Alma S2200 CX E

[ViP3R]

This is a relatively new and affordable HD box on the Eu side that I just received yesterday from our good friends at Inter-Sat.

This is not a blow you away box, but a good alternative from say the openbox, it has more features such as YouTube, YouPorn, weather forecaster and RSS feeds and a few lame games..Right now it lacks displaying the video resolution when pressing info and no PID manual entry.

I may offer it in the store if these few things can be added and after I run it longer and of course if there is any interest in the box. The HD picture is very good, again compared to the open-box or slightly better with no stuttering so far on what sats I scanned in.

Blindscan times are between 3-4 minutes as tested on 97W KU, 91W C-band and 107.3 C-band

I'll post some pictures here and I do apologize for my lack of photography skills...

[ViP3R]

Video of the Alma S2200 doing a Blind Scan. and attached web leaflet in pdf format.

I'll play with it more as time permits. We will also be testing a brand new and very exciting box in the next few day's..more on that later.


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[dr.zin]

processor type?

[ViP3R]

I believe it's an Ali 3606 .

Microprocessor & Memories
Processor: 400MHz based CPU
RAM: 128Mb DDR
FLASH: 8 Mb

[el bandido]

Attached are a couple of sat files to test on your new receiver. EB

[easily confused]

Couple of questions. Is the blind scan like the openbox or is it an "intelligent scan"/ I am assuming similar to the Openbox. Do the makers of this box seem to be willing to work with North Americans or are they like many others in that they don't seem to understand what we view as important to us in the FTA hobby?

[dr.zin]

a few files off the net
flash is 2x the size of openbox

[dr.zin]

the eromclient.abs in the loader was strange,38k size in the past was for the old m3329 processor.The 40k size is usually for the 3601 or 3606,the 56k one was for the m3602.
Somebody would have to verify the loader actually works the the alma s-2200

[ViP3R]

Couple of questions. Is the blind scan like the openbox or is it an "intelligent scan"/ I am assuming similar to the Openbox. Do the makers of this box seem to be willing to work with North Americans or are they like many others in that they don't seem to understand what we view as important to us in the FTA hobby?

EC, it scans just as the openbox does no intelligent scan here. At the moment there are two options present scan and blind scan.

As far as the manufacturers of the box go, I asked my supplier about this and he said they have direct contact with them.

He asked me to put a list together of changes that I want to see, So I will do just that and we will see if they come through.

I know not having the video resolutions displayed and no PID entry will turn people off, I think these options are a must myself..So I will request these first and see if they add these to the next firmware version and see how fast they do it if they do. Then we will know if they are truly interested.

[ViP3R]

the eromclient.abs in the loader was strange,38k size in the past was for the old m3329 processor.The 40k size is usually for the 3601 or 3606,the 56k one was for the m3602.
Somebody would have to verify the loader actually works the the alma s-2200

I can tell you that the loader works,If that's the same one I used.

I managed to Kill the box dead after attempting to load an openbox S9 TP_PROG list..it flashed the list then just displayed OFF..on reboot there was not a light to be seen.

Lucky for me my good friend EB found the correct loader to recover the box via rs232. The first attempt failed, but after checking the include boot-loader option the box recovered just fine. This was a good mistake by me!! Now I know the box is tough and can be recovered.

[dr.zin]

always include bootloader,since they may vary from firmware rev to firmware rev.
I have also seen a loader for m3602 that had the include bootloader checked by default,no option to turn it off.
It was less flexible then the other loaders so I never kept it.

[dr.zin]

when I got my s10 I also bought blank 4meg flash chips from digikey.
They also had 8meg versions.I think the real linux receivers have big flash chips also.

[dr.zin]

the sysinfo screen sometimes mentions the processor type.

[ViP3R]

the sysinfo screen sometimes mentions the processor type.


If you press the 5 button 6 times while in system info screen it will display that.


M3606-ALBA


Chip ID = 18540a3b82000000

[dr.zin]

so it's like the openbox s16 but with a bigger flash

[dr.zin]

which means that loader should work with the s16

[ViP3R]

Just one more thing I feel I should add here, I said the picture is like the openbox in HD or a little better and this is true..But until you guy's have seen the HD picture on a Raptor or Anaconda it honestly blows it away..when I switch between them both it is a remarkable difference in picture quality.. Not a sales pitch..it's just the truth..

[ViP3R]

English manual for the Alma in pdf attached...