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michal

Hi, I'm troubleshooting a T2 unit which suddenly "stopped working". That is to say it doesn't start up or output anything on the HDMI interface. When you turn it on with the switch at the back the red power light comes on but the power button at the front does nothing. I thought that maybe...

michal

THANK YOU!

That was the problem exactly!

michal

Some time in the last few days without anyone doing anything (at least not on purpose), the program guide changed to 13 rows despite the settings specifying 7 rows. I have been unable to set it back to a usable state. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it? Thank you in advance...

michal

Thanks. I have NO idea if I still have the original box and do not even remember what it even looked like. Sendle SEEMS great! Am I reading correctly that a briefcase sized package would be $10.90 to send Brisbane to Perth? I haven't gotten a reply to the email I sent two days ago. Does Mark normall...

michal

Thanks! That's very helpful. While a newer machine that's more capable would be Bice Kodi is not really something that I need as I already use an AppleTV with Plex for what Kodi could provide and all the external attachments would indeed drive me wild. Besides that the plasma TV it would be connecte...

michal

Hi, I'm ready to try to have this fixed by a professional. Does anyone know the best way to contact Warkus? And can anyone recommend couriers from Brisbane to Perth that are affordable? Thanks in advance. Regards, Michal P.S. Unless you guys would recommend a Beyonwiz V2 PVR Media Box as an alternat...

michal

There is still $100 and a trip to Warkus on the table.... Hopefully in the future. I couldn't even afford the voltage regulators and needed a benefactor to fund those. There's not even a guarantee that it can be fixed with $100 :/ I'll pack it up nicely and make sure there is a lot of silica gel to...

michal

Well I guess that's it then :/ The T4 is off to a scrapheap in the garage. I've not been able to make any sort of progress and I'm out of ideas. Was good while it lasted but I'm very disappointed with how quickly it died. The plasma TV it's connected to is almost 13 years old and still going strong....

michal

For what it's worth the resistance on both inductors (measured in-place) jumps around a bit before settling on 0 ohm.

michal

Thanks for the tips! The system is now only showing tuners A and B again and those are the only regulators that are heating up. C and D regulators are not heating up. Both regulators for C and D have the correct voltages but ground to the outside of the inductor is about 0.76V while it is about 3.3V...

michal

Bueller? Bueller?

michal

So I finally had a chance to look at this again. The voltage on the left hand side seems fine right from the outset but on right hand side I'm getting around 0.8V between the inductor and ground. There is some damage to the board and the ground plane is partially exposed but at the regulator itself ...

michal

I just don't have the stamina or time to keep hammering away at this tonight, but I think I measured 0v across L56 and L61.. But maybe I'm just too stressed by having it working for a short while only to have it fail again. It all makes a lot more sense now as sometimes the signal would falter quite...

michal

Again, spoke too soon :( Started off working but now every few seconds signal goes from 0% to 100% on all tuners.. Totally unwatchable.. No idea what the problem is. This is all that I see in dmesg: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready {536}[ioctlVideo_SelectSource] (0) stream_sou...

michal

Spoke too soon! A local rescan fixed it..

I guess I was thrown by all the previous rescans where there were no channels.. They must have replaced the previous config.

BIG thank you to you all for your help!

michal

Replaced the two regulators and fitted the heatsinks.

I now see all 4 tuners in the info, unfortunately I still get no signal.

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michal

Doesn't look so great underneath either.

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michal

I just got around to replacing the regulators and wanted to remove the board.. But that ribbon cable.. has it become FUSED with the connector or something? It IS supposed to be removable right? It's sitting in there so tight I can't get it out.

Any tips?

michal

There is no obvious need to replace the existing 1.2v regs if they are ok but matching the package height is critical if you do.

RS has none with the required dimensions so I guess I'll just leave them alone. I've not heard of them dying for anyone else so hopefully all will be well.

michal

Things don't look particularly great for the other voltage regulators.

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I'm confused by the LM1085 as that's not a 1.2v regulator.

michal

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I did some work experience at an electronics repair place when I was young and they swore by Shellite so I've always thought it was the thing to use. Will switch to IPA from now on. EDIT: - Also what's the story with the 1.2v regulators? - Are they unaffected by the...

michal

Would Shellite be suitable for cleaning?
I have Isopropyl alcohol but in the past I've always used Shellite for this sort of thing.

michal

Turns out my fears were well founded. Pulled the top off one of the regulators.

When I measured at L56 I got around 2.1v rather than 3.3v. Both regulators at the C/D tuners seem fine.

I don't dare turn it on now..

Does anyone know what the current ratings for the existing voltage regulators was?

michal

Paul_oz53 wrote: ↑
Fri May 03, 2019 03:36
My biggest concern is how strong the heatsink adhesive is to break it off without ripping the traces.

^^^ This. I've got something sharp to try and cut it away with but it looks pretty solidly stuck down.

michal

I won't get another chance to measure voltages till the weekend, but I thought I'd chime in to say mine is powered on (in standby) 24/7 so that it's ready to start recording if I add something via IceTV remotely.

michal

That sounds very reasonable.

