Vu+

The Vu+ (pronounced VuPlus), is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by Korean multimedia brand Ceru Co., Ltd..

History and description

All older Vu+ hardware set-top boxes are MIPS-powered, newer are all ARM-powered and uses Enigma2 image based software as firmware.

Its firmware is officially user-upgradable, since it is a Linux-based computer, as opposed to third-party "patching" of alternate receivers. Firmware is based on Enigma 2, which was originally designed for Dreambox by Dream Multimedia. All units support Conax conditional access (CA) system, with software-emulated conditional-access modules (CAMs) available for many alternate CA systems. The built-in Ethernet interface allows networked computers to access the recordings on the internal hard disks and stream live picture from the tuners. It also enables the receiver to store digital copies of DVB MPEG transport streams on networked filesystems or broadcast the streams as IPTV to VideoLAN and XBMC Media Center clients. Unlike many PC based PVR systems that use free-to-air type of DVB receiver cards, the built-in conditional access allows receiving and storing encrypted content.

In the beginning of September in 2011, Dream Multimedia obtained a temporary injunction against the Satco Europe GmbH company for using their "Enigma 2" name in an advertising flyer to promote the Linux operating system installed on the Vu+ set-top-boxes, as "Enigma"(2) is a registered trademark name of Dream Multimedia GmbH.[1]

Models

Vu+UltimoUltimo 4kUnoUno 4kSoloSolo2Solo SESolo SE V2Solo 4KDuoDuo2Zero
Production DiscontinuedAvailableDiscontinuedAvailableDiscontinuedAvailableAvailableAvailableAvailableDiscontinuedAvailableAvailable
Life cycle 2011 - 20132016 Dec.-2011 - 20142016 Dec.-2010 - 20132012-2014-2015-2015-2010 - 20132012-2014-
SoC BCM7413BCM7444SBCM7413BCM7252SBCM7325BCM7356BCM7429BCM7429BCM7376BCM7335BCM7424BCM7362
CPU type MIPSARMMIPSARMMIPSMIPSMIPSMIPSARMMIPSMIPSMIPS
CPU (MHz) 2x4004x15002x4002x1700333*2x13002x13002x13002x15004002x1300742
RAM (MiB) 5123072512204825610241024102420483842048512
Flash (MiB) 10244096128409612825625651240961281024256
Flash type NANDeMMCNANDeMMCNANDNANDNANDNANDeMMCNANDNANDNAND
Default OS Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2Enigma2
DVB 3 ×P&P(S2/C/T) 2xP&P Dual FBC DVB-S2 or
DVB-C + 1xP&P Dual DVB-S2 or
Dual DVB-C/T2		1×P&P(S2/C/T)1xP&P Dual FBC DVB-S2 or DVB-C1×S22×S21xS2/C/T/T21xS2/C/T/T21×Fixed Dual S2 FBC + 1xP&P Dual DVB-S2 or Dual DVB-C/T/T22×S22×P&P(S2/C/T)1×S2
HDTV
UHDTV 4K4K4K
3D TV
PiP Yes/HDYes/HD Yes/HD
Common Interface 222121111220
Smart card 222112112221
USB 3 x 2.02x3.0 + 1x2.03 x 2.02 x 3.02 x 2.03 x 2.02 x 2.02 x 2.02x3.0 + 1x2.03 x 2.03 x 2.02 x 2.0
RS-232 ******
LAN (Mbit/s) 1001000 + WIFI N/AC 2.5/5 + BT 4.01001000100100010010010001001000 + WIFI-N100
HDD 2.5/3.5"2.5/3.5"2.5/3.5"2.5"2.5" Detachable3.5"2.5/3.5"
ATA SATA IISATA IISATA IIISATA IIISATA IISATA III
eSATA
SCART 111121
HDMI 1.42.0 OUT/IN1.42.01.41.41.41.42.01.41.41.4
Display graphical VFDLCD (4.0")VFDStatus LEDVFDStatus LEDStatus LEDLCD (3.5")VFDLCD/VFDStatus LED
LNB pass-thru
Other connectors 1 x YPrPb1 x YPrPb1 x YPrPb1 x YPrPbRemote IR
Dimensions, WxHxD (mm) 380 x 60 x 290380 x 70 x 278340 x 60 x 272230 x 41 x 170280 x 50 x 200280 x 50 x 200211 x 45 x 185211 x 45 x 185315 x 65 x 255380 x 60 x 280380 x 60 x 290160 x 30 x 145
  • Note that Vu+ Uno and Vu+ Ultimo have a dual core processor BCM7413.
  • * in most cases Solo is underclocked to 220.67MHz[2]
  • *** in Solo SE standard 9-pin D-sub connector is changed to 6-pin RJ11

