Posts by billybob69

Quote from pauldb

iv used one of these before very good space for hard drive and dvd drive, sits under a stb and plugins into the usb, also has extra usb ports

works with enigma2 as well

Ziboo Zipad USB Netbook Docking Station get from your usual fleabay about £7 put in your own drives

Thanks very much for the reply. I didn't even know these things existed! I have just ordered one now to have a play about with and see if I can cobble something together. Although I know that the first thing will be that with the introverted DVD open button on laptop DVD players, he will struggle to open the DVD player!

Any other potential solutions gratefully received!

Quote from gemini man

ive never seen a box like that . cant you have a dvd player seperate to the box ? do you have connectivity issues ? .

Thanks for the reply.
It is for my elderly grandfather who struggles with electronics at the best of times. We have tried to have a separate dvd player and a separate tv receiver, but he struggles to switch to the different TV inputs (i.e. the different HDMI inputs) using the remote control.

Hi,
Does anyone know how to make a backup of a channel list on a Amiko MICRO HD?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

bb69

Hi all,

Is there a sat receiver with a built in DVD Player on market? I'm particularly looking for which would allow a cline to be added.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

bb69

Quote from CarrotCruncher

I hope this is appropriately written and placed?

I decided to try some Clines in my current Technomate, something I have never done before. It seems to me they all glitch or freeze?

Are any of the server providers any good as all the websites appear to be nothing more than a repackage of another site!

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I tried quite a few and yes, they pretty much all glitch. Although some are better than others, so all I suggest is that if you stick to the pay route try as many as possible and then select the best. The one thing that I have noticed is that the amount of glitching does vary depending on the receiver. My HTPC is virtually glitch free on a cline which gave lots of glitching with my Spiderbox and Technomate receivers.

bb69

PS: I've seen that username on another forum I use. I don't suppose that you have an interest in 'bulls'?

Hi all,

I’ve been on this forum for a while but haven’t really (due to lack of knowledge) been able to contribute much. Therefore I thought that I would post some photos of my £70 motorised satellite setup with the hope that it might encourage others to put their own up.

The background to the setup, is that I spotted a – poorly described – motorised second hand satellite on fleabay being offered by a zero feedback seller and won the auction for a mere £45. The setup included a 0.8m Satellite dish, motor, pole and brackets. When I turned up to collect it, it seemed that the deal also included a Spiderbox which the seller hadn’t mentioned in the listing!
I decided to invest in a new Inverto Octo LNB at £25, therefore a grand total of £70.

As I’m re****ting the house, I have laid twin cable across the house, in fact the WF100 cable has cost more than the rest of the setup put together!

bb69

I came across the same problem and found that Acamd 6.18 does the same job.

A good blog is here which outlines how to add the cline -

http://mohammedah.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/dvb-how-to-use-acamd-plugin.html

bb69

Quote from thatfellow

My planned Setup:
Dedicated Linux PC Server
TBS 6984 PCI-E DVB-S2 Quad Tuner TV Card
USB Smargo Smartcard Reader Plus
Full Paid Subscription to a certain provider

I'm thinking about setting up a HTPC as a Linux c/s server with a very similar specification to the one that you planned.
Did you build the linux server after? Did you have any problems or any advice that you can share?

bb69