Sat-box Dreambox streaming 2 boxy

[louism74]

just tested streaming frome my dreambox to boxee it work ! perfecty
i use my iphone to change the chanels thru http..

now a the Question why can i stream ip tv the same way ??? any ideas on this???

[flugli]

just tested streaming frome my dreambox to boxee it work ! perfecty
i use my iphone to change the chanels thru http..

now a the Question why can i stream ip tv the same way ??? any ideas on this???
Interesting how did you manage to do it ? which protocol are you using ?

[louism74]

Interesting how did you manage to do it ? which protocol are you using ?

it is stream from my dreambox thru " http " work good
http://192.168.0.104:31339/0,0452,0217,02ad using it like this just add it manualy and bingo

[TidySi]

How are you doing this? where do you add the address? i've tried creating an .m3u file and accessing this but nothing happens so i wondered where you would place the streaming address and also what platform are you using it on? i'm using both AppleTV and a Mac.

Thanks

[jdk303]

I'm with TidySi on this - how on earth did you get this to work? I stayed up all night yelling and screaming at Boxee for not being able to stream from my Dreambox.

A lot of these posts seem to be from 2008 and early 2009, so I'm guessing that something has changed in Boxee since then, which is why everyone posting recently doesn't have a clue why Boxee won't play those streams.

Can anyone, who has managed to get a recent version of Boxee to play a stream from Dreambox, please step forward and hit me in the forehead with a 200 page report on how they did it?

[denialmark]

DreamBox 600S Satellite Receiver PVR - This box is basically the same as the DM 500 with an IDE interface and enough room for a 2.5 inch laptop drive. These boxes in particular are incredibly small at just 195mm x 130mm x 40mm and look absolutely delicious! Its also a Linux set top based box with pluggable DVB-C standard universal cable turner and PVR support!

[gkkp]

Can anyone, who has managed to get a recent version of Boxee to play a stream from Dreambox, please step forward and hit me in the forehead with a 200 page report on how they did it?

or in 2-3 sentences: use your dreambox webcontrol and stream a channel. Instead of opening it, save the ".m3u"-file. Rename it to <your channel>.m3u and put it in a directory you can access with boxee.
Play the .m3u and voilá!!
This is also the way i use it with XBMC. Saved each .m3u to my favourites.
But, have not found any added value for Boxee (yet)...

[PhatPhreddy]

Has anyone got scripts that handle the channel change properly ?? And or recording (dreambox can of course record MPEG2 to the shared drive itself if told to).

Ideally for me to move to boxee in my setup there would be some kind of boxee app like DVBSBridge that exists for WMC. Something that pulls the EPG, does live TV with Pause and PVR functions, and handles the channel change. Imagine boxee doing its own recordings labelling it with the EPG data already provided.

The dreambox is perfectly equipped to do this, its a networked tuner in this respect and so hope that Boxee users might work to this. If Boxee doesnt wrap all my media sources, leaving only the TV out, its one item in the chain not done.

A DVBSBridge for boxee would be perfect.

http://www.dvblogic.com/

[jdk303]

or in 2-3 sentences: use your dreambox webcontrol and stream a channel. Instead of opening it, save the ".m3u"-file. Rename it to <your channel>.m3u and put it in a directory you can access with boxee.
Play the .m3u and voilá!!
This is also the way i use it with XBMC. Saved each .m3u to my favourites.
But, have not found any added value for Boxee (yet)...

Thanks, but this never worked for me.

[PhatPhreddy]

Thanks, but this never worked for me.

And would do none of the PVR / EPG functions the dream box can make available over the network.

Ideally someone would see the value in a dreamboxee plugin. It isnt even that hard, all the dreambox controls are HTTP controllable and the MPEG stream is there for the taking.

[samukas]

I totally would love to have a Dreambox plugin, but I don't think it's that easy to make. At least, for someone inexperient. I though I'd give it a go, but I'm overwhelmed at school so if it was going to happen, it wouldn't be before the summer. I'm hoping someone does it before xD

[PhatPhreddy]

I dont see how its easy, or at least very possible, to make scrapers that pull online video out of other sites.. Yet doing exactly the same with a dreambox is complex ??

I dont know if most people realize that the dreambox operates a web server on port 80 of its IP on the home net, and serves up a webpage for the MPEG stream to grab the video and audio, has http command and control, had readily scrapeable EPG etc etc etc..

I mean why is a local site (my dreampbox IP) harder to scrape than say hulu or others ??

Opening up dreambox to all broadcast TV also, seems so desirable.. And in this way fairly trivial to do.

[Bergetun]

Anyone able to get this working from a DM800 to a Boxee box ?

[PhatPhreddy]

The type of DM should be irrelevant.. Far more important is the image its running.. PLI is known to be good and smooth for streaming.. I use PLI Jade but hope to upgrade all my boxes to open PLI in the next few days.

I have just got my boxee box 1 day ago so this is on my radar to play with.. I have found quite a bit of info on xbmc support so I have hope.

[Vandetta]

LOL didn't think anyone here talked about this stuff.

Isn't it easier to do on a windows machine? You could just use dvbdream software and then dvblink to turn it into a UPnP stream that Boxee could pick up no?

[PhatPhreddy]

LOL didn't think anyone here talked about this stuff.

Isn't it easier to do on a windows machine? You could just use dvbdream software and then dvblink to turn it into a UPnP stream that Boxee could pick up no?

I am unfamiliar with the uPnP option but will give it a good look.

