I believe that in Brasil they are working SKS
Google for "GTMEDIA M7X DVB-S2 SKS/IKS/CS/M3U,VCM/ACM,Twin Tuner lKS&SKS TV Receiver,realase 70.0°W LyngSat With Brasil CH SKS Free For Life"
SKS is not via Internet but require special twin tuner receiver. Keys arrived via second Sat.
I was surprise I guess we have a new thread as Master G move this here.
What I try to say is,
1) Yes do all you can do to feel more safe. Do not listen to my observations ;)
2) But please do not think VPNs give you full protection.
3) Still want to use any sort of VPN. Then do it at Home Router level, So that ALL internet traffic get mix. Your IKS then get hidden inside that mix.
I found reading many post like that one myself.
It is nice to see many stuff to read, but very distracting.
Every post have potential good information. But as receivers have different platform/modules, most will leave to not working firmware.
As I said previous post, I will stop reading and trying to start preparing Serial Console so that I can read the errors they produce. Then see how I can boot to a busybox prompt. Then I see if I can make any of those kernel sources to work. Your post show some Ideas.
https://linux-meson.com/
https://linux-meson.com/howto.html
https://github.com/CoreELEC/linux-amlogic
https://github.com/LibreELEC/linux-amlogic
http://openlinux.amlogic.com/mw/index.php?title=Openlinux_SDK
http://openlinux.amlogic.com/mw/index.php?title=Documentation
https://github.com/khadas
https://github.com/Android-Amlogic
https://github.com/Android-Amlogic/android_device_amlogic
https://github.com/Android-Amlogic/android_device_amlogic/tree/master/p201And many other potential candidates.
Now as I have good results with Libreelect I may try first
and or
So 1rst I need to so some small repairs to may Laptop then I will move into Amlogic.
Hopefully I will have some good beginning this week.
So after hours of reading here an there I decoded to download from this thread RE: Enigma2 for KI, KII & KIII
In particular
vitmod 6 backupV3
I use my old https://libreelec.dtech.hu/mis…evice_trees/gxbb_p201.dtb
but renamed as dtb.img as before.
It did not work as expected. It will try to boot but do not pass. It in fact loop on booting. But Interestingly this firmware contain code that does not require the Reset button to be press!! It will be Nice to learn from it. And I still have hopes that that old enigma OS can still be use as reference.
What next?
Will study this new boot process, as it is the default way Amlogic boot into USB .
I need to set hardware USBtoSerial so that I can get access to Linux Console messages.
I will try to hack boot process and try to boot into a busybox-sh promt.
Again if any one knows the creation process done to create this Enigma2 for KI, KII & KIII
I will deeply apreciate.
At the moment I do not own any GT Media devices. Waiting for my 1rst to arrived. I do not want to step my self over not solid ground, but be aware that there are questions that I will not expect to receive answers.
GT Media produce Sat receivers.
Mars at most is manage by some underground team.
So they are not the same entity. I will not expect neither to see GT Media nor MARS team answering here anyway.
Wiregard, I guess best is if we open a new thread on it. I bet you it will have many pages of replays.
It is good you are trying to protect the best you can do. But do not have to much fate on it.
A quick example. 90% of ALL internet connection have some sort of security on it. But can it secure me from trouble? That is another question.
Lets take this post as sample. Please look at your browser address. You should see "https" it means its encrypted. So NO one should have access to my post information. Yet here you are reading this post. And it is free for reading by anyone signed or not to this forum!!! I know you will say it not the same.
But it is the same concept. One thing is the encrypted digital transaction. Another is what anyone can do after the transaction. And what info we can find if wee look at it. I will not go deeper than this here we can open a new thread for it. In general, my best suggestion is buy you self a low cost programmable router . Install Opensource OS, like Openwrt or DDWRT. Then add any FREE or Pay VPN you can get. Then all your Internet data will get encrypted, Legal and not so legal. All well mix. ButtThis will ONLY protect you from you ISP or Local Institutions. AT the end when your VPN data arrives at the VPN Server it will leave unencrypted to the Internet. It will ALWAYS arrived at the MARS servers without a VPN (Wireguard) protection.
Hopes it helps.
enrique
HEHEHE Look what I found reading here while I was searching for
"Enigma 2 S905"
The basic work has been in fact bee done => RE: Enigma2 for KI, KII & KIII
Quote from mtahirghauri1. K1 Plus image is for the box having S905 chip in it.
2. This image is installed on a micro SD card not on a flash disk. After burning on micro SD card, boot into it using pin method (to know more about the booting method, please use google).
3. It is new development project and is still in early stage, so please don't expect everything working out of the box.
I only need to find it sources to have a good start.
