Beiträge von trevor54

  • Programme list options

    Currently my Dreambox 800HD can just list programmes in alphabetic order. It would be a vast improvement if it had the same flexibility as my Technocmate 6900HD, which has options to list as a) Alphabetically, b) By transponder frequency, c) By encryption type and d) scan order. It also displays more information when highlighting any programme (e.g. frequency, encryption type, symbol rate and FEC).



    Hopefully such features will make it into some future release.



    Trevor54

  • DM800HD Loop through output

    The loop through on my DM800HD passes the satellite signal through, but seems to filter out the Diseqc voltage change signals. Is there any way to configure it to allow these Diseqc signals to pass through? The reason I ask is that this would allow me to connect a vbox positioner to the loop out instead of having it in series with the LNB input - this would avoid having to suffer the attenuation that the vbox gives to the signal. Note I also have a Technomate 6900HD and it does pass the Diseqc signal through and I have used the loop through out to successfully control the vbox.



    Trevor54

  • Dreambox 800HD External Hard disk problems

    I purchased a WD Mybook 1TB external drive, which had USB and eSATA connections. I managed to get it working on the USB for a while, but I had intermitent lock ups where it would stop recording and hang the dreambox. However the USB performance was better than via the eSATA, which didn't work at all. In desperation I removed the hard drive from the Mybook case and connected directly via a SATA to eSATA cable. This at least worked, but when I ran some speed tests of the disk for eSATA and USB I am getting 4.96MB/s for eSATA and 12.76MB/s for USB disk reads. This is somewhat surprising as the eSATA seems 3 times slower than the USB. This would explain why I am getting drop outs in the recording's, but I don't undertstand why the eSATA is running slower. Also when connected via eSATA it the disk is showing as IDE.




    Help greatly received as this is somewhat of a mystery.


    Trevor54
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