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Brilliant AuxBox, many thanks mate. :-) Have to say I was not expecting this yet so you have put a big smile on my face today.
Installed in on my ATV1200 box and seems to be working great and seems very snappy so far, though not had time to test it much yet. Just been installing my usual set of add-ons for my Basic Set up and other than iStreams which seems to be not available all seems solid. Not tested it with my LAN yet but will do over the next day or two.
No problem with the shutdown either as I simply do the same I had to do with Gotham 13.2 and overwrite the remote conf file with one I keep for the ATV1200 supplied remote and that gives me the usual three part menu choice when I hit the red button.
One problem that I am sure you are aware of is that when it boots up it still shows the XBMC Loading screen and then the Gotham 13.2 one briefly so of course this needs suitable and attractive KODI screens if possible.
Will give you more feedback when I can. One question still got to try it with a ATV520 box to see if the Broadcom WiFi issues has been fixed yet ?? Also need to test it with my Denon Home Theatre pass-through audio which would not auto switch to digital pass-through sound with Gotham as I said some while ago and had to manually force the Denon X500 to switch when it would then work fine
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Ah hit a fairly important problem with this compile. We seem to have gone back to the upscaled 720 resolution when set to 1080i. I tried the test grid screen video which proved it was no longer true full 1080 HD as we had with Gotham 13.2.
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Mike77 are you saying that from some information you have seen, or from your own observations as I did??
xbmcdoc I cannot see how the 1080 content form the test grid video can not be recognised as 1080 res to be honest. Sure unless you look very close at the screen on most <50" screens I do not think you can see a lot of difference form the normal 2.5 to 3 metre viewing distance, except maybe when you get a lot of tiny text like at the film end with the credits scrolling or maybe fine textured clothing. So sure can use for now for testing everything else with the 720 up-scaling. Certainly seems smoother and snappier, and so far no lock-ups. Early days yet but have to say I have not noticed any major obvious other changes to what we had with Gotham 13.2 but may do when I delve in deeper of course.
Will try and test it with an ATV520 box later today if I get time to see if the Broadcom WiFi issue has been fixed with this Helix build, or as most likely still not.
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Where there is 1080 streaming available I will use it I have to say, and often if it is some important to watch at best res movie or TV show, then if the streaming is not up to it I will download it onto my SD card and watch it later in full HD. I am sure Helix at full 1080 will be here real soon as they usually bring over these good features from the previous builds.
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I'll fix the upscaling soon
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Any way to put the box in standby instead to power it off?
I've two other MX-III boxes, where i installed a porting of OpenElec, and on this platform the poweroff function calls a standby (screen off, lan off, led red).
Working great.
