problem with dbox

[Jaffa]

My post is similar. My retired dad lives in the Glasgow cable area and he's going mental at losing his cable stations- and annoying my mum.

I have his dbox2 (2X1 chip) at my home and managed to connect and get in via flashFXP so I have access into the box with a cross over cable.

Before I flash the box, is that the right thing to start with? He has a really old version of sportser (the box must be 3-4yrs old).....would updating this be the best solution or should I try and mess about with the keys (there is no way of changing keys on it with the remote)

Any help would be appreciated and would stop my old man phoning me every day to ask if it's fixed yet

Dosnt matter the age of dbox m8, they are all old. I would flash the new Blad Quad image which is in downloads section, it has the AU fix already there and is good to go.

Use flashfxp and save your services and bouquets. In case you dont know to do that, go to /var/tuxbox/config/zapit and save the services.xml and bouquets.xml to your pc.

Then unrar the image and ftp it to /tmp and use your remote to flash the image, then use ftp to put services and bouquets back.

10 minutes and you will be sorted.

[JamesieM]

Cheers Mate, got the required posts so I'll try the blade image and backing up the files.

Wish me luck

[Jaffa]

Cheers Mate, got the required posts so I'll try the blade image and backing up the files.

Wish me luck

No luck needed m8...it will work a treat.

[JamesieM]

Cheers Jaffa, I got the blade image into the dbox and backed up the files.

I'm just beepin not sure how to reflash with the remote. I've gone into the services menu and when I go for update image, browse for the blade image in the tmp folder I get the message teh updates are out of sync.

I presume I'm trying to update the original sportster? Where do I select to reflash the entire device?

[Jaffa]

Most menus are slightly different but it will be something like.

dbox
service
update image/software
flash one partiton
flash without bootloader
then choose Blade and press o.k then red to flash.

try that m8.

[JamesieM]

Cheers Mate....menu was slightly different but got there in the end.

I'll take it over to the old man's this afternoon and make his day. If that's all there is to it then it was a 10 minute job afterall!

Do I need to update keys on the Blade image now or will it auto update?

Thanks again Jaffa, I'd buy you a few pints if I could

[Jaffa]

You dont need to udate anything m8, once you have your service and bouquets back on then just go to:

dbox
service
reload channel lists and change to an encrypted channel and it should clear almost immediately.

It wil then auto update itself.

I couldnt remember sportster menu but it may have had expert functions aswell in it but at least you sused it.

[JamesieM]

just tested the dbox and it alll works ok! cheers for all your help