Shy Channels on sat with dreambox 500s

Piopat, the reason your account may be blocked at dyndns is because you are only allowed to update dyndns with your IP so many times an hour. If you repeatedly do it then DynDNS gets upset. You can understand this because just think of the amount of machines around the world sending update requests to DynDNS servers.

So now lets forget about DynDNS for a sec. From an earlier ports you say that you wish to share internally (multiroom) and share externally with a friend. So lets get the internal network sorted first and you don't need DYNDNS for that ( I presume you are not putting your external IP in the CLine for an internal multiroom conection).

So what EMUs are you using. Here I suggest that you use the latest CCCAM 2.1.4 (I posted a thread with a link to this some time back) in both your multiroom boxes. So then you have a Cline that looks like C: 192.168.x.x 12000 user pass and a corresponding Fline in your server dreambox (192.168.x.x is the internal IP of your server box.

Next I noticed you said that DHCP is ticked for both boxes. DHCP should never be ticked. The boxes need to have static addresses on your internal network, how else can you guarantee your Cline will work all the time. DHCP auto assigns IP addresses for example if you rebooted your router in which case your sharing would stop working.

Play with this for a bit and post for results. Note that you can view CCCAM stats on 192.168.x.x:16001 to see if you are getting activity. If you wish you can post your CCCAM.cfg here. Just remove any references to your external IP number.

Port forwarding. Most routers have in their admin options, a network option, a NAT (network address translation) option and a port forwarding option. So it should just be a case of forwarding 12000 to your internal server IP number ie.. 192.168.x.x.

Once you get the internal multiroom working then you can start looking at INADYN plugin for updating DYNDNS. But first thigs first

 

ok my account is green good and not yellow,dyndns updater is updating and says its synchronised, i can ping the box packets sent and recieved,port checker tells me the port is not blocked in any way.dhcp is unticked on both boxes and they have unique ips.everything is connected as it should be, i gave an example of c and f lines above and its still nsaying offline. i tried what you said 192.168.xxx.xxx:12001 (obviously i entered my own ip) and web page cant be found. so whats left it wont even work in my own house i cant figure it.all i have in cccam config really is listen port 12000, my boxkey(that works ok)an fline in the server box and the same in box 2 except it has a cline added.

 

cccam can be observed on 16001 not 12001. It needs to be setup in CCCAM.cfg to allow this. By using Flines in both cfgs you are saying that both boxes are servers. This I don't think is true. Only one box has a card in it and as such that box is ther server and has an fline in the cccam.cfg. You cannot have two boxes sharing port 12000 with flines in their cfg. If you have two servers then one would be on 12000 and the next would be on 12001 At the moment you have two servers clashing on port 12000 even though in truth only one of your boxes is a server. I hope you find that this solves your prob. Just remove the fline from the client box. All that should be in the client cfg is a cline that goes like C:192.168.xxx.xxx 12000 user pass and not c: myip.dyndns.org 12000 user pass. Couldn't find your C line example. Guess its there somewhere.

As I said Dyndns is another game and that is associated with external sharing only. Internal sharing using the internal static numbering for the boxes as you have assigned them

 

i dont have flines in both boxes only in one.here is an example of what i have in both boxes, in cccam.config(server box)i have listen port 12000,boxkey, F:box2 box2, thats all. in the second box it has ,listen port 12000, boxkey,C:server ip 12000 box2 box2 . it still says offline,by the way when i go in to the server box via dcc its very slow to open the files and often gets stuck,the second box opens fine all the time never getting stuck. thanks fint for your help mate.

 

Ok lets take a simple example of a client and server config


Here's the server cfg file
SERVER LISTEN PORT : 12000
SMARTCARD CLOCK FREQUENCY : /dev/sci0 3430000
BOXKEY : /dev/sci0 xx xx xx xx xx
F: 12000 user1 pass1
F: 12000 user2 pass2
TELNETINFO LISTEN PORT : 16000
WEBINFO LISTEN PORT : 16001


Here's the first client (client is internal to network/your router)
SERVER LISTEN PORT : 12000
C: 192.168.xxx.xxx 12000 user1 pass1

Here's the second client (client is external to network/your router)
SERVER LISTEN PORT : 12000
C: myname.dyndns.org 12000 user2 pass2

On the router side you have set up port forwarding to route port 12000 to the internal IP of your server.

After this if your server is still playing silly beggars (running slow) then I suggest you do the following. Copy the config files the other way arounf ie. make the server the client and vice versa. Now id the other box responding slowly. If this is the case then its a config issue, if not then you may have a problem with your current server box. The joys of a dreambox. It brings you to your knees until you simply want to throw it out the window and then presto it works.