Honestly though it doesn't LOOK anywhere near as bad. Apart from the dust I don't notice any discolourations and both regulators are measuring at 3.3v. That's not to say there isn't a problem with them, just that it's not apparent.

michal

Does anyone have an idea of what the cost to have someone do this might be?

michal

I rebooted again and it's just dropped down to two tuners (A and B). Logs at boot include: DVB: registering new adapter (dvb) {138}[SemcoAPI_TDA18250A_Init] (0) tmbslTDA18250A_HwInit err: 1 {138}[DNOQ44QAH109A_Open] (0) SemcoAPI_TDA18250A_Init fail. {138}[SemcoAPI_TDA18250A_Init] (1) tmbslTDA18250A_...

michal

This post goes into some detail regarding replacing the regulators. https://www.beyonwiz.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=12841 I'm not sure if I was measuring at the right point but the two regulators that protrude from under the heatsinks gave me a reading of 3.3v. One heatsink is certainly w...

michal

Suddenly as of this morning my Beyonwiz T4 set top box cannot see any channels and only has three tuners (A, B and C with D missing). A location scan finds no channels and the antenna is working as I get DVB-T channels if I plug directly into the TV. I also tried plugging the antenna directly into e...

michal

Hi Ian, I have no experience with C-Bus but I found https://github.com/the1laz/cgateweb and in my experience anything to MQTT is a winning formula. Seems like it would be a great if an hassos addon could be created for this. There's integrated Broadlink support which SHOULD work. https://www.home-as...

michal

I have two broadlink IR emitters I don't use because they just weren't what I wanted (AC control, MUCH more complicated than simple IR codes). I'd be immensely interested in any use cases you have that you want to resolve. Also, the enigma2 component I have created (very early stages) is available a...

michal

Thanks Peter.

Ian, what sort of issues do you currently have?

michal

I'm trying to find a way via python to list all upnp devices (including the Beyonwiz T4) on a network and I've not had any luck. All the implementations I've tried either return nothing or don't run for one reason or another. Do anyone here have a snippet of code that works for you on your network? ...

michal

Thanks Peter!

I just trying doing a discovery using https://github.com/flyte/upnpclient and nothing came up :/
I'm certain at LEAST the Sonos devices and my Roku should come up.

Regards.
Michal

michal

I use a home automation platform called Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/). It has a component type called media_player (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/media_player/). This doesn't actually play media but allows for limited control and tracking of attributes. A feature of comp...

michal

Wow! Thanks for the quick responses. I'm just searching for a quick and not very intrusive way of discovering Enigma2 devices (in my case the Beyonwiz T4 but hopefully also others) on a network. As far as I can tell UPNP/DLNA is not advertising my T4. I don't believe I ever turned OFF the feature bu...

michal

Hi, I'm working on an Enigma2 media player component for the Home Assistant home automation platform and I was hoping I could implement an auto discovery mode. Do Enigma2 devices advertise themselves on the network somehow? I've not been able to find any information on this. Thanks in advance for an...

michal

I already did that and waited for an entire day.. No dice.. I checked a couple of hours ago and started writing this message but was interrupted. Just got back to it, posted the message, checked the web-ui and there they are! .. It took about 36 hours for the timers to come up AFTER I resent them fr...

michal

Hi,

Just upgraded to the latest firmware and reconfigured everything.

I went through the IceTV wizard, enabled IceTV.. The logs show it updating.. But in 2 days now none of my timers have updated :/

Is this something that I can fix?

Regards,
Michal

michal

I have found an alternative solution! I remembered that my HD Homerun has a web interface with some sort of channel listing.. and guess what? It's perfect. Here it is in case anyone else can make use of it: 1 ONE 2 ABC 3 SBS ONE 7 7 Brisbane 9 Channel 9 Brisb 10 TEN Digital 11 ELEVEN 12 ONE 13 TEN H...

michal

Thanks.. The LCN list is very useful.. But I don't see where I would be getting the channel numbers from?

michal

What is your purpose for needing this information if you don't mind the question? Perhaps there is some other information that might secure you better? It's for use in a script, so exactly correct mappings matter. Apart from using the T4 I also sometimes watch TV in a window on my Hackintosh using ...

michal

Ahh.. Thanks..

I think I may capture some IR signals and decode them as I've had problems just tonight when turning on my air conditioner. It managed to also switch the input on the HDMI switch and change audio from SPDIF to RCA.

I'm using a Harmony remote so it's using whatever codeset that has.

michal

Wikipedia - List of digital television channels in Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_television_channels_in_Australia Thanks.. It's a start. But that list doesn't match the ACTUAL naming.. i.e. 9HD Brisbane is just 9HD.. But given that these are static mappings (I did not real...

michal

9HD Brisbane, 90
ABC HD, 111
ELEVEN, 102

etc...

michal

Is there somewhere in the web or directly via ssh that I could get a mapping of channel names and numbers?

Regards,
Michal

michal

I rebooted my T4 this evening and then managed to remember my password to log in after not having done so for a LONG time..

I noticed this in my logs:

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{134}[dev_input_key_process] unsupported custom_code(80D9 != 02F2)

Any ideas?

Regards,
Michal

michal

Crisis averted! I remembered a 5th password!

Sorry for being stupid

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