Amiko Alien 2 activation

[pacificrim]

I'm sorry to hear he's so ill. I wish him well and hope he's not stressing about work.

There are a lot of lessons in things like this for any of us who are self employed. Even those of us with employees, there are always things we've hung onto that could be delegated, farmed out or automated. My wife was just reading that you need to run a business as if you were going to sell it. If the business is YOU, then its not really a business and cannot be sold. If the business is a series of documented processes that could be broken down to tasks or departments, then you've got something. It's tricky, just before I sat down to write this I did a support call that of the 5 of us, only I could have dealt with it.

Get well soon Joe and when you do ... please activate my new Amiko Alien 2

 

[T134]

I'm officially not supposed to be doing anything, or much of anything so I'll keep this brief. I just skimmed the thread so I'm sure I missed some stuff.

First, main reason for the activation system is that some of the content is legally and/or provider required to be georestricted, and several that gave us permission to use their streams don't want everyone and their donkey tapping into their RTMP or HTTP servers directly.

The A2 system is on "auto" and usually takes less than 24 hours if there is no issue. Occasionally one comes up. Unfortunately that setup is one that Jen can't deal with, I have to dig through it if there is a problem.

I'm taking a guess that this is an A2 that Jalan contacted me about earlier in the week. I had told him that I needed a couple pieces of info so I could find it and fix it. Most likely just a host-detect issue that can be altered here. If Jalan hasn't followed up just fill out the contact form @ amikoalienusa.com and mention you are the A2 guy from the satguys thread, I'll get the info from you and get it fixed up.

Someone mentioned something about factory reset. 3 good reasons why we warn people not to do that. 1. It is a European box, it will normally revert to raw setup and either be in PAL mode or "auto" which can cause problems with some North American TV's. 2. It wipes nearly all the NA stuff out of it...webtv, portal, apps, satellites, FTP, authorization token. 3. Factory reset NEVER fixes anything for us in NA. This is why they all come with instructions to make a backup. Generally anything that can be messed up on the box can be fixed with the backup in the 8 minutes or so it takes to reload it.

 

[pacificrim]

I'm happy to say Joe activated my Amiko Alien 2 today. Thanks Joe. Get well soon.
All of the stuff that works, works. The rest doesn't. Quite a few dead channels.
Also, apparently I still need a PIN number for Adult Content, but I have to get that from my dealer.

 

[dougruss]

I'm happy to say Joe activated my Amiko Alien 2 today. Thanks Joe. Get well soon.
All of the stuff that works, works. The rest doesn't. Quite a few dead channels.

What are the channels that aren't working or Dead ?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Many of them are international channels which are not 24 hours. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.