Item received albeit late delivery due to high postage volume. Good seller nonetheless.

cant play due to ?remote? Only at main menu screen.

And uve got pm.

No problem bro, will sent you the remote tomorrow.

thanks. just pm you

Yes, the firmware 1.0.6 uploaded in the sky drive. However, Himedia unable to give me the change log.

Thanks.

Please pm me best price.

A quick update here.

Got my H8 yesterday (Fri) even though Nicety sent it on Monday. I am renaming Pos Laju to Pos Sangat-Tak-Laju! Their web tracking update is quite useless, not updated on time and some parts missing. I think it is the working mentality there causing the delay. Next time, use normal courier though it may be a few dollars more expensive.

Have watched 2 movies now using H8. Though I am still on streamyx 2 Mb, I buffer it up and then watch them. Plan to switch over to Unifi. Managed to watch Harry Potter (the last episode) with my wife, her favourite movie. Picture and sound qualities are good, better than the torrent version (usually cam version). So, I have brought a cinema to my house! Ha.

The TV box user interface needs some getting use to.

AA
Frustrating with the mouse control on the H8 remote. Like to have feedback from other users on how they find the Air Mouse, wireless mouse etc. Difficulty in getting it to do what you want can take the enjoyment out in watching otherwise an entertaining movie. So like to sort this one out.

BB
There are many settings in Kodi. You select this or that. For some, I do not know what it will do if I selected A etc. Is there a manual describing all these options? Then I can optimise the settings for my use.

CC
Like to know whether it is ok to set up both cabling:
1. HDMI from H8 to TV
2. RCA cables from H8 to AVR, AVR to TV

Switch on AVR when I am watching action movies or concerts. Normal viewing will be from H8 to TV.

DD
Any one here tried the Beast or SpinzTV build on your H8? Your feedback - good and bad?

Many thanks.


P/S For BB, found some infor from http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Confluence/Settings

PP/S For AA, try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx180ZvGdII

This post has been edited by plumberly: Oct 10 2015, 05:59 PM

Quick help for AA is plug in the PC mouse either wire or wireless, the mouse will improve the navigation.

Thanks.

Now it is either wireless mouse or keyboard.

Hi nicety, please pm me best price.

Thank you for inquiry, we are selling firm price. Just pmed to you.

Noted the Kodi in my H8 is version 14. Can I install Kodi V15 without loosing the current setup?

As simple as going to kodi site and click on the latest version?

Thanks.

Yes, you can. But to be noted that some addons not compatible with 15 which you need to reinstall if not working and you need to add again SuperRepo where the repository differrentiate between Helix and lsengard.

aa.

i use both air mouse and wireless mouse but on 2 diff devices.
my experience is wireless mouse is easier.
air mouse has keyboard but my fingers too fat for the small buttons.
note - for some apps functions, the REMOTE is required, mouse can't do.

cc.
hdmi to tv is good becos u want the best picture quality and still get tv sound.
rca cables... i think this model does not have coaxial (round orange) but only optical (black square) toslink connection unlike q16 which have both.
you need to buy toslink cable (inexpensive from any diy store) if u do not have it.
optical or coaxial are digital, u get dts/dolby but can't get dsthdma/dolby truehd - this, only hdmi can handle.
try not to use rca cables for l/r (white/red) for avr as this gives stereo only, not so good.

This post has been edited by AVFAN: Oct 13 2015, 02:52 PM

Oh dear. It can be like opening a can of worms then. I have tried Kodi on my PC before buying H8. Call it a rookie with limited knowledge & skill on Android/Kodi, it was not a smooth or easy learning phase for me then. Feel that it is not well organised/structured. Maybe that is due to it being an open source software with all sorts of people doing their programming.

Like to know whether any H8 users here has upgraded to V15 and whether you encountered any problems? Please share and help here.

Thanks.

P/S Managed to find an old cable mouse which was damaged before (my son's laptop). Opened it up and amazed at how it works, the simple design! I thought they have 2 springs in there for the 2 clicks buttons. No springs in there. Instead they use see-saw level mechanism for the click. Simple and cheap design! Broken plastic stand at one end which resulted in loss of the "spring" mechanism. Managed to fix that with folded paper inserted into the space (spongy effect).

Cut a long story short, now with the mouse, it makes using H8 and watching movies a lot more comforting and enjoyable! Suggest hooking up a mouse or keyboard to H8 instead of using the H8 remote for screen navigation.

Enjoy!

Thanks.

Using an old cable mouse. A lot better than using the H8 remote! Ha. Will keep my eyes open for a wireless mouse/keyboard later. Logitech comes to mind with a good review on TV box usage. Yes, that guy complained about the small buttons on air mouse etc.

Thanks for the infor on CC. Using optical cable on my Onkyo AVR. I thought optical cable handles both the audio and visual signals. No?

i am using wireless logitec mouse, mid price - good.

no, optical (and coaxial) for audio signals only.

i am using keyboard + mouse wireless. easier to browse internet too. no qualm there.

midrange logitech.
of course will try the remote once its arrived.

thanks to nicety.

One tip for new TV box beginner.

You select a movie, it comes up with many links. You try one and see if it works. Try, try till you get one working.

Initially that is OK but after a while, it becomes annoying. Ha.

Found out this tip last night.

In Genesis, go to TOOLS, Playback and set it to AUTOPLAY. Activate the other selections in the PLAYBACK page anyway (don't really know what they are for).

With this setup, the next time you select a movie, it will try to open the first link. If it is not successful, then it will the next and so on.

Now you may be saying what if the order in the link list is not what you want? You can configure which order list. Cannot remember the page name now. Just look for "priority" selections.

This really makes watching movies a lot easier instead of trying this and that!

The above is for GENESIS. I think other software can do the same. Just check it out.

By the way, what is the name of the software for TV shows written by the team for GENESIS? Genesis is good. So I think that TV show should also be good.

Thanks.

Thanks a lot for sharing the good piece of info. This really help a lot to reduce the effort to search video sources.

Below are the list of the addons created by Genesis Author, not sure the TV shows your refer is in the list :

http://addons.tvaddons.ag/author/lambda/