Vero4k+ is amazing!

Help and Support Vero 4K / Vero 4K +
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Hey Sam, I hope praise in the Help and Support section is ok. After receiving my Vero4k+ yesterday, I was super excited to get it configured. It did take a very long time to ship and get here, but I’m really glad you had the order volume you did. This is am amazing product, and I want you to sell enough that you are able to continue your support. I already own a Vero4k device and a couple of Raspberry PI’s running OSMC.

My database is running on my Synology NAS in MariaDB 10. After copying over my advancedsettings.xml file and setting up my fstab cifs mounts and sources.xml file, pretty much everything seemed to work. I did tar up my Thumbnails directory and move it over as well.

I had an issue with my Samsung TV and HDMI-CEC on the Vero4k+. It was working on the Vero4k that I replaced, so I was scratching my head. Same version of OSMC, same version of the driver, etc. After an hour of head scratching, I unplugged power from my Samsung TV. After plugging it back in, HDMI-CEC worked just fine. I don’t have an explanation for what happened, but I’m happy it is working now.

For others on the fence about ordering the Vero4k+, I can provide some insight on why it’s worth it for me. I have quite a few UHD 4K videos. Almost all of them work just fine on the Vero4k. Two of the videos I had problems with. Both have very high bitrates. The highest one is reported as 85.9 Mb/s in MediaInfo, which should stream just fine on the Vero4k. It continued to stutter every so often, even though I was not chapter skipping. I simply could not get it play smoothly from end to end. Moving over to the Vero4k+, this issue is now resolved. Playing this video showed a peak bitrate of about 105 Mbps on my switch; again, no chapter skipping. I’m running a layer 3 managed switch from Ubiquiti, so it’s not network related.

The faster local flash memory is nice too, but the gigabit ethernet on the Vero4k+ is what I needed. I literally have nothing bad to say about it. I will be buying another soon. Here’s my setup for those interested.

Synology DS3617xs w/ 48GB RAM & HGST 12TB HDD’s (RAID6)
Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch Gigabit 24 Lite
OSMC Vero4k+
advancedsettings:
buffermode = 1
memorysize = 402653184
readfactor = 4

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Hey

Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you’re enjoying the new device.

CEC can sometimes get confused. A power down at the mains usually fixes things promptly.

If it happens again, let me know, but I suspect it will be fine.

I’m glad you’re enjoying the device. Thank you for your patience, and your support

Give us a shout if there’s anything we can do for you in the future

Sam

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After seeing some other posts here about network performance, I decided to run iperf3 like everyone else out of curiosity. I’m seeing very good network performance. Switch is a Ubiquiti (UniFi) EdgeMax 24 port gigabit layer 3 managed switch. Flow control is disabled, standard 1500 MTU.

osmc@osmc_4kplus:~$ iperf3 -c synology
Connecting to host synology, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.1.54 port 55157 connected to 192.168.1.26 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr Cwnd
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 115 MBytes 962 Mbits/sec 0 2.42 MBytes
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec 2 1.32 MBytes
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 112 MBytes 938 Mbits/sec 1 1021 KBytes
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 112 MBytes 939 Mbits/sec 1 771 KBytes
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 112 MBytes 937 Mbits/sec 2 417 KBytes
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 112 MBytes 938 Mbits/sec 2 225 KBytes
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 112 MBytes 939 Mbits/sec 2 181 KBytes
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 109 MBytes 919 Mbits/sec 3 94.7 KBytes
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 108 MBytes 907 Mbits/sec 1 115 KBytes
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 110 MBytes 921 Mbits/sec 1 124 KBytes

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 934 Mbits/sec 15 sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.08 GBytes 931 Mbits/sec receiver

osmc@osmc_4kplus:~$ iperf3 -R -c synology
Connecting to host synology, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host synology is sending
[ 4] local 192.168.1.54 port 55155 connected to 192.168.1.26 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 111 MBytes 932 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 112 MBytes 942 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 112 MBytes 942 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 112 MBytes 941 Mbits/sec

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth Retr
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 942 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec receiver

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For those with a Synology NAS that are looking to install iperf3 without lots of hassle, download the package that aligns with your DSM version and CPU chipset here: Synology DSM iPerf. The related thread is here: Synology Forum

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