MSD 7816 based receiver

[rrob311]

its been 2 months and still no receiver. I am going to have to order another it seems. Didn't make it past customs in China for whatever reason.

[rrob311]

Here is a picture running the xoro firmware

[rrob311]

I got the receiver to lock a signal with the firmware that I loaded. With the help of r10fret's channel list that he made for me I loaded it and still no signal. I am only getting 2.9v out of the coax input to the box so I fed the loop out from my x5 receiver into it and boom! I now have a signal. No sound yet but I should at the very least be able to make a channel list and just load it and be able to use the receiver until I can find better firmware.

[rrob311]

Here is a vendor with screenshots of each menu:

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So far I haven't had any luck finding any firmware support. The receiver is on the way from China. Hopefully it at least has a decent tuner.

[eastof111]

I was wondering what had happened to your receiver... I would think it would get lost in our customs rather than theirs. Hope you get some form of compensation.

[rrob311]

Lo and behold the receiver has arrived! I will be spending a few hours testing it in the next couple of days. So far, it boots to PAL mode. The blind scan is relatively slow compared to some of the newer receivers but is the type that scans all of the transponders first and then checks them for channels.

One bug I noticed is in the satellite list if you pick 91w, in the other menus it will say a bogus number like 257 East. A main problem I am running into thus far is the 22khz switching does not seem to work.

The dump database file has a .dbm extension.

[r10fret]

So my msd7816 DVB-S2 from arrived and it looks like it is the the same build version.

[rrob311]

The main board on it is probably the same size as a cigarette pack. There is a heatsink on the main chip but in the information section under hardware the number starts with 7816 so I am assuming it is the msd7816 chipset.

[cpr43]

rrob
Blindscan is a plus! They mentioned vbi / teletext or cc, see if it works. You mentioned a dump. It means it has the dump and upgrade by usb feature? Also I see the global world usually used for Network setup can you take a snap shot? I dont recall the .dbm extension with other models?? Probably to find a recovery tools loader and/ or a editor? Its $44 now shipped
Thanks for sharing

[rrob311]

Yes it has an upgrade by usb feature but I haven't found firmware anywhere. Do you know of any feeds that support vbi / teletext or cc? I plan on doing a blind scan speed test but the receiver won't switch 22khz so I will have to make some changes to my dishes tomorrow because right now it will only work with a couple of them. The motor control doesn't seem to work either. With the current firmware this receiver may be better suited to someone using one dish. There is no ethernet port or serial port on this receiver.