Posts by supwiddiss

  • Bricked receiver. Need RS232 methods assistance methods.

    First. The receiver has a 4 contact jack.
    Tip: RX from receiver.
    Ring 1: Ground
    Ring2: TX from receiver
    Sleeve: Ground.

    Hitools is not for Broadcom chipsets. And the copies I found are loaded with viruses or someone charges.
    I found the SPI NOR flash chip.
    I finally did probe the com port jack with my oscilloscope.
    Ring 2 gives a complex set of 5 data bursts when plugging the reciever in. Promising.
    While backing up my dish positioner to a file I got no response. Did a loopback test on the FTDI. TX is dead.
    Waiting on 2 replacements. Win 11 tried to obsolete the Prolific FTDI cable and had to force older drivers.
    Ones coming say Win 11 plays nice.


    Don't feel bad. Edision.gr pointed me to the wrong cable too. I asked for tips for a recovery process. They are clueless and sent me on an endless fox chase with the image developers.

    I don't even have a clue how many developers even have electronics experience.
    It may come that I need to pull the nor flash chip and flash dump/compare it.
    Writing bios firmware in a stand alone flash programmer saves a lot of bricked motherboards in my little shop.


    But since there is a nice data burst, things look better. Maybe. Right??

  • Bricked receiver. Need RS232 methods assistance methods.

    When installing an image through USB or online in Enigma2 fails. But there is a RS232 port. How would you perform a software install ?

    Briefly. While attempting to install the factory Edision logo using the USB flash file on an Os Mio4K. The receiver froze at 50% on the display for over 5 minutes.
    It seems as if when loading an Open ATV image this occurs. The boot image itself. Not the splash.
    I used the same file some time back and there were no issues. Sent the osmio4k folder to a formatted USB. Booted the receiver. <boot> and then <flsh> displayed.
    In a few seconds the flash was complete. The familiar loading flash screen showed. Receiver rebooted.
    It progressed to 50% and simply froze. I waited over 5 minutes and then powered the receiver down. Pulled the stick. Powered it on.
    Dead. No display.

    You can assume I have checked the power supply. 12.22 VDC and can supply adequate current.
    I tried installing an emmc image from USB. But the display would not boot. No FTP. No telnet session through Ethernet.

    I have the OEM bootloader. Have a FTDI cable. Trying to fnd the pinout for a 3 port phone plug. I know the sleeve (closest to the molded housing/cable is ground.
    And in the past if Tx/Rx is reversed like on a router, swapping them returns the boot text.

    But. If I can get a serial connection. And if the bootloader is in fact operable. Would anyone know the procedures to recover or check the file system, write the boot screen, even an image.
    Using the RS232 port?

    FYI. The receiver worked flawless. No spontaneous reboots. And as mentioned restoring the factory Edision boot screen worked before.
    I also have the Broadcom bolt bootloader for the receiver if I need it. Just no documentation on how to write it or how to use the serial port.

  • Keys file help

    Hi guys.
    My ASC1was out of comission for several months and have been parked on one satellite.
    Could sure use a keys file to refresh al that have expierd is anyone could help. Much appreciated.
    Let me know if you need an updated picons folder or lamedb with proper channel naming.

  • OpenBh 5.2 Community image

    Zgemma H7

    Couldn't install by USB over vix in slot 2. Just sat there at boot. This what the multiboot image. Understand using emmc will wipe all slots.

    Tried with the extracted zip file zgemma directory on USB. Then with the h7 directory in the root of USB. No joy.

    In vix I flashed the image. It allowed me to select an empty slot and installed ok.


    Usually I choose my display format. 1080p. And multi for frequency for any image. Multi got me a black screen and had to work the rcu through the webif.

    Reflashed the image and started from the get-go. Chose only 60 Hz (USA). Got it all setup. When changing (after awhile) automatic resolution to all resolutions. Usually done in other images to handle aspect ratio for different channels.

    It puked again.


    Got in the softcam menu. Installed the latest oscam-emu.

    No softcam manager to be found. None in plugin add on downloads to be found.


    Front panel display. No show in standby. And power LED is on all the time, deep standby usually will kill the LED.

    Back to vix and atv 7.2.....

  • Ummm yeah. Where are the missing Linux terminal commands?

    Well. Kind of figured out what is going on with my wifi dongle drivers.
    Windows showed that it was a Ralink RT3070. My E2 images showed it as a rt2800usb wireless network interface.
    The wifi chip in the dongle is the RT3070. The super tiny usb controller chip that takes care of serial coms to the wifi chip is a rt2800.
    Got all of that from data sheets and pinouts.
    Gets me wondering if Linux is letting me get all that I can get out of the wifi chip like you can easily in Windows by going into its device manager/advanced page or using any manufacturers support application.
    Or even if there is a method to probe the capabilities and modify them. Things such a region which would allow changing rx/tx power, if it may have bluetooth capabilities integrated it it.
    Oh well. It's working okay.

