Buzz TV Features Across Boxes?

[WhiteZombie]

Hello,

 

I recently purchased 2 buzz tv boxes for IPTV purposes. I used to use a program called Emby which I could access in my phone and it would record to my PC and I could see my channel list on there and link guide data to channels etc... anyways what I want to know is if I have 2 or more buzz tv boxes is there a way to do something similar to access recordings and settings across boxes so I don't schedule recordings more than once for example and also access the recordings on both boxes? Also can you limit how much to record of a tv show like only 5 episodes on any channel for example. Thanks

[WhiteZombie]

Hello I am not sure if bumping is allowed but I'm still looking for answers. Thanks!

[Emporium]

Well, the short answer to both your questions is NO.

For the schedule of multi-day recordings, once you set a schedule, it will continue to do it, until you cancel it.  There is no counter.

Now for the recording to be accessible from multiple devices.  If you are using an external USB drive to store your recordings, there is not much that can be done really.  Short of pulling the USB stick, putting it into the other device you want to watch your episodes on, and then using something like VLC to browse to the directory the recordings are stored in and playing them, assuming you can figure out what episode is which (I guess you could use the dates), because the names of the files are useless for identifying them    Now if the are stored on the internal storage, you can enable network shares on the device (I believe in BuzzTV utilities) you may want to access remotely.  This will expose the "internal storage" only of the box as an SMB share.  Then from the other box you can use VLC, and browse network share and go to the location the recordings are stored on the internal drive (\\CLASSIC-5\Internal\Android\media\buzzxr4000.tv) .  CLASSIC-5 is the name of the device (make sure the 2 units have a different name to be able to distinguish them).  However once again, you will have the issue with the names being useless for recognizing what you recorded.  And you will probably run out of internal storage pretty quickly.

Would be nice if there was the option to record to an SMB share (like a NAS) and also have some sort of xml file associated with each recording, which would contain the relevant info of each recording (Program name, date/time it was recorded, any EPG description that was available at the time,etc..) so that way if any buzztv client used the same destination for PVR, it would be able to pick up and play recording from any other device.  Unfortunately, this feature does not exist, and don't think that at this stage it would be added to BuzzTV 5.  New features are probably being concentrated on BuzzTV 6 right now, which at this time, there is no plans to roll it out on 5 series devices.  Guess I'll add that to the BuzzTV 6 wishlist if no one has already requested it.

 

 

 

 

 

[WhiteZombie]

Thanks so much! Please add it to the wishlist. I honestly thought these were basic features of recording. Like being able to access across devices and being able to limit the number of recorded shows. I appreciate you adding it to the list.

[dishuser]

1 hour ago, WhiteZombie said:

Thanks so much! Please add it to the wishlist. I honestly thought these were basic features of recording. Like being able to access across devices and being able to limit the number of recorded shows. I appreciate you adding it to the list.

that wishlist has nothing to do with the classic

[WhiteZombie]

So you don't think the classic will update to include these features in the future? I literally just bought 2 Buzz TV Classic boxes because I liked the style of them. Is there an alternative you recommend?

[Emporium]

The Classic is a great box and it runs on BuzzTV 5, with Android 11.

The newest box, the Powerstation, is running BuzzTV 6 along with Android 13.  I am pretty sure all new features (and requests) will eventually be added to BuzzTV 6.  Not sure too many new features will be added to BuzzTV 5.  They do add a few occasionally, but they are mostly bug fixes nowadays.   And there has been no mention if BuzzTV 6 will even be migrated to Series 5 boxes so I would not count on it. 

Right now, only 2 boxes run Android 13 (Powerstation and X5 SS).  And only 2 boxes are running BuzzTV 6 (the Powerstation and the Linux Player).  The X5 SS, for now, is still running BuzzTV 5.

This does NOT make the Classic a bad box, it is actually still the box I mostly recommend to friends.  Best bang for the buck for IPTV.

I understand your requests, and I did make the request for adding in BuzzTV 6, using SMB shares for recording/playback (since it is something I would like to see also).  However to get realistic, there are feature that less than 15% of the users would even use (or even know how to configure).  So for most people the features presently available on BuzzTV 5 are more than sufficient.

The adding of SMB for recording shares, is not a tiny new feature.  It is quite involved in both firmware and buzz software.  So I would not hold my breath to ever see it on 5 series boxes.  However, adding an "end date" to recording of multi-day recordings, may be something we see in BuzzTV 5, since it is a little simpler I assume to do.  Not making any promises (since I don't work/code for Buzz), but this might be something we see in 2025

 

 

Edited Sunday at 05:31 PM by Emporium