###guide for setting up usals for dm800###

[floridali]

Hello everyone,

I have a quick question

I just got Dreambox DM800 HD and I don't know how to set up?

I've Disecq 1.2 motor

Location
Lat: 51:36:34N (51.60945)
Lon: 0:08:58W (-0.14957)

The question is:
How to set-up the dish positions manually?

[why me]

new to this sat stuff

can anyone offer advice or point me in the right direction we live in a new build so we can not have cable as the they will not be putting this in place, so i can only have **y my questionis is what dish do i need and box can someone explain why is a dreambox sought after should my dish be motorised, if so what box do i need to buy to go with it and how do i set one up as i have been on google finding it very hard to digest !! help help please!! gary

[standarren]

great guide but when i change the sat position it picks up some and not others is there a way to fine tune each sat and store the position

[FOTISCREST]

thanx for the information . very usefyl

[olly330]

many thanks

[anhbin]

GUIDE TO MOTORISED DISH SETUP DM800 TUNER FOR USALS

Image Used -Blackhole V0.12

If your using DiSEqC 1.2 you will have to set-up the dish positions manually. If your using USALS it should be automatic.

Here's the USALS procedure that I used.
First make sure the dish is correctly aligned on a satellite, eg Astra 28.2E

Press Menu
Set Up
goto
Service Searching



Tuner Configuration



Choose Tuner ALPS BSBE2 (DVB-S2) - Press OK



Now for my configuration***8230;***8230;..



Configuration Mode: Advanced
Satellite : Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2e)
Change LNB to LNB 1
Priority : Auto
LOF: Universal LNB
Voltage Mode: Polarization
Increased voltage: yes
Tone Mode: band
DiSEqC Mode: 1.2
Toneburst: None
Committed DiSEqC: None
Fast DiSEqC : no
Sequence repeat : no
Command order : committed toneburst
Uncomitted DiSEqC command : None
DiSEqC repeats : none

Longitude: Set this to the correct Longitude for your area.
To find the correct longitude settings for your area go to the following website
Bing Maps - driving and transit directions, routes, traffic conditions
In the "Find a Map" box at the top left of the page, enter your post code.
Select your country in the drop down box below it and click on the "Find" button.
This will display a map on the screen and below the map at the bottom right you
will see your Latitude information, example below for Postcode district:NE39 1
Lat:54:55:09N (54.91913)
Lon:1:44:55W (-1.74859)
So in this example in the Dreambox menu you'd set
Longitude: 001.748
West
Latitude : 54:550
North
Use USALS for this Sat: Yes
PRESS OK TO SAVE
Once this is set up on one satellite its easy to sort the rest.
Go back into reception settings
Highlight satellite and choose the satellite you want
The example here shows Hellas on 39.0E




Now select LNB and right to LNB 1



This will fill in the configuration with your previously set configuration
PRESS OK TO SAVE
then scroll back up to satellite
scroll left or right to another satellite
goto lnb scroll right this will automatically set that satellite up
keep repeating this on all satellites needed

Thanks ...............

[SuperSat]

GUIDE TO MOTORISED DISH SETUP DM800 TUNER FOR USALS

Image Used -Blackhole V0.12

If your using DiSEqC 1.2 you will have to set-up the dish positions manually. If your using USALS it should be automatic.

Here's the USALS procedure that I used.
First make sure the dish is correctly aligned on a satellite, eg Astra 28.2E

Press Menu
Set Up
goto
Service Searching



Tuner Configuration



Choose Tuner ALPS BSBE2 (DVB-S2) - Press OK



Now for my configuration??..



Configuration Mode: Advanced
Satellite : Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2e)
Change LNB to LNB 1
Priority : Auto
LOF: Universal LNB
Voltage Mode: Polarization
Increased voltage: yes
Tone Mode: band
DiSEqC Mode: 1.2
Toneburst: None
Committed DiSEqC: None
Fast DiSEqC : no
Sequence repeat : no
Command order : committed toneburst
Uncomitted DiSEqC command : None
DiSEqC repeats : none

Longitude: Set this to the correct Longitude for your area.
To find the correct longitude settings for your area go to the following website
Bing Maps - driving directions, routes, and traffic
In the "Find a Map" box at the top left of the page, enter your post code.
Select your country in the drop down box below it and click on the "Find" button.
This will display a map on the screen and below the map at the bottom right you
will see your Latitude information, example below for Postcode district:NE39 1
Lat:54:55:09N (54.91913)
Lon:1:44:55W (-1.74859)
So in this example in the Dreambox menu you'd set
Longitude: 001.748
West
Latitude : 54:550
North
Use USALS for this Sat: Yes
PRESS OK TO SAVE
Once this is set up on one satellite its easy to sort the rest.
Go back into reception settings
Highlight satellite and choose the satellite you want
The example here shows Hellas on 39.0E




Now select LNB and right to LNB 1



This will fill in the configuration with your previously set configuration
PRESS OK TO SAVE
then scroll back up to satellite
scroll left or right to another satellite
goto lnb scroll right this will automatically set that satellite up
keep repeating this on all satellites needed

Thank you very much for this because I was looking for this kind of posts for many months and now I found it and you made my DAY!!!!!

Thank you again!!!

