WeTek Full HD Android box with DVB-S2 Tuner

[Captain Jack]

What's the remote like on these? Is it a crappy small one you get with cheap boxes or a full sized one?

 

[Archived-1]

The remotes Alex, it has point and click option on it . you can also get a keyboard and mouse/just operate it from your pc if you wanted

 

[Captain Jack]

Point and click? Oh noes... it's Wii all over again!

 

[Adam792]

The remote isn't too bad! I don't use the point and click in OpenElec.

I want to look at the keymap at some point though because I can't find a way to get the channel list overlay to come on when watching live TV with the current set-up (what pressing 'C' on a full keyboard does on Kodi).

 

[Adam792]

I got my hands on the DVB-T2/DVB-C tuner module for the Wetek Play the other day via WorldOfSatellite, so I've been having a play with this.

The DVB-S2 module in the box was fairly easy to remove, you just push the clip on the underside in (I used a biro rather than the screwdriver shown in the video on YouTube of someone swapping the tuners as I didn't want to damage it!) and pull the tuner out. The new module just clicks into place as you push it in.

Again, the module is recognised straightaway, and once I'd added the multiplex details for Sutton Coldfield (TVHeadend uses the legacy list of pre-switchover multiplexes for the UK transmitters in its pre-defined lists which are next to useless!) these scanned in fine.

I've found an issue though in that it doesn't like the way the HD Freeview channels (BBC One HD, BBC Two HD, etc.) dynamically switch between 1080i50 and 1080p25 mode. It will play the format that the channel is broadcasting when you first flick to it fine, and then when this dynamically changes to the other mode the picture wobbles and green lines appear over it. When the mode switches back to the original, the playback becomes fine again. I don't know if this is just with the output mode set to 1080i50 as I haven't tried the others yet, but I will do and probably put in a support ticket to Wetek/OpenELEC. Via satellite there's no issue as the HD channels are permanently broadcast as 1080i50.

I've been using the box in Devon this weekend, with the TVHeadend client set to connect to my home TVHeadend server in Worcester over the internet. The French HD channels via TNTSat play flawlessly! I guess this is largely down to our decent fibre upload speed (20Mbps) and the fact that Canal's new encoders mean that the TNTSat HD channels are now pretty low bitrate, but shows just how versatile TVHeadend is. The channels load their guide and play just as if I were at home. Channels with higher bitrate than the ADSL connection down here can handle (stuff like Das Erste HD) play and just drop some frames rather than constantly buffer, which I think is a useful design feature of the way TVHeadend encapsulates its streams.

I'm aware I'm not doing very "conventional" tests of the box, but I hope my findings are of interest to people. I'm just reporting what I find in my own use of the box!

 

[barney100]

Hi do not want to hijack this thread but wanted to ask a question, I have a passion+ box and want to ditch it for something better just need freesat and record/pause would be nice would this unit be okay on Astra2G? and simple to set up seems it maybe to complicated:-(

I can not get Terestrial TV where I live so stuck with sat or Cable:-(

 

[sonnetpete]

If all you are wanting is Freesat, this site may help :

http://www.freesat.co.uk/get-freesat/recommended/freesat-plus

Freesat boxes are usually uncomplicated and easy to set up.

 

[Archived-1]

WeTek Core on Android TV 5.1.1

 

[Adam792]

Just an update to say I still think this box is a really nice piece of kit, especially for the price.

The newer OpenElec releases for it are a bit dodgy I've found as they seem to break support for 1080i output.

I run OpenELEC 5.95.2 without issues though and find that using 1080i output, the picture from the box is really nice. Obviously I have the DVB-T2 issues but the same channels work fine from 28.2°E. The upscaling of SD channels is also pretty nice; much nicer than any Enigma 2 box I've ever used.

I've had the box set up with Freesat via its inbuilt DVB-S2 tuners and that works nicely too. With some configuration TVHeadend handles all the channel number mapping and downloading the EPG from the Freesat home transponder automatically. It gives you a list of regional Freesat bouquets to choose from so you get the right versions on 101 and 103 etc.

 

[smoggy07]

I'm seriously thinking about getting one of these, will it move a motor or can you use a DiSEqC Switch?

 

[Adam792]

Been having another play with my Wetek Play today with the DVB-S2 tuner.

Put my dish on 27.5°W and scanned 11495V in TVHeadend on OpenELEC, and I can confirm that you can watch the BBC Satback Freeview feeds with some configuration!

The channels tune in without any PIDs just like on other boxes (except my Skybox M3 which finds no channels, and also my TBS 6905 card in my media centre PC which seems to filter the services out completely so TVHeadend on there finds nothing at all on the frequency either!) Luckily the Wetek Play tuner manages to find the service names and store them.

