subject: How To Make A Dm600 For Yourself [print this page] The fans of satellite TV will know the fact that the only difference between DM500 and DM600 is that DM600 can record the satellite video program but DM500 cant. Someone may have tried to record the programs using a DM500, but unfortunately there isnt any good method before. If you buy a DM600, it is much dear than DM500. However, a fan once found a machine called BTbox on internet; this is the machine which can make the above dream become reality. Now, let me tell you the alteration process.
BTbox has the ability to connect the online hard disk though LAN; this is the key point that makes the alteration possible. DM500 can record the video programs though internet. If we put the BTbox and DM500 together, maybe we can produce the DM600. The fan who found it made the experiment and finally he succeeded. There are some gossip claims that it wont be possible to record the video though internet equipments since the data steam is too large and the video would become vague. The fact is that the method works well.
Now lets do the following steps when your router, BTbox and DM500 with Gemini 4.3.1 is ready:
1. Connect the BTbox and Dreambox to router using unshielded twisted pair wire. Set the IP of BTbox to 192.168.1.99 and set the DM500s IP to 192.168.1.100
2. Plug in the portable hard disk to BTbox. BTbox has a USB 2.0 HOST slot, so you can use a 2.5 inch portable hard disk. Get into the setting menu of BTbox and format your hard disk to XFS format. It is said FAT32 is also OK; however, the fan didnt try this format. When it is finished, BTbox will create a folder with the name of PUBLIC.
3. Set another folder using the name of MOVIE in the PUBLIC folder. This very important, or DM500 cant record the video onto the disk.
4. Log on the manager page of DM500 though web. You can type in the 192.168.1.100 in the Internet Explorer and then click the config, mount manager, add button in turn. Now set the settings.
5. Store the alternations. Go back to the former interface then click on the blue mount manager button. You will find the mount button becomes red and the text becomes Unmount after a while. This means the mount process is succeeded.
6. Now we can record the satellite TV programs on the hard disk. And we can also visit the portable hard disk using DM500. We can even play MP3 on the disk. Most important, we dont have to worry about the capacity of DM500 anymore.
Congratulations, a DM600 is successfully produced!
