Posts by Mysteryman

Sorry about this basic question, but, I have only just installed TS Media on my Vu+ Solo (OpenVix) and am still trying to understand it!

I want to watch videos off DailyMotion and I managed to search to find the first thing to watch. It said it was playing and then Buffering and then hung.

Here comes the dumb question......do I need a HDD attached to the Vu+ in order to watch videos?

As you may guess, I do not have one just now. If the answer is "yes" then am I better using a memory stick or an external USB HDD?

Thanks

Quote from GeorgeXL

They work only in one box, delete them from the first box ( Linux p.c. in your case ) or put # at the beginning of the line.
If not, your peers will see you as double loggin and will delete you.

Thanks! Fairly sure they have not deleted my line, yet. Is there a technical reason why it would not work?

Quote from musogeek

Yes that is correct - a couple of things you could do, firstly, increase the amount of peers, secondly, you could put your best lines in the receiver, thirdly, you could only share your cards and not your hops, so then you can keep the lines you receive from your peers on your receiver. The third option might annoy existing peers so maybe a combination of the first 2 options is the best way to go!

Thanks for reply.

I have taken a couple of the C-lines and copied to the DM500HD. They show up as working OK on the Linux-PC, but, cannot connect on the DM500HD. Do I need to do something else to get them working? Maybe, they can only be in one of my boxes.

I am struggling to understand CAID identifiers and how I can find out what channels are contained on the card they refer to.

So, in CCCamInfo, it will tell me the CAID/Ident of the cards I am sharing, such as "500 : fffd00 Ident-Card | 42700"

To be specific, there are 2 questions I might want to ask:

• What channels are included in this package?
• Which package do I need that includes, say, Digi Sport?

Is there a way to answer these questions?

By the way, I have CCCam 2.1.3 installed on a Debian-based PC, plus a DM500HD running CCCam 2.2.1

Thanks

Quote from musogeek

for question 2, you are sharing from your server to another receiver, so that means that your client receiver is one hop down from your server, therefore you will only be able to see the cards from your server in which you have a reshare.

Thanks for reply.

Does this mean that now I have moved from the previous setup of using the DM500HD as card server to using the combination of Linux-PC/DM500HD that I have reduced the number of cards I have access to? Is there any way to restore the full compliment of cards?

Sorry, but, this is a fairly basic question!

I have 2 boxes....

Linux-PC

• I use this as card server
• In the cccam.cfg file are C-lines and F-lines for the people I share with
• All of them show up in CCCamInfo as Reshare of 1 or 2.
• In the cccam.cfg file I have a line "F: DM500HD DM500HD", which is to enable me to share with my DM500HD receiver.

DM500HD

• In the cccam.cfg file I have a line "C: 192.168.0.88 12000 DM500HD DM500HD yes"

I expect that cards I am sharing will appear on the DM500HD as 1 hop more than they do on the Linux-PC. However, the numbers don't seem to match up.

Linux-PC: 1 local card, 23 Hop1, 584 Hop2
DM500HD: 7 Hop1, 22 Hop2, 119 Hop3

There are 2 issues I see with this:

• Why does it think I have 7 Hop1 on the DM500HD? I would have thought it should be just 1 (for the local card)
• Why are there a lot less Hop3 on the DM500HD than there are Hop2 on the Linux-PC? This means I am not accessing all the cards I need to.

Hope somebody can help me understand all this and, even better, to suggest ways to fix

I'll give it a try, but, assumed that because the script did a stop/start of cccam then this is what it had to do!

If I can just edit directly then that would be perfect!!!!

On my previous set-up, using a DM500HD as the card server, then whenever I made changes to cccam.cfg all I had to do was copy it across to the /etc filder and it was live straight away.

On my new set-up, using a Linux-based PC, I need to copy it to a temporary directory and then run a script that stops cccam, copies the file and then restarts cccam.

Can anyone explain why there is this difference and is it really necessary on the Linux PC to stop/start cccam?

I have got CCCam running fine on my new Debian-based PC and would now like to add a script to run every few minutes to check that CCCam is running OK and, if not, restart it.

I have seen a few threads about this, but, as I am new to Linux I find it a bit confusing.

Can anyone offer me a script that they know to work OK and explain in fairly straightforward terms how I implement it, please?

Thanks

Found it now - and even worked out which way up the card goes!!!!!!

Hopefully, getting close to a working set-up :40_002:

Quote from master G

1: Update your smartreader+ if it has v1.2 or older firmware with v1.3 in your normal PC before puting into Linux server and set it to Autoswitch and select Normal to set it to work in Linux Server.

2: In Your Linux Server.
Copy these drivers to linux PC server. FTP 2 files:
srp_tools_x86
srp_update_x86
Set on console to both file chmod 755 !

3: Run command: ./srp_update_x86
and you see like so:
smartreader+ version v1.0, v1.1 or v1.2 then you have time to update.

4:Remove the reader and reinsert now we start the config tool
Run command: ./srp_tools_x86
smartreader+ version v1.3
MODE autoswitch
FREQ 3.69 Mhz
KERNEL normal

T_MODE t = 0
EGT 0

successfully flashed the reader with new firmware.

Now we need add to CCcam.cfg new line:
SERIAL READER : /dev/ttyUSB0 smartreader+
SERIAL READER : /dev/ttyUSB1 smartreader+
SERIAL READER : /dev/ttyUSB2 smartreader+

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Thanks for this info - all seems to have gone OK, but, am not sure which USB port the reader is on.

I've tried lsusb and this gives information in terms of bus/device rather than ttyUSB*.
Also tried dmesg and this gave some information buried amongst a load of errors!
Neither were very clear - any suggestions?

I have just build a PC with Debian and CCCam - seems to have gone OK.

Now I am trying to work out how to get the Smargo Smartreader+ working. There are a few posts with instructions and they say to FTP srp_tools_x86 & srp_update_x86 to the Linux box. However, I have been unable to find these files! Can anyone tell me where I can get them from, please?

Thanks

PS. If anyone knows of a good tutorial, written for a novice, for how to do this then I would be very grateful!

Quote from Ten Below

Omnikey, infinity usb phoenix ect also work well. What card you are sharing will help us advise which reader may suit you best. They are all straight forward to setup and you should find guides for whichever type you go for HERE.

Thanks for reply - the card I have is SCT Satisfaction.

I am currently using my DM500HD as a card server and have 1 local card.

I plan to buy an old PC, install Linux and CCCam so I can then use this as the card server. I will want to share the local card with the people in the CCCam.cfg file and, I assume, I will need to attach an external card reader onto the Linux box.

Are the Smargo card readers the best option or are there any others I should consider?

I am fairly PC literate, but, not much experience of Linux - how difficult is it to install/configure the card reader?