I was using the DVBSBridge software to link the dreambox into WMC (EPG data, channel lists, etc etc) and then WMC can pause live TV, DVR, etc.. And then the one WMC 'server' can push those video streams out to xbox 360 nodes.. Thats the promise tho the actual implementation wasnt working out ideal, sometimes channel changes and discovery timed out, the EPG data is working in some versions and not in others, basically its great potential, but not the rock solid stable thing you need if your trying to build a wife approved HT system.

[Vandetta]

A lot of people knock windows but windows 7 is a vast improvement. As long as you have a light weight anti virus like avast free and ccleaner set to run at boot via silent task scheduler then machine never gets slow.

Anyway:
http://www.dvblogic.com/dvbdream.php

I believe DVBLink does the UPnP streaming according to that description.

[PhatPhreddy]

A lot of people knock windows but windows 7 is a vast improvement. As long as you have a light weight anti virus like avast free and ccleaner set to run at boot via silent task scheduler then machine never gets slow.

Anyway:
http://www.dvblogic.com/dvbdream.php

I believe DVBLink does the UPnP streaming according to that description.

Win7 IMO is one of the easier ways to get 'nearly right' and theres a lot for it, but its hard to get it exactly right..

My main issue is I am working with / trying to make a full home media net, with nodes to each bedroom, a node at the pool deck, and of course the main HT room. Once you start adding PC's everywhere, the boot times, or electric bills, the costs of full PC's, the maintaining so many machines, it all starts to become way too much work.

Secondly I am in Thailand.. I was using xbox360 MCE clients, but my 360's cost about 600 USD when they were newish, and are still something like 450 USD for the absolute minimum packages still. And we have no warranty, no return policy, and no western support (grey imports). You start getting 2 or 3 machines RROD on you, after spending >2000 USD on few of them, and having to rebuy new machines in less than a year.. And you get frustrated fast !! Living in the developing world is great some days, but expensive to be a early adopter / tech lover here.

So for me, the dream of a cheap boxee box client, that might be hacked to xbmc, in every bedroom / node location is just too good to pass up. The day boxee boxes are hacked for xbmc I go and buy 4 or 5 more of them !! Even now if the promised soon Boxee box firmware updates make the handling of my own media library better and lowers the emphasis on online (or I block the boxee clients online access through my router) its a possible option. I dont mind retagging, I will make adjustments my end to the configs, but the price of the boxee box, and it being a CE device and not a full HTPC, all works for me. I have been keeping my eye on various media players, but after being used to HTPC level look and feel they were just too ugly.

[madlinux]

Hi,
I am also interested in streaming sat channels to the boxee box and thus being able to watch live tv. I own a dreambox 500s and I look forward to this. In xbmc it was possible to add a network address via a "tuxbox" stream where you would put the dreambox address, the port and login details. It allowed it to get your bouquets also...

[urbanek]

Hi,

I developed a proof-of-concept (dont expect production-ready quality):
http://www.2shared.com/file/JQlMat4V/tuxbox.html

You need to copy the contents to your BOXEE/userdata/apps directory and amend some variables in the enclosed dreambox.py :

ip='192.168.178.50'
username='root'
password='dreambox'

While 'root' and 'dreambox' are the standard username/password you might have to change the ip to the ip of your box. The App has no logo right now, so just search for the black-app.

You need at least one bouque and enigma1 on your box.

Overall I'm pretty disappointed in terms of channel switch times (about 4 seconds) and stability (after 10-20 channel changes my box hangs). But when I compare this too the xbmc/tuxbox it is still very acceptable, but too lousy for me. There is a slight chance its my box fault, so try it out for yourself and post your comments.

[loge]

i will definitely check this plugin because some minutes ago i started reading the boxee python API for doing such a prototype myself. Lets see if we can work on this with more people....

Update: just noticed its enigma1 only. *sigh* Will check out how much need to be rewritten to work also for enigma2. So lets see if i can make a UserPreference option where you can define what box you have. There you could also place your box credentials.

Marc

[urbanek]

I started with an enigma 2 version, however I discontinued after realizing that my box has enigma 1 and furthermore the enigma 1 api is superior to the enigma 2 api.

However, here is the enigma 2 code I started with (it works with a local file instead of an http connection). Maybe it is useful as a start:


#!/usr/bin/env python

import mc
import xml.dom.minidom

def onLoad():
list = mc.GetWindow(14000).GetList(100)
items = mc.ListItems()
datasource = open('c:\\boxee\\temp\\bq.txt')
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(datasource)
servicelist = dom.getElementsByTagName("e2servicelist")[0]
for service in servicelist.getElementsByTagName("e2service"):
item = mc.ListItem(mc.ListItem.MEDIA_VIDEO_OTHER)
servicename = service.getElementsByTagName("e2servicename")[0]
item.SetLabel(getText(servicename.childNodes))
servicereference = service.getElementsByTagName("e2servicereference")[0]
item.SetPath(getText(servicereference.childNodes))
items.append(item)
list.SetItems(items)

def onClickBq():
list = mc.GetActiveWindow().GetList(100)
itemNumber = list.GetFocusedItem()
item = list.GetItem(itemNumber)
mc.ShowDialogOk("Info",item.GetPath())

def getText(nodelist):
text = ""
for node in nodelist:
if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
text = text + node.data.encode("utf-8")
return text

You will find information about the enigma 2 api here:
http://dream.reichholf.net/wiki/Enigma2:WebInterface

[espowsong]

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