Kingman
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All,
The humble tale of my week 1 activities on my new (well second hand actually) Dreambox DM7000s.
Day 1 - Read as much material as possible from the English speaking Forums (this one+ sat Uk), idiots guides, user manuals, tools etc. One issue would appear to be that the delelopment of tools (FWZ etc) has overtaken the user /idiots guides, so some info is out of date and confusing.
Day 2 - Have loads of probelms connecting DM7000 to my home network. Simple mistake of LAn cable from PC to Dreambox, rather than router to Dreambox! Eventually get network connectivity and connectivity via null modem cable (hastily purchased the day before).
Day 3 - Use Dreamup to load Pli Diamond (on advice of forum users). Although all the guides recommend null modem cable approach I find using Lan is much more efficient.
Start up Dreambox and set up all satelites and Channels using auto transponder scan. Slow and labourius. Then proceed to hang PLi, necessitating a null modem re-flash and lose all my satellite/channel info! Give up in frustration!
Day 4 - Use DreamUP to load a different flash image, decide on factory image rel109, although this turns out to be a mistake given subsequent LZMA compatability issues. Further transponder scan of all available satelites really winds up rest of the family who are already commenting on Dreambox-itus
Day 5 - Discover the delights of Flash Wizard Pro 6.3 and try to load additional images to USB. All fail because of LZMA issues with rel109 image already on flash. Worried about losing satellite info again and impact on family life so do more reading.
Find Dreambox edit - what a relief. Use this to save all satellite/channel settings. Pray this works. Then use FWZ to load Gemini image into flash and Hydra, Pli and Da Vinci images onto USB all work a treat - now I am cooking on gas! Use Dreambox edit to reload sat/channel settings back into Dreambox, shock horror this works too. I am well chuffed.
Day 6 - Using Gemini image I use add-on fuctionality via blue button to download a variety of Cams and k*y files to VAr which I fill-up! Is there a way of storing add-ons on USB or HDD?
I find k*ys via addon download are all fairly old (most Jan dates), so wonder how i can get more up to date versions?
Discover files section on forum with download files for up to date k*y files. Now I have a proiblem with my FTP knowledge - I dont have any!! A quick upload of DCC gets me hooked up to an FTP screen with files on display on my Db and PC so all looks Ok. Now the problem and heres my main question:-
The info on k*y loading in a step by step idiot fashion is not available anwhere. If I unpack the latest M*ry key file and I require latest ca*d3 k*ys what exectly do I do in FTP? Which files do I overwrite? and where? Also is there anyway I can get these new files seen by the Addon process to alleviate the requirement for FTP?
Any help appreciated and hope you enjoyed my mishap diary
Cheers
Kingman
The humble tale of my week 1 activities on my new (well second hand actually) Dreambox DM7000s.
Day 1 - Read as much material as possible from the English speaking Forums (this one+ sat Uk), idiots guides, user manuals, tools etc. One issue would appear to be that the delelopment of tools (FWZ etc) has overtaken the user /idiots guides, so some info is out of date and confusing.
Day 2 - Have loads of probelms connecting DM7000 to my home network. Simple mistake of LAn cable from PC to Dreambox, rather than router to Dreambox! Eventually get network connectivity and connectivity via null modem cable (hastily purchased the day before).
Day 3 - Use Dreamup to load Pli Diamond (on advice of forum users). Although all the guides recommend null modem cable approach I find using Lan is much more efficient.
Start up Dreambox and set up all satelites and Channels using auto transponder scan. Slow and labourius. Then proceed to hang PLi, necessitating a null modem re-flash and lose all my satellite/channel info! Give up in frustration!
Day 4 - Use DreamUP to load a different flash image, decide on factory image rel109, although this turns out to be a mistake given subsequent LZMA compatability issues. Further transponder scan of all available satelites really winds up rest of the family who are already commenting on Dreambox-itus
Day 5 - Discover the delights of Flash Wizard Pro 6.3 and try to load additional images to USB. All fail because of LZMA issues with rel109 image already on flash. Worried about losing satellite info again and impact on family life so do more reading.
Find Dreambox edit - what a relief. Use this to save all satellite/channel settings. Pray this works. Then use FWZ to load Gemini image into flash and Hydra, Pli and Da Vinci images onto USB all work a treat - now I am cooking on gas! Use Dreambox edit to reload sat/channel settings back into Dreambox, shock horror this works too. I am well chuffed.
Day 6 - Using Gemini image I use add-on fuctionality via blue button to download a variety of Cams and k*y files to VAr which I fill-up! Is there a way of storing add-ons on USB or HDD?
I find k*ys via addon download are all fairly old (most Jan dates), so wonder how i can get more up to date versions?
Discover files section on forum with download files for up to date k*y files. Now I have a proiblem with my FTP knowledge - I dont have any!! A quick upload of DCC gets me hooked up to an FTP screen with files on display on my Db and PC so all looks Ok. Now the problem and heres my main question:-
The info on k*y loading in a step by step idiot fashion is not available anwhere. If I unpack the latest M*ry key file and I require latest ca*d3 k*ys what exectly do I do in FTP? Which files do I overwrite? and where? Also is there anyway I can get these new files seen by the Addon process to alleviate the requirement for FTP?
Any help appreciated and hope you enjoyed my mishap diary
Cheers
Kingman