If anyone knows where to point me, I will appreciate.
Well 1rst step in my objective boot from USB or Ext SdCard on a generic Chinese Amlogic Android Box.
I am so sorry if I have not reported update on my project. I have some personal Issues. Also my GTCOMBO is on trouble and I am not sure when I will be receiving it.
In general I will try to post at least once a week from what I have.
Update on boot from USB.
Here I have good news. Amlogic S905 have a FailSafe recovery that provides just that. We can postpone the Finding/Developing a new multiboot boot-loader.
I figure just to spent a few days trying to find out what others do. There are many Open Source Substitute OS replacement. Many around Kodi. To name a few:
Openelect, Freeelect, Armbian, Openwrt, etc.
So I when to Youtube an pick a candidate.
MXQ-PRO 4K AMLOGIC S905 SOC - LibreELEC Install Dual Boot SD Card Tutorial-3LZwX1dwQB8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZwX1dwQB8Files I used to test
Olds, because my MXQPRO4K is an old box.
My box is constructed over gxbb p201 platform. So that is why I selected: gxbb_p201.dtb
If you try with other platform you may require different one.
https://libreelec.dtech.hu/misc/kszaq-archive/
https://libreelec.dtech.hu/misc/kszaq-archive/LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2-8.2.3.1.img.gz
https://libreelec.dtech.hu/misc/kszaq-archive/device_trees/gxbb_p201.dtbAnd to my surprise all when find. I can reboot to a different OS just by pressing Reset while powering device. Complicated for a day to day use. But Simple as a Test mechanism.
PLEASE notice I have not wrote any on my own yet, It is old stuff available to download.
What is Next?
I am going to see if I can Port this boot method, and make Debian 10 Buster to boot on this device.
I will report the following, as it show how Android is not the correct OS for dvb app. It does not have to do with GTMEDIA. It just Android behavior.
Last night I spent a few hours with my old MXQ PRO 4K. A waist of time due to the Android thing!!!
This MXQ PRO 4K was given free to me by a member of my family 2 years ago. He got tire of hitting a button to improve free memory. He figure that hitting the button make the device work better. The Idea was to use the device as a Linux computer Armbian. But after leaving the unit on for quite a few hours, it did start working perfectly. So at the end another member of my family ask me to donate the device for her IPTV viewing. The unit for many month work as expected, with its limitations. For last few month My sister stop using it, she is now onto the social media thing.
So I needed then now a test subject for enigma. I grab the unused thing and guess what!! Yes the thing even did not wanted to boot. So I thought It was broke. After several hours of Internet connection, the device finally got over the boot process and started to install applications!!!
What who did install those things?
There is more, but I will stop here. The point is that after some unused time, Android/Google etc decided that for then was more important to do their needs that to allow me to used the device. So I guess the device had to SYNC several gigabytes of data from my device, then maybe update the OS, to finally update the applications installed. Who knows what else Google did tho the poor thing. Mean while I was so upset that I wanted to bang the device to the floor because I needed for my Enigma 2 project!!!
I am not over my problems, It turns out that there are several versions of this device even with different CPUs. I need to find out what is the correct one so that I can have on hand and ready the correct Firmware. Because most likely I will brick my device several time in my Enigma 2 project!!!
So what is the point in this post?
Just to show how s7up1d is Android. And that we can not always blame manufacturers as Android do its spy on us thing. Yes their so call update and SYNC.
I am a Linux guy. I do most under Linux.
I have NO experience with Enigma. You then will ask why I am interested in E2?
E2 requires a lot of maintenance from part of users. This makes Android popular to some user with lack of programing experience. But in reality Androids is even worst OS for a DVB app. Android constantly run out of MEM and CPU. This will create issues to a live app that requires uninterrupted resources. That is why many Androids need to be constantly reset. A general Android rule is to have as much MEM and CPU as you can get on a device. That is the only thing you can do to prevent Android to hangup as it does. Or, the lower Android version the less MEM/CPU you may need.
I am no expert in Android. But years ago I was involved at www.xda-developers.com. My only current relevant experience is that to overcome Android strict limitations, I do run alongside Debian Linux within the same Android in my phones.
So I should received my GTcombo in next weeks or month. As I explained in the other thread:
QuoteAnd since I am buying one anyway, I will try to see if I can boot the current kernel ( boot.img/recovery.img ) to a working state , then see if i can "Kexec" to the external SDCard with a custom build enigma2. Just as I do run Debian from Android boot.img/recovery.img on old phones. if I do not get help from GTMEDIA with their official kernel sources then my future plan B will be that. It is just a personal project just to see how far I get.
