How to connect the DreamBox to the netwerk or to a PC?
The DreamBox is equipted with a 100MB Ethernet Network Card, it is very easy to connect the DreamBox to your local network or connect it to your PC.
- Connecting your Dreambox to you local network:
Connect the Dreambox to your HUB or your Router with a UTP-Cable. Configure your DreamBox by Setup => Network and fill in a valid IP-adres and fill in the other data. If you do not know what to fill in, go to your PC and enter in Command Prompt: ipconfig/all and get the data you need.
Remember, the IP adres of the DreamBox may not be the same as the IP adres of the Computer!!! (choose any other digit from 1 to 254). See also the graphic overview:
- Connecting you DreamBox to your PC:
Connecting you DreamBox to your PC is the same as connecting it to your Local Network, just fill in the correct data which can be found at Command Prompt.
Remember, the IP adres of the DreamBox may not be the same as the IP adres of the Computer!!! (choose any other digit from 1 to 254).
Example:
PC:
IP-Adres: 192.168.1.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Dreambox:
IP-Adres: 192.168.1.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Nameserver: 127.0.0.1 or the IP-adres of the DNS-server of your provider!
Gateway: 127.0.0.1 or the IP-adres of the HUB or Router!
PAY ATTENTION: If you can't get a connection, wait a minute, it takes some timeso set a network connection! Otherwise check your firewall settings on your PC!
Uploading the Image file trough the network does not work!
If you are using a network cable it is recommended that you also connect the DreamBox by using a Modem Cable. The IP adress of the DreamBox and the PC have to be in the same area e.a. correct -> PC: 192.168.1.1 DreamBox: 192.168.1.2 false -> PC: 192.168.1.1 DreamBox 192.168.0.1. (the subnetmasks have to be 255.255.255.0 on the DreamBox and the PC). For more information about connecting your DreamBox to your Network read the Howto listed above.
Check if you are able to ping your DreamBox, by entering in the Execute Box: ping "DreamBox IP" or telnet "DreamBox IP" or ftp "DreamBox IP". If you are able to connect to the Dreambox in one of these ways, the DreamBox is connected to your Local Network.
Another Solution can be to connect to the DreamBox, upload the Image file, disconnect and reconnect again and then continue with Flashing the DreamBox.
Possible Cause: The Network Connection is not fast enough online after turning your DreamBox on, there for Dream-Up Lan can not detect a network. How to login using Telnet or FTP?
You can login to your DreamBox using Telnet or FTP with the following User:
username: root
password: dreambox
Look at Google for a good FTP-program How to copy a recorded movie to my Personal Computer?
The easiest way to do this is with the program DreamTSman.
Start the program and select de recording with your rightmousebutton.
After this you select the directory on your PC where you want to save the file. DreamTSman asks you to combine the selected TS-files to 1 file, answer with yes. Now the movie is available TS format on your PC. Copying can take easy up till 30 minutes depending on the size of the TS file,your PC and networkconfiguration.
How to use a FTP-program to copy files from and to my Dreambox? Download a FTP-program e.g. by Google, the following steps will be the same I think with the most common FTP-programs.
1) Create new site (name e.g. Dreambox)
2) Now the programs asks you for the Hostname or IP-adress, fill in your Dreambox IP-address, e.g. 192.168.1.2
3) User ID: the loginname root
4) Password: thr password dreambox
5) Select "save password", your password will be saved so in the future you don't have to fill it in again!
6) Finish, now your ready to copy your files to your Dreambox by FTP
7) Click on the connection you just made!
8) Copy the wanted files
another way is via the internet explorer:
ftp://root:dreambox@ipnumber-of-your-dreambox/ How to map your Hard Disk in your Dreambox to your PC?
Imagine that you want to record your mp3's from your Hard Disk in your Dreambox to a CD. Then you need to make a "networkdrive" in your "Explorer" so that Windows sees this Hard Disk as a local one in your PC.
How do you do this?
Samba needs to be installed and running at your Dreambox, you can check this as following
- look up if it is running already: ps -efw | grep -i smbd
- start samba on your dreambox : smbd [enter], else:
- download and install Samba as written below
- download samba.tar.gz via our dwonloadsection and FTP this to /var/tmp
- execute the following commands in telnet or hyperterminal:
cd /var
gzip -dc /var/tmp/samba.tar.gz | tar xf -
Reboot your Dreambox.
