Guide: Setting Parental Lock on your Dreambox

[Devilfish]

How Do I Hide/Lock Bouquets On An Enigma Image?

For this example, we will use the Adult bouquet to lock and hide.
Select Setup menu then Parental Lock
Select Parental Lock button and change pin to what you want and re-enter
Select Save
Select Service Organising
Select Lock/Unlock Services
Enter pin code
Select Adult bouquet then select NO to lock itYou should have a padlock icon next to the bouquet now. You will be prompted to enter the pin when selecting this bouquet.

If you now want to hide the bouquet from the list...

Setup > Parental Lock > Hide Locked Bouquets > Save


How Do I Lock A Single Channels On An Enigma Image?


Select Setup menu then Parental Lock
Select Parental Lock button and change pin to what you want and re-enter
Select Save
Exit menus
Press OK then RED (All Services)
Scroll to channel you want to lock
Press MENU
Select LockNow even if the box is rebooted that channel will always be locked.

If the box is rebooted on a locked channel, it will ask for the unlock code on bootup.

How Do I Unlock A Single Channels On An Enigma Image?
Press OK then RED (All Services)
Scroll to channel you want to unlock
Press MENU
Select Unlock
Enter Unlock Code Good Luck!

[Glasgowguyno1]

great information, especially if you have kids, cheers

[gillyflipper]

when i unplug from the mains, the locked channels reappear when reconnected, is there anyway to prevent this? Just incase the teenager gets wise to this :)

[Devilfish]

After you have locked a channel, reboot the box via the shutdown menu. This will save the settings to the config file, now even if the box is unplugged, it will still have the lock when it's rebooted.

[jake1970]

i think im nearly finished but stuck now on what im sure is the post easiest problem to solve i cant seem to work out how to lock channels or bouquets ive got young kids about and really need to lock the adult content im using a 500c with the DW_V2.0_MODDED WITH NEW ROMS image
thanks again

[Devilfish]

Everything needed to lock them is in the first post, there isn't anything else to offer.

Follow it step by step, don't miss anything out, and it will lock.

[mcmasterg]

kaos thanks mate very clear

[bajan2nv]

how do u find code if u have forgotten password?

[MILLWALLFC]

Great tip its slightly different on a 600 box:-

Set parental controls and hide channels.

On TV channel
Go to Menu
Setup
System Settings
Parental Lock
Tick Parental Lock, setup lock and hide locked services, remember pin number or your have to reflash box.
Press Green to Save
Exit Back to a TV channel
Press Blue button
Go into Dreambox Settings
Bouquets
Click Red button to show all channels
Press enter on the channels you want to lock and hide.
reboot the box via the shutdown menu, IF YOU DON?T DO THIS IS SOMEONE PULLS OUT PLUG ON TV ALL CHANNELS WILL STILL SHOW AFTER.

[angelspeed05]

good stuff

[lolo500]

Thanks, especially for the note about rebooting the box via the shutdown menu to save the settings to the config file.

[barbarossa1986]

Greetings from barbarrossa,
I know how to lock the channels, and bouq. Is it also possible to lock "all services" (dreambox 500 ) . I have never shut down , does it open automaticly when i open it again after shutting down?
Thnks for your soonest advises,

[astropalmo]

thanks devilfish, its a superb guide for newbies. excellent work.

[ms1699ms]

hi buy new box when i open setup it ask me current setup pin i spend ?170 it work what i went backup?plz help

[marsafy1]

i locked channels but when i accedently go on one it ask for a pin code and when i enter 4 time any number there is a message (try anothr pin ) when repling no the channel is opened how can i lock channels firmly?

[pandokrator]

for deactive pin code (parental lock)
in all "enigma" images,
with ftp go to
/var/tuxbox/config/enigma
view file called config
search for parentallock=0000**** the last 4 digit is your code BUT must converting with windows calculator
from HEX to DEC.
if you have parentallock=00000906 the result is 2310.
after that you can disable or change the enigma parental lock code.
best regards

e.g. the same trick can used with telnet
cat /var/tuxbox/config/enigma/config|grep -i pins
and go to the
i:/elitedvb/pins/enableparentallock=00000000
all zeros disabling parental lock code ;-)

[ejaifm]

Great guide! Thanks heaps :)

[BlueBox]

great info thanks