc...

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Correct, the source material won't matter. The difference is easy to see if you simply switch back and forth between 60Hz and 50Hz with the resolution set to 2160p. It will be particularly visible in the RED coloured button hint in the Wiz GUI. At 50Hz, the red colour will be noticably dull. I hook...

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only affects 4K at 50Hz (not 24, or 60).

So, just such that I am with you, the source material is not a concern. Simply plug in the U4 (which is all that have can put out 4K) and set it to specific outputs and see if I can detect any visual differences for the same material.

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The harmony app for the 785 is the older one. For the T4, once you tell it to use discrete power buttons I only saw PowerOn and PowerOff not PowerToggle. PowerToggle shows up if you tell it that it only has a single power button. I guess I should look in the log and see what is actually being sent. ...

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Discrete power for the TV or for the Beyonwiz?

For the T4.

I have turned off the short power option in setup. This using updated beta beyonwiz 17.5.20181104 (17.5-800-g3d9a605).

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Can you try an experiment for me if you have any source devices that can output 4k video at 50Hz? I'd be interested to know if the 2018 models suffer from the same desaturated colour as the 2017 models (like mine). It only affects 4K at 50Hz (not 24, or 60). Happy to try if you can point me at some...

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Pleased to be able to confirm that the new LG appears to support IR. Plugged in the US model number for the old 785 and all good :D More than that, although the remote requires Bluetooth pairing, cover the business end with your hand and the LG remote does not work, that is, it IS a conventional IR ...

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A bit more Google works suggests that the PUA and PLA are US and UK variants. Just managed to the the Harmony App running on Win10 :shock:. I will add one of those variants and see how it goes (fingers crossed). As a side comment, the difference to the previous 2007 plasma is very satisfying. Much c...

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