Haha! Okay you win. Not sure I will ever get to 18 Ospreys. But they are great little boxes.
And I dig your remote collection. The Osprey / Gemini remotes is one of my favorites.
In what ways are these more beneficial than my onn tv stick or box running the app and controlled by adb?
Not any more useful if you don't use DirecTV. And if you use any apps other than DTV, Onn boxes are better.
From my previous post.
Link to Post: DirecTV Osprey/Gemini Boxes - #4 by spammedeeper
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I actually don't even need that because I have the three ENC1 V3s that I bought initially.
I actually bought the ENC5 to get away from the USB capture card since they just have been so flaky. I wanted to let my boxes finally sleep and they would just freeze up with the capture cards.
Then I found it was because I was using a USB 3.0 capture card and a USB 2.0 port, and it's honestly just not worth it, so I bought an ENC5 and then put the capture cards up on eBay.
So I'll have 8 tuners in total running off 4 boxes, one ENC5 and three ENC1s. I may have to cancel one of those orders, though, because I have an unresponsive eBay seller that just hasn't shipped and hasn't responded to me at all. So I'm not sure if I'm going to get one. I might have to find another one.
I'm not sure about the age of the ENC8 model. Though, that may be true that it's older, as it's specs don't measure up to the ENC5. The ENC8 inputs are HDMI 1.3, 1080P @ 60fps. The ENC5 inputs are HDMI 1.4, 4k @ 30fps.
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So I got my 2 Ospreys now, 8 in total, and they both were perfect. No auto sign in or anything like that. I got really lucky.
60233 models and no remote, so I was able to go on Amazon and buy nice clean new remotes.
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My ENC5-V2 came today, so I have all eight Ospreys set up. So I have 5 on the ENC5-V2 and 1 each on an ENC1-V3.
I also changed out the taco tray to give myself a little bit more space. The last thing I did was add a nosignal.yuv file, but this one is just a blank screen, just completely black. That way I can let my Ospreys sleep finally. And when they wake back up I get a black screen instead of an ugly no-signal screen it just looks a little bit more natural. Then, DirecTV tunes, and it's all within about 5 seconds or so.
I just needed to get myself a Brother P-touch and relabel these instead of using painter's tape.
I was trying to avoid the whole USB cam mess. It's just so much more reliable to use a native port.
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does anyone have a list of the keycodes or keyevents for all the directv specific remote buttons?
That is one heck of a Link Pi(LE). That folder organizer stack of Osprey's looks great!
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Thanks. Yeah, for $11.00, it wasn't a bad purchase.
And yes, it is LinkPile now lol!
hadn't seen any data on this so I got new toys.
this shows a 60233 fresh power up, Idle on menu screen for a few minutes, standby, power cycle, menu for a minute then changed to a few channels for a minute apiece (MeTv at the end. saves aprox 0.2w being lower res)
Standby ~ 3.6w
Watching a channel ~ 4.5w
Watching YouTube between 4.3w and 5w.
wifi adds upto 0.5w
menu screen adds upto 0.4w
Paused video ~5w (injected ads)
processor spikes when things load are usually in the mid 5w
over a few hours of playing, and logging factory resets with and without wifi (wifi's still on in the background until setup is done and you can turn it off) I peaked at 6w a few sporadic seconds.
Update: 9hrs 10min
| Voltage(V) | Current(A) | Watt | |
|---|---|---|---|
| min | 10.000 | .310 | 3.639 |
| max | 12.760 | .550 | 6.215 |
| avg | 11.593 | .388 | 4.490 |
Osprey was still playing YouTube when battery cut off @ 10v
the cyberpower (without battery) was a gift from the local telco, the LiFePo4 battery was bravely only $13 1day amazon.
not sure the meter is worth $30, but it does have Bluetooth for logging.
Update: if you do the numbers I got only about half of a 7ah battery, but I'll have to check with a higher load and/or direct off battery. Being lifepo4 I only got about 5 min UPS warning 2beep-Pause (not annoying) before Built-in BMS cut off power.
Great info! I updated the Wiki/FAQ!
So I'm finding that if you set no tuning delay or just use AH4C and let the Osprey sleep and just wake naturally, the tunes are really, really fast. The problem is there's a bug with both AH4C and ADBTuner where if you reboot your encoder, the initial tune fails. I fixed this in AH4C with a PR I have open right now. (fix) Tuning fails after rebooting HDMI encoder by mackid1993 · Pull Request #9 · sullrich/ah4c · GitHub anyone can feel free to pull my Docker image and test to see if it helps that particular edge case, but regardless, I am able to let my Ospreys sleep and wake and tune in about four to five seconds. It's really really great.
The key to making it look good was changing the nosignal.yuv on my LinkPi to just a straight black image so it looks kind of natural when it's coming up and there's no ugly nosignal message.
So my take has changed. I am letting my boxes sleep now actually. I'm just hoping I don't have to fork AH4C in order to do that. Hopefully my commit is merged upstream.
Updated info. my little chart might look good up there
Updated!