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.
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● 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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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.
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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.
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Its probably worth getting the LinkPi with more tuners at that point
You need to hook your usb dongle to a hdmi source. An onn box, etc and plug into one of the linkpi usb ports (any) make sure you are sending something, coukd be the home menu on your onn box.
Then take a second hdmi source. Make sure that is different, so you can visually see what source is what. That should come from a different onn box, or a firestick, or any active hdmi video source. Then plug that into your second dongle. Plug that into another different usb port on the linkpi.
Then first see if in the linkpi dashboard on the ui, you see two different usb previews.
If not, humor me and even if you dont see it in the dashboard preview, see if it appears on the url i suggested.
Its a longshot, but worth a quick experiment.
Thank you!
As far a “stream turned on” yes, there is a place to configure the usb stream encoding and outout in the linkpi ui. I hoping that the usb configuration that you can see in the link pi ui would be used for both.
Again- a real longshot here. Dont spend too much time on this. I can order another dongle from amazon and test here if needed.
This is hardware playground. Its worth a quick experiment before shelling out for a 5 port device, or another single uray encoder.
so plugging a 2nd usb encoder into the linkpi hijacks the usb cam input to the new one. 
had to reboot pi to get 1st one back
also I'm using my linkpi's to decode security camera's so http://10.0.0.121/live/stream2, 3, and 4 were those and I tried 5 and 6 to be sure.
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I have a feeling from the research I did I is that it's a shared bus. Hence why I moved to two ENC5v2 units and now have 3 spare ENC1-V3 units hanging around.
Good timing. My 2nd USB HDMI dongle came in yesterday.
I was playing around today, and I got root ssh access to the linkpi.
I poked around for about an hour and did find the second USB port definitions in the LinkPi firmware after plugging the 2nd dongle into another port, but I couldnt find anywhere a hook to safely restart the actual encoder running process that attaches to the USB port without risking bricking my unit.
I didnt want to take that risk. In hindsight, I would have purchased the ENC5v2 2+ years ago.
Wanna sell me one of your spares?
I was planning on keeping them. You know, just in case another project comes around; I want to keep them just for tinkering. It's good to have a couple of spare units
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Hey has anyone had any weird HDMI issues with their encoders. I've been still tracing teardown issues with my Ospreys seemingly related to Widevine but I traced it possibly back to a bad HDMI handshake. I did a hard reset on both of my ENC5-V2 units (USB flash not a soft reset) and so far so good. It was a solid A/B also. It went from the stream tearing down and restarting to stable after the hard reset. Just curious if this has been seen before since it seems like the Channels forums are the authority on Osprey's and LinkPi's and Claude keeps citing my own comments in my research!!! 
I haven't had any HDMI or encoder issues happened to me. Most of my issues is usually with the onn puck or firetv device which I why I keep them awake since they can't seem to wake up at times
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