Technomate TM-7655 Patch and AES key update information

[BGonaSTICK]

The place to go for Technomate patches is www.a l s a t.co.uk. They are also posted on satdudez.org.

I have shamelessly copied a chunk from a post at a l s a t by 'eeza' for your information. I will be glad to remove this if asked to do so by the poster himself or an admin at a l s a t.

How do I patch my 7000 series..

You will need a PC or Laptop/Notebook and a NULL modem cable. These can be bought for a few pounds on many Internet Auction sites but make sure is a NULL modem cable.

There is more than one way you can do this but I have chosen to use Technomate loader as hey its for there kit so you would think it would be OK. ?

First of all down load the patch for your receiver from the Darkman site. The guys who compile this stuff are very technically gifted and tend to shun WINZIP so just type in WINRAR into your favourite search engine and download this super bit of software.

Once you have it you can extract the data from the compressed file they are usually called “Darkmanpatch-TM7755_DD-MM-YY” extract the file to a location on your PC… Connect the PC to the TM receiver using the NULL modem cable and ensure the receiver is in the NORMAL VIEWING mode. Tune into any channel it doesn’t matter.

Click on the loader software “ITLINK35” and you will see the loader screen, there are two boxes you are interested in the Firmware Download box halfway down the screen. Click the Browse button and navigate to the place the Patch file is located on your PC (Usually called Darkmanpatch-TM7755_DD-MM-YY) once you have chosen the right file the screen will return to the main menu You need to Press DOWNLOAD now.. The TV screen will go blank and you will have a bar on the screen telling you of the progress of the Update. Once the DOWNLOAD is finished the screen will change and the receiver will reboot its self you now have a patched receiver….


WATCHING MULTIVISION AND TPS

Ok TPS keys are on a daily routine that means that you will need to update manually Key 21 and 22 in the Viacess area of the CAS menu.

Copy the AES keys from the Darkman site and then if you are using one of the latest patches you will need to change the two keys that appear to have a lot of zero’s in. If you have an earlier “pre auto update patch (before Jan 6th) then follow these steps.

Open the CAS menu and then press the Yellow key to get at the Viaccess keys, once there page down until you see the TPS identity on the "OP" column.

You are looking to find the KEY and this bit is important cos on the TM7755 the key is in the middle of the screen its two digits long only look for 21 and 22 (Its confusing as there are numbers on the LEFT of the screen that very nearly match the actual KEY (i.e. KEY 21 is actually the twenty second entry in the list of codes etc..........)

Now using the cursor keys move right until the code is highlighted in yellow and then press the Green key to modify the code. Enter the code as you see it in the AES list (Its a bit confusing because the code posted here is in two parts i.e. the first set of numbers and characters are for code 21 and then the rest are for code 22.

Once you have updated code 21 press the OK button on the remote to accept the new code. Now press the yellow button to save the new code. move the cursor down to code 22 and do the same. (Green to modify, OK to accept and then Yellow to save.

Exit the menus and then try one of the Multivision services.

If you are using the latest patch then follow the above but you are renaming the two sets of codes that have lots of zero’s on them they have the TPS Ident as above…

The full post, which is essential reading if you have a 7655 or 7755 and contains lots more information, can be found here:

http://a l s a t.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=27277

I have also attached the loader software mentioned above.

STICK

[chavslav]

hi stick, thanks for link and info.

i'm currently trying to find the file.

i go to technomate website, click on tm loader, it saves it to my pc, a compressed zip (do i extract this).

it then says click on browse, but i have to then ope n the file which i can't seem to find.

it then says click CONNECT then START to begin software download.

good ol me confused again.. ops:

[chavslav]

i'm getting " close a com port or stb power on", anyone know what this means?

any help would be good?

[BGonaSTICK]

The loader is attached to my post above (ITLINK35)

Have you tried just updating the keys with the remote like it says in my post?

[chavslav]

hi stick, i'm attempting the latest patch.

is that were i'm going wrong, if the machine already has the latest software will it still download or reject?

[BGonaSTICK]

If you're using the loader attached above and the latest Darkman patch from alsat the it will simply overwrite what is in you receiver without any problems. It shouldn't matter what is loaded at the moment.

STICK

[chavslav]

no luck patching last night 4 hours of attempts.

can someone give me a walkthrough from after downloading, "winrar", i know i have to extract files.

but don't know the method of doing so,any help would be good.

everytime i attempt to extract it appears bundled up like books...

i'm not the most pc minded, so a pointer would be good...

[BGonaSTICK]

Install WinRAR, then double-click the patch file. It should look like Screen1 attached.

Just click the 'Extract to' icon at the top and enter a directory path, or select from the pane on the right (Screen2)

Leave all the options as default, and once you've clicked OK, your patch file will appear in c:\chavslav or wherever.

HTH

STICK

[chavslav]

stick,

excellent thanks for that, i'll give it a try now.

[chavslav]

before i download patch, would i need the latest version software of the technomate site??