WeTek Play - OpenELEC

manual

Summary:

1. How to install OpenELEC

Installation to microSD
Installation to NAND Flash

2. First boot & initial setup of OpenELEC

Hostname
Enabling SSH

3. Live TV at OpenELEC with WeTek Play

TVHeadend (Scanning, OSCam) (Video and Step by
step tutorial)
VDR (Scanning, OSCam) (Step by Step tutorial)

4.

How to install repositories and add-ons in

Kodi/XBMC (Video Tutorial)
5. How to update OpenELEC

1. How to install OpenELEC on WeTek Play

Installation to MicroSD
Installation of OpenELEC to microSD card for WeTek Play can be done by
two methods.
First one method (a)
is using WeTek OpenELEC Installer application, which
only works with Windows operating systems.
econd one method (b)
S
is by manually downloading OpenELEC
.img
version and burning it to microSD with Win32 Disk Imager application.

a) WeTek OpenELEC Installer

Download WeTek OpenELEC Installer from this link
http://bit.ly/1Av0UnM
After you downloaded WeTek OpenELEC Installer, please insert microSD card
in your PC and open WeTek OpenELEC Installer application.

Now all what you have to do is to click on Write, and application will
download automatically latest version of OpenELEC for WeTek Play, and then
burn it to microSD card. After click on Write, it will ask you if you are sure,
so please confirm by click on
Yes
.

After process is done WeTek OpenELEC installer will show you a message:

Now you can click on OK and remove microSD from your PC and insert it in
WeTek Play, and then power ON device (WeTek Play).
b) Burn OpenELEC .img file with Win32DiskImager
In case you want manually to download OpenELEC microSD version for
WeTek Play, you can always burn downloaded .img file manually to microSD.
Steps to do this are:
1. Download latest OpenELEC image for microSD from this URL
http://bit.ly/1GUNby1
2. Download Win32DiskImager application from this URL
http://bit.ly/1Fs6EnT
3. After you download both necessary files, install Win32DiskImager
application.
4. Insert microSD card in PC
5. Start Win32DiskImager application

6. Unpack OpenELEC downloaded file which is in .img.gz format, and to

unpack .gz archive on Windows, please use 7-zip archiver app which
can be downloaded from this URL
http://www.7-zip.org/
7. In Win32DiskImager click on Blue folder icon

8. Locate OpenELEC .img file which you extracted from .gz file with 7-Zip,
select it and click on Open.

9. Now you need to click on Write

10. Application will ask you if you are sure about it, so please click on Yes

11. After clicking on Yes, Win32DiskImager will start burning OpenELEC .img
file to your microSD card.

12. Now sit back and wait that burning process is done, and when it is done
message
Write Successful.
will be displayed

13. Now you can remove microSD from PC and insert it in WeTek Play

Installation to NAND Flash

To install OpenELEC in NAND Flash of WeTek Play, you will need to download
NAND Flash installation .zip package.
NAND Flash installation package of OpenELEC for WeTek Play, can be
downloaded from this URL
http://bit.ly/1Cnl1us
After .ZIP archive file is downloaded, please extract it, and then you will get
3 files:
recovery.img
factory_update_param.aml
OpenELEC-Amlogic.WeTek.Play.arm-5.x.x -update.zip
(.x.x depend on
which version you have downloaded).
Now, you need insert microSD in your PC or Laptop, and copy to it this 3
files.
After files are copied, remove microSD from PC and insert it in WeTek Play.
Turn off WeTek Play by removing Power cable from it. In Quick Start Guide
of WeTek Play you will find WeTek Toothpick tool, which is used to press
UPGRADE button, located at bottom side of WeTek Play device.
Press UPGRADE button, connect WeTek Play with Power cable, and keep
pressed UPGRADE button for next 7 seconds and then release it.
Now you should see WeTek Play upgrading with OpenELEC.
For better explanation, take a look on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTCmnM-7KE

2. First boot & initial setup of OpenELEC

After you successfully installed OpenELEC to your microSD or NAND Flash of
WeTek Play, now is time to go through first boot and wizard of OpenELEC,
which is shown on first boot after installation of OpenELEC.
In Welcome Wizard of OpenELEC you can setup some very nice things like
Language, Hostname of your WeTek Play device, Network settings and some
network services such as SSH and Samba.
Here we will focus on two things, setup of Hostname, other by other words
said, how your WeTek Play with OpenELEC will be visible on your local
network, and on enabling SSH service for easy remote access and
management.

1. On first boot screen You can choose Language, but assuming that this
tutorial is in English, we will press OK or Enter if you use keyboard, to
go to next step.

