Dvico TViX HD M-4000 PA + TViX T430 TV Tuner
So, after reformatting the box as NTFS I ordered the TV Tuner. Fitting it was really easy - it literally just slides and locks into place; I’ve been very impressed with the thought that’s gone into the design of this box. There’s no software to install, and it scanned and found all my channels within minutes.
As yet there’s no pause/rewind of live TV - I hope this will be implemented in future firmware upgrades but that aside, it’s perfect for my needs. I’ve used an aerial splitter so I can still use my old freeview box on the offchance that there’s ever a time that I want to watch one channel while recording another, but we’ll see if that ever becomes an issue. There’s so little on that I actually want to watch that I’d be very surprised if that ever happened.
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jor, Jul 29 07 at 9:51 pmHi,when i was reading your topics about the tvix and mac,i have one quistion is it ok to format the tvix in nfts and not have the 4gb limet?
i was very happy to rtead this but has it no ristrictions.
gr jorgen
Anton, Jul 30 07 at 10:57 amHi,
Do you have any problem with EPG? It seems that they just don’t know about the British summer time existent. So I have to select the GMT time zone and allow the box to sync time automatically (DTM auto time sync is ON). Now I have EPG with all programs but my box time will be one our earlier and it’s slightly confusing. Do you have the same problem?
Anton
tismey, Jul 30 07 at 5:15 pmJor - You can format the TVix as NTFS, so you don’t get the 4GB limit, but it breaks the ability to write to the TVix via USB, as Macs cannot natively write to NTFS drives. Because the TV Tuner will only work with NTFS, I have formatted it as NTFS and use FTP to write to the box.
Anton - I don’t have a problem with EPG because I also have auto-sync set to on. However, I do get some funny times appearing on the box panel occasionally. This usually sorts itself out when I switch to DTV.
tismey, Aug 06 07 at 10:31 amThought I’d broken the Tuner when I upgraded my firmware to v 2.2.0 earlier this week - I was getting a message saying ‘this DVB-T Tunner (sic) is not compatible with the current F/W’ when I switched to digital telly mode.
Turns out I’d downloaded the wrong version of the firmware - NTSC instead of PAL. Once I got the right version, it was fine. unfortunately, I now have the problem Anton mentions above - my TViX is displaying GMT rather than BST. It still seems to record things OK, so it’s more of an annoyance than anything else.
matt, Sep 18 07 at 11:43 amHi Tismey,
I’m also a Mac user who purchased the 4100SH (with 500g drive) the other day. Managed to reformat as FAT32 which is helpful but would love to get the NFS (won’t work - followed the guide on tvix.co.kr but to no avail (I get stuck a bit on the 5th direction - doesn’t seem to apply). No luck with FTP either which I thought was down to using a Mac. But I notice you’ve got it working - which FTP client are you using? I’m pretty sure I’ve set everything else correctly but it’s the client that won’t connect or copy.
thanks,
Matt
tismey, Sep 18 07 at 4:35 pmHi Matt, thanks for stopping by
I was going to post a thing about getting NFS Sharing to work on a mac, but haven’t got around to it yet… Can you paste the exact link of the instructions you’re using so I can compare them to how I got it working?I’m just using Terminal for http://FTP. Transmit works, but struggles with folders with spaces in their name, Cyberduck/Macfusion don’t work at all, apparently something to do with the way that the TViX responds to certain FTP LIST commands. I’ve been in contact with the brains at Googlecode to get this working with MacFusion and accoridng to the ticket I raised it’s due for a fix in v1.2
matt, Sep 21 07 at 10:19 amHi Tismet,
Here’s the instructions I followed (I worked out step 5 in the end) and I’m pretty sure I’ve followed them to the letter. But I still can’t get the 4100 to connect. I hope it isn’t my router but it shouldn’t be (its a Livebox) as both systems have static IPs but I wouldn’t know what ports to open (nor would I particularly want to to the outside world). Cyberduck was what I was using - so I’ll try Transmit and maybe Forklift (which would be brilliant - as you can set up a droplet for ftp with it) tonight and see if I can FTP onto it. I’ve formatted my 500gig as 3 fat32 drives and 1 NTFS (I also plan on getting the tuner addon and I need NTFS for 4gig ISOs too). I use Bootcamp and MacDrive to copy files to that partiton.
I’ll probably have to try the terminal for a bit - at the moment I use a 1gig jumpdrive to copy files to the tivx (as I don’t have a 20 metre USB 2.0 cable).cheers for the tips.
tismey, Sep 22 07 at 10:36 amRIght - they’re more or less the instructions I used, but they’re a bit misleading in some places.
First up, you don’t have to have the tvixhd1 folder. I just share my Music and Movies folders. So here’s what I did.
In NFS Manager, I created a share to /Users/tismey/Movies. I set maproot=tismey, because I was a bit unsure about give it root access. It seems to work fine. I activated the shares with the ‘Activate Changes’ button. Don’t worry about any of the ‘Share subfolders options or anything clever.
On the TVIX, I put the server name as /Users/tismey/Movies and I put the IP address as 10.0.1.2, which is the static IP of my mac on my network. It connected first time.
Just a note - do you have the Mac OS X firewall switched on? I guess that might have an effect if you have.
matt, Sep 23 07 at 11:06 amWell that’s annoying, I turned the firewall off and I could access the folder on the Tvix, at last. Unfortunately I don’t want to run the mac without the firewall turned on. But can’t work out how to allow access. It seems to expect a log on of 192.168.1.2/matthew with my password but I can’t do that from the tvix.
Getting there….
matt, Sep 23 07 at 11:46 amWell after a bit of research I’ve cracked it - just open TCP, UDP ports 111, 600-1023 for NFS communication and port 2049 for the actual NFS access.The drive mounts perfectly and I’m just streaming Supernanny for my wife. Now to try a bit of http://FTP. Thanks tismey - got there in the end. Hope this info helps a few others.
Matt
tismey, Sep 24 07 at 8:37 amExcellent! Really glad you’ve sorted it and that bit of information will no doubt be useful to anyone else having the same problem.
matt, Oct 29 07 at 4:58 pmHey Tismey,
I just found this info on the mpcclub forum. There’s a format called EXT2 that mac can read/write to and TVix unofficially supports. I’m going to ‘consider’ it for the tvix under Leopard as the NTFS beta from Paragon won’t work yet. Any luck with the macfusion stuff?
http://mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=13919
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
matt, Oct 29 07 at 5:00 pm(there seems to be a Ext3 format that works too)
tismey, Oct 29 07 at 6:33 pmThat’s interesting. Mind you, I’m not sure if that solves the problem with the TV Tuner - bear in mind thet TViX CAN write to FAT32 disks - it just doesn’t do so reliably with the TV Tuner.
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