I certainly will share, if they ever get around to following through with their support. Communication is extremely slow and tedious. I haven't heard from them in the least day or two.
@jsfullam if you get stuck with them and they give you instructions, let me know.
I work in IT, I have a tech background, I'm more than happy for you to ship it to me and I'll follow their instructions and do what they say and get it back up and running if that's possible.
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That's a really great offer. I appreciate it. I'll let you know if they happen to come through with a procedure for me. If they give very clear step by step, or a video to follow, I may try it myself. The first step will be trying to find an appropriate USB TTL adapter.
If you'd like to follow along, here's a link to my support forum post:
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If you find out what adapter you need and however you flash the firmware just let me know and I'll try to fix it.
It's really not a problem at all. It looks like you just open it up and there's a serial port.
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New firmware!
rootfs_20260331 (Recommended)
[Interface Input] Added USB microphone control on the page, supporting only 16-bit sampling microphones
Optimized 4K HDMI signal input
JS Script engine adds support for ES6 syntax
JS version Encoder development completed, welcome to switch to development mode to try it out (requires firmware flashing, currently in closed beta...)
New development mode requires firmware flashing to try out. This part is not included in the upgrade package. Supports SS524, SS528, and SS928 series devices
Manually access the fac.php page to enable developer mode
The device has some built-in demos developed using JS, welcome to test and try them out
LinkJS script development framework documentation: LinkJS · 语雀
Has anyone run into an issue where a port seems to drop off of their encoder?
I just had HDMI port 5 disappear from my ENC5-V2, and I unplugged it and plugged it back in. It popped right back up. Is that like a known thing that can happen sometimes? I mean, I was messing with it quite a lot, so I'm wondering if maybe I just caused it possibly. But I'm curious if it's a hardware issue and I should take care of it.
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.
That makes me feel so much better. I was rebooting to test the issue as well and that was where I hit it. It's such an extremely weird edge case. It might be something investigated behind either a configuration flag or environment variable.
I have a feeling most people are only going to hit it with an Osprey because they can tune so quickly.
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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.
Actually I bought my ENC5-V2 from AliExpress and avoided all tariffs.
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What services will you be using for streaming TV?
@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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