2. On this step we can change Hostname of our WeTek Play

Now move with RCU or Keyboard to upper field and press OK, after what you
will be offered to edit current hostname which is OpenELEC.
In our case we added -WeTek , so finally it looks like OpenELEC-WeTek.

When you are done with editing please click or press enter on Done buttont
to close editor, and then you will see in Hostname: field new hostname is
OpenELEC-WeTek.

Now click on Next or press enter if you are using Keyboard connected to
WeTek Play.
Next part is Networking, and if WeTek is connected by Ethernet cable to your
router, it should have IP address which is automatically assigned by DHCP
server.
NOTE: Default username and password for SSH at OpenELEC is:
username
root
password
openelec

After clicking on Next, you will be transfered to next screen, where by

default is turned on SAMBA service, but for easy access and management,
we need also to turn on or to enable SSH.

Move by RCU or keyboard to SSH field, and press OK, and then wait that
SSH service is turned ON. In mean time while WeTek Play is turning on SSH
service, in bottom right corner you will see Working and you need wait it to
finish.

After SSH service is turned on, you can move back to Next button and to
proceed to final step of Welcome Wizard, after this your WeTek Play with
OpenELEC is ready to be used.
Depend if you bought WeTek Play with DVB Tuner option or not, you can
proceed to next chapter of setting up Live TV, where for DVB is used
TVHeadend and VDR, while for IPTV is used IPTV Simple Client.

3. Live TV at OpenELEC with WeTek Play

To be able to watch Live TV from DVB Tuner at your WeTek Play, you need
to install one of Live TV backends.
At OpenELEC, there are 2 live tv backends available, TVHeadend and VDR.
For those people who bought WeTek Play without Tuner, they can use IPTV
Simple Client to watch their IPTV channels.
TVHeadend (DVB) with OSCam
VDR (DVB) with OSCam
IPTV Simple Client (IPTV)

TVHeadend setup on WeTek Play with OpenELEC

To install TVHeadend and OSCam in OpenELEC, you can follow this video
guide at this URL
VIDEO TUTORIAL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAcSpmIz8xQ

If you prefer, here is a step by step tutorial:

This tutorial, is how you setup TVHeadend and OSCam if you need it on your
WeTek Play.

In here, we have to install

Unofficial OpenELEC (WeTek_Play/arm)
Add-ons
, press OK on your WeTek RCU

Select OK on
install
to install it

Here, we need to
check for updates
.
Note:
Sometimes WeTek reboots at this point, if it does, just go to
system
- add-ons
and again, press OK at
"check for updates"
.

Now, let's select

tvheadend

Then install

As you saw, it downloaded and enable

tvheadend

Now, we need to go back to

system menu

Then select Live TV

Let's enable
Live TV

After press OK or Enter, it wil pop-up message No PVR Add-on enabled, you
need to press ok.

And automaticly you'll be prompted with this list, just select

TVheadend
HTSP Client

And click OK or press Enter at Enable button to enable TVHeadend HTSP

client.

Lets configure TVHeadend to work with OSCam

Go to System -> Add-ons -> Enabled Add-ons -> Services, then choose
tvheadend and click OK or Enter on Configure

Move to DVB tab

Select last option in menu like shown below on photo

Now enable option

Preload capmt_ca.so library
by pressing OK on RCU.

It's done.

How to install OSCam

Then we need to go to
configure
to setup OSCam to start with each reboot
automatically.

Enable option
Restart on suspend / resume

Enabled
Restart on suspend/resume,
then select
OK
on bottom

Now please reboot WeTek Play, so we can continue to step of how to scan
channels with tvheadend and how to enable OSCam.
After you finished installation of tvheadend and OSCam, you need to know
two things:
tvheadend is running at WeTek Play IP address on port 9981 , while OSCam
is running on port 8888 , and username and password for OSCam is:

Username: oscam
Password: oscam
So if we assume that IP of WeTek Play for example is 192.168.1.135, to
access TVHeadend we will type in web browser:
http://192.168.1.135:9981
to access OSCam web interface we will type in browser:
http://192.168.1.135:8888
Now to scan channels with tvheadend, open tvheadend web interface in web
browser:
http://IP-Address:9981
Click on Configuration (see photo below)

Now click on DVB Inputs (see photo below)

Click on Networks tab (see photo below)

Click on Add (see photo below)

Depending on that what type of DVB tuner you have, choose type of
Network to be added, and for example we will add DVB-C network.

Now click on Muxes to add at least one frequency for created network (see
photo below)

Click now on Add (see photo below)

Now in new dialog, select your created Network and enter frequency (see
photo below), note that tvheadend is asking that frequency is in entered in
hz (hertz), so if we want to add 602 MHz frequency we need to put
602000000 , for Delivery system in case of DVB-C in Europe we need select
DVBC/ANNEX_A.

And then click on create.

