Azbox Elite Manual do Utilizador

How to recover a blocked Azbox only displaying:Booting…If your Azbox is no longer responding and it is stucked with Booting... in the front display, i

Starting the TFTP.In the pack that come with this tutorial, you have the Files folder, you need to configure your TFTP serverto use this folder.Start

Press Options button:Tutorial by Pr2 for www.smartinnovations.nl and www.azboxforum.be (version 1.3) page: 11 / 35Also available on: h

In the field TFTP filesystem root (download path) set the Files folder location (the easiest way is to clickon the folder icon and browse yout folde

Disabling Windows Firewall (or any other).To avoid many problems it is important that you disable the Firewall that is active on your PC.Here is howto

How to connect the cable on the Azbox motherboard:Elite:Carefully check for the dot on the motherboard it indicates the TX pin of the connector.Rememb

Premium:Carefully check for the dot on the motherboard it indicates the TX pin of the connector.Remember that you need to connect this TX pin to the R

Premium Plus:Carefully check for the dot on the motherboard it indicates the TX pin of the connector.Remember that you need to connect this TX pin to

Ultra:Carefully check for the dot on the motherboard it indicates the TX pin of the connector.Remember that you need to connect this TX pin to the RX

Recovery of your Azbox.Reminded : prerequisites.You have an USB/TTL adapter and the cable.You have a terminal emulataor [ Putty ]You have a TFTP ser

The result will look like:Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 19

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But if the answer is:C:\>ping 192.168.1.241Pinging 192.168.1.241 with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 192.168.1.241: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64Reply from

Starting Recovery process.To follow and understand this tutorial you have to keep in mind that in the examplebelow: The PC IP address is 192.168.168.1

Step 2: connection to YamonYou will get a windows looking like:Be carefull at some stage Yamon will do a small pause (see screenshot above), it is tim

You should get a prompt: YAMON>If the boot process continue, power off / power on your Azbox to start over.And press as fast as possible the Ctrl-C

Etape 3: Disabling of « Hardware acceleration »We will check if your AZBox don't have hardware acceleration enabled.To do this type the followin

(0x00) 4 a.uart0_gpio_dir 0x00000000(0x00) 4 a.uart0_gpio_mode 0x00007f6e(0x00) 4 a.uart1_baudrate 0x00002580(0x00) 4 a.uart1_gpio_data 0x

If the value of x.pll3 is equal to 0x01020057 [4 x.pll3 0x01020057]Then continue to step 4, there is nothing special to do. Hardware acceleration i

Step 4: Enabling Azbox network InterfaceThen type the following commands at Yamon prompt YAMON>:setenv ipaddr 192.168.168.20setenv subnetmask 255.

Enabling network:net upResult:em86xx_eth ethernet startChecking the connectivity:ping 192.168.168.10Result:YAMON> ping 192.168.168.1064 bytes ICMP-

Step 5: Loading and starting Rescue LinuxType the command:load -b tftp://192.168.168.10/vmlinux.bin 0x90020000The result of the command is:About to lo

Here is a reference of another cable tested successfully: TTL232R-5V-WETutorial by Pr2 for www.smartinnovations.nl and www.azboxforum.be (

On your TFTP server (PumpKIN)You can stop PumpKIN on your PC.If your Azbox cannot connect cannot connect to your TFTP server, please check the setting

When this is done, you need to type the command:goResult:YAMON> goem86xx_eth ethernet stopLinux version 2.6.22.19-19-the_ripper (root@debian) (gcc

Etape 6: Connecting to the Rescue LinuxThen you will get a login prompt: type root (if you are prompt for a password it is azbox)AZBOX login: rootlogi

Type:ifconfig eth0 192.168.168.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.168.255 upWe will check again if this work:AZBOX[~]$ ping -c 5 192.168.168.

Step 7. Transferring the recovery filesWe will send the recovery files to our Azbox. With your favorite FTP client (for example: FileZilla) connect to

Step 8. Starting recovery./update /MMP/backup_kernelBe carefull the above command start with a dot ./updateResult:INFILE: /MMP/backup_kernel , OUTFI

Cable creation:The adapter looks like: There are 6 PINS:PIN Function+5V Power supply output 5VGND GroundRXQ Receive DataTXQ Transmit DataRST Reset3.3V

In an electronic specialize shop I found this connector, we cut it with the number of connector that wewant:This one perfectly fit on the adapter USB

The connector to access Yamon looks like this on the motherboard:Connector on the Azbox side Connector on the USB/TTL adaptorTX [Br

Softwares pre-requisite:Putty.Putty is a terminal emulator which also support serial connections.Since most of us already use Putty we already have it

adapter USB/TTL driver installation and configuration.You should install the driver on your PC and check that they are properly working (no error mess

Click on Device Manager.In the list that appears select the Ports (COM and LPT) and double click on Silicon Labs CP210x USB toUART Bridge, please writ