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#1
Getting Help / Strange behaviour.
August 03, 2024, 03:17:25 PM
G'day,

Been having a field day with my Icebox watching the Olympics. Basically, nothing gets missed...except today.

The first thing that happened was ad skipping stopped. I went to the settings and turned it back on, but sill no skipping. Not the end of the world.

Things a little quiet so I thought I'd catch up om the rest of my recordings. I first went to check if any recordings were about to kick in, but no timer events were there at all. I then went to the recordings, but it was empty as well.

So I decided to do a shut down and power up.

Much to my relief the recordings were there, as were the timers.

I know the IceBox has had a good work out with essentially 12 hours of continuous recording every day.

So it'd true...turn it off and then back on.

Anyone else had similair things happen?
#2
General Discussions / IceTV App for iPhone update
July 15, 2024, 05:34:58 PM
G'day,

I updated my iPhone IceTV App to  version 3.1 earlier today.

The update process itself went through OK, but then when I went to update a timer I found the list empty.

Actually, ALL lists were empty.

I tried "flicking" the app off and restarting it by picking the app icon but no luck.

I had to sign out and then sign back in. This got the lists to show.

So, just check to make sure you have your lists.
#3
Getting Help / Ad skipping not always picked up
June 06, 2024, 07:25:00 AM
G'day,

So far, ad skipping is working well. The fly in the ointment seems to be 9GEM Sydney.

Generally, there does not appear to be a reliable detection of ads.

I record Pointless on 9GEM followed by The Chase UK on 7HD. Both are HD channels, however generally the 9GEM recording will have no ad skipping, except for the odd occasion when it is detected and works.

These are recorded at 2 pm and 3 pm, but watched around 6 or 7 pm.

Is there anything that can be tweaked?
#4
General / Recycle Bin
May 30, 2024, 10:08:50 PM
G'day,

Is there any recycle bin capability with the IceBox or is there one planned?
#5
General / Ad skipping being blocked
May 14, 2024, 07:12:54 PM
G'day,
Looks like the 9 network are "blocking" ad skipping.

So far today (14 May, 2024 - Sydney) no 9 Network channels show any ad skipping.
#6
G'day,

All of a sudden I am getting the BBC News at Six recorded.

I have never done an immediate recording of it and I have never setup a series recording or a once off recording of it either.

When I check with the iOS app or on the web, there is no timer to delete. It kooks as though when the first IceTV fetch of the day is done IceTV is setting.

There is something similar happening with Pointless. Here I do have a series recording for new and repeats, but as I understand it, an episode will not be recorded if it has been recorded in the last 24 hours.

This is fine as the program is recorded at 2 pm. This should mean that episode should not be recorded until 2 pm the next day, only it gets recorded at 7:25 am the next day again.

With the BBC News at Six, I have no timer to delete.

With Pointless, I have deleted the timer, removed it as a favourite and then waited until the timer was deleted from the timer list and then waited an hour before I created a fresh timer and checked that the correct episodes were being selected, but the next day, it starts recording the duplicate.

Is there something I'm missing?
#7
Getting Help / subtitles by default
May 03, 2024, 11:21:33 AM
G'day,

Is there any way to have the default being subtitles on for all channels?

I have gone through Settings>Player>Subtitles but cannot find a setting to make it the default across all channels.

Is there a way to set it as a default setting?

Thanks.
#8
G'day,

The Addams Family 30 minute episodes of the sitcom shows as a Movie in the IceTV Guide,
#9
G'day,

I cannot get rid of How It's Made.

I have deleted the timers, but when I go to IceTV, there is no option to remove the timer or no longer make it a favourite. It keeps on recording episodes.

I have tried this on the iOS app and via the the web app.
#10
G'day,

How long after a recording finishes should we try and play it?

This has to do with the ad skip function.

I recorded the World SBK round from the Netherlands on SBS. I gave it a couple of minutes after the program finished, but this was not long enough and no Ad Skip information was created.

Thanks.
#11
G'day,

Something does not look quite right with the screen resolution on my IceBox.

No matter what resolution I select, it looks the same. From 640x480 through to 4K, the resolution looks the same.

The video signal goes from the IceBox via HDMI to my LG Smart TV.

My BW T2 feeds to another HDMI port and is crisp.

I have swapped HDMI ports on the TV and no change.

Is there something else that needs to be set as was needed to set pre/post padding?

I am setting the resolution using Settings>System>Display>Resolution.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
#12
Getting Help / Pre/Post Padding of recordings.
April 15, 2024, 11:29:22 AM
G'day,

I am having problems having my settings of 5 min Pre and 15 min of Post to stick.