- Following make a map in "Explorer" -> "Tools" -> "Networkdrive" -> drive: "Z:" and Folder: "\\<ipadress-dreambox>\harddisk\" -> "Finish"
Now your Windows programms find your Hard Disk in your Dreambox under the drive "Z" !
For a faster connection you have to manage smb.conf in var/etc/ ! Copying a 1 GB file costs now less then 5 minutes. Before this, it took about 20 minutes. Copy and paste the following line into the top of smb.conf:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
Reboot your Dreambox. How can I use the Hard Disk from my PC to record movies?
This proces is also called "Mounting thrue network" (Beta 1.0.5):
Instructions for your PC
- download NFS 1.1 via our downloadsection.
- go to dos-prompt and select the directory where you have installed NFS and execute the following commands: (give in the commands and press the enter button):
- cd \nfs (assuming that you unzipped the NFS into c:\nfs, otherwise change the path)
- give the next commands and enter again:
- portmap add (installs the portmap service)
- nfs add (installs the nfs server service)
- make a directory(in DOS with the command mkdir): "dreambox" on your PC.
- make a directory in the directory: "dreambox" called: "hdd".
- make a directory in the directory: "dreambox\hdd" called: "movie".
- In the: "exports" file you need to add the following using Notepad: "/dreambox -path=x:\dreambox\hdd" (x - driveletter from your PC).
- make in the directory: "windows" the directory called "etc".
- copy the adjusted file "exports" to that directory etc.
- NFS start
- if you edit the export file later, you need to execute the command "nfs stop" first, edit the file and the execute "nfs start".
Instructions for your DreamBox
Manually make a mount:
- Open a telnet sessie
- Make a "Mount" using the following command: mount -t nfs -o nolock xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/dreambox /hdd (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - ip adres from you PC)
Automatically Mount:
- Open a "Telnet" sessie
- go to the directory /var/tuxbox/
- open start_enigma using: vi start_enigma
- to add somthing you need to use the command: Shift I. Insert text at beginning of line).
- Add the following lines:
#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy up
mount -t nfs -o nolock zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz:/dreambox /hdd
/bin/enigma
/sbin/halt
- xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - ip adres from your dreambox.
- yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy - subnetmask from your dreambox.
- zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz - ip adres from the Windows PC.
- To Save the file use the commands : ":wq".(Save changes and quit vi).
- type: "reboot" to reboot the DreamBox and save the changes.
Closing the program with: [Esc] then type: ":wq" [ENTER]
When there is no Start_Enigma, you need to add these lines into your /var/etc/init file! Add these lines between fi and exit 0, as shown:
ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy up
sleep 5
mount -t nfs -o nolock zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz:/dreambox /hdd
sleep 5
/bin/enigma
/sbin/halt
How can I see what the DreamBox is doing?It is possible to see what the dreambox sees, You will need a null-modem Cable to do this.
Connect the DreamBox and the Computer by using the null-modem Cable, start HyperTerminal. Fill in the right Com-port and use the following settings: 115200,N,8,1, XON/XOFF. Reboot the DreamBox, while starting the dreambox the following will appear in HyperTerminal:
Dreambox DM7000
loaded at: 00500000 006061F8
relocated to: 00400000 005061F8
board data at: 00503128 00503168
relocated to: 0040555C 0040559C
zimage at: 00405A98 00502280
avail ram: 00507000 02000000
Linux/PPC load: console=none root=/dev/mtdblock/0
The last line contains the information for booting, this line should be adjusted:
console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock/0
After this you will be able to see what the DreamBox is doing while he is turned on. Is it possible to view the Dreambox stream via a Xbox? Yes it is possible to view the Dreambox stream via a Xbox!
Setup and run Samba in your Dreambox (IP = 192.168.0.3 for example) and use this in XboxMediaCenter.xml :
<bookmark>
<name>SMB</name>
<path>smb://dreambox;root:
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.0.3/Harddisk</path>
</bookmark>
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