I would like to describe my impressions of using the nbox decoder with enigma2. I hope they will be useful, because unfortunately I didn't find such a review before buying it.
The receiver was recommended to me by the seller, with the assumptions I gave him:
* the receiver is supposed to work (entertainment for me is to watch TV, not the constant burying under the hood)
* it has to be stable (nothing annoys me as much as something that does not work properly, hangs etc.).
* is to be simple in basic use (it is dedicated to a guest room)
And what is the reality:
* absolutely not plug & play. The receiver came configured and it took me about 3 hours (YES!) Before I managed to make it display the decoded image from Cyfra +. I am a programmer, I can read forums and information on the Internet, so I'm not a complete layman.
* software crashes, hangs, crashes if the user does anything other than a correctly executed magic command sequence. Reading the messages on the screen carefully and following them certainly does not work. For example: when searching for programs, the green square = search is displayed. If it is pressed, it will sag. But if you press [ok] instead, it looks for. Over and over again. Whichever wrong path you follow: this ends up crashing the receiver.
* trying to select the HDD check function (due to the fact that during the installation I hard reset it, I decided to check if the hdd has no errors 50 times after that) - it hangs, like it does something but I left it for 24 hours, I came the next day on he was doing (or maybe he was hanging) lame.
...over and over again.
It is totally overloaded with typically technical features. For example, one of the buttons on the remote control enters the file list on the file system. Why the hell is that on top?
Using the settings for someone who is not a total expert in DVB-SAT is impossible without a google with which we decode word by word every option available in the settings (how can a normal person know what is BZZB / BXXB or whether to choose mgcamd135_newcs165 or OSCAM 8648_110 Readers only. The worse that the device has a Polish version of the software pre-installed, so you do not know what to look for on the net - in the English version it would probably be easier to find descriptions of these different words in a foreign language of SAT geeks. There is no help that would describe the consequences of selecting a given setting and in what cases should you use it and in which not to bother with it.
It is even more difficult because most of the information about enigma is on coded forums that require logging in and creating a profile. For today, enigma2 does not even have an article on Wikipedia (neither Polish nor English).
As it started to work more or less, we come to the daily service:
The first problem is that the device cannot be turned off other than by removing the plug from the socket. Kind of shutdown (only E2 is lit on the display) - the hard drive or the fan continues to work, in any case hum. When we pull the plug, the problem is different: the device turns on for a good few minutes. In the meantime, you don't want to watch.
there is no coincidence between what is written on the buttons on the remote control and what actually happens when a given button is pressed. There is some logic in it known to people who work on it every day, but not to the person who comes and without prior training simply wants to watch TV. I tried to scroll the advertisements with the buttons >> and
The receiver was recommended to me by the seller, with the assumptions I gave him:
* the receiver is supposed to work (entertainment for me is to watch TV, not the constant burying under the hood)
* it has to be stable (nothing annoys me as much as something that does not work properly, hangs etc.).
* is to be simple in basic use (it is dedicated to a guest room)
And what is the reality:
* absolutely not plug & play. The receiver came configured and it took me about 3 hours (YES!) Before I managed to make it display the decoded image from Cyfra +. I am a programmer, I can read forums and information on the Internet, so I'm not a complete layman.
* software crashes, hangs, crashes if the user does anything other than a correctly executed magic command sequence. Reading the messages on the screen carefully and following them certainly does not work. For example: when searching for programs, the green square = search is displayed. If it is pressed, it will sag. But if you press [ok] instead, it looks for. Over and over again. Whichever wrong path you follow: this ends up crashing the receiver.
* trying to select the HDD check function (due to the fact that during the installation I hard reset it, I decided to check if the hdd has no errors 50 times after that) - it hangs, like it does something but I left it for 24 hours, I came the next day on he was doing (or maybe he was hanging) lame.
...over and over again.
It is totally overloaded with typically technical features. For example, one of the buttons on the remote control enters the file list on the file system. Why the hell is that on top?
Using the settings for someone who is not a total expert in DVB-SAT is impossible without a google with which we decode word by word every option available in the settings (how can a normal person know what is BZZB / BXXB or whether to choose mgcamd135_newcs165 or OSCAM 8648_110 Readers only. The worse that the device has a Polish version of the software pre-installed, so you do not know what to look for on the net - in the English version it would probably be easier to find descriptions of these different words in a foreign language of SAT geeks. There is no help that would describe the consequences of selecting a given setting and in what cases should you use it and in which not to bother with it.
It is even more difficult because most of the information about enigma is on coded forums that require logging in and creating a profile. For today, enigma2 does not even have an article on Wikipedia (neither Polish nor English).
As it started to work more or less, we come to the daily service:
The first problem is that the device cannot be turned off other than by removing the plug from the socket. Kind of shutdown (only E2 is lit on the display) - the hard drive or the fan continues to work, in any case hum. When we pull the plug, the problem is different: the device turns on for a good few minutes. In the meantime, you don't want to watch.
there is no coincidence between what is written on the buttons on the remote control and what actually happens when a given button is pressed. There is some logic in it known to people who work on it every day, but not to the person who comes and without prior training simply wants to watch TV. I tried to scroll the advertisements with the buttons >> and
