Amiko Alien2 Reviews?

[Scott Greczkowski]

Are there any Amiko Alien2 reviews anywhere besides FridgeFTA? (Since they are the only ones selling this box, of course they give it a glowing review.) I searched here at SatelliteGuys and couldn't find one. I am looking for a real good honest review of the unit as my birthday is coming up and I would love a FTA "all in one" type box which can do FTA and IPTV. (Man if they mad a FTA box with a built in Roku I would be all over it!)

So if anyone could point me to a real honest review I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

[wallyhts]

I could not find the post but I could swear someone pointed out a few issues.

Roku will license there hardware and software so it's totally possible.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Roku will license there hardware and software so it's totally possible.

That would be an AWESOME FTA Receiver!

 

[pro96]

Roku on an FTA thats a first .. putting on my shopping list.

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[Scott Greczkowski]

Another reason I am interested in this receiver is it has two tuners...

I have two dish's one C Band the other KU band. I wonder if the Alien2 can control them both, if it can then COOL and I really want one.

 

[pro96]

like this from the specs..

Stream live satellite to PC including 4:2:2!

Twin DVB-S2 8psk tuners
Hardware Blindscan
STi7162 Processor
Out of this World Alphanumeric VFD Display.
Ease of operation.
Simple yet powerful Spark O/S.
True Linux based STB.
Dual boot Enigma2 System.
FTP & Windows accessible.
USB hub support.
Updates & notifications from STB.
Both play and record to/from network HDDs.
Pause live recording (edit commercials).
Affordable price.
Full internet functionality.
Opera Web browser.
SHOUTCAST RADIO.
YOUTUBE PLAYER WITH RECORD TO HDD ABILITY
KARTINA TV (IPTV)
YOUPORN
Spark Portal/App Store.
Mini wireless keyboard/trackpad. (optional)
WiFi wireless N. (optional)
NEW! Stream live satellite to PC including 4:2:2!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I believe the 4:2:2 is only shown on the PC, not on the TV.

 

[pro96]

I believe the 4:2:2 is only shown on the PC, not on the TV.

well yea thats what it says... live streaming to PC. No need for recording on non 422 receiver and NO need for a PC DVB card.
Plus laptop is handy for that live 422 streaming.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have my computer hooked to my TV so not a big deal to me.

 

[cyberham]

Are there any Amiko Alien2 reviews anywhere...

Is this of interest? It's a new review of the Amiko HD8840 by Tele-audiovision on Page 14 of May-June 2013 (1305) issue: http://www.tele-audiovision.com/eng/

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Is this of interest? It's a new review of the Amiko HD8840 by Tele-audiovision on Page 14 of May-June 2013 (1305) issue: http://www.tele-audiovision.com/eng/

I understand the software is different for America then the European version shown here.

I want to know how it works here in the states.

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[pwrsurge]

I could not find the post but I could swear someone pointed out a few issues.

Roku will license there hardware and software so it's totally possible.

Are there actually third party devices not manufactured by Roku running the Roku software? To my knowledge, there are none at this time.

 

[jorgek]

I downloaded the user manual for the Amiko 8200 series of receivers from the official site. The manual is rememiscent of the Openbox manual's bad English. Please correct me if I am wrong but I suspect it is the same manufacterers that gave us the Openbox line of STBs that are producing the Amiko line.

 

[SatelliteAV]

At this time, Roku is only offering integration licensing agreements to display devices. We have had discussions with their development group about including a licensed solution for a DVBS device. The only option for STB integration is support for the HDMI device. We discussed providing a HDMI input to facilitate, but then HDCP issues need to be addressed for DRM.

Integration with DVR capable devices seems unlikely as content management is a potential liability for any 3rd party equipment solution.

Roku has been primarily a hardware provider (STB) and not likely to give up a market that they are very successfully managing!

 

[Troydog]

Roku is a good item I had my box since they first came out done testing for them in the past and so on. What I think would be even better then there software on a reciver would be android.

I say this because android at this point has many nice items apps. Also unlike roku where they wont add somethings do to there so and so sayings. Android would be ore open source. Roku is good for what it does but not the best.

 

[ParaclipseCKu]

I'm quite satisfied with the Alien2. Not perfect but with 10+ receivers I have not found a perfect unit yet! I don't have a comprehensive review but the Alien 2 is now my primary receiver. If anyone has a particular question, ask and I'll try to answer.

 

[updatelee]

dreambox's will also stream to pc, I would think any enigma/enigma2 reciever with ethernet/wifi would be able todo this. its about 10 lines of code on a linux box.

UDL

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

If anyone has a particular question, ask and I'll try to answer.

Since it has two tuners can it control two separate dishes?

I have two dish's one C Band and the other KU, both have a cable coming into the house using their own coax, there are no switches in the line.

The C Band DISH uses DISCEQ and the KU Band is using USALS.

I would like tuner 1 to control the C Band and tuner 2 to control the KU.

 

[Jim S.]

dreambox's will also stream to pc, I would think any enigma/enigma2 reciever with ethernet/wifi would be able todo this. its about 10 lines of code on a linux box.

UDL

The big drawback to Enigma2 is that most implementations don't have blind scan, as far as I know. Funny how these guys can reverse-engineer an encryption system, but can't figure out a simple tuner chip...

 

[updatelee]

enigma2 is just a frontend, it never had nor never will have anything at all todo with decryption, that has always been handled by a third party application. As I mentioned in another thread enigma doesnt decode any video, it just pumps it to /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 and the hardware in the box displays whatever its fed. In the case where a subscriber card is used the third party application handles the decoding of the video, then pumping it video0. Enigma doesnt have anything todo with the process of either decoding video or decrypting video.

blindscan is a multipart issue. First the hardware has to support it, then the drivers (API) have to support it, then once an API is wrote then the software has to implement the API. The hardest part is getting the first two. There really isnt any standard API in linux for this either, I hand to write my own hooks for it and makeup my own DTV_ ioctls as there weren't any for any tuner yet. So even if one hardware manufacturer writes some, it doesnt mean another hardware manufacturer will use the same API. enigma is used on many receivers so you see the issue the developers have.

enigma is like any other linux app too where it doesnt talk to hardware directly, it uses dvb_core linux module. So its not about enigma figuring out a tuner chip, thats not their area. Thats the kernel module driver guys issue.

UDL