  • Ummm yeah. Where are the missing Linux terminal commands?

    Trying to use a Zgemma H7 for a tuner client on an osmio4k. Using 2 slots with Vix and openatv. Been bouncing back and forth trying to get the Zgemma as a client to reliably show one bouquet from the osmio.

    I'm finding the osmio with vix and tunerserver (or something like that....for now) and the Zgemma with openatv 6.4 works the best for now.

    The Zgemma. I'm using a USB Wifi dongle for LAN connection. It works well on a Windows pc with pretty good speeds. On the Zgemma download speeds are pretty slow. In the 1mbps region.
    Enough to stream a few channels from the mio. Some channels just refuse to show.
    I'm of the belief. Or not. That I might need more U/D speeds. I have no wired Ethernet at the moment to test where the Zgemma is. But I can.

    Here we go. The Zgemma uses what it shown as one RTL driver. In either vix or atv. Using the same driver name.
    Let's call it RTL2600 for now.
    I uesd Windows device manager to find the HW id. I looked it up and came up with the device chipset.
    Opened the dongle and the chip was in fact what the hwid was.
    Lets call that RT5257 (for now).
    Windows used a MS driver. I found and installed the actual driver and the utility for it. It seemed to perform better.

    I found Linux drivers for the dongle. Wanted to give installing them a whirl. Found them in .ipk format. Installed w/o any errors.
    Searched forums to attempt to verify the dongle parameters and such.
    No dmesg or other suggested commands can be run in terminal. I think lshw isn't even there. And others that forums (ubuntu) instruct that I try.
    Enigma2 searches come up short.
    Is there any info someone could offer to force a dongle to use a specific (and hoping a better) correct driver?
    What about all of the missing Linux commands?

    I certainly can grab the exact chipset, driver being used, and desired drivers I found if someone could spark an interest.

  • The LATEST OSCAM-EMU FOR VARIOUS PLATFORMS Discussion and Request Thread

    Quote from .atari.

    Why TNAP for rookie to complicated.


    Use OpenPLI image or openatv install ipk cam or use cam feed and enjoy

    More like vato cavron like old clint eastwood movies.
    You provided no useful information and therefore we shall consider you null and void.
    But I do agree openatv and openvix (screw pli) do give a better out of box experience.
    It would have been just as easy to blurt out what you did.
    TNAP is tailored for the beginner, siiiiiiiiii. Jes, mang.
    Perhaps the op isn't experienced as the el-capitain you appear to be. siiiiiiiii.
    We can work out the tnap issue w/o the trade in the ford and get a toyota thing. estas el-bwayno por tu?

  • The LATEST OSCAM-EMU FOR VARIOUS PLATFORMS Discussion and Request Thread

    Hey!
    TNAP was specifically designed for the USA. Native softcam install capability was disabled and trying to install an ipk will fail unless dependencies are installed first. In the webif in settings>packages, click the all tab then search for libcrypto and install them.
    Master g may have a more streamlined way to do it as he will immediately realize what dependencies are needed to make oscam-emu work.
    I can help. If you attempt to install oscam and see the errors. Make note of them.

  • UA suggestions for pv channles help request.

    Good conversation guys.
    longhaired. Yeah. I started from scratch making a key file tuned for sats we can receive here (that I can get).
    Popped in a few more # lines to make scrolling from sat to sat easier. AU clutter of old keys was only because some channels wouldn't clear and c/p from the original file until they did was needed. The latest oscam shows and displays the current afn key being used.
    Some said oscam couldn't do it some time ago. I wish it could be implemented for every channel.
    I use drakkar because dvbsnoop alone would confuse the hell out of me.
    When using drakkar to setup logging emm's the command is:
    dvbsnoop -devnr 0 -ph 2 | grep ^8 | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr -d " "
    And returns 0x005a & 0x005c for pid.
    I always use the 5a pid. Don't even know what the 5c pid is. A bit above my knowledge.
    "They" said use the first one. And so you have it.
    For ecm logging the command is:
    dvbsnoop -devnr 0 -ph 2 0x005a | grep ^8 | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr -d " "
    All channels on the tp the receiver is tuned to are returned.
    Pick one and setup your log file location and give it a name.
    If you don't have drakkar it might be interesting to grab it even if just to see the things it can do. All way above my talents (imagine a flat hand moving over the top of my head at 30k feet).

    A dvb card is in the works. In the interim I've tried a few of the card programs for Windows. Even got one setup to accept a stream from my receiver.
    The road block was getting files into it that were named similar to wha the receiver used.
    But in .ini format, etc. Couldn't figure out how to get the .xml files of the receiver image converted. TS Reader maybe I think I got working??
    It even managed to try a scan. But borked because I didnt have a tp file for it.
    Wow! More coffee!

