Rytek EPG for TM800

[Shindig]

How can I prove that the epg data is being stored on the USB pen drive I have inserted.

I have ftp'd to the box and cant for the life of me find the epg.dat file.
If I reboot the box epg disappears, which would suggest its not writing the epg.dat file to the USB.

 

[Rat]

Why are you using a pen drive ? Does it not go straight to the box itself ?

 

[conchobair]

Yes, but it depends on how your disks are set up

For the plugin, 1st choice is Media/HDD which relates to media/disk-1

if your HDD comes up as media/disk then it will use tmp directory as its storage point.

So you either have to input a symbolic link to point media/HDD to disk
or
Stick a USB stick in the back of your box and reboot and then it should automatically set up a symbolic link to point media/HDD to media/disk-1

then your EPG.dat should be stored on your HDD

As i explained here, 1st choice is HDD if set as disk-1 otherwise it will use /tmp on the box, you won't see the file until you reboot and if it uses /tmp to store the epg.dat file then you will lose it as /tmp is cleared during a reboot.

The USB Pen drive will be seen as disk so doesn't enter the equation and thus will not be used by the Rytec EPG plugin

 

[Shindig]

My apologies for not reading it properly.
I will put a HDD in it.

Cheers again for clearing it up.

 

[forrest1066]

As i explained here, 1st choice is HDD if set as disk-1 otherwise it will use /tmp on the box, you won't see the file until you reboot and if it uses /tmp to store the epg.dat file then you will lose it as /tmp is cleared during a reboot.

The USB Pen drive will be seen as disk so doesn't enter the equation and thus will not be used by the Rytec EPG plugin

sorry to be a bit thick how do i setup my internal hard drive to be this disk-1 to make it store the EPG.dat or can i just plugin an old USB pen in the back??

 

[sinky50]

Thanks for all the help from you guys, got time and EPG working properly last night. Now I understand a bit more about how this box works. It gets better all the time.

Thanks again Sinky:Clap:

 

[conchobair]

sorry to be a bit thick how do i setup my internal hard drive to be this disk-1 to make it store the EPG.dat or can i just plugin an old USB pen in the back??

Basically the easiest way is to stick a USB stick in the back of the box and then this shoudl automatically take disk, whereas the HDD should then take disk-1

(you may have to mount and partition the HDD yourself in your box) but if put a USB stick in the back with the HDD already installed, thentelnet into your box and do the df command

should get something like below;

TM800@/]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 54528 48864 5664 90% /
/dev/root 54528 48864 5664 90% /
sda 1973984 58656 1915328 3% /media/disk
sdb1 307663832 357504 291677896 0% /media/disk-1

so;

sda is a partition on my USB stick that relates to media/disk
sdb1 is a partition on my HDD that relates to media/disk-1

 

[forrest1066]

Basically the easiest way is to stick a USB stick in the back of the box and then this shoudl automatically take disk, whereas the HDD should then take disk-1

(you may have to mount and partition the HDD yourself in your box) but if put a USB stick in the back with the HDD already installed, thentelnet into your box and do the df command

should get something like below;

TM800@/]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 54528 48864 5664 90% /
/dev/root 54528 48864 5664 90% /
sda 1973984 58656 1915328 3% /media/disk
sdb1 307663832 357504 291677896 0% /media/disk-1

so;

sda is a partition on my USB stick that relates to media/disk
sdb1 is a partition on my HDD that relates to media/disk-1

but if you do that where will it put your recordings?? surely it will try and put it on media/disk which is your USB pen and there wont be enough room or can you modify this

 

[Shindig]

you can change the "bookmark" recordings path as far as I can make out from the menu.

 

[forrest1066]

thank you very much everyone, as always very helpful :Clap:

 

[conchobair]

You are correct, it will try to record onto the USB stick.

So at the moment there are 2 issues

1/Rytec EPG will either store data to HDD Disk-1 or if not available to /tmp (which clears after a reboot)

2/ Unable to change the route of the recordings to HDD

This could all change once a new image comes out so really its not worth at the moment putting in the effort to get it all working 100% correct ... but if the next image does not fix a few of these things then will look into doing the workaround

 

[stav8124]

Hi

How do i download a bouquets to my tm-800hd?

 

[VectorZ]

Hi

How do i download a bouquets to my tm-800hd?

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?threads/242613/

 

[johnno2]

where to get the very latest or modded image with nice skin

 

[Abu Baniaz]

Stop worrying about skins with this receiver. You will have more important things to worry about.