Vu+ Duo regularly locking up

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edanto

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My Vu+ Duo is probably almost 4 years old, and I've recently reflashed with the latest BlackHole (2.1.1).

It locks up regularly, sometimes a few times an hour, and during each lock up audio and video will freeze for 2-30 seconds. I'm trying to figure out what's causing it; is it config or failing hardware?

There is a 256MB swap file configured on the same 4GB USB stick that is used for EPG.

This is typical free report.

root@bm750:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 138464 134256 4208 0 436 18204
-/+ buffers/cache: 115616 22848
Swap: 262140 25500 236640

Typical System Info report; RAM 97%, Swap 9%, Total Mem close to 0, HDD Temp 33, Flash 80%, HDD space 60%, USB 15%, CF close to zero, Total space 60%.

My suspects (1) connection to friend (2) EPG setup (3) hardware?

(1) I have a connection to a friends system that I won't get into a lot of detail about, but sometimes the hangs seem to happen around the same times that I get long pings to that system (from normal pings of 45ms up to 100ms plus). But not always, sometimes the pings are fine and it still hangs. (I keep a ping -t going while investigating)

Is this the most likely reason, and other than change ISP [planned], what could I do?

(2) I'm not fully sure that I have EPG setup the right way, because EPG data is only populated for some channels. I think I might have 2 EPGs setup, CrossEPG and the native one. I've read that having 2 EPGs can cause problems, so I'm trying to read more to understand how to set it up right.

(3) Hardware. Is it anyway likely that the hardware could be failing? Any tests I could run?
 
Remove everything from the VU+, USB sticks, hard drive, anything connected, re-flash, with the latest Black Hole, but do not load any backups, or connect anything else, even your router.
Manually scan in some FTA, Free to Air channels, on whichever satellite your dish is pointed at, and view it for a few hours.
If there's no lock ups, or problems, then you can rule out any trouble with your receiver, dish, cable, and LNB, if it does lock up then try it on a different dish, even a Sky dish, so that you can rule out a problem with your dish, LNB, or cabling, this should either show that your receiver is at fault or show the problem lies elsewhere.
 
OK - that is a good option for diagnostic purposes, but I might see if there's anything else I can do before that nuclear option.

Another observation, when it is frozen... if I change channel then it immediately works.
 
edanto said:
OK - that is a good option for diagnostic purposes, but I might see if there's anything else I can do before that nuclear option.

Another observation, when it is frozen... if I change channel then it immediately works.
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The problem is related to point (1) of your first post in this thread.
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