a new toy

[pvaneynd]

Last week I went to .nl to get a Dreambox 7025S. It was almost 100 EUR cheaper over the border. It is cool to telnet to your sat. receiver:

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OpenDreambox 1.8.0 dm7025

dm7025 login: root
root@dm7025:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
system type             : ATI XILLEON HDTV SUPERTOLL
processor               : 0
cpu model               : MIPS 4KEc V4.8
BogoMIPS                : 297.98
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 16
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : yes
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available

It doesn't run debian *yet), but the a modified firmware (Gemini). It reads our TVV card without problems and because it was 2 receivers we can now decode 4 streams from at the most 2 different transponders that are 'close enough' on the same satellite. In the future I hope to get a new switch and lay an extra cable so we can use streams from 2 different satellites if we want. One stream we can see, the others we can have for PiP, for recording on the on-board HD or to stream over the local LAN.

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[sweh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hacked my DirecTiVo (DirecTV satellite receiver with TiVo) mostly so I could just telnet to it :-)

% telnet tivo
Trying 10.0.0.144...
Connected to tivo.
Escape character is '^]'.
bash-2.02# uname -a
Linux (none) 2.4.20 #22 Fri Feb 20 18:19:25 PST 2004 mips unknown
bash-2.02# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type             : TiVo UMA P0 board
processor               : 0
cpu model               : R5432 V3.0  FPU V1.0
BogoMIPS                : 161.79
wait instruction        : no
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 48
extra interrupt vector  : no
hardware watchpoint     : yes
spurious interrupts     : 14567
cycle counter frequency : 81003906
bash-2.02#