Posts by Sandman

Quote from atlas

Other than the obvious hardware differences is there something that one can't do or can do better? Do they both support the same soft cams etc?

I am leaning on the VU+ ultimo for its better hardware specs and the local sat installer is recommending i stay with DREAM even if its clone.

I searched the web for ultimo vs dm800se etc etc with no comparisons or remarks of one being better than the other.

Is it possible a certain cccam server that works 100% with DREAM will not work with the VU+ box? my little understanding of how things work suggest that there should be no difference at all, especailly since they're both running variations of enigma2

I appreciate your time in explaining this.

Atlas

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Its going to come down to personal preference! The Ultimo is a newer box with newer hardware but cams will work fine on both boxes...you'll have no problem there!

Quote from steve67474

just a thought for redundancy on my servers.

Mutilroom is really the only way to do this! Theres no real point though unless you have *a lot* of clients!

Good to know SP!

Maybe I didn't give it long enough before giving up and putting it in my original box!

Quote from *** pirate

thanks m8s
well my card is full pakagge with HD, so it should be there, but they have to activate this.
my card is very happy in my dreambox and serving a few friends.
does it mean it has to go in the old digibox original to activate this 3d channel?
or can oscam, reading my card, manage the update?
thanks amigos

I had to put my card back in my original box for it to give me an entitlement for the 3D channel! You can upgrade to the channel for free online and the update is usually pretty quick!

Quote from *** pirate

anybody?
thanks

Not sure what you mean SP?

Is there no Sly 3D channel in your bouquet lists?

Whats not working?

slain!

I've done the VFD picons by hand...I'm not sure how elegant automating the process would be tbh and a fair number of the regular picons just don't work on the VFD display so I usually remove the graphic and replace with the appropriate text!

Give it a go and report back but I've a feeling they'll look a lot better done manually!

Quote from Daddy Bear

thanks mate, when i click on network in the new windows account i can see the shared movies folder from my original windows account and all of the movies listed.

i then went into media scanner plugin on my vu+ and selected the share and it says "no displayable files on this medium found"

how do i view the movies from the vu+ box?

thank you all so much for your patience

im almost there

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You don't need to worry about actually logging in with this new user! Its just created so the Vu+ box can access your Windows 7 machine properly!

Not sure about the media plugin...are the files in a compatible format? Do you have them in separate folders or all in the same folder?

I don't stream anything to the Vu+ but this may help someone else troubleshoot with you!

Quote from Daddy Bear

thank you for all the help guys, I'm finally getting somewhere. the mount appears to be successful now

the only problem is all of my movies are in my original windows account in a folder called "movies", in the new windows account i created, there are no files at all in there.

also how do i actually browse/play movies once i fugure out where they are? :)

once again thanks for all the help guys, this forum is awesome

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DB,

you create an administrator user and just share your 'Movies' folder, you don't need to create another one!

When you type '\\SERVERNAME' into the top of any folder window in Windows 7, you should see all your shares and if you've set it up right one of them should be 'Movies' (if that makes sense!)

- SERVERNAME is the name of your Windows machine BTW!

Quote from master G

This not my work but big thanks to Maxwell4321 on WOS

Maxwell took my summary and wrote an essay :haha:

Alan,

I would suggest you create a second administrator on your windows box with username 'vu' and password 'vu', then advanced share the folder in question giving full share rights to that user...

I wrote this on another forum a while back (the menus are BH related so just change where appropriate to VIX! Also..server share in your case is '/Movies')

"Heres how I mount my Windows 7 drive -

1. create folder on PC - mine is called 'vu'
2. create administrative user on PC, to keep things simple lets call the user 'vu' and the password 'vu'
3. share the folder : properties --> sharing --> advanced sharing --> make sure 'share this folder' is checked and click permissions --> make sure everybody has full control

On your Vu+ box -

1. menu --> setup --> system --> Network --> Mount Manager
2. Add a new network mount point
3. Active - yes, local share name - nas, mount type - CIFS share, server IP - (enter PC IP here), server share - /vu, username - vu, password - vu

Don't select 'use as hdd replacement' as I've seen this do some funny things....manually amend recording paths and recorded files path!"

Quote from barnsbury

Thanks guys. I will do the image this evening!

Shall I go ahead and install the latest TSpanel? Is it the same version as the dreambox file?

4.9 is the latest....you can't go wrong with TSpanel...check the linuxsat section for cams, picons and other useful add-ons!

barnsbury,

no...you don't need to upload the boot loader on the Ultimo...it comes with the latest version!

Let us know how you get on!

Daddy Bear,

hit menu and it should appear in the list at the top?

Guys,

this has now been booked! If you're on the list I've already or will be PM'ing you with further details!

If you're still interested, its not too late! Drop me a line and we'll see what we can do! beer10

Quote from musogeek

either me or Sandman is at crossed wires here - I thought you meant on your PC server, and Sandman seems to think you mean on a receiver...:misdoubt:

lol...I should go to bed ;)

Yea...i was thinking he was talking about 2 different boxes!

You'll still not notice any improvement other than boot time....the read / write cycles just aren't intense enough to take advantage of an bonus an SSD provides!

...but if you've the money and your server is small then why not...can't take it with you :)

triscross,

you'd be wasting your time tbh....the box would never take advantage of the SSD and eco drives would run just as quiet in this environment!

keep your picons, epg etc on a USB pen drive and just use the internal HDD for recording

Remember you can also record to your server and use it as your timeshift and record/playback system!

Junger,

I spent a fair while trying to find and amend a monitoring script but IMO none of them work!!

In the end I moved to VIX and rather than having to restart OSCam sometimes 2-3 times a day, its now 2-3 times per week....

Make sure you're running OSCam 65xx as well...it seems to be the most stable yet!

hmm..strange!

Can you ping ok between boxes?

Are you 100% sure the http port is set to 80 in the Ultimo's openwebif?

What are you entering in the settings?

Do you use another port other than 80?

What does your XBMC log say?

Anybody else? Speak now or forever hold your peace! (Well...until next year anyway!!) beer10