Satellite OpenATV 7 - recommended build

[geoffdh]

I've been using a ZGemma H7S for about 18 months, with OpenATV 6 and Wooshbuild on top
Today I wanted to update the OpenATV to the latest, but it looks like the 6.5 version is now EOL

When I first got the ZGemma H7S, I flashed OpenATV 7 and tried to put Wooshbuild on top
That failed, causing the box to endlessly reboot, but I managed to recover it
- thanks to Willo in this thread Satellite - H7s stuck on boot
I quite like Wooshbuild, but am a bit reluctant to try it on OpenATV 7 after what happened last time

So the question is, have any of you tried a build on top of OpenATV 7 on a ZGemma H7S, and what are your experiences
Thanks for reading and any advice

 

[Ferret.]

There are no builds supporting OpenATV 7

Your best bet is to use OpenATV 6.4 well better still use grogs build which is based on 6.4.

 

[bazcfc1]

Agree with ferret you would be better with grog free range as it’s more up to date than wooshbuild.
Open atv is based round the new python 3 that’s why your running into issues when flashing with open atv 7 then putting wooshbuild on which hasn’t been updated in nearly 2yr

 

[grog68]

You could put Willobuild on the box, it uses VIX rather than ATV but is upto date in that it's python3 ready.

I won't be updating Grogbuild to 7 for a while because there is quite a bit to do and time is not on my side at the moment

As far as I am aware there are no intentions for wooshbuild to be updated for ATV 7 at this time

 

[geoffdh]

Thanks for all the quick replies
- all very useful, and explains why I had problems with Wooshbuild on openATV 7

As the ZGemma H7s has 4 flash locations, I'll play around a bit, maybe putting Grogbuild on one flash space, with Willobuild in another, while retaining Wooshbuild over OpenATV 6.5 in a third

 

[grog68]

Thanks for all the quick replies
- all very useful, and explains why I had problems with Wooshbuild on openATV 7

As the ZGemma H7s has 4 flash locations, I'll play around a bit, maybe putting Grogbuild on one flash space, with Willobuild in another, while retaining Wooshbuild over OpenATV 6.5 in a third

I'm not sure if wooshbuild will run on 6.5 as that was always a beta and never became stable image.