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Zidoo UHD2000 / Re: Zidoo UHD2000 any reviews available or experiences in use?
« on: December 03, 2019, 10:26:00 PM »
At that price tag the UHD2000, does not shine straight out-of-the-box for me.
Delivery was as always lightning fast (thanks Futeko) but when I exchanged my X20 for it first problems appeared :

I control zidoos with their RS-232 port. Whilst it worked brilliantly well and stable with the X20 ...On the UHD2000 rs-232 just doesn't work. I don't know if it's a firmware issue or i have a faulty player.
If somebody could try it out....sending the serial command #PON or #POF should turn on/turn off the player.

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: Egreat A11 - RS232 protocol specifications ?? where to find ??
« on: March 02, 2018, 04:32:22 PM »
It's a pitty because it is a good hardware basis. I bought my A11 @futeko and the delivery was lightening fast...I was very pleased at first. But then I started to experience egreat directly...The problem with this player is that you never really know what is implemented, what gets implemented, what get's taken out. 

The fundamental differentiator IMHO of the success of these players going forward will be their posterwall next to their excellent picture quality. (Look at Zidoo and their new PosterWall 2.0)
The Egreat uses the DVDfab Vidon.me posterwall and if you follow-up where DVDfab is going with it (see DVDfab MediaServer - forced Cloud usage) I only hope Egreat can do their own thing and are not dragged along. A MM alternative could certainly make some users happy.

I can only comment on firmware 1.2.5.6. Yes it sends a power on message out. Also power on and power off work over LAN. (standby / soft-off works)
The player sends the power on notification when turned on. I haven't noticed a "powerstatus" notification on connection...

I have updated the firmware once above 1.2.5.6 just to find out that the LAN and RS-232 communication was not operational anymore so I rolled back. Firmwares above 1.2.5.6 broke other things which for me made the player no longer an option. During the time I experienced with the new firmware the LAN turned effectively off. (I do not know if it's because it wasn't implemented or it shall remain like that).

NB : I haven't tried the latest firmware yet

@binnerup : What is actually very funny is that being through (for the time being) with Egreat I returned to my Dune 4K pro / oppo 205 combo and started to make the dune posterwall with MM.

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: Egreat A11 - RS232 protocol specifications ?? where to find ??
« on: January 04, 2018, 06:24:15 PM »
The whole thing is a bit messy. The firmwares are kind of hit&miss. I looks like the RS-232 ip control functionnality has been done by C4 and egreat actually are not really on top of it.
1.2.5.6 is the only RS-232 specific firmware for the time being and that one works really good over RS-232 and over IP. The firmware 1.2.6.0 which is not a RS-232 one strangely works over IP. haven't tried 1.2.6.6 yet.

Also I'm trying to not loose the ability of editing the posterwall over webbrowser. They have shut down this ability in 1.2.6.0 (it was still available in the 1.2.6.0beta) which I don't understand why.

I'm not understanding with which priority they pack what feature (control wise) into the firmware. For me any way i stick to RS-232 as the standby powers down the lan port so power up only works over RS-232.
The player has a lot of potential but it's kind of expensive for a "in development/ still fixing" player

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: Egreat A11 - RS232 protocol specifications ?? where to find ??
« on: January 03, 2018, 10:02:35 PM »
Quote from: waffles on January 02, 2018, 03:22:51 PM
I was wondering if IP and RS-232 protocols allow for 2-way feedback, e.g. the players power status, play/pause, etc., as well as elapsed/remaining time and chapter information. If so, where can I find the documentation for it?

Thanks!

YES it does 2-way feedback !! ... some infos...it's less "complete" than a Dune or Oppo but not so bad for a start.

It automatically pushes each time you play movies:
A. returns the file information for the current movie (format NOTIFY, PLAYINFO ({ "title": "cloud walk", "runtime": 7391000}), END)
B. automatically returns the current state of the machine when the power off or power
2, return to the format of information:
NOTIFY, STANDBYSTATUS (standby_off), END

BTW the protocol has an error for ex. the commandformat are CMD, keycode_program_d,END and not CMD, keycode_program_d, END  ie. no space before END.



