Well, first of all the DM7080HD is still quite new and does not only have new hardware but also a new software "generation". Also DMM is currently heavily developing and implementing new features, which leads sometimes to new problems or bugs, too. This might be the downside of frequent updates and the users participation in the development process. But for many users this is the whole fun or thrill about Dreamboxes
You mention the not missing features. These are the Transcoding-Unit and the HDMI-IN. For both support has been announced but the software is not yet published. I am confident that we don't have to wait too long for these features, but DMM did not give any schedule or deadline for these features.

The DM7080 is very well built and is already completly reliable. There were some issues with random, tiny errors in recordings, but these seem to be fixed with the last update (3 days ago).

The fact that Dream Multimedia (DMM) is a German company with German engineers for hard- and software justifies for me the high price. Especially plugin developers can always contact the enigma2 developers and get support, tips and tricks. This you won't get at VU+ or other manufacturers that offer enigma2 receivers. Additonally the "original" enigma2 was developed by DMM and is now exclusively for Dreamboxes. The competitors use a fork of the last version that had an open source enigma2 core where they could remove dreambox specific system checks.

I don't have any experience with Kartina IPTV. But as mentioned above the 7080 uses a new generation of enigma2 (under the new marketing name Dreambox OS) that has new APIs. Some plugins need to be adopted to this changes. If the plugins are open source, this has usually already been done by various developers (for the majority of plugins DMM did this long before the 7080 release). But of course closed source plugins can only be changed by the original author. I don't know who is the author of the Kartina plugin and whether it is open source. But maybe it does not even need to be changed for Dreambox OS because the API has been changed only in some parts. Most parts of enigma2 are still compatible.

The mounting frame for the hard disk supports 2.5" or 3.5" disks

Edit: Regarding transcoding I'v just found this: http://git.opendreambox.org/?p=dreamrtspserver.git;a=summary So DMM seems to have just released the source code of a new project for transcoding. I'm sure it will be on the boxes in a few days

OE stands for OpenEmbedded which is the Dev-Plattform for all enigma2 images. The images are not closed source, but the drivers and c++ core are.

Merlin is an image just like the two you mentioned, but for Dreamboxes only. You can find our image and board at: http://board.dreambox-tools.info/cmps_index.php I don't think that the VU+ image teams are producing dreambox images, just because they're using an enigma2 fork and so much is different. But I know that the OpenATV team is still creating images based on the fork for dreamboxes as well.

The default setup for the hard drive (as it is down on initialisation via the GUI) is a small (1 GB) Swap partition + the rest as ext4 partition. xfs, ext3 or so is possible as well, but you need to do this manually or with other plugins (eParted, GP3,...). FAT32 is not a good idea, because of the limit in file size which would be exceeded by almost every regular recording. exFat and NTFS are only possible with FUSE kernel modules and thus quite slow.

Why do you think you need an automated channel scan? I don't know Astra 28.2E but usually new channels are automatically found if you zap to other channels on the same transponder. Or does FreeSat change frequencies and stuff daily?
EPG download can be done via CrossEPG on the old plattform and with gutemines OpenEPG on OE 2.2( http://www.oozoon-board.de/wbb…page=Thread&threadID=1466).

WOL is not possible, the Dreambox would need to stay in Idle-Mode
If you setup your router accordingly remote access (e.g. via a Dyndns service) is no problem at all. From a security point-of-view I would suggest a VPN or SSH tunnel.

DVB-T2 Tuners are not announced by DMM, but I think there is a solution via an USB tuner by sundtek: http://sundtek.com/shop/Digita…Radio-AnalogTV.html?cur=1 I use it for DVB-C reception and it works fine. But DVB-T2 is not available in Germany, so I have no experience about that.

OE = http://wiki.blue-panel.com/index.php/OE_2.2_%28en%29

is not the same as DreamOS which is the image, with the (closed) Enigma2

Merlin is one of the images which can be used on dreamboxes,
the actual images are based on the DMM image, but can offer some extra functions, plugins, skins, ....

plugins are on the "feeds" of those images

the DMM stuff can be found on www.dreamboxupdate.com

1 partition on the HDD is OK, the device manager of the image can handle the formating

SWAP is not needed on the DM7080 HD

Nightly automatic scan is not possible

EPG update:
there are plugins such as EPGRefresh (loads while zapping a user defined channel list), EPGImport (new plugin under construction for the 7080HD for loading xml-epg files) and OpenEPG (also new development for loading OpenTV EPG)
The last 2 are new because a new database EPG solution has been used for the 7080 and 820, and even if the plugins are not final yet, the do the job already

