Sportster 1.08 RC007 (UK Moded)

I have just flashed the latest Sporster Image and will report back my findings..

I am interested in the SAMBA support - so I can access my Movie share on my Windows computer.

anyone tried it so far

 

Hi zappp64,
Please let me know how you get on,using commando 6 here in Dublin on n*l,tryed earlier sportster but couldnt get it to work so maybe this one will.
Cheers.

 

hows the image going zapp64?

i might be looking to use it myself as i really want samba support on my box.

can you let us all know how it went and give us a full review, cheers.

P.s. wher did u get the image from?

 

if anyone wants to download the 2x version here it is

http://netwave.redirectme.net/RED-DWARF/

dont use the image converter to convert it to 1x - it wont work

 

Sorry for my ignorance but waht is samba support?

 

Samba is used on Linux/Unix systems to allow these systems to access a Windows share/directory on a Windows 2000, XP etc computer.

 

views so far

pro's

like the epg on the front panel lcd
support of Samba

con's

freezes on my sagem AVIA 600 x2 very often
channel changing slow
boot up time slower than previous Sportsters Images

I also upgraded the YWen to 2.5

so far its OK few issues with the freezing of box.. need to play around with the AVIA and UCode settings.

anyone else who is running this image, whats your opinon

 

whats the new image like?

im gonna be installing it on mine 2moro night. the samba support on it any good? hopefully it'll make it easier to connect to windows vista shares.

cheers

 

Hi guys (zappp64), i tried to flash the new 1.08 image but when booting up it still says image 1.02.

I havent noticed any differences yet so i think it might have not flashed correctly.

i used flash without bootloader and put the file in /tmp using ftp

how can i confirm im running the new image?

cheers

 

press dbox then sportster extra then image info

to get the image version

 

confirmed, it still says
image sportster pro 1.02

this is confusing, when i use that image (New 1.08) u had on your site was i defo meant to use update without bootloader?

cheers

 

download it again, I have done a new backup from the box and put it on my web site

 

thanks, just dl'ed it again, i'll try tonight.

P.s. sagem 2x avia600 ~same as you i think

 

I have fine tuned it for sagem 2x versiobn, at first it froze alot but with some tweaking and avia updates hasnt frozen at all

when you flash it, press blue button on remote and select LCd TV - rather cool if I say so myself..

 

i installed that lcd plugin on the old version, but for some reason it was called "outdoor"

awesome plugin,

im gonna flash now, wish me luck :-|

 

worked this time, u sure the old image i downloaded the other day wasnt the 1.02 version?

for some reason i cant use the same services.xml and bouquets.xml file? seems odd to me?

guess im gonna have to rescan and reorder them all again

ohwell, atleast i got samba support now, NFS, CIFS and FTPFS just didnt work for me, even when i tried to connect to winXP, vista and a headless unix server ive got running at home!

finger's crossed i can connect to my shared video folder this time, 250GB of divx (all legal of course)

 

scanned all night long on brute force and got 303 transponders, 325 channels, but none of the channels work!

they all say channel not found why i try to view them. whats going on?

i know the box works because my old image worked fine

do i have to upload ucodes or anythig like that to the box? my old services.xml doesnt even work.

cheers guys

 

have you set your location - press blue on remote and set the location and then do another scan.

 

just tried that, pressing blue doesnt give me no option to select location

i think ive done it, i have just flashed the four files below onto the box and overwrit the origional image ones (the files i used were ones that i backed up from the origional working image):

avia500.ux
avia600.ux
cam-alpha.bin
ucode.bin

things are now working.

ok, iv'e fixed the fault, but what the hell do these files actually do??????

are they anything to do with programming the tuner? (i.e. drivers for the tuner?)

cheers zappp64

 

Avia is a MPEG-2 Audio/Video Decoder Chip - It decodes the Transport stream that was generated by the Transport demultiplexer. It splits the stream into Video and Audio

CAM-Alphais for for Conditional Access Module and it defines the standard that is used to encrypt channels.

uCode is a firmware chip on the dBox