Guide: Setting up Recording to a PC or NAS

[zaradoct]

Hi, how can I play my recorded movies that I recorded in my PC by the Dreambox to my TV?

[Norway321]

Thanks alot for useful information!

[dpierik]

How can i change the location where de files or safed?

[harky]

like to ask if i use telnet (rounter) to rec will it slow down the rounter connection???

[Beppe71]

Hi
I need help to set up my NAS and record on it. I have a DM500C with DK V.1 immage. I have been able to mount the NAS and even play movies from it but I have problem to record movies on it. If I try to record I get this message "Record failed due to inaccessable storage".
I have checked the record paths and tried two different set up: /hdd and /hdd/movie.
Can you please help?
Thanks
BP71

[trampjuice]

I am not sure about DK1.1 but heres my experiance.
I have a another linux box on the network (192.168.1.x) and its got a whopping great HDD attached to it. I have setup a samba share on it called movies.

After many months 'upgraded' to a neutrino image which was great for everything but NAS recording, I have just reflashed an old Pli Jade image today and have been amazed at how great it records AFTER CHANGING SOME SETTINGS.

Record settings:
Description – Media
CIFS, 192.168.1.14
Mountpoint : /media/cf
Server Directory: movies
Username : root
Password :xxxx
Options : soft, rsize:8192, wsize:8192

The key thing I found was to take off all the options you think will make it faster - like sync, linuxext, rw etc..and just leave 'Soft'; Its miles better at reading and writing to the NAS. In fact its near perfect now!!!!!! I think part of the problems with recording are dm500 resources - with a 6mb Image like PLi Jade its prob running far less processes and so has plently of CPU left to record nice and fast even while you are watching the thing. With a 8MB image like Neutrino you have to turn off the cam and even then the result is garbled.

Mountpoint is also called 'client directory' (Its the mount point for the dm500!)

[trampjuice]

Don't forget to change your 'Recording and Playing Settings'
Recordings on --> '/mnt/cf/movie'
or you will be looking at a blank screen and wondering where all the files went and why you can't access them for hours like I did!

[trampjuice]

Turn off the cam on Pli Jade images on record, or someway to kill non core processes when its recording - it would prob. record even better then with more CPU left over. (maybe via command line kill ps etc...)

[trampjuice]

Make sure that your server/NAS directory is read write - i.e. chmod 755 on it or under windows right click and change permissions to make it a share. Then check your share permissions work so you can read and write a file to it.

The other key thing is to check that your filewall is not blocking traffic!
You can test reading and writing from the share from the dreambox by opening up telnet and logging into it.

Form the command line -

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/hdd/movie /media/hdd -o user=admin,password=admin

check its mounted properly with 'mount' again.

(obvoiusly replace with your username and pw)

With this you should be able to test that reading and writing from the dbox to the other computer works - that eliminates a lot of problems and leaves only the details of the images setup to worry about!


Then mount the

Hi
I need help to set up my NAS and record on it. I have a DM500C with DK V.1 immage. I have been able to mount the NAS and even play movies from it but I have problem to record movies on it. If I try to record I get this message "Record failed due to inaccessable storage".
I have checked the record paths and tried two different set up: /hdd and /hdd/movie.
Can you please help?
Thanks
BP71

[mk9833]

Yo, anyone using Mio box to link up the dream box? It gave me a error message:- CIFS mount '192.168.1.66/record/hdd/movie' Failed! I did all the step, but still the same message.....

[mk9833]

Anyone can help?

[michaelbomett]

I'm interested in setting up the same but using Ubuntu. Anyone with a step by step guide. Thanks

[reon]

I'm interested in setting up the same but using Ubuntu. Anyone with a step by step guide. Thanks

Looking for the same.
Have mounted my windows laptop but would like to mount on my linux pc more space and always on. But keep failing to mount

[alunfennell]

ON PC:

1. Start Program / Run/ enter "cmd.exe" - this will start a command window (black background typically).

2. in command window enter

mkdir d:\dreamboxshare
mkdir d:\dreamboxshare\movie
net share mymovies=d:\dreamboxshare /unlimited

where
mymovies is the name the dreambox will see and
d:\dreamboxshare is the shared directory. It HAS to have a directory "movie" below it, which is where the movies will be recorded.

Note forward and back slashes - it is important.

That is the PC prepared. Remember that this share is public and can be seen by any device on the network (including the Dreambox or other STB).


ON THE DREAMBOX:
1. On remote press: Menu/Setup/Expert Setup/Communication Setup then press blue button or navigate to "mounts" and press enter. This displays the "Mount Manager". (Gemini)
2. In the "IP" line enter the IP address of the PC you prepared as above.
2a. Select "Cifs" in box to right of IP.
3. Highlight "dir" line and press enter. Key in "mymovies" in the Dir field.
4. In "Local Dir" key in "/media/hdd" or "/hdd". This depends on your STB but should be "/media/hdd" on Dreambox.
5. In "Options" select "rw" - VERY IMPORTANT
6. In "User" and "Password" enter a username and password that have access to your PC.
7. Click on "AutoMount" if you want the share to be automatically mounted when you restart the Dreambox. (must be ticked for automount).
8. Press yellow button to save.
9. Press green button to mount.

Make sure you get no error messages. If it all worked, you should now be able to record on your PC without any special software.

The same method can be used to mount a Windows compatible NAS drive. By using Cifs you do not need a NFS NAS drive (which is typically much more expensive than the Windows versions).


Enjoy.

[kingbslim73]

Anyone out there can tell me if i can use Dm500s to record to PC external drive, first post on this site. Is there any help for this running Windows 7.