DM800HD setup advice

drphibes

Inactive User
Joined
Oct 18, 2009
Messages
30
Reaction score
0
Well I was presented with a DM800HD reciever this xmas and was well chuffed. At the moment I am using a Technomate 600 reciever with motorised dish and can reiceve around 12 sats. I have plugged the DM800 in but to be honest I am confused on how to setup this box and get the motor etc to work. Royal Kid has been a massive help to me in setting my tm600 up and I do not really want to pester him again if I can help it lol although I am sure he would not mind.

I know a few guys on here have DM800's so I would really appreciate it if you could help me out here and help me get the box finding the sats and channel lists etc.

Cheers
 
you can download channel lists from the net via you box along with skins and any other addons you might want,

get an ethernet in the back and have a look, prob the easiest way.

Hi Can you let me know how I can download the channel lists via the box mate ?

Thanks
 
Hi M8

You,ll find that using a Linux box is a lot more trickier than using a Tm8,
and a lot harder to setup. Go to the top of the page to the stickies and
you,ll find a steup guide there for a dm800. My first linux was a dm7020
about two years ago and i followed a setup guide from a guy called
stillabrumie who had a stickie for setting up a dm500 at the top of the
page and it was very easy to follow, but its not there now. When i got my dm hd reciever it was like starting over again as every thing had either changed or was updated but i got there in the end. My advice m8 is take your time and don,t give in, as after a lot of head banging you will get there in the end. Just keep reading and posting, as there are plenty of guys on this forum who will help.

Fezzy
 
Hi

Well I must have put in a good 7-8 hours today and still no luck !!
The advice I have been given is to go the usals route and I do get the feeling that this might work if I could only get things spot on.
I have entered my long and lat after selecting simple and positioner.
If I then go to the satfinder in the tuning menu I select various sats and the results are below

28.2 east - snr 43% agc 99% ber 0 and lock box ticked
19.2 east - snr 59% agc 99% ber 0 and lock box ticked
16 east - snr 43% agc 99% ber 4554 and lock box ticked
13 east - snr 37% agc 99% ber 9024 and lock box ticked
10 east - snr 70% agc 99% ber 0 and lock box ticked
9 east - snr 40% agc 99% ber 20000 and lock box ticked
7 east - snr 38% agc 99% ber 2700 and lock box ticked


Thor at 1 west does no lock and yet this sat was perfect on my tm600 so the dish alignment should be ok ?

The guide at the top of the forum seems to help setup a single sky system so not sure if it is going to help me with my problem ?
Is it possible to setup each sat on its own like in the sticky guide ?

Yes I wont give up because the benefits are fantastic and I am sure the box will be great when it finally gets going.

Any help would be really welcome because 8 hours of grief has really put me through the grinder today !!

Thanks


Update before bedtime !
Looks like I might have a bit of light at the end of the tunnel because I have just got a lot of channels on 13 east and have decoded al jazeera sports with my card!!
Hopefully tomorrow will bring more success and with a bit of luck it will take a lot less than 8 hours to get it lol.
 
Last edited:
Hi

Well I must have put in a good 7-8 hours today and still no luck !!
The advice I have been given is to go the usals route and I do get the feeling that this might work if I could only get things spot on.
I have entered my long and lat after selecting simple and positioner.
If I then go to the satfinder in the tuning menu I select various sats and the results are below

28.2 east - snr 43% agc 99% ber 0 and lock box ticked
19.2 east - snr 59% agc 99% ber 0 and lock box ticked
16 east - snr 43% agc 99% ber 4554 and lock box ticked
13 east - snr 37% agc 99% ber 9024 and lock box ticked
10 east - snr 70% agc 99% ber 0 and lock box ticked
9 east - snr 40% agc 99% ber 20000 and lock box ticked
7 east - snr 38% agc 99% ber 2700 and lock box ticked


Thor at 1 west does no lock and yet this sat was perfect on my tm600 so the dish alignment should be ok ?

The guide at the top of the forum seems to help setup a single sky system so not sure if it is going to help me with my problem ?
Is it possible to setup each sat on its own like in the sticky guide ?

Yes I wont give up because the benefits are fantastic and I am sure the box will be great when it finally gets going.

Any help would be really welcome because 8 hours of grief has really put me through the grinder today !!

Thanks


Update before bedtime !
Looks like I might have a bit of light at the end of the tunnel because I have just got a lot of channels on 13 east and have decoded al jazeera sports with my card!!
Hopefully tomorrow will bring more success and with a bit of luck it will take a lot less than 8 hours to get it lol.



Good luck mate....

I am in same boat as you mate I spent hours trying to set up my dm800s with my motorised dish. I managed to get a lock on 28.2 and 19.2 east. I cant get anything on thor... No lock at all.... I have left it for over 2 weeks as weather as been really bad.... I will get back up there within the next couple of weeks as I wont let it beat me.. I'm going back to test it on my dm500s first then try my dm800s
 
Hi

I finally managed to get the dm800 working using usals. To get some success it took a lot of tweaking with the long and lat until the dish started to lock onto a weakish signal. More tweaks and the signal started to improve so all seems to be well at the moment with the dish picking up all the sats that my previous tm600 did.
 
I replied on AVforums but i've manged to upload the channel list here.You'll need Dreambox edit,dreambox to send the list to your DM and Dreambox control centre Dreambox Control Center (DCC) Final Version - Windows Software so you can ftp stuff to it

Hi

Sorry jump in here but whats the difference between the 2 lists you posted mate, just upped the latter one to my box.

Lol.was my thread anyway.

Just upped it to box but can not find the channels in the bouquets ?

When i look as list on DBE ie General User Bouquet is shows all the channels i need ie all bbc1 and bbc 2'etc

When i scroll through bouquets on the DBox they are not as on DBE ??

It has definately upped them and reset box etc but i would of thought it would scroll through each bouquet and under that the channels should be listed as in DBE ?????

Cheers
 
Last edited:
Back
Top