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    Motor drives to limits without stoppping at satellite

    Hiya, Should have mentioned that, I have tryed both Disec and Usals (trying Usals at the mo). Never tryed it with the original image, used to Nabilosat, so that was the first thing I updated. One thing I will try tomorrow is too see if there is a hard reset button on the motor - that may be...
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    Motor drives to limits without stoppping at satellite

    Got a DM800 this week and have been setting it up to replace my old and trusty DM500. Put the latest Nabilosat 0.12 image on it, but have had servere problems setting up the motor. Have spent several nights on it with little joy - can only pick up the one odd bird, and then loose it completly...
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    Motor setup dilemna - 28E only, or every satellite apart from 28E

    Finally sorted, was weird! I went on the roof and got my partner to sentd the dish to 28E by selecting BBC1 and dish moved to 0°. Tryed all the otehr sats and the dish moved as it should, went back to another channel on 28E and again the dish travelled back to 0°. So reinstalled the image...
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    Motor setup dilemna - 28E only, or every satellite apart from 28E

    * chib Thanks for the reply. My pole is dead straight (ooo arr missess!!). I have a flat roof and last week mounted the pole on a large pavement slab recently donated by Murphy's. I even used fast drying cement to level out underneath the base of the slab, while using a spirit level on the...
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    Motor setup dilemna - 28E only, or every satellite apart from 28E

    Thanks to Rolfw and wod for the replies to my previous set up question, with there help I sort of got it right first time. I loaded the PET123 settings file on my DreamBox and set up the motor configuration settings. I selected BBC Prime and the dish turned to Thor (0.8W), and I then tilted my...
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    Motor Setup confusion - Declination

    I've finally got around to mounting a pole on my roof and have an 80cm dish and SuperJack DG 120 motor too go on it. I am a bit confused about the angles: A) The angle of the motor B) The angle of the dish I'm in Central london and my Latitude is 51 degrees. Do I simply set the motor for...
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    How to stream from Dreambox to Internet

    1mb will do the trick, you will just loose out on the quality. You would need to downsample the audio and video streams according to your maximum upload speed. If you can find out your upload speed (google for broadband speed test), then make sure the values are below your upload speed. Your...
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    Streaming from DB to internet

    * Cheekykid Have a look here: http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/dreambox-guides-stickies-faqs/81198-how-stream-dreambox-internet.html#post486850
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    How to stream from Dreambox to Internet

    Here's a simple way to stream sat channels from your Dream Box to the net. You will need only a couple of bits of software and to be honest VLC Player can do it by itself, dreamView is a front end for it and makes life a lot easier (especially changing channels). I can pick up the stream on my...
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    how to burn spice platinum to dvd

    I haven't been able to try it yet but apparently Nero 7 can do it. _h**p://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/Nero_Vision_4.html
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    Cifs & Gemini problem

    One problem with the above, my SMB shares for my Xbox dont work anymore!!! I can only see files in the root, so cant open any folders. Oh well, back to the drawing board.........
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    Cifs & Gemini problem

    :) Might have it sussed!! I went against the manual after trying everything over the last few weeks. I turned 'Simple File Sharing' ON. Then straight away the showed up in the web interface. I could then navigate to my movie folder and hopefully everything will now be OK. Tomake the...
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    Cifs & Gemini problem

    Yep, I'm in the same boat as others using a 500S. I had it working once, I set the share as /mnt/hdd. I have tryed the Pli and latest Gemini, and even restored a backup that had been mounted (and working) and still the same, have spents lots of time reading and trying.... Have tryed setting...
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    Dreambox Clone?

    Funny, it says but cant see a slot on it!! lol Sure my DM500S has one..........
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    is it possible to use DM500C in the uk >

    They wont know as the dream box does not have talkback like the standard cable boxes NTL use.
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