Now go back to TV adapters tab, select DVB-C adapter, enable it, and select
Cable network which you created in previous steps, and then click on Save
(see photo below).

After this is done, connect to WeTek Play by SSH, and execute this
command:
killall tvheadend
After this tvheadend will reboot and will immediately start scanning
channels.
If you click now on Muxes, you will see that all other frequencies are
discovered by NIT, and they are scanned.

Now after scan is done of all frequencies we need to Map channels, and we
can do that simply by clicking on Services tab (see photo below)

In opened pop-up select all like on photo below

After this is done, all channels are mapped, and finally we only need to add
OSCam in tvheadend.
To add OSCam, you need to click on CAs tab in tvheadend (see photo below)

Now click on Add (see photo below)

In new pop-up select CAPMT (Linux DVBAPI) (see photo below)

After you selected CAPMT, you will be offered to Enable client, but also to
select which version of OSCam you will be using, and in our case you need
to select OSCam pc-nodmx (rev >= 9756) , for port enter only 0 (see photo
below)
Enabled: check checkbox
Client name: OSCam
Mode: OSCam pc-nodmx (rev >= 9756)
Port: 0
Click on create

Now, after clicking on Create, you need also to click on Save button (see
photo below)

After this step reboot WeTek Play.

VDR and OSCam setup on WeTek Play with

OpenELEC
To install VDR and OSCam in OpenELEC, you can follow this video guide at
this URL
VIDEO TUTORIAL:
http://youtu.be/ZdC19sVOS9g
Or if you prefer you can follow step by step guide below:
This tutorial is going to help you to setup VDR on openELEC with WeTek
Play.

Now, select
vdr-addon

And install it

Now, let's head back to system, just press back on your WeTek RCU until it
reaches the main menu.

As you can see, we have to enable VDR. Press ok.

And automaticly you'll be prompted with this list, just select

VDR VNSI
client

Press OK, and enable it

Go to the initial screen, by pressing back on our WeTek RCU

System - Settings and then Live TV

Client specific

Now, select
Client specific settings

Select
VDR OSD

Go the
Channel Scan

Here, you can select DVB-T

Or DVB-C

After you selected DVB-C or DVB-T, select your country and then you can
start the search by pressing the windows button in your WeTek RCU.

Or, if you are using a keyboard, these are the setup's

Red button
= F1 at Keyboard
Green button
= F2 at Keyboard
Yellow button
= F3 at Keyboard
Blue button
= F4 at Keyboard

Now, just wait until it reaches 100%

It's done

4. How to install repositories and add-ons in

OpenELEC (Kodi/XBMC)
Take a look on short video to learn how to add repositories and install
different Video Add-ons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opzqBdvcBsk
SuperRepo -
http://srp.nu
TVADDONS -
http://fusion.tvaddons.ag
XunityTalk -
http://xunitytalk.com/xfinity
More tutorials about adding XBMC / Kodi repositories you can find on
https://seo-michael.co.uk/tag/xbmc/

5. How to update OpenELEC

Update of existing OpenELEC installation on microSD or NAND Flash, you can
do over two methods.
Keep in mind that OpenELEC update file have extension .tar, and you need
to be careful if your installation is on microSD or NAND Flash, so you can
download or NAND Flash or microSD update file.
a) Copy .tar update file to Update folder over SSH with WinSCP
b) Copy .tar update file to Update folder over SAMBA
In case you want to read more about Update process you can visit
OpenELEC Wiki page
http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Updating_OpenELEC
a) Update by copying .tar file with WinSCP application to Update
folder

1. You need to download

WinSCP
from this URL
http://bit.ly/1ayRTgt

,
and after download is finished, please install it.
2. For microSD Installation, update files can be downloaded from this URL
http://bit.ly/1GUNby1
, and for NAND Flash installation update file can
be downloaded from this URL
http://bit.ly/1Cnl1us

Installing WinSCP

Then, open the download

Execute the setup

Select your Language

Click on Next

Click on Accept

Click next

Click next

Click on Install

Click on
Launch WinSCP
and then
Finish

On your WeTek, go to
system
then
system info

At
WinSCP

User
: root
Password:
openelec

Then click on
Login

Click
Yes

If the
.update
is hidden, you just need to click on the bottom like the
showed in the image

And the
.update
folder should appear.

Now, open the

.update
folder

Go to your download folder and drag your

.tar
file into
.update
folder

Press
OK

When finished, just reboot your WeTek Play.

How to update over SAMBA

Open Windows Explorer, and in the search bar type:
\\
IP_OF_YOUR_WETEK

Then, press Enter

open the
Update
folder

Copy or Drag you OpenELEC update

.tar
file in here.
Reboot your WeTek Play, and its done.