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    Newbie Dreambox Help Needed

    Am a noob to satellite. IT literate but not with Linux\Shell Scripting etc. I have a Dreambox 500s and have flashed it with the Open PLI image. It has CCam 2.3.0 running and is now on my network. It can see the internet by testing download of new menus. I have registered my ISP assigned IP...
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    Getting my DM500 to work

    Thanks again for your help with this. If I read u right - the dish I have pointed at UK Freesat should be able to get BSkyB channels from the UK (Sky UK)? I've just swapped over the dish connection to the Freesat one and it now looks like it's scanning Bskyb channels. Is there an easy way to...
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    Getting my DM500 to work

    That's really helpful for a sat newbie like me thanks. If I want to get Sky UK channels from the Astra 2 satellite - where does my dish have to point? Is it not possible to use the dish pointed at UK Freesat? As I have 2 fixed dishes - would it be better to get a motorised dish with multiple...
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    Problem After Gemini Flash Upgrade - Dreambox DM500s

    Thanks. I got hold of an RS232 cable but had issues as all of my laptops don't have serial ports and the USB2 to RS232 converter cable I bought wouldn't work on Windows 7 (device cannot start). Luckily I have an older XP media server in my loft and I used the serial port on that one. Have now...
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    Getting my DM500 to work

    I have 2 satellite dishes. One pointed at the satellite for TNTSAT for French TV (not sure where that's pointing or which satellite it uses). If I connect my Dreambox to the French dish - I can scan both Astra 19.2 and Astra 2A\Eurobird and pick up over 800 channels. However the Sky channels...
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    Problem After Gemini Flash Upgrade - Dreambox DM500s

    Help please. Am a newbie who bought a DM500 s which arrived and then scanned Astra satellites, got load of channels, connected it to my network. Got Dreambox Control Centre to find it and downloaded the latest Gemini image. FTP'd it to the /tmp directory and did a manual upgrade. Now al I get is...
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    Getting my DM500 to work

    Am such a newbie that I don't even know how to post to this forum. Can you help? I have new Dreambox 500s, connecte to my neywork and am trying to get access to Sky channels but don't even know what system my DB is suing let alone how to set up ccam. All the instructions I have found so far...
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