is this an full handshaking rs232 cable????? green, white, orange and blue conductors

[kaisar1]

Hi all, trying to sort skybox f5 which has 'e001 error'. followed the instruction and getting stb error.

Read in one of the posts that a full handshaking rs232 cable is required. So i stripped my cable, there are four conductors. green, orange, white and blue.

is this cable a full handshaking rs232 cable????

any help much appreciated.

Regards.

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i just stripped another cable. this one has alot more conductors.

green, blue, orange, yellow, black, pink, white, pasty green? and red

confused as both cable have rs232 male rs232 connectors.

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also can someone point me to a usb rs232 cable. much rather use laptop then old pc. old pc also has female rs232/no pins. ?15 max for cable delivered.


1st cable - old eurovox cable
2nd cable - dm800hd cable

[Hadron]

Despite what some members say, full handshaking is not required.

The Openbox/Skybox receivers only use 3 pins internaly. What you need to make sure of, is that it is a null modem lead. This type of lead will have pins 2 & 3 swapped over & pin 5 connected straight through. If you have (or can borrow) a multimeter, you can buzz out the lead to verify this:-

pin2 - pin3
pin3 - pin2
pin5 - pin5

These leads are normally female to female, with a male connector on the pc.

[cactikid]

i thought the whole idea was to do it right with a null modem cable and rs232 port?