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Last reply Feb 12, 2012 · posted in FTA Receiver / Equipment Support

Azbox ME - any news?

seems like this box is just fantasy ...so much for october shipping!!!

not even a blind scan plugin by default, i'd have preffered the old style firmware out of box, to test the blind scanning \ high bit rate recording

anyone have any news?

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pwrsurge

Dec 31, 2011

Just a quick update on the AzBox ME front. As you all know, this receiver is not yet being sold yet in North America as ourselves along with the other distributor over here don't feel that the current AZTrino software that comes with the unit is suitable for use in the North American market. Unfortunately, after examining the current Neutrino/AZTrino source code, it would be almost impossible to overhaul it so that it at least matches the current level of functionality as found in the current firmware that comes with the AzBox Elite, Ultra and Premium Plus.

This is why that we at AzBox Canada are currently working with Opensat in getting the Android operating system functional with the AzBox ME. The advantage of having Android is that we can easily leverage existing Android applications in order to provide enhanced multimedia functionality to the unit. Already, we have the Android web browser running smoothly on the ME which runs a LOT better than the existing web browser found in the current AzBox models. Currently, we are working on having the DVB demux interface operating on Android which is the "bridge" between the tuner backend and the video display frontend in order to be able to view satellite TV channel video and audio in Android.

We will keep everyone posted on our progress as updates are available but rest assured, we are working very hard in bringing you a receiver that won't disappoint!

Regards,

PwrSurge
AzBox Canada

Babadem

Feb 9, 2012

Thanks for the update. Will the AZBox me debut by June or are we looking at late summer?

stargaze

Feb 9, 2012

What I would like to know is what editor program is going to work with the ME as far as creating our own sat/channel lists ?
With the Premium + and Ultra I have my own satellites in it that work great and when the ME comes out I'd like to have the same setup.
I have my sats just for North America and they are separated by the polarity. This makes for easy blind-scanning and for keeping track of what is where.
Since my DVB's are slaved off the master dish mover it means I don't have to dig around for a remote to change the master dish polarity if all I am doing is one polarity
at that time. Then when viewing the channels I go to the different satellites and say if I am on Galaxy 19 C- (V) I can channel through that sat and the polarity is the same on the entire sat..
This also helps out for those signals that use the same frequency but change the SR from time to time as you can get them in there also just by changing the polarity in the az box which fools it so it accepts the signal, where as if you have just the one sat for both H & V you could not do this without causing confusion.

pwrsurge

Feb 11, 2012

Babadem said:
Thanks for the update. Will the AZBox me debut by June or are we looking at late summer?

At this point, we would like to keep our timeline as open as possible so technically, it will be launched on or before the end of summer which is September 21st 2012. We will eventually release an official launch date as we approach the end of pre-launch development in order to reduce the possibility of having to delay the launch.

Regards,

PwrSurge
AzBox Canada

pwrsurge

Feb 11, 2012

stargaze said:
What I would like to know is what editor program is going to work with the ME as far as creating our own sat/channel lists ?
With the Premium + and Ultra I have my own satellites in it that work great and when the ME comes out I'd like to have the same setup.
I have my sats just for North America and they are separated by the polarity. This makes for easy blind-scanning and for keeping track of what is where.
Since my DVB's are slaved off the master dish mover it means I don't have to dig around for a remote to change the master dish polarity if all I am doing is one polarity
at that time. Then when viewing the channels I go to the different satellites and say if I am on Galaxy 19 C- (V) I can channel through that sat and the polarity is the same on the entire sat..
This also helps out for those signals that use the same frequency but change the SR from time to time as you can get them in there also just by changing the polarity in the az box which fools it so it accepts the signal, where as if you have just the one sat for both H & V you could not do this without causing confusion.

We are planning on using the satellites.xml format, either natively or via a conversion software of some sort. This means that you will easily be able to create your own list via a simple text editor or a satellites.xml generator such as satellites.xml generator / transponder .ini generator

However, we are designing the AzBox Me Android edition with the feedhunter in mind so some of the workarounds that are currently required with our existing receivers won't be needed anymore. For example, we will reduce restrictions when adding frequencies in order to allow closely spaced TP's to still be added. (i.e. SatMex, NSS806, etc...)

Regards,

PwrSurge
AzBox Canada

Jim S.

Feb 11, 2012

Is the MiniMe on a similar development schedule?

Stefan2K8

Feb 12, 2012

pwrsurge said:
This is why that we at AzBox Canada are currently working with Opensat in getting the Android operating system functional with the AzBox ME. The advantage of having Android is that we can easily leverage existing Android applications in order to provide enhanced multimedia functionality to the unit. Already, we have the Android web browser running smoothly on the ME which runs a LOT better than the existing web browser found in the current AzBox models.

Regards,

PwrSurge
AzBox Canada

With all due respect, I think you guys are completely missing the boat here and are headed entirely in the wrong direction. I have the original AZBOX elite and for the most part I love it and always have. The reason I love is it does what I want and need it to do, which is allow me to watch feeds including those that are dvb-s2 and 4:2:2 Mpeg2. The later is important because no other FTA receiver can accomplish it and it's why most feed hunters in north america were interested in these receivers. What I don't care about and have no interest in doing is surfing the web, sending and receiving email, word processing, playing tetris or any other game, etc. If i want to do any of those things, I have plenty of other devices that are much better suited for the tasks. In my opinion to focus on trying to make a FTA satellite receiver do things like that is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's not because the box may or may not be capable of those things. It's simply that it's not what I want it do.

The way I see it the biggest fault of the prior AZbox recevers, and their only real flaw, was their issues with recording and playback on very high bitrate feeds like we often see in north america. If you had simply addressed this issues and left everything else as is in prior models this would have been the perfect receiver for the north america FTA market. The only other things that one might want would be support for 4:2:2 H.264 and Dolby E. However, realistically speaking I realize those 2 things are likely to never happen and therefore would be willing to live without.

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I guess even the patience of us laid-back Hoosiers has its limits:

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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.

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naptime said:
I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.

It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.

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They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.

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Almighty1

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jsmit86 said:
It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.

I guess they will be busy when lots of people start asking for rollbacks to H708 now that you mention that downgrades of software does exist because it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner and the IR Remote problems in H710-H713.

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it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner

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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?

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long_time_Dish said:
Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.

Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.

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Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.

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