Which E2 box for my shortlist?

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I never considered any Enigma 2 receiver to be suitable for any feed hunting. This is why I have the F15 - E2s are just too complicated and convoluted for feeds.
What about the Octagon SX88+, cheap little box, control the Vbox with that and have the HD15 as well?
And the Gigablues don't do DVB-S2X AFAIK?
 

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I never considered any Enigma 2 receiver to be suitable for any feed hunting. This is why I have the F15 - E2s are just too complicated and convoluted for feeds.
I use TBS cards for feedhunting, my E2 box drives the dish.

I've never found any STB to be as effective at feedhunting than the TBS/EBSPro combo. Not even my Old Dr HD.
 

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I use TBS cards for feedhunting, my E2 box drives the dish.
I'd use mine if I could be bothered to go out there and run another coax. Got a brand new reel of WF100 just sat here waiting.
 

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I'd use mine if I could be bothered to go out there and run another coax. Got a brand new reel of WF100 just sat here waiting.
Yeah, I could do with a couple more cable runs, and a quad LNB :D
 
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Ordered a mutant hd51 a couple of days ago from world of sat with the dvbs2x tuners.

Using it on my fixed dish at the moment, on 19°e 13°E 9°E & 5°E

Kodi/plex works flawlessly. 4K picture quality is top notch.

And it’s multi stream compatible.

I have ordered a spare remote to go in the box (just in case)

Well worth the money imho.
 

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They are excellent boxes! Minor issues with tuner but really nothing to worry much about...

@RustySpoons - have you ordered yours yet?!
 

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They are excellent boxes! Minor issues with tuner but really nothing to worry much about...

@RustySpoons - have you ordered yours yet?!


He's waiting for me to examine the internals of my Edision Primo.

It's gonna be a long wait .......
 

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Not ordered anything yet, will decide what to get when I get this CM 1.2m up, not sure what dish is connecting to what :)
 

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Might not even be E2 with all this OE-A nonsense since that motor bug, Edision is at the top of the list right now.
Waiting for Lazarus's seal of approval, if if turns up this century.
 

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Might not even be E2 with all this OE-A nonsense since that motor bug, Edision is at the top of the list right now.
Waiting for Lazarus's seal of approval, if if turns up this century.


It's here, but I don't have time to play today.

I've opened the packaging to ensure all present and correct, that's all.
 

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It's here, but I don't have time to play today.

I've opened the packaging to ensure all present and correct, that's all.
Glad it finally got there!
 

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Just to throw a spanner in the works, we have a limited quantity of S2X plug and play tuners we can sell with the Gigablue UHD Quad 4K or the UHD UE 4k, single and twin tuner modules.
 

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I'm looking again at 4k E2 receivers, was waiting for the Octagon SF5008 to come out, but that is getting pushed back all the time.... end of April is now sometime in June, with every likelihood it will be later.
One thing that has me wondering now, is I have a few 'plugins' that I use on a regular basis, but seem to recall mipsel based plugins won't work on ARM based boxes, is that still the case as I can't find any source for ARM plugins anywhere?
I've always fancied the Gigablue quad to TBH, now they have DVBS2X tuners available, looking even more tempting.
 

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I'm looking again at 4k E2 receivers, was waiting for the Octagon SF5008 to come out, but that is getting pushed back all the time.... end of April is now sometime in June, with every likelihood it will be later.
One thing that has me wondering now, is I have a few 'plugins' that I use on a regular basis, but seem to recall mipsel based plugins won't work on ARM based boxes, is that still the case as I can't find any source for ARM plugins anywhere?
I've always fancied the Gigablue quad to TBH, now they have DVBS2X tuners available, looking even more tempting.
What plugins are they? I can check the feeds etc to see if they are available. Most things are platform agnostic or have been ported over.
I was looking at the SF5008 myself, but reading that a lot of issues are not sorted on the SF4008 I decided to go for a Mutant HD51, it was that or the VU+ UNO 4K SE but no DVB-S2X tuners for that yet. If streamrelay means anything to you and something you wish to avoid then I wouldn't bother with Octagon.
 

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Mediaportal is one, the other 1 is called IPTV Bouqet Maker, may also be known as e2m3u2bouquet.
 

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Mediaportal is one, the other 1 is called IPTV Bouqet Maker, may also be known as e2m3u2bouquet.
Looking around people seem to have Mediaportal running on the Mutant HD51 and on the Mediaportal Website they have downloads for the ARM based Dreamboxes and also Other boxes so that looks like its ARM Compatible.
e2m3u2bouquet Is written in Python so that should work.

Before long I'm sure the only boxes available will be ARM Based, I wouldn't be surprised if MIPS based boxes get phased out.
 

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I must be looking at another MP website then LOL, as it only shows the 2 options, DM(debian) and others like VU etc. But it does say it works on ALL E2 boxes though. But I couldn't find a link to an ARM version. The other one I'm not too bothered about really as I have a Android app on my Media Player that I use mainly anyway.

Is it just a coincidence that this morning I received an email from WoS specifically about the Gigablue after my post last night about considering them :eek: :D

Thanks Rusty, put my min d at rest a little bit :Y
 

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I must be looking at another MP website then LOL, as it only shows the 2 options, DM(debian) and others like VU etc. But it does say it works on ALL E2 boxes though. But I couldn't find a link to an ARM version. The other one I'm not too bothered about really as I have a Android app on my Media Player that I use mainly anyway.

Is it just a coincidence that this morning I received an email from WoS specifically about the Gigablue after my post last night about considering them :eek: :D

Thanks Rusty, put my min d at rest a little bit :Y
That's what I was saying, under the others like VU will be ARM compatible as well. The reason there is a different download for the Dreamboxes is because they use Debian based DreamOS.

What are you thinking of getting :) ?
 

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Don't get a DM900 - it's a bag of shite at more than double the price of the superior Mutant.
 

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Don't get a DM900 - it's a bag of shite at more than double the price of the superior Mutant.
There's a few reasons why a lot of us have the Mutant :)
 
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