Dm500HD mini USB Help

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Entering the Image Dreambox 500HD with Mini USB cable - Tutorial
First Mini USB male to male USB & Cat5 Network Cable
1Potreban you a mini-USB cable like the picture below

Installing the USB DreamUP

On the back dm500hd Mini has a USB port / USB: To load firmware to dm500hd you must use a standard USB cable that one side has a USB port and mini USB connector on the other hand:

For now, do not connect the USB cable to your computer.

Turn dm500hd button and move to OFF:

If this is the first time you connect your Dreambox to your PC with a USB cable ", then you need to first install drivers or dm500hd will be" recognized.

Download USB Driver dm500hd and unzip the zip file to a folder on your computer.

- Now install the drivers.
-Open the folder and click on the exe PreInstaler.
-Confirm by clicking "Install":

If all goes well, after a few seconds you will receive a confirmation message:

# Now, again with dm500hd off, connect the USB cable to the computer and with that you automatically finish installing the driver:

# Before you can use DreamUP have to see which COM port is' assigned to serial converter / Dreambox USB, then go to "Control Panel", then "System" and then "Advanced System Settings"

Now go to "Hardware" tab and click on "Device Manager":

Go to the "Ports (COM & LPT)" and you will see that the assigned COM "SFE RS232 to USB Controller" in my case and "COM7:

At this point the USB drivers instalirani.A you know who is assigned to COM. But missing one more thing before we start koristtit DreamUP. And it means' IP addresses dm500hd. If you know there koji'IP Dreambox can skip this part and go straight to DreamUP, but if you do not know the IP address of the process is much slower. To be precise, DreamUP can be used without activating the "Use Network" and therefore do not need to know the IP Dreambox, but without it, the firmware will be loaded only through the serial is very 'slow, so you need more "thirty minutes, but if Network and use the firmware is loaded and uses a network connection it takes a few minutes.

Here is a little lower, you can download the drivers
Here's another link with pictures and tutorial in Italian, which help if:

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Usb dm 500hd driver

How to flash your Dreambox DM500 HD with DreamUp

Check the Network for faster image transfer approximately 3-4 minutes

First disconnect the box from main power
start the program "DreamUp

select your comport
maybe use network
if network: enter the local IP from your PC, enter a remote IP for your Box

press the "Connect" - button
and then connect the box to main power
please wait now

after the flash loader is transfered into the Box select the firmware by pressing
the "Flash" - button

select the firmware and click "open"

upload starts now, please wait

Box is flashing the new firmware into the flash memory, please wait

flashing done, press "OK"
press "disconnect then exit"
restart the box

DM500 HD Flashing firmware by Browser

Flashing a new firmware by Browser

What you need to flash

You need the image file you want to flash. Image files have the extension *.nfi. You can't flash other
images like *.img files. Don't try it - it won't work.
You need either a DHCP server and a configured bootloader
You need a browser and a network cable. Connect your Dreambox to a switch/hub/router in your lokal LAN.
To flash a new image, you can use the second stage loader. It must be present and not broken.
The following steps assume you have a DHCP server.
If you don't have one, you have to setup
 an IP address (klick) in the bootloader's serial setup.

• - (1.) Press and hold the power button.
  - (2.) Switch on your Dreambox.
  - (3.) Your Dreambox will get the next free DHCP IP address from your router.

• - Now, open a browser on your PC.
  (1.) enter in the address line "http://ip/" .
  - (2.) on the bottom of the page, there's a link called "firmware upgrade". Click it.

- On the next page, you can select the flash image you want to flash. be sure that it has the ".nfi" extension.
You can't flash other images (like .img)!
- Click on "FLASH!" and wait. It might take some time to upload and flash the image.
- Switch the box off again, and on again. The new image should be flashed and working.

DM500 HD - manual IP

Setup a manual IP address in the bootloader:

OK, you don't have an DHCP server. That's normal if you don't have a router or configured one
by yourself. You don't need to install one, but you need to connect your Dreambox by a USB cable now.

You need to know which IP to give to your Dreambox. If you don't know which IP to choose, please ask
someone who can help you. You can choose any IP which is "near" your PC's IP address, but the 
IP should not be used by any other device.

For example, if your PC's IP is 192.168.0.5, you could use
192.168.0.10, unless another device already uses that. In that case, just choose 192.168.0.11, or whatever. It just needs to be in the 192.168.0.x range, where x is >= 1 and <= 254.

Start your favourite terminal program, for example HyperTerm. Setup your Comport to 115200/8N1.
 Press the "s" key.

Now a setup menu should appear. It should look similiar than the screenshot below.

Press the right arrow. You are now in the network setup menu.
Using "+" or "-" you can set the "Network type" to "manual".
Now you can enter an IP address in below. Press F9 to save your settings.
The Dreambox will shutdown.

Now go back and to the procedure again. "dhcp" shouldn't appear anymore, instead the IP you entered.