[abuahmed]

GUIDE TO MOTORISED DISH SETUP DM800

Thank you very much indeed for the info Westkill

Before everything, sorry for my poor English!

Recently I replaced my old Humax5400 receiver with DM800 hd

My Dish is motorized, I mean in case I'm watching NileSat (7 deg W) position (say 1),
and want to watch some channels from Amos satellite
I move the Dish using an actuator and separate positioner (SuperJack EZ Track II)
where every satellite has it's programmed position. (say 2)

My dish size 1.8 m, it has one (single) LNB which is connected directly to the receiver.

My Dish, It hasn't DiSEqC motor.

I found the difference in using Humax and DreamBox is very wide in everything.

My new DreamBox 800 furnished already with software Gemini Project 2

Available programmed satellites are:
Atlantic Bird / NileSat 7 deg W,
Hotbird 13 deg E,
Astra 19. deg E
and ArabSat 26 deg E

My Dreambox 800 not programmed for other satellites such as Amos, Sirius,..etc.

I understand that your above mentioned explanation will help me too much.
But I'm hesitated to do any change without consulting You!

Your help will be too much appreciated.

Please do one example for me such as;
how to add Amos satellite (4 deg W) for example ch2 and ch10.

Thanks in advance

[abuahmed]

GUIDE TO MOTORISED DISH SETUP DM800 TUNER FOR USALS

GUIDE TO MOTORISED DISH SETUP DM800 TUNER FOR USALS

Image Used -Blackhole V0.12

If your using DiSEqC 1.2 you will have to set-up the dish positions manually. If your using USALS it should be automatic.

Here's the USALS procedure that I used.
First make sure the dish is correctly aligned on a satellite, eg Astra 28.2E

Press Menu
Set Up
goto
Service Searching



Tuner Configuration



Choose Tuner ALPS BSBE2 (DVB-S2) - Press OK



Now for my configuration??..



Configuration Mode: Advanced
Satellite : Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2e)
Change LNB to LNB 1
Priority : Auto
LOF: Universal LNB
Voltage Mode: Polarization
Increased voltage: yes
Tone Mode: band
DiSEqC Mode: 1.2
Toneburst: None
Committed DiSEqC: None
Fast DiSEqC : no
Sequence repeat : no
Command order : committed toneburst
Uncomitted DiSEqC command : None
DiSEqC repeats : none

Longitude: Set this to the correct Longitude for your area.
To find the correct longitude settings for your area go to the following website
Bing Maps - driving directions, routes, and traffic
In the "Find a Map" box at the top left of the page, enter your post code.
Select your country in the drop down box below it and click on the "Find" button.
This will display a map on the screen and below the map at the bottom right you
will see your Latitude information, example below for Postcode district:NE39 1
Lat:54:55:09N (54.91913)
Lon:1:44:55W (-1.74859)
So in this example in the Dreambox menu you'd set
Longitude: 001.748
West
Latitude : 54:550
North
Use USALS for this Sat: Yes
PRESS OK TO SAVE
Once this is set up on one satellite its easy to sort the rest.
Go back into reception settings
Highlight satellite and choose the satellite you want
The example here shows Hellas on 39.0E




Now select LNB and right to LNB 1



This will fill in the configuration with your previously set configuration
PRESS OK TO SAVE
then scroll back up to satellite
scroll left or right to another satellite
goto lnb scroll right this will automatically set that satellite up
keep repeating this on all satellites needed

can I use your procedure without mention Latitude and Longitude?

best wishes

[andrelondon]

Multi Sat Configuration

Hi there
I would be glad if someone could help me with the multi sat configuration for my Dreambox DM800. I followed the step by step but I'm geting confused on the latitude/longitude part. Since multimap is now bing maps is not showing the lat/lon as described so the results that I've got from my postcode are:


51.3179580867291 -0.578015372157097

What are the numbers that I need to input on the dreambox? And is North/South - East/West???

I know the dish works as I have a technomate 5400 and it works fine but I wanted an HD one so i bought the dreambox.

But now all i've got from the dreambox is Tune failed. I tworked once when I selected 28.2 Astra (this was the satellite that the dish was pointing to when I was last using the technomate) but I tried to move to other satellites and all I've got is the Tune Failed message and now even the 28.2 Astra is giving me this message. It must be the lat/lon is wrong.
Those are the coordinates that I put on the box:

Longitude: 000.578 West
Latitude: 051.317 North

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks for the help!

[colinh1213]

when set up as in post 1, when you change over from say 4.8 bouquet to another sat in the bouquet does the dreambox move the motorised dish ?

[andy91]

when set up as in post 1, when you change over from say 4.8 bouquet to another sat in the bouquet does the dreambox move the motorised dish ?

With Usals all you need to do is choose tuner as simple.
Mode=positioner and put in correct long and lat.
Install a solid set of bouquets like Sgtflipflops or Catseyes and the dish should move when you press a channel from any sat.
Check the picture below.
Andy.

[colinh1213]

andy when ive put the long an lat in how do i scan sats mate ?

[eddar]

if you don't have chanelles of course you have to scan otherwise you don't have to, just store a position.

[colinh1213]

i know about scanning for channels, sorry for being vague, my box wont move the dish so i can get it to scan for channels on set sats, ive started a thread to help me on this, thanks guys.