Dreambox guide

[klona]

Hi,
New guide on dreambox and direct mpeg2 sat stream capture on doom9 :
http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/dbox-howto.htm

And here is the thread for comments & questions.

/klona

[Pko]

I've read your guide and the dreambox is really the box of my dreams ;-) (well, maybe if it could play divx...)

I am right now subscribed to Digital+ over hispasat, and my (rented to the company) receiver has an HD so I can program captures (to the small internal HD only, of course) but the software is really horrible, I cannot extract the streams (so I am limited to one language, for example), the capacity is very small, the programming capabilities are abismal, the machine is really noise... should I go on? :-)

The thing is, I would love to change to one (or maybe two, if I can share the card!) dreamboxes... do you know if they will work with my satellite and subscription card? should I change to Astra sat? (it would be possible on my house, but a little expensive).

I have no ethernet cabling near where the box should be, but I suppouse I could connect using wi-fi...

Thank you very much, and congratulations for your great guide.

[klona]

Yes, it works on both astra & hispasat & you can do card sharing with the dreambox, but not sure if it can be achieved with modified Nagra of hispasat.

[klona]

French Version 2.2 online on my site.
Soon on doom9 french mirror.

[klona]

New version 3 oOnline, full update and with new topics.

Also version 2.2 in french, swedish, danish and dutch.

Volonteers always welcome to translate to Spanish, Italian, German etc.

[muhith]

Hello I have read your Dreambox guide but I need some basic information: I am having a lot of problems setting up a Dreambox 500S receiver. In setup I get the message "Found no LNB with

DISEqc 1.2 enabled. Please go to Satellite Config first, and enable DISEqC 1.2"

I only have one LNB and pointing to one Satellite and I suspect I have some LNB setup configuration problems.

If I do a Transponder scan I get the message "All known transponders have been tried but no lock was possible.

Verify antenna/cable setup or try another satellite/network"

Can you please give me some basic guidelines to setup one Satellite and one LNB (non motor)? I used another receiver

to test that I am indeed receiving the transponder signals from this particular satellite fine.

Thanks.
Muhith

[klona]

Disecq 1.2 is for rotor

Disecq 1.0 & 1.1 is for dual LNB or disecq switch.

In your case, one LNB, no need of Disecq.
Change your config in menu to a simple config, One Sat only.