Used the Cypress CY7C68013A EZ-USB FX2LP USB2.0 Developement Board/module which is also used for the vu boxes, and using BroadbandStudio 3.1

The main objective is to reach the Dreambox 800se / 500hd via the SCL / SDA method.
Just for the fun, and maybe it's useless, but it would be nice if it succeeded.

First thing to known is, if both boxes have a SCL/SDA connector, so this I have examined and found.
It's the P801 connector on both motherboards.
Just measure the ground pin, next to it is SDA, and then SCL.
The other is the 3vdc pin, but this is not needed.

Image 500hd see this,



And for the 800se, see this image,



Okay, so far so good.

BroadbandStudio 3.1 connection story.
This is another story because the bbs has no drivers for the bcm97405 CPU, but for the bcm97413.
These are almost identical, so too works an bcm97413 cpu fine on the 800se / 500hd board.
So most logical is to use the bcm97413 drivers, but unfortunately, it will not connect.



Then I had the idea to edit all the 7413 references, in the bcm97413 files, to 7405, which gives a better result, it now connects with the motherboard, but when choosing the bcm97405 drivers gives an update error, so something is still wrong.



But okay, it's connected, that's the good part.



But still, it's useless because of the errors, as the Video tool, or flash tool.



So, editing the files needs to be further investigated.
To be continued ....?

(Thank you to Johnny for publishing it)

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