Advice Needed Dreambox DM900 - any good?

Manikm909

Manikm909

Small'ish Dish Man
My Satellite Setup
Channel Master 1.8M on Edision MIO 4K & GTMEDIA Combo, and CM1.2M on Octagon SF8008
My Location
Kent, UK
anyone using a DM900?

I can get one fairly cheap - wondered if its worth it, or are there newer and better alternatives for an E2 box...
 
its funny how things work out - almost answering my own question, but just shy of 12 months since i posted, i have just ordered one (a DM900) to replace my MIO 4K+ - as the random loss of signal issue is doing my head in, and i can only put it down to the MIO being a faulty receiver.

was tempted by the "Dreambox Two" - but couldnt justify the extra money
 
A good box, but quite often low-quality flash memories were installed (light only red LED and none answer)
 
EnoSat said:
A good box, but quite often low-quality flash memories were installed (light only red LED and none answer)
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To my surprise the one that arrived is the RC20 EDITION . Which I believe is a 2020 model and might not suffer the issue ...?
 
It depends on the quality of the components used on the board
 
I have one here, it is happily running OpenATV 7.4
 
Manikm909 said:
Any reason you haven't gone with black hole image
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Blindscan...PLI and now ATV are the only images that are not based on DreamboxOS I have found so far that work. The blindscan however, is the same as the Dreambox OS, as the plugin written by Heuvos doesn't work with the Dreambox.
 
scopus said:
Blindscan...PLI and now ATV are the only images that are not based on DreamboxOS I have found so far that work. The blindscan however, is the same as the Dreambox OS, as the plugin written by Heuvos doesn't work with the Dreambox.
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Could you please clarify better this last point?
I have DM920, and I'm looking for the best image having blindscan and, possibly, locking SR values below 1000.
I tested Openatv 7.0 but I had issues regarding tuner settings.
I have 1 dual satellite tuner and 1 dual terrestrial tuner installed in my box, but I was not able to use the second satellite input with that image so I replaced it with a different one based on OE2.5, but blinscan was lost.
What can you say? Thanks.
 
7mdish said:
Could you please clarify better this last point?
I have DM920, and I'm looking for the best image having blindscan and, possibly, locking SR values below 1000.
I tested Openatv 7.0 but I had issues regarding tuner settings.
I have 1 dual satellite tuner and 1 dual terrestrial tuner installed in my box, but I was not able to use the second satellite input with that image so I replaced it with a different one based on OE2.5, but blinscan was lost.
What can you say? Thanks.
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I have the DM900 not the DM920. They are possibly different tuners. Specs say they are FBC tuners..
 
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scopus said:
I have the DM900 not the DM920. They are possibly different tuners. Specs say they are FBC tuners..
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Well, I do not believe they are so different.
I have FBC tuners too. My satellite tuner has 2 physical inputs but 8 "virtual" tuners.
This is my main issue. As I mentioned, I was not able to configure the second input with Openatv but I would like to have blind scan and very low symbol rates detection (between 500 and 1000).
So, I'm looking for an image with this features. Thanks.
 
7mdish said:
Well, I do not believe they are so different.
I have FBC tuners too. My satellite tuner has 2 physical inputs but 8 "virtual" tuners.
This is my main issue. As I mentioned, I was not able to configure the second input with Openatv but I would like to have blind scan and very low symbol rates detection (between 500 and 1000).
So, I'm looking for an image with this features. Thanks.
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I think the issue is the fact you have FBC tuners, I just have S2 tuners. The tuner module is a plugin job. If you put S2 tuners in instead, it would probably be OK.
 
Hi, i have dm900 also, i'm using Gemini 4.2

Twin Dvb-s2x tuners, blindscan working, multistream

I will check exact model later
 
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scopus said:
I think the issue is the fact you have FBC tuners, I just have S2 tuners. The tuner module is a plugin job. If you put S2 tuners in instead, it would probably be OK.
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Yes you are right. My tuner is the twin FBC one, model 45308.
I choose this tuner becuase multistream was needed here. It would be a very simple job to replace it with a non-FBC one as you mentioned, but maybe changing the image would be simpler. Thanks.
 
can anyone tell me how to switch to the HDMI input..some kind of plugin which i cant find...
i would have thought it would have been a hardware option - but after reading old threads on various forums, it seems theres a plugin
 
Here is a blindscan at 26.0 east

blindscan_26.0_east.jpg
 
stel883_ said:
Tuners
Tuner A1:Si2166D (DVB-S2)
Tuner A2:Si2166D (DVB-S2)
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My tuner is a DVB-S2X one, model 45308.
I see 8 tuners (from A1 to A8) but physical inputs are only 2, and I'm not able to configure the second one using Openatv image as I mentioned earlier.
I solved this problem installing Satlodge image but I would prefer Openatv due to blindscan features. Bad luck.
 
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