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    hey guys
    i have an old viewsat 9000 hd and was looking to get the thing going, i've heard the picture is good i got it for free so i don't mind spending a bit of money if its worth it. does anybody have a good how to on getting it hooked up the internet ? the hd board i can figure it out enough i'm sure but i'm lost in the internet hookup.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scooby8888 View Post
    hey guys
    i have an old viewsat 9000 hd and was looking to get the thing going, i've heard the picture is good i got it for free so i don't mind spending a bit of money if its worth it. does anybody have a good how to on getting it hooked up the internet ? the hd board i can figure it out enough i'm sure but i'm lost in the internet hookup.
    thanks as always for looking
    Connect it to a laptop with an rs232 cable and use an xx-client to connect to the internet.

    http://www.satfix.to/showthread.php?...sioon-Protocol

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    If your thinking on using it for IKS (via the internet) on any of the Dish or BEV channels, (sat's 82/91/110/119/129) then don't worry about trying to connect it to the internet for that purpose, as it is an MPEG-2 only box, you need an MPEG-4 capable box for those sat's now.

    It will work on some of the true FTA channels like on 97W with a linear LNB, but you would need at least a 1 meter dish for those types of satellite's.

    And I don't think one of the newer HD boards will do the job as the main box has to be able to decode the MPEG-4 encoding that is use now.
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    I think all the box needs is an SK200 module to do 8PSK Turbo FEC, the processor is HD capable.
    Course you still need the right sw in the box, an internet connection and IKS sub (with all the risk that entails).

    Oh, just googled and ebay lists SK900 for the Viewsat 9000HD too, so I'm not sure which is right. Kind of looks like the SK900 is the SK200 as single sided with an F connector on-board, but both might have the BCM4500 Broadcom chip to do Turbo FEC and a chip to do the front end convert.
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    ok i saw the board and looks good enough but is there a way to hook it up without a comuter, i saw somebody saying to use ddwrt router or dlink router ? i had a ddwrt router setup a few years back i think i still have it but not sure how it would plug in or am i barking up the wrong tree lol .

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    Quote Originally Posted by scooby8888 View Post
    ok i saw the board and looks good enough but is there a way to hook it up without a comuter, i saw somebody saying to use ddwrt router or dlink router ? i had a ddwrt router setup a few years back i think i still have it but not sure how it would plug in or am i barking up the wrong tree lol .
    Yes you can, I have never played around with it on a router but I guess it does work........

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    My buddy has done lot of routers. The easiest one to get going is an Atheros chipset and an added serial port running Openwrt. If you have a Dlink with with a USB port like the DIR-825 you can use a USB to serial adapter and you don't even have to add the serial port.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Terryl View Post
    If your thinking on using it for IKS (via the internet) on any of the Dish or BEV channels, (sat's 82/91/110/119/129) then don't worry about trying to connect it to the internet for that purpose, as it is an MPEG-2 only box, you need an MPEG-4 capable box for those sat's now.

    It will work on some of the true FTA channels like on 97W with a linear LNB, but you would need at least a 1 meter dish for those types of satellite's.

    And I don't think one of the newer HD boards will do the job as the main box has to be able to decode the MPEG-4 encoding that is use now.
    Viewsat Max and Viewsat 9000 can both run on iks as long as they have the sk200 board installed and are hooked to a PC running either linux or windows and xx-client.

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    ya i was trying not go the computer route but the post jets chipped in with might make me start this project looks a little easier.
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    Hummm if the box was originally designed and setup for MPEG-2, I don't know how an add on decoder module for turbo - 8PSK would make it MPEG-4 capable, is it not the main chip on the main board that does the decoding for the video compression format??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Terryl View Post
    Hummm if the box was originally designed and setup for MPEG-2, I don't know how an add on decoder module for turbo - 8PSK would make it MPEG-4 capable, is it not the main chip on the main board that does the decoding for the video compression format??
    i think your confused. the vs9000 HD is like any other HD receiver (sonicview, dreamlink,jynxbox,etc...) provided you have the 8psk board installed and modify the needed dn transponders, works very well using the router method which can have upto 65 servers installed, i beleive the number is 65 or close to it from what i recall not that anyone would need that many servers going, lol, if the op does a search there is plenty of info on which routers are compatible but the easiest is one with a serial port installed already

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    Quote Originally Posted by Terryl View Post
    Hummm if the box was originally designed and setup for MPEG-2, I don't know how an add on decoder module for turbo - 8PSK would make it MPEG-4 capable, is it not the main chip on the main board that does the decoding for the video compression format??
    VS900HD is good for MPEG2-MPEG4 High Def 1080 channels as long as the board is installed and transponders are manually changed during setup.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scooby8888 View Post
    ya i was trying not go the computer route but the post jets chipped in with might make me start this project looks a little easier.
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    The good thong about using a computer is you can monitor the communication between the receiver and the internet, makes it real easy to troubleshoot problems.......

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    And you can pick up an old laptop for very little. Though an experimenter's board would not be hard to setup to do what is needed too--there are boards that have web port, serial port, usb port and plenty of instructions per sec/memory....maybe Arduino 101?--Arduino uno r3 with a web board is only $20US or so.
    Though there are cheap DVB-S2 boxes out there ($30US) that could be used to do something interesting.

    Yep the VS9000HD uses the sti7100 processor like a number of other HD boxes and can do ATSC OTA as well with the extra tuner. I've even gone into the code to try to find the BCM4500 chip code to figure out how one might use it's board for other boxes (unlike the VS Max HD the vs9k HD code is not encrypted/compressed or otherwise scrambled so you can't get clear code). As far as I've seen all the Turbo boards are Broadcom based with something like the BCM4500 or newer chip (some have all the frontend functions of a tuner as well (think jb200), but some sk200 boards do not even have the BCM3350 chip on the back side that some do have (I've been looking at a lot of ebay ad pics)).
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