Dreambox Hell
Posted by lars | Filed under Lifehacking, TV, howto
FEAR ME! Take me to your leader! All of your bases! I am the FUCK-YOU- BOX
Oh my god. I finally got everything working on the box from hell, the fuckyou-box. Rest assured I will write a detailed guide for how to set up a DM 800 with Canal Digital. I got the error “Tuning failed / Tuning misslyckades” when I tried to set up the HD channels but after altering my Diseq settings that all worked out too and I’m now watching glorious HD.
Now I just have to read on various forums how I will be able to set up my favorite channels, which involves third party (windows only) software and the extensive editing of XML files.
I was stupid enough to read the manual of the thing and therefore invested in an USB to RJ232 converter..I also bought a cable, which turned out to be the wrong kind (I needed female – female but got female – male..which is what you used to use for NORMAL devices). So after dishing out some cash I dissected two other RJ232 and then put it back with a lot of electric tape and patience only to conclude that I could just upgrade firmware via the browser. Awesome.
The manual also failed to mention if the chip of the card was supposed to be up or down, in my previous settop box it was up..so I initially had it up on the Dreambox also..which is wrong, it should be down. Although that really didn’t matter since I had not gotten the “newcs” binary running..or had the correct Diseq settings…
Anyway. I am off to a well deserved sleep. Pimping aint easy..
Update August 2009: Running Nabilosat Blackhole 0.11g COMPLETLEY elimnates ALL tuning failed errors. PLI Jade sucks in comparisom!
Tags: dm 800, dreambox, settings, tuning failed
