Yes, oscam.dvbapi have already those lines and others too. And yes: cards are perfectly initialised.
As I said, if I leave just the minimal oscam.server, it works flawlessly.
If cards didn't work, I wouldn't see them working after 3 or 4 seconds after each zapping. They work or they don't.
Here is a problem of priority: I'd like oscam able to immediately use cards instead of readers.
I'm sorry I didn't read this post immediately, because my first suggestion would have been not to replace the PSU, as first step, but to check all your capacitors.
Usually it's easy to recognize a blown up capacitor. A good electronic technician surely should.
With only 2 boxes in the house - frankly, I don't see the advantage...
The advantage are enormously huge!
Forgetting for one second the motor and imagining to have a fixed dish, these are the advantages:
1) By only one cable, having both boxes FBC tuners, you can set up to 7 tuners (A is the physical one, C to H the virtual ones) of VU+ as you had 7 cables.
2) This means many, many possibilities in terms of watching/recording/streaming/PiPing different channels with the same box.
So, the firs box will use the Unicable/SCR User Band from 1 to 7 whilst the second the UBs from 8 to 14.
What I don't know if this simple splitter can do the job. I have a SCR splitter (1 IN, 2 OUTs).
I don't use OpenPli because it's too ugly, but I suppose what I'm going to tell (valid for OBH) should work also in OpenPli.
There is no ordering method you can apply ex-post, but the open images create a bouquet named "Last scanned".
So, what I do is, after scanning only one satellite at the time, to copy all channels from this bouquet to a new one named as I like (for instance DVB-T ordered, 13E ordered, or similar).
OpenBlackHole: elegant and with fixes over openvix (parent) code.
Yes, it's already so. This is it:
oscam.conf
[global]
logfile = /var/log/oscam.log
nice = -1
maxlogsize = 500
WaitForCards = 1
waitforcards_extra_delay = 300
preferlocalcards = 2
reload_readers = 1
[dvbapi]
enabled = 1
au = 1
pmt_mode = 1
delayer = 60
user = dvbapi
boxtype = dreambox
Never seen this boxkey option. Do you refer to the Tivusat reader or to srg one?
But the my main question is: this configuration perfectly works if I delete every other readers!
Only, I have this little problem (actually, is not so severe) that other readers intervene for the very first seconds of decrypting, after each zapping.
Before going on, I want to precise the thread title: I manage to use both my cards Tivusat and Swiss but, after zapping to one of those channels, for a few seconds Oscam use the other readers. Only after a few seconds, I see the Server: local: 0 message.
Why's that?
I've tried many options, weight balance and everything. But nothing. Even if it behaves like I said, I'd like to know how to immediately have those channels decoded by their cards.
Here are my configuration files.
oscam.server
[reader]
label = tivusat
protocol = internal
device = /dev/sci0
caid = 183E,183D
rsakey = A92DA72FEEACF2947B003ED652153B189E4043B0138C368BDF6B9ED77DDAD6C0761A2198AEB3FC97A19C9D01CA769B3FFFE4F6E70FA4E0696A8980E18D8C58E11D817121346E3E66457FDD84CFA72589B25B538EFC304361B54845F39E9EFA52D805E5FD86B595B366C35716ABC91FA3DC159C9F4D8164B5
detect = cd
nagra_read = 2
mhz = 450
cardmhz = 2700
ident = 183D:000000,005411;183E:000000,005411
group = 1
emmcache = 1,2,2,0
blockemm-unknown = 1
blockemm-g = 1
lb_weight = 1000
lb_force_fallback = 1
auprovid = 005411
[reader]
label = SRGv6
protocol = internal
device = /dev/sci1
caid = 0500
detect = cd
mhz = 450
cardmhz = 2700
ident = 0500:060200,060210
group = 1
emmcache = 1,3,2,0
lb_weight = 1000
lb_force_fallback = 1
auprovid = 060200
oscam.user
[account]
user = CARD
group = 1,2,3,4,5
au = 1
1) iDreamX works till Mojave (10.14). Doesn't from 10.15 on.
2) I've never managed to install a VM by VMware: it simply does not accept MacOS as a OS guest, unfortunately.
Only OsX supported is, in theory, SnowLeopard server, but I got into many troubles after finishing install.
I use OBH 4.3 and this is the wget output.
GNU Wget 1.19.5, a non-interactive network retriever.
I decided to base my check only on the existence of ecm.info, which I (wrongly) believed it was created by the wget command you showed me. Instead, it is created by the decoding itself.
So, by this two simple lines
FILE=/var/volatile/tmp/ecm.info
if test -f "$FILE"
.....
I got to my target.
And, also, is not based on the box IP or its username and password. This way I can pass it on some friends without having to edit anything.
Actually, the perfect and ultimate solution would be to know if the Oscam is running only because I'm watching or streaming a channel that needs it, or because there is a recording active and which is using Oscam.
At the moment I can only know if a recording is active (by a wget command based on active timers) and, now, if oscam is decoding.
But it might be that the recording is on on a FTA channel and the oscam is decoding because I'm watching a channel...
All of this is to prevent an oscam restart while I'm recording a that needs Oscam to be running (without interruption
This script produced only the file
ecm.info
in /var/volatile/tmp
but no output. And, as I said before, the file is created only if this wget command is launched while oscam is decoding and is deleted if oscam is not decoding.
So, as an alternative to the "output method" I talked about in my previous post, I used the command TEST to simply check if this file exists or not.
And it works ;)
So, many many many thanks: your help was decisive, although in a different way in respect to your initial idea.
But here, what matters is the solution!
