boyofford
4th December, 2012, 10:14 PM
Hi just got clone dreambox 500s, and not sure where to start!
I appears to have Enigma of some sort on it(logged into web interface), and when looking through seems to mention astra 19.2 (satellite?).
I want to view some Fta channels on hotbird 13e, and I've got someone coming over on Saturday to look at fitting a satellite for this. But he wants to have a working box to check I presume, so if I plug this in and scan will it magically see the satelite? (doubt it).
Should I first flash the box to something else, and if so can I flash over lan (I have no null modem cable and no com port on computers to use anyhow). Was thinking of Openpli.
I did read somewhere it was possible to flash over lan, but now can't find it!
cheers all, just realised I don't really know what I'm doing, I feel a learning curve coming on.
EDIT: Re. flashing over ftp - as far as I can see I just Rename a downloaded image file to "root.cramfs",
ftp transfer a image to /var/tmp directory on dreambox,
press menu button,
select system settings,
update settings
and change to manual update.
then let it update..... am I missing something as this sounds too easy? why is null modem the preferred method?
I appears to have Enigma of some sort on it(logged into web interface), and when looking through seems to mention astra 19.2 (satellite?).
I want to view some Fta channels on hotbird 13e, and I've got someone coming over on Saturday to look at fitting a satellite for this. But he wants to have a working box to check I presume, so if I plug this in and scan will it magically see the satelite? (doubt it).
Should I first flash the box to something else, and if so can I flash over lan (I have no null modem cable and no com port on computers to use anyhow). Was thinking of Openpli.
I did read somewhere it was possible to flash over lan, but now can't find it!
cheers all, just realised I don't really know what I'm doing, I feel a learning curve coming on.
EDIT: Re. flashing over ftp - as far as I can see I just Rename a downloaded image file to "root.cramfs",
ftp transfer a image to /var/tmp directory on dreambox,
press menu button,
select system settings,
update settings
and change to manual update.
then let it update..... am I missing something as this sounds too easy? why is null modem the preferred method?