to all dm600 owners ,, i need advice

[amkhaial]

i decided to buy a new dm600 + 80 gb hdd ,, but i need to be sure that i won't regret it .. so i want to know the opinion of its owners about stability, timeshift , recording and cardsharing ,,, and if there are any problems ...

thank you in advance ...

[hemertje]

if you will regret it depends on your personal needs
we cant decide that for you

for now you cant do timeshifting on it
but seems that DMM is working on it to fix it...

the 600 is a updated 500 with openembedded software, more memory as you can read in the specs

[amkhaial]

Originally Posted by hemertje

if you will regret it depends on your personal needs
we cant decide that for you

for now you cant do timeshifting on it
but seems that DMM is working on it to fix it...

the 600 is a updated 500 with openembedded software, more memory as you can read in the specs

thank you for reply ,i read the specs many times but we can't depend only on the hardware abilities , and i hope that they will fix timeshifting soon ..

[Ehsan]

Originally Posted by amkhaial

i decided to buy a new dm600 + 80 gb hdd ,, but i need to be sure that i won't regret it .. so i want to know the opinion of its owners about stability, timeshift , recording and cardsharing ,,, and if there are any problems ...

thank you in advance ...

I love the dm600. Basically, if you are happy with dm500, this is twice better.

hardware is on par with or better than all other dreamboxes

stability depends on the image you use. gemini is just fine with no crashes.
timeshift works if you rewind first then pause. this is just a software issue and is easily fixed with a firmware update.

You can only flash with null modem for now.

recording works just well. rewinding and pausing etc is about 500ms less responsive than a DM7020, but I'm not sure if that's a software issue, or due to a slower IDE interface and the 5400rpm drive I'm using. still happy with it and it's very usable.

cardsharing, just like any other dm. All the major emus have been released now for it.

I hope that helps your decision. in the end, as hemertje said, it depends on your personal needs

[amkhaial]

thank you very much Ehsan ,,, your post is very useful to me and i guess i'm gonna order a new dm600 ....
and many thanx to pcd too ..

[pcd]

Originally Posted by Ehsan

I love the dm600. Basically, if you are happy with dm500, this is twice better.

hardware is on par with or better than all other dreamboxes

I fully agree. Its a little giant - 64mb RAM !

Originally Posted by Ehsan

You can only flash with null modem for now.

Not so.

I use dreamup from here :-

h**p://www.i-have-a-dreambox.com/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=68004

Dreambox unplugged from main and lnb coax, earth kept connected. Next connect lan, I use wireless. Connect null modem cable. Start Dreamup. Tick Network and select com and ips. Select Connect. Switch on power to box. Dreamup will say HTTP connected. Select Flash. Select image.

It takes me about 2 to 4 minutes to flash.

Originally Posted by Ehsan

recording works just well.

Yes. Tried with TuxvisionR to record on pc hdd, faultless.

Regards, pcd.

[hemertje]

If you are running a PLi image, you don't have to use dreamup, and you don't have to use a serial cable.
Select the 'software update' menu item, and your box will reboot in bootloader mode.
From there on, you can use the same instructions for flashing a 7020

http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/dm...ng_browser.php

The 7020 uses the same bootloader as your 600.
But there is a difference; the 600 has no buttons, to signal the bootloader to accept new firmware.

That's why we implemented this 'software update' thing in the menu, to signal the bootloader through some other means.

Now, if you really can't use dreamup (because you don't have a windows PC for instance), you could try the following:
login with telnet

mount /boot -o remount,rw
rm /boot/*
reboot

Now you've got a box which won't boot anymore, so the bootloader will accept new firmware.
Only do this if you have a way to tell which IP your box got, after you reboot.
Because you won't be able to use your box again, untill you flashed an nfi, using the webinterface of the bootloader.

Flashing goes really fast, and is really easy, but before you attempt this, make sure your network works, you have a working DHCP server in your network, and you know which IP your box will get, because that's where you have to connect your browser to, in order to flash the new firmware.

[Nabilosat]

you can flash the box using webinterface from any other image

boot the image on box go to dhcp and look witch ip you have switch oof the dm600

start dreamup and switch on your dm 600 whene the conexion is doen

open your browser and flash your box as dm 7020

[NmX]

Originally Posted by Ehsan

stability depends on the image you use. gemini is just fine with no crashes.

gemini works fine, but i can say that nabilo 0.8 also runs very very steady, i run all of my boxes (500,600,7020) on nabilo image