DM500 DREAMBOX NETWORK CABLING SIMPLIFED!!

[ultrakiasu]

For those who had issue laying network cables to your Dreambox set-top boxes, this solution could be save you the problem on unsightly cabling to your living room unit.



Solution: WIFI-RJ45 Ethernet Bridge

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Any website selling the above?

[harky]

this is using wireless???

when do flashing will break half way?

[ultrakiasu]

this is using wireless???

when do flashing will break half way?

It may be true that the wireless session using telnet may break.
But you can always issue a "&" to run in background in event of disconnection.

The flash image was copied to the /var/tmp directory prior to the actual flashing, there is little risk except during the brief "eraseall" process, the telnet session must not break.

Simply write a text script, to run the whole process as a shell script, and run it in nohup background task

 
echo "cd /var/tmp" > /var/tmp/flash.sh
echo "eraseall /dev/mtd/3 && cp /var/tmp/backup.img /dev/mtd/3 ">> /var/tmp/flash.sh
 
chmod 750 /var/tmp/flash.sh
nohup /var/tmp/flash.sh &

But why update via wifi? DreamUp is more reliable.
FTP/Telnet firmware upgrade is not suitable for firmware using oddballs or maxvar tweaks.

The wifi connectivity is more suitable for streaming to your PC and notebook.