Check with your dealer for pricing. This unit uses Platinum firmware. It took us a little longer to release the PVR than we anticipated. We wanted to make sure that the customer would be getting a high quality product. This is a dual tuner PVR! Any standard IDE hard drive can be easily installed through the front access panel.
This new addition to the Viewsat product line is sure to be a winner. If you are serious about your FTA, then you will want this new model. As you can clearly see from just this thread the ultra is NOT updating with the usb thumb drive. Their are usb-serial adapters you can use. They work great but we have seen reports that they are slow U have simple nite rider lights on the display window This procedure is also known as a "Force upload" Posted on Sunday, December 30, - GMT Bailey, i do have a viewsat extreme and a clone pansat and i have the same problem that you have that i could not solve even that i start a thread that my usb to serial is not working and i get many suggestion one of them to buy a new cable which i did and the problem follow change port and i did even so the problem follow.
I have one laptop and one desktop. What i discover was the following and i hope this will clarify for you, the doubts you have and i hope that the great tester explain why this is happening with viewsat. What i discover was the following that the problem was not the port com or the cable but even so, if i did not buy a new cable i never knew my problem. The viewsat cannot download from a usb to serial it gave the same error you are saying you have in your ultra, while pansat take it fast and easy accept it and this is from my laptop.
Now viewsat the only way to transfer data bin was through the cable that come with it which is serial to serial and not usb to serial what i have in my desktop and this make any file be transfered to my viewsat. Now the question that i have for all the tester why the usb to serial viewsat do not accept it. Posted on Sunday, December 30, - GMT The Pansat clone cable is a striaght RS cable with pin 2 at one end coming out as pin 2 at the other end and pin 3 at one end coming out as pin 3 at the other end.
That is what a Pansat requires. The USB to serial adaptor, satisfies that criteria. The viewsat cable requirement is that of a null modem cable which also is aserial cable but has pin 2 at one end coming out as pin 3 at the other end and pin 3 at one end coming out as pin 2 at the other end.
Since the pinout of the USB to serial adaptor does not match this requirement, it does not work. This simply sens the signal of pin 2 to pin 3 at the other end and of pin 3 at one end to pin 2 at the other end. With this little toy in your tool box, you can pick up any unknown cable and use it directly or via the little toy and get connection. There are a couple of other solutions, but I really do not get into a discussion and argument about the hardware. Use the cable on its own for one type and in series with the adaptor for the other type of connection.
You are better off using the CD drivers that come with the adaptor. Eventually it boils down to making sure that the serial port is set to COM 1,2,3 or 4 and nothing esoteric that windows XP tends to do. With everything powered on with the software starting to load it will not start, but with the reciever off on the back, start the factory bin load with the null modem cable from the pc then power up the reciever from the back I have done this twice now.
Posted on Monday, December 31, - GMT Thanks to everyone, I do have a serial to serial cable that came in the box that i will use on another computer that I have and try the 2 handed fix several times as referred to in this thread. I'll let you know.
I have taken all of your suggestions into calculating to what is going on here. Network search 3. Scan Start? You do this for all the Birds Sat. Insert the Memory Stick in your PC and transfer the bin in. Select Receiver Upgrade and press OK? A new window opens with some Korean files, years, etc.
After you load the bin, the STB will reboot automatic? Wait for Autoroll and watch TV. I hope these help, I will be away for a couple of days, so maybe Jerry can help you while I am gone.
Hopefully you have enough info to get r done. Good luck. All the files you need are at the link above. Register, its free and get all the files and info you need. I bought a viewsat ultra. There was a null cable that came with the receiver that is a serial plug that plugs into com port1. Instead of using the diseqc switch that came with the receiver I used a dish pro-video path-multi dish switch-model DP Then there is another that is I followed the path and went to get the files but there was not one there for Viewsat Ultra.
I followed your directions to the letter using the bin that I had but still to no avail. The Dish pro switch that I am using is about an 8 inch square where as the one that came with the box is only about a 2 inch square. Should I change that to the one that came with it? I would think that my dish pro switch would work. A friend of mine is using one on his but it is s different brand.
Dont have a clue --been tinkering with mine for a month or so and it still doesnt work. What kind of dish and lnb's are you using? If you are using something like the dish pro with twin lnb's you don't need that switch unless you are trying to use more than two receivers. I am going to send you to a site that has the best threads on switches, lnb's and dishes that I have seen. There are pictures of all the dishes,lnb's and switches.
There is also diagrams of how they can be hooked up and in many different configurations. Tons of information there and all the help you can stand.
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