New Duo clone owner with Motorised disk - questions

[meggiedude]

Lo there,

Clone arrived from Hong Kong on Monday, and have her up and working (after a fashion).
All looking OK so for

Had to take front panel apart to straighten out the front display (which was on the p*ss) - but this seems quite common according to other posts.
All seems to fire up OK, and fitted 500Gb drive which spins up and is now initialised.
Unit comes with Blackhole (v1.7.0 IIRC) preinstalled.

Few questions
1) Want to load the latest version of BH, so I assume I just get the latest from somewhere (v1.7.3??) and put on empty FAT32 pendrive and boot?? Will any version of BH work??

2) Unit is currently linked to single feed from quad LNB (still need to wire up second connection for LNB2, so looping through from LNB1).
Was having issues getting USALS working yesterday. Put in right Location info (Lat and Long) but could not get it to see a sat. Do I need to download a plugin or preinstall a bouquet for it to look for 28.2E or any of the other satellites? If so how, and which file is appropriate for multiple sats?

3. I assume I load this with utility like VuCC (which I have downloaded)?? If so what is the default root passwd??

Thanks in advance. New to this linux receiver game so pls be gentle.

Ta

MD

[meggiedude]

Lo there,

Clone arrived from Hong Kong on Monday, and have her up and working (after a fashion).
All looking OK so for

Had to take front panel apart to straighten out the front display (which was on the p*ss) - but this seems quite common according to other posts.
All seems to fire up OK, and fitted 500Gb drive which spins up and is now initialised.
Unit comes with Blackhole (v1.7.0 IIRC) preinstalled.

Few questions
1) Want to load the latest version of BH, so I assume I just get the latest from somewhere (v1.7.3??) and put on empty FAT32 pendrive and boot?? Will any version of BH work??

2) Unit is currently linked to single feed from quad LNB (still need to wire up second connection for LNB2, so looping through from LNB1).
Was having issues getting USALS working yesterday. Put in right Location info (Lat and Long) but could not get it to see a sat. Do I need to download a plugin or preinstall a bouquet for it to look for 28.2E or any of the other satellites? If so how, and which file is appropriate for multiple sats?

3. I assume I load this with utility like VuCC (which I have downloaded)?? If so what is the default root passwd??

Thanks in advance. New to this linux receiver game so pls be gentle.

Ta

MD

Actually ignore 2nd part of q3 - found out that its 4 x "space bar".

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If your hooking this up to a motorised dish and your having problems even with the correct settings in for usals then there is a problem with the power supply and its a common occurrence that some of the clone duo's dont give out enough juice to kick start the motor.

Work arounds have been to goto satfinder and locate satellite there and then channel hop, swap to a fixed dish channel first and then hop back to motorised channel to kick start. And some seem to suggest a reflash of a different image or use advanced mode.

[meggiedude]

If your hooking this up to a motorised dish and your having problems even with the correct settings in for usals then there is a problem with the power supply and its a common occurrence that some of the clone duo's dont give out enough juice to kick start the motor.

Work arounds have been to goto satfinder and locate satellite there and then channel hop, swap to a fixed dish channel first and then hop back to motorised channel to kick start. And some seem to suggest a reflash of a different image or use advanced mode.

OK, Thanks. Any suggestions on a different image?? Vix??

I have the channels set for 28.2E now after physically rebooting the box.

Also, How do I get an extra two or three sats positions added to the single motorised LNB I have. I can't seem to be able to do this on the menu.
LNB 1 on tuner 1 is set to 28.2E now, but I want extra sats positions to be added to the list, such that when I swap to the channels on the other sats, USALS move the dish automatically.
How do I do this??