Vu+ Duo 4K Noir

This may be suitable for some parts of the World but is useless for UK Freesat digital TV.Hopefully get money back or exchange for something suitable

My wife and I do not watch a lot of TV so I wanted to end our sky subscription and I was a disappointed by the review of freesat boxes available. So, I am not the typical user for this kind of box, I do not have a multi satellite setup (yet) and I just wanted a good experience with the FTA channels on 28.2E, with being able to stream recordings/broadcast to all the TVs in my home, preferably with the ability for each TV to watch independently regardless what was being played on any of the other TVs. So after some research I figured that the Enigma2 linux boxes was the best the bet and with my current dish and lnbs the twin FBC tuners would allow me to access 8 channels at once, overkill but the ability to be able to have all TVs working independently and being able to record multiple channels too seemed like a great idea. The box came, I fitted a 4Tb HDD, very easily, plugged in the network cable and flashed the box with a distribution called openVIX (because it seemed popular for UK use) and got the box up and running using autobouquetmaker to get all the FTA channels for Sky UK, Freesat, and SKY ROI, I then set up a few custom bouquets (collections of channels) mainly to make things easier to use for my wife, set up kodi on the TVs around the house and it all works perfectly. Given that this only came to about £100 more than the most expensive 4K freesat box (only 2Tb) and the functionality is far far superior, I am extremely happy with this purchase.

Great piece of kit, but the flaw is in the software for me personally, openvix in this instance. This item was working absolutely fine until I downloaded and installed a plugin, namely a "skinpk" after which the box continually tries to boot up to the point where it collapses and then tries to reboot once more. If it was still possible to boot from a USB stick there would not be a problem, but the OpenVix latest only allows boot up from a selection in the setup menu, and as it never reaches this point it is useless to the average user. Why is this software available to be downloaded if it causes such problems?