Black Hole Vu+ Duo 2.0.9

[Steve Dee]

Hi, I'm new to this forum, so if I'm posting this in the wrong section please accept my apologies in advance!

Having never used any BH images before (used VTi, OpenPli for 2 years before now!), I decided to try 2.0.9 on my Vu+ Duo, as this image seems to be to only one available that offers DLNA/UPNP Rendering out of the box, a feature I have been looking for for ages!

All installed fairly painlessly and I removed the vast majority of apps/plugins I didn't need via the BH Speedup menu, enabling the UPNP Renderer, CoolTV, CrossEPG, AutoBouquets and PTS plugins.
Overall I'm very happy with the way the image runs and I'm likely to keep this one in my box for a little while, but for one thing that's driving me literally crazy - the bootup time.

I've just timed it and it is a FULL 8 minutes 40 seconds from switch-on to channel up.
A GUI reboot is 1 minute 30 seconds.

Compared with other images that boot up in a fraction of the time with similar configurations, I feel something is seriously wrong here.
I've tried reflashing 3 times, adding a swap file, removing my USB flash drive (and adding it again) - nothing improves these shocking startup times.
It's even the same rebooting a virgin installation!

Can anyone help me, or is it a case that this image needs more muscle, like the newer Vu+ Solo2 or Duo2 dual core CPUs?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Steve Dee]

Actually, never mind, I think I've worked it out!

Setting up a new 4GB USB flash drive and mounting it as "universe" has dramatically improved the speed of everything I detailed in my previous post.
Cold boot time is now a much more acceptable 2 minutes and 9 seconds (into Avalon) while an Enigma2 restart is just over 1 minute.

I still have to work out the benefits of having 4 workspaces, but at least it's all running tickety-boo now!

 

[Ev0]

Actually, never mind, I think I've worked it out!

Setting up a new 4GB USB flash drive and mounting it as "universe" has dramatically improved the speed of everything I detailed in my previous post.
Cold boot time is now a much more acceptable 2 minutes and 9 seconds (into Avalon) while an Enigma2 restart is just over 1 minute.

I still have to work out the benefits of having 4 workspaces, but at least it's all running tickety-boo now!

The main benefit is as you have just found out, the flash space is now 4gb instead of a mear 128mb, which means you now have masses of free space.

 

[Steve Dee]

What's weird is that in order to get the Coherence UPnP Renderer to work, I have to be in the Black Hole "universe", and a cold reboot in this mode still takes over 8 minutes to complete. Booting into any of the others completes in 2 and a bit minutes, but the Renderer does not function. Also the LED display on my duo shows a varying percentage number (91%...95%...93%...etc) instead of the channel number when in any mode other than the original Black Hole.
Is this normal behaviour?

 

[Steve Dee]

It seems that my joy at having resolved the s-l-o-w boot up time was short lived.
Every subsequent reboot, regardless of which "universe" my box is set to, is back to taking over 8 minutes to complete.
I have not added any new plugins nor have I changed any of the configuration.
Please someone - anyone - help me out!
I'm really liking this image and I don't really want to bail and flash something else.

 

[redtangodancer]

Another great image.The Best.
Many thanks to the Team!!

 

[bobthebob]

Many thanks BH Team

 

[mardoka]

Hello,
I have some time problem (random), when I change channel. Crash log is attached.
Have you idea what is wrong?

(on device VU+ DUO - Twin DVB-S)

Thx.

 

[paolino]

@mardoka : You have to rescan your Astra 23,5E Skylink provider channels. TP 11934 changed FEC from 2/3 to 3/4 at 25/02/2014 (CT HD in your case)

 

[mardoka]

Very thanks, I will try it.

 

[sirota]

 

[colin skidmore]

Black Hole 2.0.9​

What is new ?​

• New bootlogo by mikark
• Add option: "Preferred tuner" Available in menu->setup->system->customise (Expert mode). Configure which tuner will be preferred, when more than one tuner is available. If set to 'auto' the system will give priority to the tuner having the lowest number of channels/satellites.
• Black Hole weather: switch to msn provider to fix bug when town not found and implement auto-langauge.
• Teletext: Update to the latest tuxtxt version (this fix rai hd televideo too)
• [hbbtv] updates:
  1. works for compatibility.
  2. enhancement for seek on VOD.
  3. fix setDemension.
  [hbbtv/youtubetv] improvement player to stable.
• switch to black-hole-aio-grab and fix bug in grab picture with pig
• hbbtv/browser updated.
  - support seek at ARD Mediatek.
  - fix video playback bugs at Tagesschau.
• set dvbaudiosink caps to support mpeg 4 profile LC and apply relevant patches.
  dvbapp : append gst-plugins-bad-faad on RDEPENDS.
• [hbbtv] fix ait handling and transparency.
• update driver
  20131230
  - Fix dual tuner problem(duo2)
• [hbbtv] changed ait handle
• servicemp3 : fix getSubtitleType
• servicemp3 : fix wrong playing time.
• [hbbtv] fix zapping delay from ait handling.
• [hbbtv/youtubetv] fixed volume control bug.
• [hbbtv] fixed a wrong red-button url bug.
• [hbbtv] works for compatibility
• [hbbtv] fix playing live stream after vod stop
• [hbbtv] fix check vuplus
• [hbbtv] fix crash restart after installation.
  remove useless initialization.