Triple tuner

  • Vu+ Ultimo (3 x plugable DVB-S2 or DVB-T,T2/C tuners)
  • Vu+ Solo 4K (2 fixed DVB-S/S2 tuner and 1 x plugable DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuners)
  • Vu+ Ultimo 4K (2 x plugable FBC DVB-S/S2 tuner and 1 x p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuners)

Twin tuner

  • Vu+ Solo2 (2 x fixed DVB-S/S2 tuners)
  • Vu+ Duo (2 x fixed DVB-S/S2 tuners)
  • Vu+ Duo2 (2 x p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuners)
  • Vu+ Uno Twin (1 p&p DVB-S2 Twin tuner)

Single Tuner

  • Vu+ Solo (1 fixed DVB-S/S2 tuner)
  • Vu+ Solo SE (1 p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuner)
  • Vu+ Solo SE v2 (1 p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuner)
  • Vu+ Uno (1 p&p DVB-S2 or DVB-T/C tuner)
  • Vu+ Zero (1 fixed DVB-S/S2 tuner)

XBMC4STB project by Vu+

In September 2011, at "Vu+ Day", in Amsterdam, it was publicly announced that the generation of Vu+ DVB satellite receivers to be released publicly in the end of 2012 would be ARM-powered and use XBMC Media Center (now renamed to Kodi Entertainment System) software for its main GUI, a OpenEmbedded-based development-project that they call "XBMC4STB" (XBMC for Set-Top-Boxes), with beta releases of both the software and new hardware said to be made available to XBMC developers before they will be released to the public.[3]

However it took two more years before a native source port of XBMC was available on the newer Vu+ (VuPlus) based set-top box models SoloSe, Solo2, and Duo2, all of which are MIPS instead ARM based. XBMC will not be made available for older Vu+ set-top boxes due to hardware limitations with missing OpenGL graphics acceleration.[4][5]

Open Black Hole

"Open Black Hole" is an open source project for making unofficial third-party OpenPLi based images for newer Vu+ set-top boxes. Using the XBMC4STB software fork of Kodi/XBMC from Vu+, the images are designed as a hybrid integration between Kodi/XBMC media center software and Dreambox's Enigma2 PVR software scripts, forked from OpenPLi (based on OpenEmbedded Linux operating system for embedded systems), it is as such also fully compatible with PLi plugins and coding infrastructure. The project was first announced on the 25th of May 2015 and is maintained by the Black Hole Team, a team of independent developers of long popular community driven firmware images for Vu+-based set top-boxes, however these Open Black Hole project images are completely separate from the original Black Hole image for Vu+.[6][7][8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/en/temporary-injunction Temporary injunction against Satco Europe
  2. ↑ http://www.vuplus-support.org/wbb3/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=7429
  3. ↑ "Vu+ Day in Amsterdam – VUplus XBMC". Vuplus-community.net. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  4. ↑ http://www.satnigmo.com/2787/xbmc-kodi-vu-coming-soon/ XBMC (Kodi) for Vu+ coming soon!
  5. ↑ http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/01/17/linux-based-vu-dvb-set-top-boxes-now-support-xbmckodi/ Linux based Vu+ DVB Set-top Boxes Now Support XBMC/Kodi
  6. ↑ http://git.vuplus-community.net/ Open Black Hole git source code repository
  7. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/BlackHoleTeam Black Hole Team
  8. ↑ http://www.prismcube-community.net PrismCube-Community.Net

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