bigfella08

Is it necessary to upgrade the firmware on the SmartWi in Australia or are they good to go straight out of the box

And are there limits to what card they can handle

Thanks in advance

bigfella08

Been trying to get SmartWi running with no luck as per instructions

keeps coming up invalid smart card

niiko

What card are you trying to use?
what procedure are you useing?

LeroyPatrol

I'm sure someone posted a while back about using the latest firmware. I'd give that a go first before trying anything else.

Leroy

punjabiz

I hear NDS cards do not work in SmartWi... B0XT3L are NDS, so they wont work...

viewer

I did enquire with Satronics re using with austar...told it will not work on that system.

bigfella08

Just been playing with a Goldie to get things running

As per instruction's with Unit

bigfella08

Leroy,

I had a look around the forum via the search function before my post but haven't been able to find more than a few basic comments on the SmartWi

The unit comes with a special adapter to fit the european plug socket which made me think maybe the firmware is not suited to our systems but from what people have listed their running auroa and whitey on these units

I'll keep looking

Cheers

blade_900au

Hello
I tested one of these units with a gold card and a whitey and it worked with both found with whitey the max shares you can have was 3 without jittering.
What i remember it is not for nds hope this helps.
T1 fimware is what you need for irdeto
Cheers
Blade

mate

yeah, they do work straight out of the box. Read the instructions carefully. I had a few issues at 1st... being a bloke of course. But after referring to the instructions it worked immediately.

MrElectricity

I got a new one resently as my original one was second hand to start with and I wanted more cards anyway. So I was ready to update the firmware as I had done periously but found it worked fine straight out of the box, although the cards have to be married correctly to the base unit to get going. As I recall there is specific firmware for the Oz system IR2. Also I have found the SmartWii forum, that is attached to thier web site, very helpful. I usually only run it with 3 slave cards but 5 is not problem as long as they are not all different transponders. Distance is the only problem, average size house, same floor, no problem room to room but first floor to ground floor, really poor.

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bigfella08

Been waiting for you to drop by as I knew you have had one of these for quite some time.

I cant explain why I'm having no luck but as they say persistence pay's off

thanks for the info Mate,Blade,MrE

I will continue my journey

bigfella08

In the imortal words of Ford Fairlane this case is closed

Thanks for all the advice to all that helped

I thought I was going mad

I upgraded the firmware to 2.45 and it works a treat

Cheers

MrElectricity

Strange that you would have needed to change firmware, but if thats what it takes, happy viewing.

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Jason_dinAlt

austars chuckie and spongebob and even 5.3 used to work in the smartwi with 2.33T1 and above before the change in april, but alas if u want austar or fox then your limited to whitey. Smartwi will not work with NDS and the makers have officially stated they will not make a firmware for NDS, it seems they were intimidated by a nasty letter they got from a NDS lawyer. Whitey, goldies and silvers also work but you have to reset the firmware and remarry the card to the master unit if it has a significantly different atr

thats the case when trying to go from an I1 goldie to a 5.3 whitey or vice versa but not when changing from a 4.1 to a 5.3. when my 5.3 whitey is in smartwi that was originally married to a 4.1 chuckie it works fine, i didnt have to remarry but if you look at the card details on a humax or toppy the 5.3 reports as 4.1

range is supposed to be about 9 m max indoors but mine works up to 14 m indoors without any problems

before the recent flooding i used to run 3 stbs no problems, no glitching, 1 client in a humax internal slot, 1 in a toppy/freecam and 1 in a zinwell 7000

But the best thing about the smartwi is whitey runs cool as cucumber in it! no card heat issues with smartwi

ger1

Hi,
A friend off mine bought one a few months ago and it works fine untill the lately sinds they done something to the card.Has anyone els had any problems.

cheers ger1

joezep

Yep thats what i had to do to a friends smartwi. He also bought an extra client and running 4 x810 openboxes. These things are just awesome 4 different transponders and perfect pictures