Shy Channels on sat with dreambox 500s

hi, can anyone help, ive just lost all my chanels on my DM500s. Im not even getting the fta channels, any help greatly appreciated.

 

check your connection to your sat dish mikeyred. you should always have fta channles so its just a cable issue

cragf you seem set on the idea of getting something for free. no matter how many posts there is no user who can explain such a situation to you as it is not possible. please stop multiposting. its annoying

 

piopat, did u get your dm7020 to recognize the smargo. in truth your ambition on this is not going to get you where you need to go. reality is that you have one usb port on the 7020 and this should be used for epg storage. you should not use internal hdd on the 7020 for any function, it should not be connected, as the heat will create other issues..

if you do not use internal hdd the card will work fine for sharing in the internal card slot provided in the 7020. you really do not need the smargo as you get latent loss over the usb connection. instead you use the usb connection to store a 7 day epg. this is the best and most complete solution for you

 

cragf you dont need to pay sky for a sky card you can just watch the free to air channels like itv/bbc etc which are very good (which gives you all the free channels ) but for card sharing either you buy a c line at a cost of about £50 for 3 months (pretty cheap ,but your credit card details are in their hands) .you pay sky and pay the full amount yourself or you pay sky for their services at the price they charge and set up a share with family or friends . if you have you and 5 people sharing thats about a £100 a year for all basic pay channels ,pay movies and pay sports not including espn (and the cost of a dreambox 500s is about £65 including p+p ,thats about £165 for the year) the days of getting a bit of firmware for free and reflashing your box are gone(sorry to say ) thats life we would all like some thing free but as i say that avenue is closed off atleast for now . mikey if your not getting even the free channels like fintann said either your cable has come loose/broken or your lnb has died (the lnb is the thing at the end of the dishes arm )if you have a mate who has a sky dish ask if you can connect your box to it ,if your box works for the free channels then your setup has a fault either the cable or the lnb. thanks fintann i know that box has issues with internal hdd and overheating, as of now i have the card in the internal cardreader , i used the smartreader tools and set it up for dreambox, i used vi editor as you suggested ,and i edited cccam (but i locked the line with a # symbol as i had not complted the set up ) i have not as yet had the time to complete it (i was trying to read up on as much as i could first,but i havent had the time) if you think its safe leaving the card as it is fintann thats great ,you have my full trust mate and you have steered me in the right direction all along . so thank you again my friend .

 

Thanks fintannl, but ive just made things worse, i was messing around in the menu and now ive lost all my bouqets and am really struggling and havent a clue what to do next. Im on c/s. im really not familiar with sat boxes at all. Any ideas?. Cheers.

 

Pio that was a very good post explaining the options available. It has clarified the situation very well. I think I'll pay sly and try to set up a share. Is it fairly straightforward to do over a WAN link?

 

balcee you also need to take in to account that you need broadband and a broadband router and your box will need to be connected to the router via an ethernet cable . its easy enough to set up a share within your own home ,but it takes a bit more effort to set up an external share to other houses (also to do this your router needs to be capable of portforwarding ) this is setting your router with an open port so that external shares can get access to your server (in this case your dreambox) you need to take it in stages. get 2 dm500s boxes and flash them with nabilosat darkstar11 ,connect them both to the router and using the remote control install cccam 2.1.3 in both and then set cccam 2.1.3 as your default cam in both boxes . a sly card will now work in either of these boxes (atleast for all basic pay channels ,for movies and sports channels the sly box boxkey is required ). if you can get as far as the above ,you are about 70% there ,the other 30% involves setting up cccam and a few other things .

 

have you configured CCCam with your box key in order to pair the card up correctly.

 

sorry for not geting back earlier thats sorted thanks piopat

 

Mikeyred, did you get your fta channels back yet. Bouquets can be uploaded to box. Read this thread fully and you will find out all you need to know
http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/...-updated-march-17th-2010-sly-uk-bouquets.html

 

How's things lads,

Just a quick question in regard's to the EPG on the 500's..i understand that the sly EPG can be put onto the 800's..can this also be done for the 500's or is the memory to small on the box..i have a gemini image on the box...

Thanks in advance.

 

Hi, I would like to know if this can be done too with regards the dm800. I also have gemini image on it.

 

as far as i know henke you are correct when you say the memory on the dm500s is to small for a sky 7 day epg, nabilosat darkstar 11 blackhole image has a sky epg plug in which you can install via your remote control if your box is connected to your broadband router .i dont know if the gemini image has the same plugin.

 

Howya pat, how do I find this plug in?And how do I then use it?

 

hiya kop mate you will need a box other than the dm500s and you will need the image i mentioned above. if you installed cccam on your box using your remote control you install the plug in in the same way .or else try and download it and manually install it in the correct file on your dreambox. make sure any addon or plug in is safe to you use on your box and with the image you have .

 

thanks piopat for the responce,my father has that image on his box,so ill try it with his and see..ill report back..thanks again.

 

Have a look at this thread if you have a dm500. the 7 day epg requires a network share setup. if you have a usb (eg.dm600, dm7020,dm800 etc... ) you can use this device to store the epg

 

When you say network share?do you mean that it needs to have a pc connected to it in order to save the 7 day epg to?I only have a router connected to mine, this I presume is not good enough to receive this 7 day epg?

 

i have had a look into the epg with a 500's and its very hard, if you have an enigma 2 box i.e the 800 the epg is built in with the image. this is why i am getting a 800hd

 

not true ireilly, you do not get integrated epg on a dm800. you need to download it. the difference between the dm800 and the dm500 is that you have two possible areas of storage for the download on the 800, ie. the usb drive or the external hard disk (do not put an internal hard disk in the 800, it will self combust. on the 500 you can use a network share drive. this does not have to be a computer. see link http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products...-network-hard-drives/home-media/?partner=4760 as an example. obviously you do not need a 1tb drive to store epg, its just an example of a network drive that you simply connect to your router. the dm500 can then access this drive over the network to refresh epg