Hi Charles,

I recently bought a DB 7080 and I must say I was a bit disappointed. I´ve had a 7025 for almost 10 years and I´ve been extremely satisfied with it.

Being a satellite enthusiast - for mora than twenty years - I have 7-8 receivers, including a VU+. But none has been as good as the DB7025. I was therefore looking forward to the DB7080.

On the positive side, the hardware is really impressing, it looks very good built. The software that came with the unit was experimental, and it hung all the time. Switch off and restart. It starts extremely fast, the fastest of any Unix receiver I´ve had. After reloading a new version of the software - it was difficult to find out how, but it worked quite well - it seems to work all right.

There is however one great drawback - it doesn´t at present support Freesat EPG. That will certainly come, but not necessarily in a hurry because Dreambox does not Believe in open source any more, so you have to rely on their releases. If I had known that I would have thought twice before buying it.

And yes, it has mounting holes for 2.5" disks. I have one myself.

As for manuals, there is officially only a german manual. There is however an english manual at http://www.dream-multimedia-tv…/dm7080hd_user_manual.pdf

Rgds/Dalf

I did buy the 7080 as an upgrade for my dm8000.

I must say, im disappointed.

Its fast yes, very fast.and use less power= quiet

But that is only upgrade over my dm8000.

Many Things still don't Work.

main reason i did buy the dm7080 over the vu+duo2 was the hdmi in/out, but it doesn't Work.
the dlna server does not Work, it will surly over time.
recording timer, not stable, software issue, that will be fixed over time

I just think they should have waited 6 month to release the dm7080, then maybe it would work as supposed .

if I could do things over, I would have sticked with my dm8000, im sorry I sold the dm8000.

I've just bought a DM7080 to replace my DM8000 and, while some things like the GigE interface are a huge improvement, I'm also disappointed about the state of the new OE2.2 software.

The biggest problem I'm having right now is that recordings to the internal harddisk don't seem to be given high enough priority over other processes. (Or there is less I/O buffering than on the DM8000 so the system can't absorb interruptions.) I'm finding at the moment that ANY activity on the box while a recording is in progress (even the start of another timer recording) causes a corruption in the .ts file of about 2 seconds of the recording in progress. This is unacceptable and never happened on my DM8000 (or indeed my old DM7025).

Gutemine's OpenTV plugin works well as a FreeSAT EPG solution. It's a lot slower than OE2.0 solutions such as CrossEPG (I assume because of changes DMM have made to the EPG database - Gutemine can no doubt correct me on this!) but that's not really a problem - you can just set it up to run overnight.

wavelet

Which software are you running on the DM7080? There was an issue with freezes in recordings, but they should be fixed with one of the previous updates.

More precisely it should been fixed latest with the update from the 13th March (enigma2 4.2.1r18 ) : http://git.opendreambox.org/?p…195e7a8929e16ff8b4e29e3b2
[quote]- fixed possible "rave record buffer overflow" messages which can cause block artifacts in recordings[/code]

I did a software update last Tuesday and I'm running 4.2.2r1 (10th April). The problem isn't really blocking artifacts, rather a whole 2 seconds or so missing from both the video and the audio streams in the .ts file.

I would to run some more tests, perhaps with a new, empty hard drive, to confirm the problem. (The hdd in my DM7080 used to be in my DM8000 - I swapped it over without any re-formatting.) Unfortunately, I shall be travelling in Germany the rest of this week, so this will have to wait.

A quick update: I have not been able to reproduce my issue with a new empty hard drive in the DM7080. There are a number of differences between the new drive I used and the one swapped over from my DM8000:
New Drive:
- Western Digital, 160GB, empty
- DM7080 initialises it to a ext4 partition
- 7200rpm, 8MB cache, 300 Mbps transfer rate
Ex-DM8000 Drive:
- Seagate, 2TB, 95% full
- ext3 partition
- 5900rpm, 64MB cache, 144 Mbps transfer rate
I doubt I'm going to find the time to narrow the problem down any further. I'll probably just buy a new drive for the DM7080.
wavelet

Zitat von gambcl

- Sometimes it boots up with no network interface. The network screen is empty. I have to keep rebooting until it eventually gets a network interface. I am using ethernet connection. I need this because I like to have email notifications when a recording finishes and when there are updates available.

try to use manual IPv4 and switch off the IPv6 address, it helped in my case.

regards

PiGeon