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Registered: Posts: 909 Posted I bought my HD+ from Rick about 18 months ago. It's currently using 9.5308 & Vendig's amc-1_fixed channel list. I do everything I do exclusively without Windows, so I've hit plenty of obstacles trying to follow instructions. Nevertheless, /DISK1/DISK2_backup does currently show DVBS.DAT Feb 1 20:11 several weeks after installation, having been put there by me using Linux tools exclusively. Several days ago I saw Vendig's channel renaming instructions for the first time, so at last I'm able to rename without channel list corruption. In spite of the 18 months of difficulties caused by lack of a comprehensive printed user manual and the scattering of instructions across the web and in various files from Vendig's Google tools pages, never could I have guessed how convoluted reliable channel renaming could be using only the remote control.

Now that that obstacle is over I've started to try to work through other problems. Today for the first time, in spite of reading often in this forum, I stumbled onto the existence of both KGD firmware, and the Priority Manger plugin. Plugin installation being the apparently easier of the two, I tried that first.

I read through the AZBox User Guide 3.2.11 without finding anything on the subject of plugins in its TOC, same as searching the 1.2 manual. I installed LibreOffice so I could open the.doc file included in the MP zip, and tried to follow those instuctions, but all three methods originally failed. Via /tmp and via USB I got simply 'Fail to install plug-in' from repeated tries.

The manual method was foiled because /PLUGINS is a read-only filesystem (even though 'mount' lists /PLUGINS as rw). Finally I rebooted and tried the USB method again, which worked. I've enabled KILL_TV_EMU, DOM_SPEED=1, UPGRADE_BUSYBOX & SWAPPER, and see available swap at about twice MEM, with 0 used.

With so little RAM installed, 100484 bytes, I'm puzzled how it's even possible for an AZBox to operate, much less decode and play transport streams to TV. Now that I've switched on those purported speedups, I need to try recording the channels that have always failed in the past before attempting KGD (assuming I can find). I've no problem with ABC's 30000SR DVB-S2 8PSK or GDMX from G16, or most other channels, but in addition to expected (but extremely disappointing) failure on CBS, mine also fails on the MyNetwork/Fox syndication feeds on 4080H 27780SR DVB-S 5/6, older technology I'm puzzled over failure from. For now, I'm hoping this thread can develop into a sticky for those of us who need or want to limit our tools used for reception of free programming to those that don't depend on spending money for anything except hardware, meaning AZBox, and FOSS tools & operating systems only for managing the AZBox and its upgrades. __________________ Hurricanes Hermine and Irma 28N paths. C Norsats: 8115 on Corotor II on 10' mesh; 5215G5 X2 on Bullseye I on 12' mesh. Registered: Posts: 272 Posted jdcpa, I do everything under Linux as well and get along just fine with the AZbox.

MAZ 3.2 runs well under wine and I use it for renaming channels, scheduling recordings, etc. Some of the other windows tools are flaky under Linux, but those same tools have problems on many windows systems.

Sounds like you got the priority manager plugin running. I remember having the same trouble getting it installed, but don't remember exactly what I did to fix it. Sandisk micro secure digital 2 gb memory card. It seems like it was a file or directory permission problem. I you decide to try KGD firmware do a google search for KGD-0.9.4890-patch.bin. The first link should get you there. If not, I can send it to you.

One thing I noticed is that monitoring load average using ssh showed a significant improvement after the changes I made. I suspect high load causes most of the problems we see on the AZbox. As you stated, it's hard to believe it can run as well as it does with it's limited resources.

Managing those resources properly can make the difference between success and failure. Originally Posted by JeffW I do everything under Linux as well and get along just fine with the AZbox. MAZ 3.2 runs well under wine and I use it for renaming channels, scheduling recordings, etc. I've only tried Wine twice. It was unusable both times, doing a good job of emulating Windows' incompetence when larger than default text is required to use anything in it.