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    Buyer Beware means that the buyer assumes the risk that the Zgemma H7 may fail to meet expectations, or may fail to do some things the seller claims it will do. Nothing more. Nothing less.

    I would not be afraid to buy something if I wanted it from Tek2000. They will ship what you order.
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    OK, I read 100 and I'm keeping -1!
    First things first:
    1) 4.2.2. decoding in STBs is hardware dependent. With Zgemma h7 using the very same board as the SF4008/HD51 the decoding should be simply impossible. The only way 4.2.2 will work on STBs is a) hardware support (only SH4 chipsets provide that ftm) b) software support. This requires an even more efficient CPU support. If in the smallest chance Zgemma will handle 4.2.2 this will happen on the other STBs as well with the same specs and it will be only software. I find it highly unlikely.

    2) "EPG will work only with our variants". This is some good BS right there. EPG on E2 is purely software! There is nothing spectacular on the EPG of American satellites, same data values, global support! ATSC was a problem and it's now solved. Besides what will they do to support EPG themselves, write special E2 patches themselves? Really?

    3) Blindscan is a closed source binary which has to be developed to run on ARM (it's semi-available only on BCM chipsets). I believe once it's ready for either SF4008 or Zgemma H7 it should run on most ARM E2 boxes. Granted, certain closed source firmwares could run blindscan, but E2 is another story. For that some people should work on it, and certain manufacturers don't even care since they cater for people without these needs. Without support and interest it's very difficult unfortunately!
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    One thing I cannot find anywhere is information about Kodi and the Zgemma H7. There was one video showing Kodi working on the H7 several months ago. Any other information about Kodi and the Zgemma H7 would be appreciated.
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    This video?

    Airdigital Zgemma H7 UHD 4K KODI 17.1 with openATV 6.0
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    Yes. That is the old video. I would like to see new information about Kodi, and how well it works on the H7. Thanks.
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    Jul 17th 2017

    just received this Zgemma h7. Massive thanks to my friend @airdigital.

    Okay sorry for the delay with this, i really have been very busy.


    First impressions have been very good, the box comes well packaged with all your usual requirements, UK plug, hdmi lead, user manual, the sata cable connection for the h/drive and screws.

    However when installing the hard drive, the plate supplied dose not take into account the hard drive electrics, usually there is little "o" rings for the screws, without these there is a potential for a short, so either insulate the drive itself with some tape or find some little "o" rings to suit, which i what i did as that will also limit vibration/noise from the drive spinning.


    Upon plugging in and turning on it is immediately apparent how fast the box boots up. Full cold boot to display of a channel takes 33 seconds (on atv 6.1 image)

    Please note for all testing i will be using the latest openATV 6.1 image (unless the image lets me down lol)

    New to the Zgemma range is full Kodi so i start there, in the plugin feed is Kodi 17.3 krypton which installs to the hard drive without any drama. As im not much of a kodi user, i installed a well known "lite" build done by @wookie_wizardry. This build works very well on the zgemma but still utilises the enigma2 media player, just like any other enigma2 kodi capable box i have used.

    Swapping from enigma2 to kodi again is very fast, way quicker than my VUduo2 was and is comparable to my VUuno4k which is unsurprising as they share similar chipsets.

    A gigabit ethernet connection is also a first for this Zgemma

    So ran a telnet test:

    Code

    Welcome to openATV for zgemmah7
    openatv 6.1 zgemmah7
    zgemmah7 login: root
    Last login: Fri Jul 21 01:57:24 CEST 2017 on pts/0
    root@zgemmah7:~# ethtool eth0
    Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
    Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
    100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
    1000baseT/Full
    Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: MII
    PHYAD: 1
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Supports Wake-on: gs
    Wake-on: d
    SecureOn password: 00:00:00:00:00:00
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
    drv probe link
    Link detected: yes

    So all good there

    As this is a 4k UHD box best i test that...., i plugged in my motor and install a motorised channel list, there are a few FTA 4k channels which work great on the H7, so nice to finally have some 4k channels on my UHD telly lol....

    Multi stream dvbSX was new in the zgemma h5 plus models, this also works well in the h7 as tested on the 5W satellite.

    TESTING-ZGEMMA H52SPLUS-EGAMI 8.0.2 - ZGEMMA H52SPLUS - MULTISTREAM 5W
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    Blind scanning of sats works well and is very fast, arm chipsets simply work way better than the old mips ones....

    Please feel free to ask any questions, if i can help answer i will.

    Tomorrow i will test dvb/c/t (if i get time)....... so far pretty good.""

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    Salesman?
    just received this Zgemma h7. Massive thanks to my friend @airdigital.

    Blind scanning of sats works well and is very fast, arm chipsets simply work way better than the old mips ones
    I wonder how he got it to blindscan when that feature is not yet available?

    Good to see Kodi working!
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    Very good!!! Are you sure about blindscan though?
    Since you have openATV installed please also test if multiboot is supported, and if there is an openpli based image for H7!
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    "I wonder how he got it to blindscan when that feature is not yet available?"

    That kind of surprised me too. Maybe he received a newer version from @airdigital.
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