[mythtv-users] viaaccess decoding on netup dual receiver card?

[Gary Greener]

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> From: Per Jessen <per at computer.org>
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
>Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 9:24 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] viaaccess decoding on netup dual receiver card?
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>Stephen Worthington wrote:
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>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:22:42 +0100, you wrote:
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>>>I've recently received an upgrade smartcard from SFDRS for my DVB-S
>>>reception, so I thought I would play with getting it to work. Swiss TV
>>>reception it hasn't been working for me since I switched to MythTV
>>>about a year ago.  I have a dual-channel DVB-S2 netUP card with two
>>>CAM slots, pointed to LNBs for Hotbird 13 and Astra 19.2.
>>>
>>>I use the same DVB Viaaccess CA module I used with our ancient Nokia
>>>receiver (where it worked without problems).  I can see SRFinfo (which
>>>isn't coded), and I have complete EPG data for all the Swiss channels.
>>>As soon as I try switching to e.g. SRF1 (coded), the mythtv frontend
>>>balks and exits to the main menu, reporting some or other error.
>>>Occasionally I have managed to leave e.g. SRF1 selected with the info
>>>box showing something like "(_LMSc) partial lock".
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>>>According to info provided by SFDRS, it could take up to 30mins for
>>>the card to be "activated" so I should leave the receiver tuned to the
>>>channel. As mythtv doesn't want to do that, I figured I could use
>>>dvbtune? (hasn't worked sofar though).
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>>>I've tried some of the module options for the cx23885 module to see if
>>>they would produce more info wrt the decryption, why it isn't working
>>>etc., but no luck.  The mythbackend logs don't reveal much either.
>>>
>>>Any and all hints appreciated!
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>> If your card works like my Videoguard one, it requires "entitlements"
>> to be written to it for it to work.  These are broadcast continuously
>> by the provider in one of the digital streams on each multiplex, and
>> the ones for your card will come by regularly so they can be read and
>> written to your card. 
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>Hi Stephen
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>that sounds about right, I'm guessing this is what the 30minutes period
>is for. 
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>> But you need software that can do that, which 
>> MythTV does not do, and dvbtune also does not do.
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>Ah.  Given that mythtv doesn't touch any of the decryption stuff, it
>sounds like something the CA module ought to take care of?
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>> In my case, Windows users of DVBViewer here in New Zealand report that
>> it will handle updating the entitlements for my type of Videoguard
>> card when it is used in a card reader with Oscam and DVBViewer, but I
>> do not know of any software for Linux that can do this.  So what I do
>> is take my card out of the reader I have it in normally and put it
>> back in my provider's set-top box for a few hours every so often, so
>> it can get the entitlements written to it.  Then I put it back in my
>> card reader again and it will keep working for up to about a month (I
>> pay monthly) before it needs to have it done again.
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>Hmm, that's not an option for me, there is no other hardware involved. I
>just request the smartcard from SFDRS and plug it in - in theory :-(
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>> In theory, your CA module, if it is a smart one and has the right
>> firmware, could do the entitlement updating as long as the tuner it is
>> one is tuned to a multiplex that is broadcasting the entitlements. 
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>That's what I thought too.  My card is this:
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>http://www.conrad.ch/ce/de/product/942672/  (or at least looks 99% like
>it).
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>> So it might be worthwhile checking if there is firmware that can do
>> that for you.  Otherwise you will probably need to do what I am doing.
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>I've googled for new firmware for it, but the CA module doesn't have
>many model-numbers or other indicators.  Thanks for your input. 
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