*** Uk New pairing, Have I been Whacked

stevejo
as we said b4 my card was never in original receiver so don't know how its been paired could be what Ian has said and they just turned me off
anyway got me self a tomson box

Quote from wadey1457

but one off the members was using an old sly+ sd box

yes

they wish to have a record of who is using exactly what,so people can be targeted for upgrades.
its also possible that they are preventing repairing,ie people who once paired with a more modern box,pairing again now with a Thompson.

my card was never paired with any box so i didnt have this issue.
and like i said,all is well again now after doing what i said above.the card has still never seen a *** box,however it is now probably paired to the Thompson for the first time even though its never been inserted.

Ian.

Quote from seasider

stevejo
as we said b4 my card was never in original receiver so don't know how its been paired could be what Ian has said and they just turned me off
anyway got me self a tomson box

yes buddy but you are always paired to some type of box on the system you have to be , maybe not paired by placing it in the drx , but still you went off ??

Ian they know who is paired to what all your box and card details show up in your account , its physically impossible to have an active card without a box the system will not and cant send initial hits an emm without it ,so they do already know they have to BTW im not disputing what your saying so dont think that its the system setup they know

to be honest you are probably correct and once upon a time many years ago the card may have been inserted into the box,like you say for activation.

but i repeat this is probably a counter measure to prevent repairing and its possible that what worked for me may not work for others,if this 2nd pairing is not with the same box as they have on record for your account details.

im guessing here and this is pure speculation,but mine may have been turned on again because i supplied them with the same details that they have on record for my account.

Ian.

after all if you think about it,this would be a great way to prevent people going to ebay and purchasing Thompson boxes and repairing their cards with those boxes to be able to continue to use C/S

Ian.

Quote from ian1095

to be honest you are probably correct and once upon a time many years ago the card may have been inserted into the box,like you say for activation.

but i repeat this is probably a counter measure to prevent repairing and its possible that what worked for me may not work for others,if this 2nd pairing is not with the same box as they have on record for your account details.

im guessing here and this is pure speculation,but mine may have been turned on again because i supplied them with the same details that they have on record for my account.

Ian.

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Its not all speculation buddy they more than likely find it cheaper an easier to put messages on your screen than call and letter you to upgrade that will be fact and they are temporarily killing boxes to make you respond to upgrade requests ,however as with the icoms system on cable tv the box/card will never be active without both on the system even an incorrect serial number that is not on the sly inventory would not work there is an inventory list that gets cross checked and throws an error message on the customers service reps screen upon trying to send a hit to the box and card , they have a history of where every box has ever been and a card is user specific , putting a card into the box doesnt pair it its already paired ,as far as drx boxes the card get alterations from the box software when inserted and we now have a cs specific version of paired where people think the card has never been paired as its not been in the box ,its would be good if we could get feedback off troubled peers after trying what ian has done to see if this is whats causing the recent issues , thanks for your input Ian
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Thanks m8, The only difference to my configs in green:

[reader]
label = ***_HD
protocol = pcsc
device = 2
caid = 0963
ident = 0963:000000
detect = cd
group = 1
emmcache = 1,3,2
blockemm-unknown = 1
blockemm-s = 1
blockemm-g = 1
saveemm-u = 1
lb_weight = 101
dropbadcws = 1
auprovid = 000963

I cant understand "dropbadcws = 1"?? Your card is not going to answer incorrectly!! Surely that is for proxied readers?

drx-890c is a amstrad box buddy,thats 2 of them not a thomson box effected now i know of as the sd box even was amstrad

Quote from tomthebomb1968

yeah your right its amstrad , my older box was a thompson. Card still hasnt been in it for 18 months though lol

just logged 2 unique emms if thats useful guys

EDIT, not really usefull to anyone other than Sly

you have been putting au off in between and seasider had his dish out for a while as it blew down in the wind just a thought as both will have missed emm for a bit

Had to edit your post m8, unique emm is unique to your card & therefore can identify you & your activities to Rupert..
The main purpose of logging them is to see that they are still coming or to manually write them to your card...

@ stevejo my dish is fixed buddy that's going to my solo2 had 9 UQ emm
motorised is on a separate receiver

Quote from seasider

@ stevejo my dish is fixed buddy that's going to my solo2 had 9 UQ emm
motorised is on a separate receiver

ok thanks for clearing that one up :59:

In response to iains theory, if this was to be true then surely they would have stopped pairing the Thomson boxes?
I spoke with a member on Oscam dev who had his paired only last week and all channels now working again on Thomson.