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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: A11 posters - edit ability - default VIDON account login (SOLVED)
« on: December 24, 2017, 06:41:28 PM »
Let me guess...don't tell me it's the vidon server 3.0 which is cloud based (DMS Cloud Manager)? Where editing is done in the cloud ? This means that every user will have their collection replicated in the cloud (posters of course not the AV files). Everyone will need to register an account and login...
DVDfab also had that move for their media server and received a push back from users. Most are really sensitive to what information is stored in a cloud. I for sure do not favor neither to have my collection in the cloud as my movies, genres and what I watch should remain as much as possible my business.

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: A11 posters - edit ability - default VIDON account login (SOLVED)
« on: December 23, 2017, 12:07:50 AM »
I heard as well...

That is a very wrong decision. How do they expect users to edit and manage a collection of over 50 movies effectively with the IR remote...or even the AK86 ?? Not to speak of collections of 100's of movies.

Betting on 100% accuracy of their scrapper is either foolish or right outrageous.

That looks to me like a brand-combat. In fact the vidon server running on the egreat is now branded DVDFab. DVDFab uses this server on their own branded DVDFav Media Server....which again is using egreat A5 hardware.
It's a mess and both will loose.
I'm now also afraid that the new dune line will be based on the A13 egreat....

egreat A11 has some flaws but is a very good product in development. Poster Wall needs to make a difference and the editing through webmanager needs to be possible. In my opinion if it doesn't the pricetag will be questionned more and more.

Glad to see you also lobby for it to be restored again.

If only more egreat users would be aware of above mentionned editing ability ...

BTW beta firmware 1.2.6.0 still has the webmanager working. Your posted images show how compelling and easy it is to edit and organise movies wit it.

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: A11 posters - edit ability - default VIDON account login (SOLVED)
« on: December 19, 2017, 10:53:23 PM »
  :'(

the whole thing was broken again with firmware 1.2.6.6.

The mediaserver now displays a login page and asks for a debug password ......

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: Egreat A11 - RS232 protocol specifications ?? where to find ??
« on: December 13, 2017, 06:06:15 PM »
@futeko
Do you know if the beta 1.2.6.0 firmware also exists in the RS-232 version ? On the egreat forum I could only find the 1.2.5.6  RS-232_C4 version.

BTW with the "normal" 1.2.6.0 firmware IP over lan perfectly works.

The only issue is that the player like most AV devices turns off its ethernet port when turned off. That's why we cannot power up the player with IP over lan.
The serial RS-232 could power up the device...

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / A11 posters - edit ability - default VIDON account login (SOLVED)
« on: December 09, 2017, 12:34:06 PM »
The posters function in the egreat A11 is not really user friendly. Most importantly editing wrong identified movies or TV series is time consuming if done with the remote.
Now we can login into the A11 poster program [aka it is a "tuned" VIDON.Me Server]. So entering the A11 per browser on port 32080 we could access server manager pages. From there editing is by far more easy.

On opening the server manager it asks for a VIDON account login. As I suppose it is a VIDON local distribution (which BTW is great and still better as the cloud version for data, confidentiality and security reasons)...

 what is the default login of the server manager used by posters on the A11 ??

(EDIT) : web editor works perfectly with latest beta firmware.

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Re: Egreat A11 - RS232 protocol specifications ?? where to find ??
« on: December 05, 2017, 06:07:29 PM »
EXCELLENT!! ..exactly what was needed. Thanks

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Egreat A11, A10, A5 / Egreat A11 - RS232 protocol specifications ?? where to find ??
« on: December 04, 2017, 11:06:01 PM »
Could you dislose the RS-232- command line specifications of the A11 player. The control4 driver is nice but there are other control systems outthere who can communicate over RS-232.
Where can I find the RS-232 specifications of the A11 ??
ie connection data, handshaking protocol {if any}, baud rate and raw commands

In short I would be grateful one can ist the basic RS-232 api specifications of the A11 which was obviously given to control4 so they could write their driver

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