While I wait for my GTCOMBO I will try if I can run E2 on another Android box I have MXQ PRO 4K. This has no DVB-S2 tuners but It may serve as a learning tool. I have NO Idea if it is possible. Do not take my word as something that can in fact be certain. There is more like 85% I will fail due to missing something.
Not that I know.
I only found a Russian language thread at 4pda-to, where they compare hardware
GTMEDIA GT Combo
CPU: Amlogic S905X3 Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53, 18,400 DMIPS
GPU: ARM Mali-G31 MP2, 850 MHz
RAM: 2G DDRIII
ROM: 16G EMMC
MECOOL K5
CPU: Amlogic S905X3 Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A55
GPU: Mail-G31 MP2 GPU
RAM: 2 GB
ROM: 16 GB
But I see myself buying one GTCOMBO.
And since I am buying one anyway, I will try to see if I can boot the current kernel ( boot.img/recovery.img ) to a working state , then see if i can "Kexec" to the external SDCard with a custom build enigma2. Just as I do run Debian from Android boot.img/recovery.img on old phones. if I do not get help from GTMEDIA with their official kernel sources then my future plan B will be that. It is just a personal project just to see how far I get.
Uff!, my lack of knowledge, brought myself to a contradiction. I am soo sorry if I confuse others. let me explained.
I did search for oe-alliance click to read
And I quote
Quote...Info: OE-Alliance offers the following: Makefile, Linux, driver, tools, common plugins and technical support among the teams....
I assume that any Enigma2 Team will make use of oe-alliance-core in their own building script. To my surprise is in the opposite. oe-alliance-core make will in fact build a full enigma 2 image. So It is seems now to me that my comets where wrong. The oe-alliance-core make can not build the core it self! without enigma2. In any case I will be studding this anyway.
Any little help is really appreciated. Just pointing me to a direction is of big help.
I know, sadly we are all feed always with complete solutions, never teach how to create, adapt or build.
Now I am no expert neither, my knowledge goes as far as running full Linux Debian inside Android. Now long time ago I did some help my self in Android phone theater. So I am custom on bricking thing and repairing them back. ;)
In general I have hard time buying from common stores. They do not seems to want to ship to my area. For example world-of-Satellite.co.uk do not want to ship to my area, others as well. That leave me with Chinese models at alliexpr3s. I plan to play myself with GTMedia GTCOMBO. Best reason it is been said it has sensitive tuner. There other hidden advantages.
Now Been Chinese manufactured device, I expect no help from neither manufacturer nor any mayor enigma team. They seems to exclude each other. So it is more or less to see how far I can get. And sure learn at the process.
From your post.
1) You seems to suggest me to start with OpenATV.
2) You seems to suggest Kernel/drivers are going to be use at OE alliance .
OE alliance!!! Very interesting I did not expect that. It is NICE to know. I do not have to start with Eningma 2. But instead, with OE alliance. IIt is a very nice hint you have gave me. It should simplify my test process as to just running to a Linux kernel prompt.
After that I guess I will see if I can tune to a signal. Something like installing Debian dvb-utils package and tuning using
scan/dvbscan: scanning tool used to generate channel lists
szap: tuning utilities DVB-S
dvbsnoop: To record some signal
And I am very happy for it. See I got some directions. Lets see how far I get.
So @jenseneverest or to all others. If you guys have more good hint PLEASE let me know. I am very open to suggestions. Will keep looking at this thread for more help.
1) I do not know where should I place this thread. This was best of I can figure out. Please move to proper section if this is out of place. Thanks.
I want to know if we have users of Enigma 2 that can help me porting any Enigma2 to a new Android device. What is needed?
For example, If I build for Linux PC,
1) I go to github,
2) clone a repo,
3) make install
4) at the end enigma2 run on top of Linux kernel, just as any other Dvb application.
So if I try to imagine what is needed, then I guess I need kernel sources with drivers for the device.
I know, Normally on Linux/Android we do not get open sources for drivers. Instead drivers are binary blobs with extra firmware that need to be compiled for a specific kernel.
I suspect an Enigma 2 will require similar approach.
2) In general I plan to test by booting from external SDcard. Leaving original Android firmware as it is.
Boot any useful information on multiboot it is appreciated. For now I am studding using Tasssadar's multirom approach.
Any help Thanks in advance.
I mention 4.2.2, just to show there are hobbyist that will love that. Yes a powerful CPU. GTCombo has an average CPU. New GTXCOMBO has a better CPU/Memory capabilities.
Just to be clear.
In my case
I like current CTCOMBO as it is: AU BISS, MARS and LACAM capabilities. Like I said I do not have one but plan to have one for near future. About ALL I like the fact that have a sensitive tuner. And that has an affordable price. For the future, I will like to have this unit running multi-boot bootloader. So that I can run ALSO Enigma E2 on it. So I can have the BEST of BOTH Worlds. A close firmware with all its features, PLUSS an open source E2 for all my regular needs.