Never forget the first time I got it to work on MMDS. Was trying the absolute last thing before I got rid of it and suddenly I got volume and picture on the TV. Scared the bejaysus out of me after being used to having a blank screen for so long

 

thanks fint ill have another go tomorrow,just that its frustrating me that ive been through everything and cant find the sollution.

 

hi i havent read the whole thread, my apologies but it is huge! but just wanted abit of advice really..



i have a linuxsat 500s (which i think is the same as a dreambox 500s?)

and i already pay a sub to shy....

what i want to know is can i use the 500s to almost act as multi-room with my shy box?

i do have a 1 metre motorised dish (seperate from shy dish) so can i also get the foriegn channels on my 500s also?

how easy/hard is this to sort out...i cant seem to find a turorial on here?..

thanks

 

if you want multiroom you need boxes that can talk to each other. the sky box cannot talk to the dreambox. for multiroom you would need to buy another dreambox, put your sky card in one of the dreamboxes and share that card to the other dreambox. the sky box goes into storage as it is no use for multiroom. alternatively get sky to install multiroom for you with a second sky box

 

Forgot to answer the second part of your question. Yes the dreambox can be connected to your second dish. Just do a scan and pick up whatever freesat is available on the satellite you are pointing at. Maybe this is the easiest way forward. Have two boxes in the same room both supplying channels from different satellites

 

thanks for your quick reply and help...

i wont be buying another dreambox 500s id rather pay the extra £10 a month to shy and have shy+, as multi-room.

i was trying to sort out my 500s a while ago and some guy suggested i put "PLI JADE" onto it...which i did...but thats as far as i got...

i havent done any scan or anything like that, as i dont even know what it is to be honest, or how it works...

can i use this PLI JADE software to help pick up the channels you talked about?

thaks

 

Another 500 clone costs about 50 eurons on dealextreme, not a bad purchase!

 

just use paypal!

 

pli jade is fine. it will already have the necessary satellite info to do a scan. so point the dish and go for it

 

well i never managed to get the boxes sharing in my house or otherwise. i started the day with another warning from dyndns(yellow status)all i did was switch on the computer. tried to follow your advice fint and another person also ,so i went back and had a look at my cccam configs and made a few changes. i rebooted the 2 boxes in my house and the server box came back on fine buy the share box is stuck with (nabilo)flashing on and off.havent had much luck with this cs lark.

 

Same thing happened mine I'd to flash it again!

 

Piopat, this is strange. For starters CCCAM does not kill your box. The amount of processor it is taking up is minimal in comparison to the more ordinary tasks the box does. So my suggestion is to consider reflashing both boxes with a different image. You most likely know the options. I've recently played with an Open Pli image and got a 7 day EPG working. Took ages and hard work but its in place. I'm surprise that Nabilo is giving issues on your 500. I have Nabilo 0.11 on my DM800 and it is the coolest thing ever. But I have had issues with Nabilo on my 500s so maybe you should go the same direction I have gone. Don't pack it in. I've been through the pain and am willing to help. Try the Open Pli and let me know

 

yed i figured id need to reflash,that said i have not heard anything bab about nabilo. gary did you reflash with the same image or did you change it. thanks fint well i got to admit its got me pulling my hair out(and thats already on the thin side)ill keep trying .

 

piopat, good point. reflash with the same image. at least you are used to it. if it still is an issue maybe you were just unlucky with the version you downloaded. just try a different version. the only reason i didn't use nabilo on my 500 was because the sat epg on the image is extremely poor. and at the end of the day its not only about watching tv, its also about having a decent epg. no tv guide and its a pain. open pli offers that solution which is why i use it over gemeni, nabilo, oozoon etc. I've tried them all. I'm just a sad git who likes the best solution even if it does take a bit of time

 

ill reflash in the morning and see if that sorts it,as you say fint if there is still an issue with nabilo ill have to change it.what i would like is just to get it flashed and get the cs up and running,and then think about other images etc, as i do enjoy tinkering about with the dm and learning something new.

 

i relashed with another nabilo image, the image worked ok ,i went through installation and downloaded cccam 2.1.3 via the addons(and replaced 2.1.2)this said try as i did i could not get cccam to work or check via yellow button if the box could see my server. so i did a flash erase and went back to the first nabilo image,went through the installation process and got cccam 2.1.3 via addons and installed it,i put my cccam.cfg file back in to the var/etc file and i changed the flines and clines to make the server box(the share box) and to make the share box)the server box)and i changed the setting in the router and altered the server ips to suit.i saved and rebooted,but still not working. by the way i figured out why dyndns is giving me yellow status warnings,for simply switching my router on.