How to stop remote controlling 2 boxes

There is two ways to change remotes controlling both boxes

The easy: use a plugin to lock the IR reciver in the Dreambox,
that your not using.
The name of the plugin: DB_Switch
Install it on both Dreamboxes.

The hard way, reprogram your remotes.
And change the setup in the Dreamboxes.


WARNING: be careful. Don't mistype anything. If you mistyped something, disconnect the battery for a short moment instead of continuing.

Please note that these instructions are ONLY FOR THE BIG RCU (DM70xx), not for the smaller ones.

First, you need to "unlock" the RC. This must be done in the following way:

1.) press the Dream-key (the upper one)
2.) press shift (next to the power button) until the RCU blinks two times,
3.) now, without mistyping, enter the following numbers: 9 - 8 - 2

now the RC has to blink four times. If it blinks only two times, the RC was already unlocked (and is now locked), so just repeat the procedure.

Now you can choose the "level":

1.), 2.) like above,
3.) Press the following keys: 0 - 0 - 3 - 1 for level 1,
OR 0 - 0 - 3 - 2 for level 2,
OR 0 - 0 - 3 - 3 for level 3,
OR 0 - 0 - 3 - 4 for level 4,

now the RC has to blink two times. if it blinks only one time, the RC was not unlocked.

now you can lock the RC (with the procedure above) again if you like.

Please note: You are doing this on your own. If you mistype anything, you can set options which cannot be reset without a cable to the PC. If you only use 982 and 003x, nothing can happen, but be careful.

DB_Switch plugin

DB Switch
If you have two dreambox receivers in the same room you can use this to assign a key to each receiver so that the same remote doesn't operator both receivers at the same time.


Installing on your Dreambox

If your image has an Addons menu, copy the .tar.bz file to the /tmp folder on your box and install via the Manual Install option in your Addons menu.

If it doesn't have this function, extract the files to your Desktop using WinRar and copy the files to the proper folder locations using your FTP client.

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ha that's brilliant that mate, was just trying to work out how i could do it and that's going to solve my problem, was thinking I'd be shutting down a box all the time and then restarting it when i wanted to use it.

Top post...thanks

once you've uploaded the plugin how does it work? very clever like...

Could you please post a new link for the plugin. The existing one does not work. Thanks....Geoff