hmm im thinking of getting that 5 port enc5, what is the recommended streaming device to pair with? the walmart onn or firestick. let me know. thanks
I actually ran into the same issue (same port) while rebooting a ton of times to duplicate the issue you reported with ADBTuner. It was the first time I had seen that and I've owned my ENC5 for 2 years now.
I would like to note that my encoder runs 24/7 (it's connected to a UPS) and only gets rebooted for firmware updates. Maybe my use case is different, but I don't know that I subscribe to the theory that these devices should be rebooted on a daily/weekly basis.
Link Pi ENCv1 v3 are back in stock with Prime shipping. Not only faster shipment but possibly avoid some of the tariff concerns discussed earlier.
What services will you be using for streaming TV?
Another observation, sometimes when rebooting the enc5 via the web interface, in addition to one of the HDMI inputs dropping off, the device seems to believe that it has a second network interface.
Sometimes when it's in this state, the network connection repeatedly drops out every 30 seconds (exactly). Like the HDMI dropout, the only thing that fixes this is power cycling the device.
I have both a LinkPi ENC1-V3 and ENC5-V2 that I think I am going to sell if anyone is interested.
I’m a long-time on and off Channels user. Mostly because I live in Canada, so things like TVE don’t work here and some of the awesome community tools don’t. But, I was running ADBTuner with the LinkPis because our version of Xfinity Stream wasn’t available on AppleTV until this past November, and enjoyed it a lot.
It’s been a fun setup to tinker with (thank you to everyone who shared settings in here, I benefited greatly!) I’m just planning to simplify my setup a bit so if anyone is interested in the encoders feel free to send me an offer — just factor in shipping will probably be something like $20 USD and you’ll probably have to pay some amount of import. But, you'd still come out ahead compared to new I would think.
2 Likes
Don't suppose anyone knows what the username and password is for this device? Just arrived but nothing in the box or on the device telling me the username and password. Sent message through purchased website but says they are closed on the weekends. Grrr!!!!
Were is the best place to buy a new LinkPi ENC5-V2 encoder online?
Amazon is good. I ordered another one exactly a week ago, and it's already in the US and through Customs.
Good News everyone! lol 
I figured out how to make use of my old exvist encoder. it seems to only show a smooth picture via rtsp, but I could not get any cdvr/extensions to actually load the rtsp, it just rolled over to the exvist's inferior http or wouldn't load. just let the linkpi translate under the decode tab. it does not need to be decoded/re-encoded, the linkpi just translates rtsp://10.0.0.120:554/live/1_0 to http://10.0.0.121/live/stream2
I can get my camera's rtsp feed directly into cdvr, however I'm trying to recreate this into channels
I can get the mix and everything to show on the dashboard, but I can't seem to load the mix even in vlc.
anyone else use the mix feature?
2 Likes
No, I used the return to sender feature after I bought that POS.
Lol.
Bruh, you make my setup look puny. 
And I just got some PoEs too so...yeah. It was more messy than this but still
1 Like
Hello folks
Ive been using the ENC1-V3 4K usb port with a little usb capture dongle with great success.
The other day i was watching @babsonnexus excellent video in this thread.
while i was watching , @babsonnexus was using what looked like my model linkpi, and implied that two usb ports could be used for capture. Is this so?
If not coukd we come up with a hack so that we could choose one of the usb inputs to encode at a time. Basically - a software controlled hdmi switch to the encoder logic. Then we could enhance the tuning logic in adbtuner or ah4c to select which usb port on the linkpi.
Anyone try something this?
I ran out of hdmi ports and and kicking myself for not getting a 5 port unit in the first place.
I can definitely confirm one USB port can be used for capturing (I'm doing it with my device), but haven't yet tested two. For the video and Wiki, I decided to be vague and general because there are too many models for me to say definitively how it will work with each one! Sometime later I was going to see if I could expand to a second on it, but just haven't gotten around it to yet...
I tried once, but you only get one option for usb cam in the linkpi gui (unless new firmware unlocked it)
edit; also I was using 2 identical usb capture's, so maybe different adaptors would populate individually.
1 Like
Do you still have the two hdmi dongles to do an experiment?
Perhaps the GUI is intentionally hiding an actual hardcoded stream connection from the encoder. Sometimes, marketing people actually have engineers disable this kind of stuff to sell the higher end models.
Now this is a real long shot, but If I had a second dongle, Id send one test signal into the 1st usb dongle. By default, the play url is: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/live/stream1 > we all know that one works and it appears in the dashboard preview and stream settings in the UI.
What are the odds that if you plugged a second dongle in another USB port at the same time the first port is used for the 1st USB dongle. Then send it a different test stream , and have a look at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/live/stream2. Would we see another stream?
Its a remote possibility that this is the case, but I wish I had a 2nd dongle here for a quick test
@babsonnexus , do you have a second dongle in house for that quick test?
anyone else?
No, still have to buy a second USB-to-HDMI convertor so I can do the test; haven't gotten around to it, yet.
well, it's connected to my 2nd linkpi of course. 
I will see if I can give your idea a shot, but the 1st usb cam needed to have it's stream turned on at first if i remember right.
1 Like