Adding a USB sat tuner to DM800.....Possible???

[NaNaNiii]

Hi
is it possible to add usb satellite tuner (like this one: DM04+ DVB-S USB 2.0 Digital Satellite TV Tuner Box with Slim IR Remote (100~240V AC) [E18382] : Electronic Gadgets, Home Gifts & Unusual Novelty Gifts - BestOfferBuy) to a dreambox dm800hd in order to record one channel and watch another??

[paulthemann]

Did it work?

Hi, did you find a USB sat tuner for the dm800?

The box seems amazing but it's only the tuner that is letting it down!

[TheCoder]

Its possible as long as you can find the correct driver for the particular device you choose. Generally, that means you will need to find the linux driver source code for your device in the linux repositories and then port that code over to the device you want to run it on. Some of the more popular usb tuner devices will likely have pre-compiled drivers for the dm-800 but I bet there's not that many of them so it will usually involve a substantial amount of technical knowledge.

[napalm9]

I am currently trying to do this to my 800 - i dont know if it will work but im going to give it a try.

What i intend to do is install the tuner on my pc through ubuntu, i am hoping this will give me the linux driver info and then somehow im going to get it of my pc onto a usb stick and then into the box. I know it sounds crazy but if it works ill be hailed a genius because i have looked everywhere and i dont know of anyone on any forum who has managed it !!!

I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW I GET ON

[jrshodges]

Did you have any luck with this, as I wold quite like to add a second tuner to record while watching another channel.

[napalm9]

No man its some tough stuff i reackon someone will be able to do it though soon enough so ive put it to one side untill someone manages to get some workable drivers uploaded as a plugin

[TheCoder]

No man its some tough stuff i reackon someone will be able to do it though soon enough so ive put it to one side untill someone manages to get some workable drivers uploaded as a plugin

Have you managed to find the device driver source code for your particular device ?

Without that you wont get anywhere. Cant remember what the site was called but there was one around that had source code for 15-20 of the more popular devices. It shouldn't be too difficult to port that code over onto a dreambox - the linux/dreambox api's are very similar (they should be - they are both linux cores). I'd guess the main problem will be getting sufficient speed out of the usb bus to transfer 30Mbit/sec of data - most of these dongles only transfer full TS streams rather than particular channel data (ie, software TS de-muxing). You wont be able to do this on a USB1 type interface, it will need USB2.