What happened to OSCam patched?

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  • Neither the oscam developers have anything to say about it, but I could see it coming after reading strong discussions between developers, you can still compile some people provide oscam-emu.patch.

  • Neither the oscam developers have anything to say about it, but I could see it coming after reading strong discussions between developers, you can still compile some people provide oscam-emu.patch.

    So it's just people being childish?

    The patch it still up, just not the pre-patched version.



    EDIT: I found an email address for the dev. If he replies, I'll post back.

  • look for others on github

    Edited 3 times, last by passata ().


  • well building the docker version is not so different now, it's actually cleaner imho.

    Code
    RUN \
      echo "**** compile oscam ****" && \
      mkdir -p /tmp/oscam && \
      git clone https://git.streamboard.tv/common/oscam.git /tmp/oscam && \
      cd /tmp/oscam && \
      git apply /tmp/patches/oscam-emu.patch && \
      ./config.sh

    or also dont statically include the patch in the Dockerfile but rather curl it from oscam-emu repo.


    ah, also, to keep the Dockerfile cleaner, take a look at the patched libdvbcsa repo so you dont have to actually include anything.

    Code
    RUN \
      git clone https://github.com/oe-mirrors/libdvbcsa.git /tmp/libdvbcsa && \
      cd /tmp/libdvbcsa && \
      echo "**** patch libdvbcsa with icam support****" && \
      ./bootstrap && \
      ./configure \
        --enable-neon \
      make -j 2 && \
      make check && \
      make DESTDIR=/ install
  • I use simplebuild, to have the latest emu version this way is to wait for someone to upload the patch, copy it to the path and apply the repopatch command, it's easy, but it's not as fast as it was before.

  • Thats not with emu support.



    Thanks. I know I can just patch it manually, but I thought it would be safer to use the pre-patched version since the patch could need changing to support the latest version of oscam.


    Why patch libdvbcsa? Is that for e2 users?

    • Official Post

    We patch libdvbcsa for TVH.

    I assume we need the patched libdvbcsa for stream relay to work with iCam?

    As far as I know, it's only e2 users that use stream relay?

    You dont really need any of the stream relay stuff that has now been added to oscam, (as you say TVhedend has patched it elsewhere anyways)

    There is options to build without when using simple build.....something else i have been meaning to test but not got round to it.

  • Neither the oscam developers have anything to say about it, but I could see it coming after reading strong discussions between developers, you can still compile some people provide oscam-emu.patch.

    As you may or may not know, I was the only maintainer and developer of the oscam emu repo in github . That was true for a decade now, but as time didn't allowed I was proposed to add some more people to help.


    These were the same people that took over oscam. Mainly wxbet and ohmza. Unfortunately, this has been a total disaster as apart from committing questionable quality code to oscam, they totally removed the emu related parts (despite my objections) that resulted in making oscam-emu code more difficult to maintain. I didn't like this, but as my free time was limited I decided to let it go.


    I also decided to let wxbet have full control of the emu repo in github and essentially run it alone. Things were okish between us.


    On the contrary, I had some arguments In the past with ohmza regarding some code he was about to commit in oscam, tried to explain, but didn't want to understand. Problem was he was posting again and again making fun of me in streamboard forum. That's why I decided to leave oscam (I was a dev there as well) some months ago and asked them to completely delete my account so he would stop mentioning me. This wasn't enough for him, and he kept mentioning me and making fun of me in streamboad even without me being a member there. I decided to ask wxbet to put a leash on him, but as the future revealed this wasn't the case.


    This was how things were for some months now, until the other day I got a personal attack from ohmza in github without any reasoning. See pictures attached. So, this is why I decided to removed all these guys from the repo and bring it down as well. I asked github to take action and they deleted his account and the offending posts, so get prepared for a different nickname for him there in the future.


    THIS ACTION IS TO TELL PEOPLE THAT OSCAM-EMU MANAGEMENT BY NAUTILUS7 HAS ENDED.


    There are plenty of places to get the code. Whoever wants can make a new repo and do whatever he likes with it. Just do not mention me at any way. I do not want to have any relation or responsibility with oscam(-emu) anymore. Sorry for the trouble this brings to users and especially e2 image makers, but you have to look elsewhere for the root cause of this.


    Regards, nautilus7 out.

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    Sorry for the trouble this brings to users and especially e2 image makers, but you have to look elsewhere for the root cause of this.

    Sorry to hear how things have now turned sour, there is a lot of that going around lately.

    I will take this opportunity to thank you for the past decade, (and beyond that) maintaining the EMU patch and all of the development we the end user's have benefitted from, both with EMU and oscam core. Should time allow.... and if you ever find the desire to continue a separate branch at some point, please let us know. :beer1:

  • nautilus7

    I have followed your publications here and in github, I am also sorry that you are leaving this project, and I think I will not be the only one, maybe there is still something to do for example in powervu, however I will always thank you for all the help for us less knowledgeable in software development, you have helped us to enjoy TV for so long.

  • Thanks for clearing things up.

    I guess we can use the patch while it's still being maintained.

    If not, we can just switch to NCam.

    I just wish Ncam used the same defaults as OSCam and the links in the web ui to the wiki still existed!

    Maybe someone close to fairbird can give a polite nudge :)



  • You don't have to stop for any coward that's always around...

    Edited once, last by pioppo ().

  • nautilus7

    Thank you very much for this big cleanup :thumbs up: of those 2 sunday Dev's of streamboard from oscam-emu repo.


    ...These last 6 months they had done a massacre in 'oscam-trunk' by commit a bad codes and non sense things which should be external or should stay in 'S3' like :


    oscam-signing

    oscam-upx

    oscam-print openssl (which a lot of users have problems now { Aka: symlinks, ...etc }

    oscam-print mama

    module-streamrelay ....

    ...

    ...

    a lot of garbage code in: module-dvbapi.c, reader-nagracak7, EMM Handling destroyed, ...etc


    and finally, they broke 'oscam-emu.patch' ....


    goodjob.

    ;

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