I picked up one a Zgemma H1 to have a play with in theory a great idea having sat/cable combo in the same box.
The unit arrived pretty promptly not badly packaged either with a proper user manual. The build quality and weight of the unit and remotte feels light and flimsy in comparison to say a DM800 or VU receivers. It's also an ugly looking thing, why did they go with white ???
The reciever came pre flashed with an OpenATV image from December 31 2014, first thing I did was flash via USB to the latest nightly build of the OpenATV image by following the links from the Zgemma website.
The DVB-C tuner looks to be good in terms of sensitivity doesn't need a signal booster to pick up channels. My Dm800SE clone need a signal booster.
Open ATV 4.2 Image.
- Nice HD skin.
- Cross EPG is broken on this image refuses to work with OpenTV providers or RytecXML TV sources within CrossEPG.
- Even after reflashes of different versions of the image Cross EPG is broken. It goes through the motions but sopends a long time stuck on "reading titles 488k", "reading Summaries 1.9mb", once completed EPG is empty and the EPG dat file size is much smaller than it should be, looks like a conflioct compatibility issue within OpenATV and CrossEPG 0.8.1.
- XMLTVimoporter works fine but this is slow,compared to using OpenTV on crossepg
- The image seems to begin lagging after about a day of use, also see Blue screen and green screen crashes within that time.
So with the above issues noted with OpenATV I decided to test a patched VIX Hades image,
- Good news, CrossEPG works fine straight out of the box. No issues.
- Front display doesn't work , (no big deal this is a patched image after all).
- No lag or slow down compared to OpenATV.
- UK Virgin EPG and auto bouquets works fine.
Running satellite and cable side by side both with N lines in MGCAMD (tested 1.35 and 1.38). I seem to be getting regular freezes some a couple of seconds others longer especially on the DVB C canle side. I dont recall seeing this issue using the same line on the same feed with a DM800SE clone (DVB C Tuner).
I have a Western Digital Passport 1TB USB drive plugged in for recording and EPG, Picons. This box only has 2 USB ports. 1 Rear, 1 Front. The front USB port is behind a flap, which meams you have to leave the flap open to use the USB port making the box an even bigger eyesore. Maybe a USB Hub can be used on the rear port to get around this. Recording still needs testing.
All in all it's convenient having sat/cable in the same box if it works seamlessly, so far I having got it working as I would like. It's a shame the officially supported OpenATV image is pretty poor compared to patched versions from other teams.
Anyone noticed freeze issues running Newcamd cable and sat lines in MGCAM ?
The unit arrived pretty promptly not badly packaged either with a proper user manual. The build quality and weight of the unit and remotte feels light and flimsy in comparison to say a DM800 or VU receivers. It's also an ugly looking thing, why did they go with white ???
The reciever came pre flashed with an OpenATV image from December 31 2014, first thing I did was flash via USB to the latest nightly build of the OpenATV image by following the links from the Zgemma website.
The DVB-C tuner looks to be good in terms of sensitivity doesn't need a signal booster to pick up channels. My Dm800SE clone need a signal booster.
Open ATV 4.2 Image.
- Nice HD skin.
- Cross EPG is broken on this image refuses to work with OpenTV providers or RytecXML TV sources within CrossEPG.
- Even after reflashes of different versions of the image Cross EPG is broken. It goes through the motions but sopends a long time stuck on "reading titles 488k", "reading Summaries 1.9mb", once completed EPG is empty and the EPG dat file size is much smaller than it should be, looks like a conflioct compatibility issue within OpenATV and CrossEPG 0.8.1.
- XMLTVimoporter works fine but this is slow,compared to using OpenTV on crossepg
- The image seems to begin lagging after about a day of use, also see Blue screen and green screen crashes within that time.
So with the above issues noted with OpenATV I decided to test a patched VIX Hades image,
- Good news, CrossEPG works fine straight out of the box. No issues.
- Front display doesn't work , (no big deal this is a patched image after all).
- No lag or slow down compared to OpenATV.
- UK Virgin EPG and auto bouquets works fine.
Running satellite and cable side by side both with N lines in MGCAMD (tested 1.35 and 1.38). I seem to be getting regular freezes some a couple of seconds others longer especially on the DVB C canle side. I dont recall seeing this issue using the same line on the same feed with a DM800SE clone (DVB C Tuner).
I have a Western Digital Passport 1TB USB drive plugged in for recording and EPG, Picons. This box only has 2 USB ports. 1 Rear, 1 Front. The front USB port is behind a flap, which meams you have to leave the flap open to use the USB port making the box an even bigger eyesore. Maybe a USB Hub can be used on the rear port to get around this. Recording still needs testing.
All in all it's convenient having sat/cable in the same box if it works seamlessly, so far I having got it working as I would like. It's a shame the officially supported OpenATV image is pretty poor compared to patched versions from other teams.
Anyone noticed freeze issues running Newcamd cable and sat lines in MGCAM ?
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