MGCAMD Needs to be restarted every couple of hours

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  • Hi


    Hi have recently started to have some problems with my MGcamd as it constantly needs to be restarted. Every few hours, the tv will freeze and the screen will go black. I then restart the MGCamd and it will start up again and all is good until it happens again in a few hours time. Is there any way of stopping this and for the MGcamd start automattically? I have tried MGcamd 1.35a and MGcamd 1.38 but it makes no difference.


    I am using VIX as my image on my ET10000 box. I use this for Cable TV


    I have attached my MG_cfg below as I have read that this may be an issue. Any help will be greatly appreciated.


    # EMM messages
    # 00 don't show any EMMs (default)
    # 01 show only valid EMMs
    # 02 show valid and bad EMMs with complete data display
    M: { 01 }



    # ECM messages
    # 00 don't show anything about ecm
    # 01 normal mode, show pids processed, decoded ecm and cw
    # 02 verbose mode, show valid and bad ECMs with data
    C: { 01 }



    # AU
    # 00 disable, no emm pids processed
    # 01 enable, emm pids always processed for soft-au and shared cards
    # 02 auto, emm started only if channel cant be decoded
    # 03 process emm pids for network cards update only
    A: { 02 }



    # key update (sum 01 or 02 with 04)
    # 01 update only new keys, default setting
    # 02 update all keys (used for valid PMK checking)
    # 04 enable TPS au
    # + tps SID, which pmt pid contains au pid
    U: { 01 } 0x12c0



    # config files folder (softcam, autoroll, ignore/priority)
    # 00 files in /var/keys
    # 01 files in /tmp
    T: { 00 }



    # network mode, use summ for several clients
    # 00 no network (default)
    # 01 newcamd netclient
    # 02 radegast netclient
    # 04 camd3 netclient
    # 08 gbox netclient
    # 32 cccamd netclient, card list saved as /tmp/cccamd.info
    # (ECM only, supported server version up to 2.1.1, later not work)
    G: { 01 }



    # network retry, use summ for several options
    # 00 disable
    # 01 retry every new ecm
    # 02 try to connect to offline shares every Q: seconds
    # 04 try to detect and fast reconnect to lost (and not used atm) server
    # + XX messages number and YY seconds to reconnect
    # mg will reconnect to server, if no answer to last XX ecm/keepalive or
    # if no answer for last ecm or keepalive sent for YY seconds
    # set to 0 to disable
    N: { 07 } 5 30



    # network ecm timeout in seconds
    K: { 05 }



    # newcamd dead routes connect retry, sec
    Q: { 600 }



    # network shares priority
    # 00 gbox, newcamd, cccamd, radegast, camd3 (default)
    # 01 camd3, radegast, cccamd, gbox, newcamd
    # 02 cccamd, newcamd, camd3, gbox, radegast
    P: { 00 }



    # on screen display type
    # 00 No OSD (default)
    # 01 neutrino
    # 02 enigma
    # 03 relook
    # + user password for http auth
    O: { 00 } username password



    # on screen display Options, summ of:
    # 01 show emu ecm
    # 02 show network shares messages
    # 04 show decoding failed / fta
    # 08 show emm keys update
    # + web port to use for osd
    S: { 03 } 80



    # Log option, summ of:
    # 00 off
    # 01 network udp log
    # 02 log to console
    # 04 file, appended ! delete it by yourself, before it eat all your hdd
    # + IP udp-port log-file-name
    L: { 03 } 172.16.1.1 28007 /tmp/mgcamd.log



    # keep ecm cache, seconds
    # every cache entry takes 28 bytes, so 24h cache will take *only* 240-400kb of memory,
    # for openbox/elanvision users with remote shares make sense to set it higher than default value,
    # to not hammer cards while timeshifting or playing crypted recordings.
    E: { 15 }



    # cache option, summ of:
    # 00 Off (default)
    # 01 Ecm pids cache, store pids used to decode in /tmp/ca_cache.list at exit, load at startup, same syntax as restore.list
    # 02 Ecm data cache, remember CW for (E time
    # 04 Emm cache for network cards, do not resend the same emm twice, cache not cleared until restart
    H: { 07 }



    # reread files, summ of:
    # 00 No (default)
    # 01 reread config file on channel change (including priority and ignore, but not replace/cache)
    # 02 reread SoftCam.Key on channel change
    # 04 reread SoftCam.Key if file changed
    R: { 00 }



    # debug, summ of
    # 00 off (default)
    # 01 debug ecm
    # 02 debug emm
    # 04 debug network ecm
    # 08 debug network emm
    # 16 debug network login
    # 32 show mem/cpu stats every 1 min
    # 64 add timestamp to log messages
    D: { 00 }



    # box type
    # 00 autodetect, change only if you think wrong type detected.
    # 01 dbox2
    # 02 dreambox
    # 03 triple-dragon
    # 04 relook
    # 05 openbox
    # 06 dreambox/mips
    # 08 stapi/kathrein
    # 09 stapi/ipbox
    # 11 stapi/openbox
    B: { 06 }



    # map all 180x nagra caids to 1801
    # default is 01
    F: { 00 }

    • Official Post

    Its probably because the log is active, try turning it off or use the attached configs..


    Code
    # Log option, summ of:
    # 00 off
    # 01 network udp log
    # 02 log to console
    # 04 file, appended ! delete it by yourself, before it eat all your hdd
    # + IP udp-port log-file-name
    L: { 00 } 172.16.1.1 28007 /tmp/mgcamd.log
  • What I forgot to mention was, I was using Newcamd as the emulator but there was a problem with the owners server and everything stopped working. I was asked to change to MGCamd as the emulator which started everything up again, however, I now have to restart the MGCamd every few hours. It can sometimes be every 2 hours or as long as once a day. Previous to this, it never stopped.

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