@jsfullam was able to recover his encoder but the instructions were in Chinese. I was able to use Claude to translate them and make them much more clear. Sharing the process here (uploaded to Archive.org) in case someone needs it someday.
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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.
It must be detecting itself as another device. I wonder what fac.php says in that state.
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.
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How much would you want for the ENC-5 V2? I wouldn't mind a spare depending on the price.
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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!!!!
admin/admin
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?
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I just bought one from YooYeeToo directly. It's sitting at the airport in China, hopefully I'll have it next week. They used YunExpress and USPS.
No, I used the return to sender feature after I bought that POS.
Lol.
I promised I'd share my overkill setup once my new ENC5-V2 arrived. The Osprey stack and ENC5-V2's are using ah4c and the little custom mini PC is running CH4C with 3 outputs on an old Quadro P400 I had lying around. My server below that runs Unraid and pretty much everything else, my hand rolled Channels DVR docker, ah4c etc.
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Bruh, you make my setup look puny. 
And I just got some PoEs too so...yeah. It was more messy than this but still
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I have the exact same antenna and what I ended up figuring out I had to do was use command strips to stick it to my wall, but low to like the ground, not even near a window. As soon as I did that, I started getting my local ABC station.
Not sure if anyone knows about this site. It's completely in Chinese but it's official and it's kind of helpful if you need to dig something up about these encoders although it's a bit of a pain to translate.
So I had a bit of a weird experience with YouYeeToo, but they seem to have made it right.
My new ENC5-V2 came with a Europlug again, despite me specifically asking them for a North American power supply. They even acknowledged that I'd be getting the correct power supply. My first unit came from AliExpress so I fully expected that to not have the right power supply. I was able to use just a standard computer power plug on the adapter and it works just fine. But this time, I was little annoyed because I spent more money and I expected the right power supply.
Regardless, I contacted them and complained a little bit. First they offered me $7 but I pushed back and I got them to agree to send me a power supply and I mentioned the Aliexpress unit that I purchased from another reseller and asked if I could just purchase a power the unit arrived 10 days on the dot from when it was shipped.
So overall, I found contacting them over WhatsApp is the best. Irene helped me with the power supply, but Charles was the one that got everything coordinated. They were very good actually in terms of customer support, especially like communicating over a period of hours. Shipping was quick. I ordered on a Friday, it shipped on a Tuesday. Once it shipped it was exactly 10 days to arrive. It came via YunExpress and my regular post office delivered it no signature or anything.
I would definitely recommend buying from them again and also making an account because sometimes they give out coupons. They did make things right in the end.
rootfs_20260531(即将发布)
● Optimized USB camera capture and reconnection functions
● Optimized the Line Input capture and Line Output effects for MINI models
● Optimized Onvif service memory usage
● Optimized the interaction of the [Custom Layout Manager]
● Fixed an issue where restarting the device via the [System Settings] page could potentially cause a second restart if the page was not refreshed
● Fixed an issue on the [Decoding Settings] page with the file carousel function where it occasionally failed to read the file duration
● On the [Stream Output] page, the stream pushing option has been removed; please visit the [Live Streaming] page to push streams
● On the [Auto Carousel] page under Extended Functions, added the ability to add specified video files to the carousel
● On the [File Recording] page under Extended Functions, added a feature to add remark filenames to video files in the 'File Management - Normal Recording' tab
● Added a [Storage Management] page under Experimental Functions to manage files on mounted devices, including deleting/moving/uploading files, etc.
● On the [Decoding Settings] page, added an image carousel function; image channels can now be used as the background for the Mix channel (video mixing channel)
● Note: Due to the addition of 1 new image carousel video channel, the default playback address of the Mix channel will change
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