I was enlightened by your line
http://192.168.x.x:8888/oscamapi.html?part=status
(obviously with my box IP and oscam port)
and I actually think there is a much simpler way. Using this line in my browser, it showed this output when oscam did not decode any channel
OK OK CARDOK CARDOK CARDOK CONNECTED ERROR CONNECTED ERROR CONNECTED CONNECTED OFF ERROR ERROR CONNECTED ERROR UNKNOWN ERROR CONNECTED CONNECTED CONNECTED ERROR ERROR CONNECTED CONNECTED CONNECTED CONNECTED UNKNOWN OFF
but this other output when oscam if it was decoding a channel
OK OK CARDOK unknown CARDOK CARDOK CONNECTED ERROR unknown CONNECTED ERROR unknown CONNECTED CONNECTED OFF ERROR ERROR CONNECTED OFF UNKNOWN OFF unknown CONNECTED CONNECTED CONNECTED ERROR ERROR CONNECTED unknown CONNECTED unknown CONNECTED CONNECTED UNKNOWN OFF unknown OK
where the only difference is the presence of the string "unknown OK" only in this second case.
So I thought I could use a wget or a grep command to copy this output into a file in order to check for this string.
But clearly my linux commands knowledge is too limited at the moment and I didn't manage to do that.
For instance, among many other tries, I did an attempt by this command:
Output=$(wget -q -O - "http://MY_USERNAME:MY_PASSWORD@x.y.w.z:MY_PORT" | sed -n '1,/unknown OK/ p')
but it gets into an error. How may I get this http output into a string or a file?
I'll check your script or examine it as soon as possible.
I understand your point but in my case it wouldn't do what I need because there's a script running every some hours that needs to know, as its last operation, if it can also restart oscam and, at the moment, it does based on the simple fact that there is no recordings going on, regardless of the fact the recording is only from a FTA channel or not.
If I could know if oscam is actually and actively decoding, the script would restart oscam in case of FTA, whilst now it just does not restart not to risk to ruin the recordings.
If I simply checked if the box were in standby, I simply did not have the oscam restart even if possible.
Here is not the oscam the main actor of the problem, but the possible ruining of a recording ;)
I'm looking forward to get into your script ;)
First of all I apologize for my late reply, but I couldn't examine and study your script before.
Then, I really want to thank you for the effort you specifically did for me, editing your script, I really apreeciated it.
I actually needed much less, because I have a script which perform a series of operation.
So, I only needed to read if any of the readers is engaged and assign this to a variable.
Depending on it I'll then have various commands.
I saw that this command:
cat /tmp/test-oscam-api.xml | sed -rn '/name="'$READER_LABEL'"/,/times/p'
creates a file which would be useful, indeed, ecm.info which contains, above all, the reader used at the moment.
And I thought I could use it by the sed command.
But, the problem is that it deletes the file when no readers is used (that means Oscam is not actually used, at moment, by a channel or a recording going on).
My knowledge of sed command is limited and I tried different options but I did not manage to avoid the deleting of ecm.info.
Is that possible. Or is simply possible to have a way for a sort of yes/no answer to the question: is Oscam decrypting any channels at the moment?
For the rest of the world there is Lyngsat.com
Hello, is there a command to check if flash has got corrupted sectors?
Hi,
I'd like to know if it's possible to check, running a bash script, if the oscam is currently decoding any channel either by a reader or by a client.
I'd like to do this check in order to safely schedule a periodic oscam's restart it without corrupting a recording or interrupting a viewing.
So either a command line variable or a wget one would be really useful.
I've been using oscam for some years, so far, and it correctly uses either my tivusat or my SRG card, in their slot.
In the [global] section of oscam.conf, of course, I have
preferlocalcards = 2
to avoid the use of the other readers for those providers.
Then, the other day, I decided to try the new files from post #23. And, because of oscam.dvbapi, it started using readers for some of the tivusat channels (whilst RSI-SRG were always OK, by the card).
The behaviour was odd because only some of RAI channels, like RaiNews24 HD or RaiScuola HD (and a few others) used the readers; along with them, Some Mediaset HD ones.
Deleting some lines from oscam.dvbapi (referred to 09CD) some of those channels were "fixed" (meaning they started using the tivusat card) but some others not. To solve the problem and go back to the perfect situation, I had to delete every lines referred to Sk*Italia.
This is not satisfactory: why the preferlocalcards = 2 has not the priority over something else in order to force tivusat decoding by the smartcard?
The complete oscam.conf is:
[global]
nice = -10
waitforcards = 1
preferlocalcards = 2
logfile = /var/log/oscam.log
maxlogsize = 500
reload_readers = 1
[cccam]
port = 12000
nodeid = 6B516F3010DF147E
version = 2.3.0
reshare = 1
stealth = 1
[dvbapi]
enabled = 1
au = 1
pmt_mode = 0
user = dvbapi
boxtype = dreambox
Thanks.
My oscam resides in /usr/bin and I have already tried the
oscam restart
command as my first attempt. It produces the error
sh: pzapit: command not found
then gets stuck (without having done anything).
That's why I was looking for a re-reading of oscam.server and its readers.
I have a VU+Solo4K equipped by OBH 4.3.
Actually I had already wrote my need, in the last line of my previous post: "I simply need to reload readers after another script updates them".
It means that I do a renew of the file oscam.server which rewrites it and changes all the [reader] sections.
So, at the end of this process, I need to either restart Oscam or re-read ALL the cccam readers. This second options would be preferable, in my view.
So, oscam is used only as a local reader and for only one user.
I noticed in your line (where, obviously I put my data, that there it end by
...reader_sci0
It refers to my slots, I suppose.
My two slots for smartcards are both used but oscam is used also with ccam readers.
Using your line actually re-reads the cccam readers but, after some minutes, oscam stops (and you can see that from the webinterface or by the fact the channels it manages stop working.
