Shy Channels on sat with dreambox 500s

Very good fintan, dont think im that desperate for epg,so ill just use what Ive got,thanks for the info.

 

Hi Guys

Have an original Dreambox 600pvr with pli jade 3 image and its working wonderfully. Got a 500s clone from Dealextreme today and the osd menu is in chinese, I believe its an enigma image. I searched on google how to change it with no luck, could you guys the experts tell me how i change it to english? Tia

 

mick, had same issue. took about 3 mins to sort. work it

 

Took me about 5 mins in the end to "work it"

 

good for u mick. all can be done. ya get more satisfaction doing it yourself

 

Why don't one of you post solution so people will know how to fix it

 

caus it took a while to go through the chinese menu and its kind of hard to remember exactly which menu you select as its all gibberish. while i would have liked to help i'm not great at chinese. so its hit and miss until you figure it out for yourself. also since we don't have chinese characters to use on our keyboards it makes it even harder. we supply solutions where we can. this is not one of those cases

 

Simply flash it with Dreamup using a null modem cable

 

cant argue with fintann,eamo too ,fano etc but mick it would be great if you posted your your fix for that problem . thanks mate .

 

Guys, I have a 500s, I connected a modem cable to my PC, cannot see it in "My Computer" am I missing something here? does it need a connection to the router before I can see it?

thanks in advance

 

check in communication setup in your dm500s to see if nameserver and gateway have your router ip address ,if they dont you need to enable dhcp and then press green to save . now go back in to communication setup and see if nameserver and gateway are displaying your router ip . if they are disable dhcp and check that enable network is enabled and then press green to save . if this fails unplug the box and the router ,plug the box back in and let it boot up ,then plug the router in and see if the router can now see the box.

 

i hav starv***6 hd combo receiver am interested in setting up CS on it(using sat to tune as out of cable area) can anyone help or recommend a cline, i am total nub so any help with setting up would be really appreciated. would also be interested in sharing my sub but coz total nub to this dont hav a clue what i need to set etc

TX in advance for any help

 

Sorry for my insolence Fint,I just can't stand posts like SORTED & no clues.
Anyway all 3 of us are dummies, cos we didn't think of Fano's solution

 

Yes you are missing something, unfortunately the something you are missing is knowledge.

You will need to read a few tutorials and guides (search this site or google for them), but it will be a slow process as there is a lot to learn.

 

Hi guys

I got my second dreambox 500s today. On the main box i'm receiving the basic channels (need some help to see sports and movies) but can someone give me a clue as to what line I need to put into each cccam config file for each box please?

Thanks in advance.

 

to view the movies/sports you will need the boxkey of the sly box .you will need to download nds boxkey generator ,on the rear of the sly box you should see a sticker with a 17 digit serial number on it (type this in to the boxkey generator to get the boxkey )if you have no sticker thats ok press menu on your sly remote and press 4 and go in to services and then go in to system info . in there you will see a serial number but it will only have 8 digits (enter that in to boxkey generator )dont worry that its only 8 digits and not 17 the boxkey will be the same .

if your only sharing at home you can use something like this ,if your second box is in the bedroom you could have an f line like this F: share1 bedroom (that goes in to the cccam.cfg file in the box with the card in it ,your server box ) the c line for the box in the bedroom will look something like this C:192.168.0.100 12000 share1 bedroom . the number in the c line 192.168.0.100 is an example of an ip address (you put the ip address of the server box here ) 12000 is the default port ,share1 is the user name ,bedroom is the password ,you can use any user name or password in the c line but it must match the user name and password in the f line .

once you have the boxkey you need to put it in to cccam.cfg in the server box ,if you have created a new cccam.cfg file just type in BOXKEY:dev/sci0 00 11 22 33 (00 11 22 33 is an example of the boxkey ,put your boxkey here ),if your just editing the cccam.cfg that you get when you installed cccam first just scroll down to line number 317 . you will see #BOXKEY:dev/sci0 00 11 22 33 ,you need to remove the # symbol at the start of the line(the # symbol locks a line so cccam will ignore that line ) and then edit the boxkey number above and put in your boxkey .click on file and click on exit and save ,now reboot your box .

 

brilliant, thanks very much for an excellent post pio. I'll let you know how I get on.

 

Just my tuppence on this. I would never buy a dreambox 500s if I could afford a little bit better. The 500s has no ability to store TV guide so while it is possible to view channels its a terrible pain not knowing what is in fact on. I have a clone DM800 (which has caused untold pain in itself due to lack of image support) but at least I have a 7 day TV guide for all channels. For those who are considering alternatives such as SV or Dreambox, I would suggest that you consider using a receiver that at least give/save EPG

 

Hi finn, yes I see where you're coming from but for a newbie i think the 500s is ideal as it's pretty simple to get going.

 

One dreambox to the next are very similar from a Linux point of view, so it is no harder to program a dm800 than a dm500. and at least you have a good box. the 500 is a painful experience and when you get through the experience you wish you had bought something else. so a clone dm800 will cost you 200 but you get hd, esata, usb. there are negatives, the biggest being lack of dual tuner, so you can watch and record at the same time. i never understood why after developing the 500, the 600, the 7020, the 7025 and then the 800 that they would not have incorporated all the improvements that were made as each box came out (ie. the 7025 had a dual tuner, so why didn't the 800 have a dual tuner).