w5bno123 wrote:

We plugged a clients external USB drive in to his BVIS 11 and drive name was recognised as he had named it and it played the AVI files. I have a Mac mini in the showroom and the movie files stored on the Max play through Plex media server using the Homemedia source. Why aren't you using Apple TV to draw the video content via the mac, this is seamless and it has a better interface?

Nice setup with the mac mini. Does it work fine using the mac mini with plex via the Homemedia source?

Here's a satellite module question that my dealer is also looking into.

My BV11 has a hard disk and satellite module. There are two lnb inputs marked sat1 and sat2.

Within the set up menu you select your satellite(s). I have Astra 1 and Astra 2 selected. However, on tuning it is evident that only the sat1 connection is being picked up. If I connect the Astra 1 dish to sat1 input I get all the German channels and no UK, and vice versa if I connect Astra2 to sat 1 and Astra1 to sat 2.

The TV searches both Astra 1&2 when retuning, but I suspect it is looking for both dishes on the sat1 connection and is ignoring sat2.

I can't find anything in the on screen menus about needing to somehow activate sat 2 separately. The manual just refers to sat1/2 as if the tv should automatically take the signal from both sat inputs.

Any ideas anyone?

Graham

vikinger wrote:

 

I can't find anything in the on screen menus about needing to somehow activate sat 2 separately. The manual just refers to sat1/2 as if the tv should automatically take the signal from both sat inputs.

Any ideas anyone?

Graham

To partly answer my own question, a single paragraph tucked away in the user manual says that using the hard disk module requires a satellite connection with a double lnb head, and more than one dish also needs a DiSEqC switch, ......... and to contact your dealer for details. So maybe sat2 is just the connection for the lnb to recorder input. I'll await my dealer input.

Graham

rob08 wrote:

w5bno123 wrote:

We plugged a clients external USB drive in to his BVIS 11 and drive name was recognised as he had named it and it played the AVI files. I have a Mac mini in the showroom and the movie files stored on the Max play through Plex media server using the Homemedia source. Why aren't you using Apple TV to draw the video content via the mac, this is seamless and it has a better interface?

Nice setup with the mac mini. Does it work fine using the mac mini with plex via the Homemedia source?

The performance when streaming 16GB MKV files through the Apple TV from the mac is really sluggish. I could only go through Airplay Screen Sync and this will not word for 3d video files anyway. While playing music is just fine through the Apple TV, HD 3D video won't work. Officially, B&O say that NTFS should be supported on USB - but my BV11-55 only recognizes FAT32 (which as stated above won't handle files larger than 4GB)

Has anyone succeeded in mounting an NTFS USB Stick?

vikinger wrote:

vikinger wrote:

 

I can't find anything in the on screen menus about needing to somehow activate sat 2 separately. The manual just refers to sat1/2 as if the tv should automatically take the signal from both sat inputs.

Any ideas anyone?

Graham

To partly answer my own question, a single paragraph tucked away in the user manual says that using the hard disk module requires a satellite connection with a double lnb head, and more than one dish also needs a DiSEqC switch, ......... and to contact your dealer for details. So maybe sat2 is just the connection for the lnb to recorder input. I'll await my dealer input.

Graham

B&O have confirmed that the two lnb inputs are for a dual lnb with the sat2 connection being for recording. More than one lnb/ dish can be set-up with DisEqc. 

The module appears to have just about every broadcasting satellite already loaded. You just need to switch on the ones your dish is able to point at in the set-up menu. 

I haven't finished experimenting with the menus, but it looks as if you can create favourite groups that consist of a mixture of terrestrial and satellite (& cable?) channels. Without using this approach the normal Beo4 operation seems to be to switch on the TV with the TV button which will activate the last source you used (Freeview or satellite etc) and you then need to switch sources within the menus by going to channel groups. 

Graham

vikinger wrote:

B&O have confirmed that the two lnb inputs are for a dual lnb with the sat2 connection being for recording. More than one lnb/ dish can be set-up with DisEqc.

This Bv just gets more interesting. !