I have set things in Settings>PVR & Live TV>Recording, snd the values of 5/15 are remembered.

I have also gone to Home>Add-Ons>IceTV>Advanced 5/15 set there and remembered.

Yet, when a new timer is set via IceTV, it defaults back to 3/30. I am set as Expert.

Does this need to be set anywhere else?
#13
G'day,

After the latest update I have ended up with an unfortunate channel list. Its a bit like an alphabetically sorted keyboard instead of a QWERTY one.

It appears that rather than adhere to the channel list in the user's IceTV account, it tries to override that and assign a found channel and assign it because it detects a a stronger signal.

On my system I get the SBS and Channel 7 ones as in my IceTV account. Then it gets a bit freaky.
The rest of the channels are in the order as follows.

(100...) ABC HD
(100...) 10 Peach
(100...) ABC Me
(100...) ABC Kids
(100...) 9 Rush
(100...) 10 HD
(100...) 9 Go
(100...) 9 HD
(100...) ABC Plus
(100...) 10 Bold
(100...) 9 Gem
(100...) 9 Life
(100...) ABC News

Why (100...)?
Because that is now it presents and I cannot see any more.

Like the alphabetically sorted keyboard, a pain to use and difficult to work with.

Is there any way to restrict the channel numbering to what is set in the user's IceTV account? After all IceTV works perfectly well. I know that LCNs are old school, but on my Beyonwiz T2, I have manually edited bouquets and it would be getting on to close on a decade of use without any issues. Here the scan and match works perfectly for SBS and Channel but then does its own thing fir the rest.

Is there any way this can be edited manually, and if so, what are the steps?

Thanks.
#14
Getting Help / Disable or change dimming
September 06, 2023, 04:17:59 PM
G'day,

Is there any way of disabling the dimming; or at the very least extending the time interval?

Thanks.
#15
IceTV EPG Content / Duelling Daredevils
June 26, 2023, 09:12:45 PM
Duelling Daredevils is being advertised for the weekend by SBS, but does not show in the EPG,
#16
Beyonwiz / Odd EPG missing some information
June 21, 2023, 05:45:50 PM
G'day,

I noticed this odd bit of missing information from the EPG on my T2 running IceTV.

Now, the attached image is via OpenWebIf, but you will see that instead of 10 Bold it shows <n/a>.

This also shows in the EPG on the T2.

So, my question is; Is this something that is being set by the information being sent by IceTV or something that has gone astray elsewhere?

I have never seen this before. I have rebooted the T2 a couple of times and forced a send of the EPG from the IceTV servers but no change. I even did a rescan, but no luck.

Any ideas?
#17
G'day,

After getting my Beyonwiz T2 working, I decided to set it as the main PVR. Also, my IceBox was a little unreliable. As a result, I transferred the Ethernet cable from the IceBox back to the Beyonwiz.

No problem so far as both units functioned correctly, the T2 on Ethernet and the IB on  Wi-Fi.

Because of lock ups with the IB, I decided to do the 10+ hour removal of power, only now the IB cannot connect via Wi-Fi. There is no sound and no content other that had had been recorded, but no sound - even from the RCU movements.

How can I change the network connection settings? I have searched high and low but no luck. The settings shows the IP Address as 127.1.1.1 which is a local host pointer back to itself.

A Communications failed message pops up in the top right.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks.
#18
G'day,

When I turned things on this morning, the 9 Network shows Channel 90 and then Channel 96.

I'm in Sydney and it should be showing a lot more. I am getting my IceBox to show All Channels.

Does this mean a soft reset or can I scan for just the 9 Network channels?

Thanks.
#19
Getting Help / 7 network recordings are scrambled
May 29, 2023, 09:12:12 PM
G'day,

All of a sudden, recordings of 7 network programs are scrambled. They break up and end up aborting.

The off thing is that when I have managed to get information, I see the length of the recording as correct at 1 hour, 20 minutes) but the counter shows it is at a point -9 hours, 17 minutes with the counter counting down.

Not sure what to do.

Can I rescan just the 7 network channels or should I do soft reset?
#20
Getting Help / Firmware Update Playback issues.
May 26, 2023, 04:51:11 PM
An issue with playing recordings with the new firmware update.

If you try and skip through the recording, then at some point instead of jumping ahead, you tet taken back to an arbitrary point and it starts playing back from there. If you let it be it will play through to the end. If you try and jump ahead again, it's back to where it previously jumped.

I was watching a 1 hour recording of the Indy 500 qualifying. At 37 minutes into it, I wanted to skip ahead and it took me back to 17 minutes.

Nothing like this happened before the update.