thanks
Hi all!
Tomorrow i'm getting a dreambox for the very first time (800)...
I'm purchasing all the parts to get everything working together, and by the sounds of it... a USALS motor will save me a load of time. I don't fancy manually finding all the SATS....
So i'm just asking for your opinion really, as i'm pretty new to all this...
Will this motor do the job?
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Any help will be mostly appreciated!
Thanks,
Sam
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Last edited by PieFacE; 05-11-2008 at 09:41 PM.
yes it will ,but be prepared to pull what remaining hair you have left from your scalp ... I have still jnot got my dm800 to work properly with my motor and sometimes have to go back to my dm7020 when i need to find a satellite .
I CAN FIND THEM MANUALY , BUT IF I TRY TO DO ITH THE EASY WEAY WITH USALS , IT ALL GOES TO POT
Thank you, lucky for me i have quite a lot of hair!
I don't like the idea of manually finding them...
How many people have had trouble in getting the USALS to auto find Sats after finding the initial one?
Not to bad to find if you load a channel list first.
If not forget it !!!!
Nobody told me this and it took me 3 days to find the sats without a channel list.
wih a channel list it takes an 1 hour or 2.
Hi hda5,
I thank you with my whole heart.
At last I managed to get to the positioner of the DreamBox 800HD.
Thanks again, Thanks, Thanks
Dreambox 800HD have manual configuration of motor?
Just putting the position of sattelite (1.0w)?
the way i set my motor up was position it at 1w and fine tune until good signal, spun it to 30w and got a signal tightened up and i hit the arc just nicely
now to my point regarding usals, i have never needed to use them as setting a dm500 with manual sats, fine tuning was easy and accurate, anytime i have tried usals i got nothing on the dm500.. now i read the dm800 is a pain manually installing sats and usals is the way to go, but this brings me to what i believe is the problem can anyone confirm?
that i never set my motor on the motor itself to the long and lat to my house, it is just manually setup to tune into the arc and not via my long and lat on the motor itself and not via the software on the box, which leads me to think if i put the long and lat into my box, it will be pointless because of my motors position?
although i can actually hit sats from example 42e to 31w manually
p.s hope that made sense to someone lol
I have just managed to get my one set up. I am running Oozoon on Flash and Gemini 4.40 with Barry Allen. Hopefully the info I supply can help as it worked 100 % for me once I had realised where I was going wrong.
I used a sat nav to get my settings but Multimap will do. Both settings
were really close.
1st thing I did was add a channel list as without that the dish would have no idea of where to move.
In configuration mode I selected "simple" I installed my position however this is where I struggled and might be able to help olthers with my mistake.
Lat was easy as it is a positive number. So For example I entered 055.233. Then North
However my Long was a minus No and I was informed to just ignore the minus and add in the numbers. This is incorrect and the way I have managed to get this to work is say for example your Long is -002.307 west You deduct this figure from 360 (as you want the minus to become a positive) and the answer you get you enter into the decoder.
So in the example above you would enter........
Configuration Mode simple
Mode positioner
Longitude 357.693
West
Latitude 055.233
North
Now press ok and exit back to your main screen. Just select the satellites and it should find them. For me this worked 100% although I seem to have to manually install about 3 sats 16e being one of them. But with these settings it found everything else and the complete process only took about 15 mins.
These are not my settings so if they point to some poor guys house appologies for that. I didn't want everyone on the internet seeing my house address. Lets face it now we have google street maps you could see the loose wires on my dish instalation
Regards
Garz
im in liverpool think remember setting my latitude to south if i set it 2 north it wouldn't pick the sats up
Hello!
I have followed all the instructions I have come across, inluding the ones on the first post of this thread, but I just cannot get the motor to move. You guys and gals have any idea what could be wrong?
Thanks!
Thanks! Unfortunately the motor still does not move...
Have you tried doing a factory reset and starting from scratch ?
I've used your instructions to install a DiSEqC motor to dish on a DM800hd. It has helped me a lot, thanks. : Respect-055:
However, it is possible to use an LNB monobloc, and in this way reducing the movement of the bowl?
I've used your instructions to install a DiSEqC motor to dish on a DM800hd. It has helped me a lot, thanks.
However, it is possible to use an LNB monobloc, and in this way reducing the movement of the bowl?
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