2017-03-10, 14:41
Thanks Orlando,
already checked that website the other day, but wasn't sure, what is the current situation.
Glad to read, that everything is ok with the project!
Personally I'm not really interested in the whole smart home thing (old school, I know ). My main interest would be the TV & Entertaiment part, maybe gaming to some extent.
Seeing that SmartHomy is supposed to cover so many areas, I'm wondering how dedicated and serious you guys are / will be about the TV & Entertaiment part, i.e. about the software, which is very important.
Especially since you enable watching TV by integtrating a dual tuner, I'm wondering if you plan to make "proper" solution for this part with features like:
- proper channel management: sorting / re-ordering; making own favourites lists with the same channel being in different lists etc.
- using timeshift by simply press the pause key, with the ability to change the timeshift directory
- setting up scheduled times for recording (from EPG and manually), which would "wake up" the device at the desired time without to have to leave it on all the time
- 7 days EPG with possibility to switch to the selected channel or to set up a recording timer
- auto update for EPG data via internet or via a task, that visits the desired channels for a cdertain time over night, for instance. I.e. without the need to visit each channel manually in order to obtain the EPG data
- the ability to use the twin tuner with only one cable either by looping the signal through from one tuner to the other via hardware or via a loop-through cable, so that one can watch a channel and record another one, as long as they are on the same transponder band
- support of USB-cardreader
- PiP functionality (either two TV channels or maybe even a mix of a TV and a streamed channel)
- Full backup functionality, so that one restore a certain state of the system, if there are some problems after an udpated or something like that
- ...
WeTeK fails with many of these points (at least the current Play2) so I have my doubts if the coming Play2S will do any better and look at possible alternatives.
From what I see, there is no mSD card slot, so it's probably not planned to intergrate a dual-boot functionality, so that one can boot your system, or LibreELEC or maybe even an Enigma2 system?
Any chance that it will USB 3.0 and not 2.0?
Will one be able to access the device via FTP and move some files from a PC to an attached USB-HDD that way?
Any info if the sports streaming service DAZN (crrently available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan) will be supported? There are DAZN apps for Android / Android TV, but I believe the device needs some kind of approval or so, in order to be supported.
Also from what I've read so far, the combination of AMLogic S912 and Android above Lolipop is causing trouble on all devices. You offer Nougat already, so I wonder if SmartHomy will be affected by those problems too?
Would be great to get some insight and if you need a tester, I'm here.
already checked that website the other day, but wasn't sure, what is the current situation.
Glad to read, that everything is ok with the project!
Personally I'm not really interested in the whole smart home thing (old school, I know ). My main interest would be the TV & Entertaiment part, maybe gaming to some extent.
Seeing that SmartHomy is supposed to cover so many areas, I'm wondering how dedicated and serious you guys are / will be about the TV & Entertaiment part, i.e. about the software, which is very important.
Especially since you enable watching TV by integtrating a dual tuner, I'm wondering if you plan to make "proper" solution for this part with features like:
- proper channel management: sorting / re-ordering; making own favourites lists with the same channel being in different lists etc.
- using timeshift by simply press the pause key, with the ability to change the timeshift directory
- setting up scheduled times for recording (from EPG and manually), which would "wake up" the device at the desired time without to have to leave it on all the time
- 7 days EPG with possibility to switch to the selected channel or to set up a recording timer
- auto update for EPG data via internet or via a task, that visits the desired channels for a cdertain time over night, for instance. I.e. without the need to visit each channel manually in order to obtain the EPG data
- the ability to use the twin tuner with only one cable either by looping the signal through from one tuner to the other via hardware or via a loop-through cable, so that one can watch a channel and record another one, as long as they are on the same transponder band
- support of USB-cardreader
- PiP functionality (either two TV channels or maybe even a mix of a TV and a streamed channel)
- Full backup functionality, so that one restore a certain state of the system, if there are some problems after an udpated or something like that
- ...
WeTeK fails with many of these points (at least the current Play2) so I have my doubts if the coming Play2S will do any better and look at possible alternatives.
From what I see, there is no mSD card slot, so it's probably not planned to intergrate a dual-boot functionality, so that one can boot your system, or LibreELEC or maybe even an Enigma2 system?
Any chance that it will USB 3.0 and not 2.0?
Will one be able to access the device via FTP and move some files from a PC to an attached USB-HDD that way?
Any info if the sports streaming service DAZN (crrently available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan) will be supported? There are DAZN apps for Android / Android TV, but I believe the device needs some kind of approval or so, in order to be supported.
Also from what I've read so far, the combination of AMLogic S912 and Android above Lolipop is causing trouble on all devices. You offer Nougat already, so I wonder if SmartHomy will be affected by those problems too?
Would be great to get some insight and if you need a tester, I'm here.