WOL is not supported by the hardware

there is a "Webif" (web interface) on the box, which offers a lot of features,
the webif is also used by several iOS an Android apps to control the dreambox form a smartphone or tablet

VTI is a very good image, I still miss it on my 7080hd. But it doesn't make sense to run a OE1.6 based image on the 7080hd as you're giving away the real advantage: dreamboxes are the only enigma2 receivers where the 'core' gets upgraded/enhanced. VTI is making a good image, but it's based on a several years old enigma2 core.

updates of the plugins from a feed are handled by the package management system, but should be initiated by the user

of course you can also install/update plugins manually

you can read more here: http://wiki.blue-panel.com/ind…_extensions_%28plugins%29

you dealer has to learn some stuff about the new boxes/DreamOS, USB stick is no advantage with the 7080HD

The box has different modes:
-active (while watching TV)

-idle, running but not watching TV - still reachable over FTP/Telnet/webif ....

-standby, box is not running
but there is a "frontprocessor" which will wake up the box for set timers (recordings, zapping)
some plugins (as EPGRefresh) will also offer the possibility to start the box from standby to start some action

but no WOL

ps: if you read it might be you see
active / standby / deep standby
these are the old namings, but some people still use them

Zitat von m0rphU

I don't have any experience with Kartina IPTV. But ---.

https://github.com/technic/iptvdream

Open Source: Good

But a very brief first look into the source code showed this:

self.epgTimer = eTimer()
		self.epgProgressTimer = eTimer()
		self.epgTimer.callback.append(self.epgEvent)
		self.epgProgressTimer.callback.append(self.epgUpdateProgress)

-> Not good

eTimer is just one of the API calls that has been changed in DreamOS, so "someone" has to make changes to the plugin for DreamOS... The changes shouldn't be too difficult, but someone has to do it.
Additionally there is c++ Code involved in the plugin, of which I am totally unsure, whether it will compile and run on the new Dreamboxes....

Zitat von bschaar

Nightly automatic scan is not possible

not implemented in main functions doesn't mean "is not possible"

Zitat von gambcl

- A nightly channel scan on Astra 28.2E to find new channels automatically

i wrote script for my dm8000(on the dm7080 not trained) and call it weekly from cron

Zitat von gambcl

I just wish that they also made a DVB-T2 tuner

just in theory:
in case clone's Trippletuner(S2/T2/C) has Open Source drivers for dm800; dm800se they maybe can be midfied for other dreambox's models too
http://www.dream-multimedia-tv…439&highlight=#post137439

gambcl, I just posted a comment to your other thread in the "Produkte/Dreambox DM7080 HD" forum. I'd be interested to know if you're having the same issues as I am with recordings to HDD.

Regarding DVB-T2, a while back I played around with a USB DVB-T2 receiver stick (pcTV nanostick T2 290e) plugged into a DM8000HD. I was able to get the box to recognise it as a tuner but hit a brick wall when trying to configure it for DVB-T2 reception. UK DVB-T2 transmissions use 32K 1/128 256-QAM 2/3. OE2.0 didn't support 32k transmission nor 1/128 guard interval nor 256-QAM constellation and trying to set them to "auto" didn't get me anywhere.

If OE2.2 starts supporting the necessary transponder parameters for DVB-T2 it might be worth having another play with the USB stick even if DMM don't bring out a DVB-T2 tuner.

You are right. This business model you discriped is completely unsuccessful as we can learn from Apple every day

I am very pleased with the Dreambox 7080HD (although I am critical). Excellent picture quality (1080p), Gigabit LAN for excessive file swapping (streaming, file exchange) .... Ok, cooking coffee is already a nice-to-have feature. But soon tasty things like OpenGL happens. The developers crew may have become smaller, but qualitatively well positioned. They talk not constantly about things in which they are working on ...

The box design is mediocrity. And I do not mean the lack of colorful displays on the front. But this is for this price not better possible.The Dreambox 7080HD is inexpensive (not to be confused with cheap). Just look at what costs other things in life.

Zitat von mimisiku

It would be a different matter if this German Rolls would have UHD compatible hardware (ready for the future).. Closed Source is no good for developers and would bind you hand and feet to just one brand...

Then thank god that probably ~90% of DreamOS code is not closed source!

concerning 7080, that I own personally, are there some hope to see/have drivers to watch hevc/H265 channels on such a powerful machine ? In case which img/team is working on it ?