Nimiq 6 tp 12.224

[dukeathome]

My cousins cousin has gotten rid of his Linkbox 9000I (junk) and replaced with a new Dreamlink T5.His set up has 3 dishes 82/91 110/119 and 129 using emp switches and ab switches,he scanned the channels and all seemed well till he tried to populate the epg on 82/91 (no epg channel found) he tried rescanning manually automatically and by pid,seems the transponder has q and s till you try to scan then no signal and of course no scan of that transponder,he never had this issue with previous receivers,any thoughts?

[jvvh5897]

Well, it sort of sounds like the same issue in
http://www.satfix.to/showthread.php?201019-82-degrees

My best guess at this time is that the settings of the tuner chip are not right--maybe an FEC setting is not allowed where it should be.

I've been looking at the Dreamlink files lately (http://www.satfix.to/showthread.php?201244-Dreamlink-HD-T5) and reading a bit in the dreamlink discussions area and the models seem to have lots of small issues. Sadly, although I can see someone has some sort of clone files mods for T6, as far as I can tell the coders have encrypted everything that you can think of (8 byte key and two 256 byte tables are used in a complex XOR scheme for the channel list and network settings (I've been playing)). With the channel list encrypted you can't go in and edit the dump from the box. And I haven't seen any post of a channel editor.

[dukeathome]

Thanks jvvh,I guessing he is not the only one with this issue,anyone else with a t5 able to scan that tp?

[jvvh5897]

He has another thread going in the DL T5 section. The advice there is what I would have given him today too--try scan with box going direct to LNB. I'm thinking the motor issue in that other DL T5 thread linked above might be due to too heavy of a load on the LNB output (not unlike the Jynxbox limited power out issue).

Just in case someone is interested-- the only diff between the T5 and T4 Make2Dream file is the 8 byte key byte-order. I've played with the byte order to see if the channel list might be generated with the same set of 8 bytes, but I'm about 95% sure that they use a diff set of bytes in part or in whole. But odds are the same basic encryption method.

[nobodyspecial]

Thanks jvvh,I guessing he is not the only one with this issue,anyone else with a t5 able to scan that tp?

no issues scanning it

[dukeathome]

I contacted the dealer the T5 came from,and this makes sense...

If you are getting any channels the dreamlink is not defective.
>
> Check the following.
> 1. Do not use DP plus or DP pro plus LNBS with dreamlink T5.
> 2. Some switches are not compatible with T5. Ifyou have EMP Centauri replac=
> e it with other brand.
> That does not mean the switch is defective. It is just incompatible.

we are using the EMP Centauri

[jvvh5897]

Ah! It seems the EMP Centauri use something called "Unicable" switching rather than being diseqc compatable. I can see how that might be an issue.

[dukeathome]

we are going to try another brand of switch and will post results,thanks everyone!

[dukeathome]

Ok,an update,replaced emp centauri switches with royal switches now scans all tp's gained 125 channels on 91 alone

[Terryl]

So the dealer was right, the EMP was incompatible with the T5, good to know.

[jvvh5897]

Any chance the dealer knows how to edit channel lists? There is a thread in the T5 section where someone wants to do that, and I really do not want to have to play with the encryption on the channel lists.