Octagon SF-4008(4K) Bugs, Issues, and Problems

[chewie]

Hello EB
I heard the issue was with 2160p, I reloaded the ATV image from the 10/1/2017, set the video for 1080 and the sound works just fine, I updated the image to today's update and still working fine with video set to 1080, if you box is set to 1080 most likely you not going to see the problem.
I hope this issues get's fixed, I am glad is not the box.
Regards.
Chewie

[el bandido]

Makes sense as to why I did not have the problem now!
Unfortunately, the Koreans are on vacation, so it will probably be 7 or more days before another driver is released.
I appreciate the comments, and thanks for clearing this up for me!

[gpflepsen]

I've found that an initiator, at least for me, is turning the PiP function on and not neccessarily being in 2160P60 mode alone. At least this is a pattern I observed yesterday.

[el bandido]

Esmos of Octagon knows about this problem. Unfortunately, the people that do the coding are on vacation for about 1 week more or less. Doubt we see much done in that amount of time.

There was a bug in ATSC. ON low power stations, the ONID may be the same for several different channels or frequencies (transponder). The Atlanta, Ga. area has several of these, and it would cause a real mess because enigma2 could only process the last ONID scanned. This resulted in the other previous scanned channels with the same ONID to not work!
Athoik and SatDreamGr have solved this problem in the latest experimental image. A new setting shown in the screencap takes care of this problem. The location of this new setting is Menu--->Setup--->System---Customize. Scroll down to the last setting and change "Ignore DVB namespace sub network" to No.

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I appreciate the ATSC work that has been done by Athoik, SatDreamGr, OpenAtv, OpenVix, and other groups. There are only a small amount of ATSC Countries, and I really appreciate the help that has been given so we can view Terrestrial channels on FTA receivers in North America!

Here are the supported ATSC devices for Octagon SF4008:
Hauppauge 850
Hauppauge 950q
Hauppauge 955q

These three devices are the only ones that have been tested and known to work on the SF4008 using SatDreamGr images.

[el bandido]

Additional work was done today. Athoik, SatDreamGr, defined a way for enigma2 to check for usb devices:

Instead of adding more and more checks on ep_XX values I created a generic check that will check the link if contains usb, if that is true, then we have a usb.

So when new values appear on ep_XX you don't have to care any more, enigma2 will identify those usb devices at once, as long as the link contains usb in the path.

In other words, he gave us a way to make the Hauppauge 955q work the first time, but fixed it in a more correct manner today. This update is available now as an online update in SatDreamGr experimental images for the SF4008.

I was having trouble before this last fix getting more than one Hauppauge 850 to be recognized when the Hauppauge 955q was attached. As a test, I connected 3 Hauppauge 850's to the SF4008 along with the Hauppauge 955q. The results can be seen in the screencaps below.

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[eastof111]

Been out of the loop for a while.... in past conversations regarding duo2, I asked why Sundtek and Hauppauge 850 could not coexist and the pix posted above shows both are available. Info please.

[MCelliotG]

This is fantastic. I think it's high time I debuted my skin too!

[chewie]

This is fantastic. I think it's high time I debuted my skin too!

Hello MCelliotG
which Skin you debuted? can you share it with us here.
Let us know.
Thanks.
Chewie

[el bandido]

The Duo2 would have the same usb device update as the SF4008. Do the same: Download the latest SatDreamGr experimental image, then update online. Sundtek and Hauppauge should work.


The skin by Miss MCelliotG fits the SF4008 like a glove! It is the skin that I use for the Octagon most of the time, and it works very well!


I would pretty much consider the SF4008 to be "complete" once some sort of internal tuner blindscan is available. Everything else seems to work for me using a 1080 television. There are known issues with the SF4008 when using 4K television. The 4K issues should be fixed soon.

[eastof111]

The Duo2 would have the same usb device update as the SF4008. Do the same: Download the latest SatDreamGr experimental image, then update online. Sundtek and Hauppauge should work.


The skin by Miss MCelliotG fits the SF4008 like a glove! It is the skin that I use for the Octagon most of the time, and it works very well!

Thanks, will give it a try this weekend.