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

[Gary Greener]

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> From: Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
>Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 8:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] viaaccess decoding on netup dual receiver card?
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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.
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>>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.
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>>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.  But you need software that can do that, which
>MythTV does not do, and dvbtune also does not do.
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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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>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.  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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>Unfortunately, DVBViewer is not open source, otherwise I could have a
>look at how it does the entitlement updating and have a look at making
>that work with MythTV.
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