In order to watch the channels you have to add the key (obviously) once for each channel, and then to add the PIDs to each channel you have to find it in the TVHeadend config files in the OpenELEC filesystem. TVheadend stores a separate file for each channel it finds (stored in a folder underneath the tuner it's linked to and then the transponder/multiplex.) These aren't nicely named so you have to have a search through them to find which is which. When you're in them there's a section which stores the PIDs and after adding them (video, audio, subs and PCR) and restarting the box, hey presto! The channels clear!

Takes a bit of work but could be useful for some in Spain/Portugal/Canaries!

 

[anotherone]

I set-up the receiver on 3.1°E for the Greek Digea channels this evening. The receiver copes fine with this, entering BISS keys into TVHeadend in the usual way (which is a bit of a faff) to make the channels clear. It glitches on the ERT channels with their keys, but this is a TVHeadend issue as I get exactly the same problem on my media centre PC running TVHeadend under Ubuntu (as if the signal is bad, but it's fine!).

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hi adam
I have never had a 2in1 android tv-box and I am thinking to buy the latest "wetek play 2" or K1 Plus T2 S2.
I will buy it especially for watching "Digea" and having the android tv-box features in one box
I want to ask if it is easy to enter the biss key or I have to install a different firmware first?
And if there is an app so I can stream to local network a free to air program for watching from pc or tablet?

 

[Adam792]

Hi anotherone!

I'm not sure about getting Digea to work on the Android OS that comes with the box, but it definitely works with OpenElec (or LibreElec) installed.

You use the TVHeadend software on the box to tune the channels and handle the decryption.

You can access TVHeadend on any PC/tablet on your local network and stream the channels in VLC, plus there are specific TVH apps for Android and iOS tablets.

Bear in mind that the ERT channels still don't decrypt properly as far as I can tell. I get some picture break-up for some bizarre reason, which is a bug with TVHeadend.

I'm not sure if you can get OSCam for Android but if so then the channels will probably work on the Android OS as well. I'm not sure if ERT might work better on that too, I'm planning to have a look at that soon!


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[anotherone]

Thank you for the reply.
Sorry for my newbie questions but I have to see what is happening with satellite tv from the dm-500s period.
The openelec is not an app is an os?
If I install openenelec do I have the android os features like installing browsers, messengers from play store?

About the steaming with "Vlc" I remember it was problematic with dreambox
Is it still like that?

Sorry for my stupid questions, I am trying to understand.

 

[Adam792]

I got the Wetek Play 2 for Christmas, and I've been having a play with it today.

From my first impressions of it, it's an absolutely fantastic little box. I've been using it with LibreElec installed on NAND, connected to my media centre PC running tvheadend with my TBS cards as before.

Got the video output set to 3840x2160p50 (4k) and the upscaling and deinterlacing of 1080i HD and 576i SD is lovely.

They seem to have sorted all the little niggles I've had on the first version of the box (which was already a decent little receiver) - E-AC3 passthrough (and other HD audio) to my amp now works which is a big plus for French channels, the remote control is much better, it's a lot snappier and the OS seems more stable. It seems to handle the HE-AAC 5.1 surround sound on Freeview HD to the amp as well.

I've been watching the 4k tests across 19.2°E, 13°E and 30°W too and the picture is stunning.

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[blademedia]

Any blind scan on this box Adam

 

[Adam792]

Any blind scan on this box Adam

Not in LibreELEC or OpenELEC no, just network scan in TVHeadend.

I think blindscan works on the original Android image though from what I've read.


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[blademedia]

Thanks Adam

 

[Channel Hopper]

I got the Wetek Play 2 for Christmas, and I've been having a play with it today.

From my first impressions of it, it's an absolutely fantastic little box. I've been using it with LibreElec installed on NAND, connected to my media centre PC running tvheadend with my TBS cards as before.

Got the video output set to 3840x2160p50 (4k) and the upscaling and deinterlacing of 1080i HD and 576i SD is lovely.

They seem to have sorted all the little niggles I've had on the first version of the box (which was already a decent little receiver) - E-AC3 passthrough (and other HD audio) to my amp now works which is a big plus for French channels, the remote control is much better, it's a lot snappier and the OS seems more stable. It seems to handle the HE-AAC 5.1 surround sound on Freeview HD to the amp as well.

Check if you can create a favourite list since I could not figure it out on the Mk1 units

 

[Adam792]

Check if you can create a favourite list since I could not figure it out on the Mk1 units

Not sure, again that's the Android side which I don't use. I think there may be a tool you can use on the PC to edit the Android channel lists though.

I find the LibreELEC side to be much more powerful for how I use it for TV!

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