Dreambox 7000 - Links

This page is not maintained, as I no longer play with this stuff. Sorry for any broken links!

This is a digital satellite receiver, powered by Linux. There are also versions for Cable and DTT as well as Satellite (dual-tuner versions are available - any mix). The Dreambox 7000 is pretty impressive, but it's not for those people who want a simple consumer box that works without configuration effort. The advantage of this box is flexibility, for technically-minded consumers who like to take control, and perhaps use network streaming, time-shifting, etc.

For what it's worth, here are some hints, plus my list of bookmarks. Please don't email me with questions! For support questions please use the Messageboard links below. I am not an expert: I've just written these notes to aid my own memory, and to give potential users a flavour for what's possible. I haven't really fiddled with this stuff recently, so please ask your questions on the messageboards.

Hints And Tips

Hardware. What you get in a DM7000.
Firmware. What are Enigma, Traveller, Dr. Matrix etc?
Features. What it can do.
Networking. What works as standard.
R/C Navigation Hints. Some non-obvious things.
Backup/Restore HOWTO. How to guard your settings against corruption.
NFS remote disk HOWTO. Getting Dreambox to mount a remote NFS hard drive.
Cold Boot HOWTO. What to do if it won't start.
CVS Source Build HOWTO. Use the source, Luke!

Web Links

Official Company Sites

Dream MultiMedia (Germany)
Dream MultiMedia (Australia) has some extra info!
DM7000.de Manufacturer's support page for the DM7000
SatStore UK Where I bought my DM7000
Dreambox Message Board

"Official" Software

dm7000.de. Official firmware downloads plus "DreamUp" tool, with instructions.

More Message Boards

More Software

DreamBoxEdit. Another settings editor.
olmi.cz

Developer / Technical

Dreambox Net Australia (Gone now? Jan '07.)
linuxtv.org
busybox Used as standard in Dreambox. BusyBox combines tiny versions of common UNIX utilities in one small executable. You then call the utility you want from a link to the command name.
etsi.org DVB standards documents can be downloaded here.
dreambox.gamesquad.nl. Some good pages here, for example:
- Dreambox software. Enigma daily builds plus some useful daemons like NFS and NTP. This is cool if you want to try the latest CVS version of Enigma, but can't get it to build on your PC.
- How to test a new Enigma build from hard disk. The text refers to an IDE hard disk, but I think this will work for NFS remote disks provided that you bring up the network interface and mount the NFS volume early on in "start_enigma".
tuxbox.org GNU DBox2 Software Project
- tuxbox project home page
- tuxbox developer forum
- Note: The berliOS site hosts the CVS repository, but to build DREAMBOX from sources, you need to make sure you check out the right branch. See "Hints And Tips" above.