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WARNING: This Image has the latest drivers and CAN NOT be installed in multiboot. The image MUST be installed in flash.

Black Hole does not support images not installed in flash.

This latest version of the Black Hole series has been entirely rewritten and improved in the code for maximum stability and performance.

Please note that of all images Black Hole now has the best epg system:

- Integrated OpenEpg

- Rytec dedicated epg.dat

- New system epg.dat outside.

This last feature gives the possibility to various forums or communities to create their favorite EPG data files and load them into a web space.

Community members can then download it from our servers.

This feature provides other benefits such as:

Increase download speed of EPG

Download EPG from any channel

Schedule the download of EPG decoder even during standby

Users can customize the providers using Add / Remove function

Main functions of the buttons on the remote

OK button = Skin with simple information

OK button x 2 = Extra Info Skin

Blue button = Black Hole Blue Panel

Blue button and then Red button = Black Hole Epg Panel

Blue button and then Yellow button = System Monitor Panel

Blue button long press = Extensions

Yellow button = Audio menu

Green button = Black Hole Green Panel

Green button long press = Subservices

Green button and then Red button = Fast Plugin Setup

Green button x 2 = Fast Plugin

Button Red short press= access HbbTv functions

Button Red long press= Red Panel (Parallel Universes Teleportation)

Addons

Green button and then Yellow button takes you to:-

Dedicated server for BlackHole addons

Download and install additional packages from the Black Hole server

Infobar / OSD

Analog Clock Gui

Channel orbital location

Advanced Tuner Info: Sr Freq Pol Fec

Signal SNR, BER

Infobar picons

Characteristics of BlackHole Panels

Blue Panel

Extra Settings

Black Hole Speed Up

Black Hole Cron Manager (Manage schedules)

OSD Settings (OSD configuration)

Devices Manager

Usb Format Wizard

Kernel Modules Manager(Kernel module operator)

Inadyn Settings (Configure Inadyn)

Swap File Settings (Configure File Swap)

Hard Disk Settings (Configure Hard Drive)

OpenVPN Panel ( OpenVPN Panel)

Samba / CIFS Panel ( Samba Panel)

NFS Server Panel ( NFS server Panel)

Telnet Panel ( Telnet Panel)

FTP Panel ( FTP Panel)

UPnP Client Djmount

UPnP Server Mediatomb

UpnP Server Minidlna

Pcsc Panel

Tuner Server

Network Browse & Mountpoints

Info Panel

1 - Gui Setting (Gui configurations)

2 - Service Information (information system)

3 - About (info)

Memory (Memory)

Space (capacity)

CPU (processor)

Process (process)

EPG Panel

Global settings (global settings EPG)

Setting Provider (ISP settings)

Green Panel

Fast Plugin Setup (Configure quick access to your favourite plugin)

Fast Plugin (Access your favourite plugin)

Addons (added)

Addons Download Manager (Manager for package downloading)

Online Feeds Settings update

Online Black Hole image update

Manual Install BH packges (Manual installation of Black Hole packages)

Manual Install IPK packages (Manual installation of IPK packages)

Addons Uninstall Panel (Uninstalled packages)

Black Hole Statistics (See connections, top downloads and more)

Characteristics of BlackHole Panels

Red Panel

BH Parallel Universe Teleportation

BlackHole

Avalon

Chaos

Ghost

Credits

Thanks to Pedro_Newbie for Backup script

Thanks to the group of Beta Testers.

Thanks to Rytec for providing us with the server with all epg.dat files.

Thanks to MaxZ4 for Integrated EPG loader.

Thanks to Skaman for Cross EPG

Thanks to Lukkino (VDR-Italy) for the source code of OpenTV.

Thanks to Reinh@rd for the file satellites.xml.

Thanks to Littlesat and Pli Team for the original autolanguage and subtitle options code

DISCLAIMER

THE BLACK HOLE IMAGE IS BASED ON THE OFFICIAL FIRMWARE PUBLISHED BY VU+ AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW IT CONTAINS ONLY SYSTEM ADDITIONS & GRAPHIC CHANGES.

THE BLACK HOLE IMAGE DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY EMULATOR, K E Y S, SOFTCAMS OR OTHER SYSTEM FOR VIEWING PAY - TV WITH OR WITHOUT A PAID SUBSCRIPTION.

LASTLY, THE BLACK HOLE IMAGE DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY SYSTEM TO DOWNLOAD PLUGINS OR EMULATORS FROM EXTERNAL SERVERS OR SOFTWARE THAT MAY BE USED FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES SUCH AS CARD SHARING.

LICENSE (TERM OF USE)

THE BLACK HOLE IMAGE IS ISSUED FOR THE FREE USE FOR ALL USERS PROVIDED THAT IT WILL NOT BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY AND THAT IT WILL ONLY BE USED FOR LAWFUL PURPOSES.

ANY CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO BLACK HOLE IMAGE THAT INVOLVE UNLAWFUL USE OF THE IMAGE SUCH AS CARD-SHARING AND EMULATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED AND CAUSE THE REVOKE OF THIS LICENSE.

This is free hobbyist software and it comes with absolutely no warranty. Use it at your own risk.​

freezing on standby have to reboot to start up every time epg not running right