Other previous post
Clearly MOST if not all that posted earlier where Interested in just running E2 to make this receiver respond Faster. Some are even tire of having to constantly reset / power up the unit. It is known that Android receivers get in trouble because they allow a bunch of none essential programs to run ALL at same time, witch finally result in running out of memory or even CPU capacities. You may ask then: Why Android? Because there are more Android users that love the easy to use and how easy to add new applications. Yes, for those users E2 is a complicated thing!!
So hopefully we can convince GTMedia to allow us to get kernel and drivers as this should not be hard for them. Hopefully in the following weeks I will receive my unit. And if others agree we could find a way to multiboot to the external SDCARD. And from there we can try to develop E2 or even convince some of the current firmware developers to include this unit in their builds.
PLEASE give us a chance by providing kernel + driver sources. Thanks in advance.
Indeed the tuner is sensitive on weak signals, 4.2.2 is useless unless a very low bitrate feed.
If the manufacture could provide :
an e2 boot partition, dvb drivers, a patch for icam.... and access to its biss server....it could be a great little box (i wont hold my breath lol )
Please focus, Lets do it step by step. Easy part first. And in any case what Linux Kernel licensee require: Kernel sources and drivers
Preferable posted at github so any one can start from there.
....we don't have the resources to start over with Linux...
Just in case you have not realize. Android runs on top of Linux Kernel. So you do have the kernel sources on your hand right now. I guess there will be also a need for any special command we may be required to address for you particular Tuner/demodulator/frontend model or any other vendor specific device.
Listen, most likely GTMedia may not need to even get involve, The kernel sources and its drivers can come from the manufacturer that provides your boards or even the manufacturer of the tuner and any other special/specific device that is not part of mainland Linux.
I do not own a GTMEDIA GT COMBO jet. And there is little found on the net. But I had run across some good thread, like one in UK where a bunch of guys report that the COMBO have a pretty sensitive tuner, one that picks transponders and opens channels where other best sold receiver fail to pick! Plus they seems to like 4.2.2 limited capabilities, one that no other ARM device is capable.
I also found Russians forums where they seems pretty interested as with US/EU do not let them buy from America or Europe.
Finally is an affordable device to purchase.
What is missing is that is close source. If we could at least get the basics Kernel/device drivers/vendor blobs then this can easily become a very popular device.
Here my grain of salt for E2 development.
Linux license require all manufactures to Post Open Sources for their Linux kernels. Sure many manufactures opt to not provide opens sources for private drivers, but instead they do supply private closed source binary blobs. And most manufactures opt to post WORKING kernel sources on github together with vendor specific extra requirements.
Once the sources are in github the Satellite community pick ups the work of developing none official firmware like E2.
There is no rocket science on this. Only willingness for a specific manufacturer to join what the rest of the satellite community does.
We will assume you are still a newbie to forums. Most forums have rules against asking same thing in different threads, I know an innocent error. You start introduction with a question instead of presenting your self. So be careful not to go against forum rules.
I already say I am no expert in Card Sharing. But we all know that now this days Cards are Pair or we said they are married. What this means is that before the card even try to work it first check if it is inside the Box was sold with!!! This means that in general Card Sharing should never happen.... Well people went to the difficulty to find how is the pairing process so that the card can finally be fool to play out of the box.
Ok so why I am yelling you all this? Because you keep asking:
Quotewhen i insert in the conax card into slot the channels remain blank screen .
You can not expect a CARD to work in any unknown box just because you insert the card in it.
Lets take the simplest of all pairing. A pairing done in another Vendor Official authorize receiver, Yes lets saying switching from same model box. Lets use SKY sample( NOT conax) , we where given this tutorial
How to pair your viewing card online
See even to use a Card in another same model box requires you to pair the card. That is the process you need to find out how is done for conax.
Another hint, II guess djalanga ask that question in june.... Best you can do is sent him a PM see if he found the answer. Good luck.
I see you initiate a conversation.
Quotehello mate,what should i do after introductions ?
But I do not have experience in that area. Sorry.
Most important thing to do is to read Forum Rules. You do not want to ask wrong question.
Well best you can do after you start your request for help in a thread is... Yes wait some time for an answer.
Now you can still do your assignment! How? You use the Search button.
Search "conax"
Now to be honest I have seen very litle in pairing cards. I guess the rules of forum prevent it. see admin master G responce in
QuoteWithout the RSA key and Box key you won`t be able to view a conax card with oscam in the dreambox.
There is no forum support for rsa key extraction. If someone wants to PM you the information they are free to do so.