  • UA suggestions for pv channles help request.

    Perhaps an AFN syndrome of the kinder, gentler type?
    I'm of the assumption then that nothing in the configs would optimize performance?
    I'm guessing that since I'm using the keys written from the bottom of the file to manually update the hash/group. They must be invalid. And is shown in live log.

  • UA suggestions for pv channles help request.

    You are correct. If I also happen to miss an update there is a bit of time until it rolls and adds new keys to the file.
    If I wait too long tuning to the channel...a few days maybe. No dice.
    As for the formatting shown below.
    I've tried manipulating the EMM above and below the hash/group line. Same results.
    Using the old methods, same thing. Wait too long and never an update after even hours, overnight being on the channel(s) on that tp.
    I didn't know if its me or the tp itself.
    Or perhaps a setting in the configs. Most every channel that can be cleared besides on this tp work just fine.
    I'm wishing I knew enough about the configs to trim out all of the unneeded lines of text to address cardless (pv, biss, etc) channels only.
    With the assumption that if 'we' cannot receive sats that use cards. Who needs the configuration clutter?

    Examples:
    Tried 00,01 lines below the hash/group also don't forget.
    P 9A27FFFF 01 F25D1AA3485A22 ; added by Emu Fri Jan 13 01:33:50 2023 UA: 005D1836

    P 9A27FFFF 00 18A4548CB31594 ; added by Emu Sun Jan 15 19:28:16 2023 UA: 005D1836

    P 30E30F2D GROUP 9A27 ; BBC NA HD S2, 127.0W, 4100 H 30000


    Yup. Replaced the 00,01 with UA.

    P 9A27 005D1836 F25D1AA3485A22 ; added by Emu Fri Jan 13 01:33:50 2023 UA: 005D1836

    P 9A27 005D1836 18A4548CB31594 ; added by Emu Sun Jan 15 19:28:16 2023 UA: 005D1836

    P 9A2700C9 00 00000000000000 ;

    P 9A2700C9 01 00000000000000 ;


    And the good old standard.

    P 9A2700C9 01 F25D1AA3485A22 ; added by Emu Fri Jan 13 01:33:50 2023 UA: 005D1836

    P 9A2700C9 00 18A4548CB31594 ; added by Emu Sun Jan 15 19:28:16 2023 UA: 005D1836

  • UA suggestions for pv channles help request.

    This seems to be an isolated issue.
    On 127W tp 4100H there are pv channels with the same group id from live log.
    I've logged emm's with the last drakkar and then sent them thru pvhe.
    After some time a pair of emm keys and and emm will reveal. Perhaps several at times if I wait long enough.
    Adding them to my softcam keys file with the new format and including the standard formatting will clear the channels.
    Almost imediately an updated set of keys for the tp will populate the end of the softcam.key file.
    I'll add them to the new format and create an added UA.

    The channels clear for a few days and then die. Live Log shows key not found, looking for the 01 key.
    Tried transposing the 01 key with the 00 key. After waiting for a long time.
    The channel(s). One being bbc. won;t clear.
    No new UA's are being 'added by' at the end of the keys file.

    A new logging of EMM's will show new keys when sent to pvhe. And will clear the channels for few more days.
    It seems isolated to this, perhaps a very few other sat/tp's.
    Is there something in the config files that may be missing? Where would I look?

    As an additional question. If the last drakkar can log EMM & ECM's to a file.
    I'm led to believe only a dvb card can record what I'm led to believe is a "full transport stream". I'm told my .ts files when requested by the satuniverse guys don't contain the full infor they are seeking.
    If that is the case then how is it possible for drakkar, using dvbsnoop as the.....engine??.....to log what is missing from the recorded .ts stream?
    It's said that E2 receivers just cannot do it.
    I'm sort of ready to get a TBS card that won't leave me lacking. One that kind of 'does it all'. Data, audio, video.....everything carried on satellites in the Clarke belt.
    But running into many if, and, but's with them.

    Help??

  • The LATEST OSCAM-EMU FOR VARIOUS PLATFORMS Discussion and Request Thread

    Questions.
    Mohamed's latest oscam emu displays "Key found" and shows the key.
    Nice!
    I've searched in the /var/volatile/tmp/.oscam/Internet_SoftCam & /etc/tuxbox/config directories for the displayed key. No joy.
    Could it be someplace else?
    Also what would it take to implement showing the current pv (others maybe??) key used for any channel besides just AFN?

    Cheers!!

    fleas on a dog. fleas on a dog. fleas on a dog. i want to wish you a Merry Christmas! from the bottom of my heart.

  • The LATEST OSCAM-EMU FOR VARIOUS PLATFORMS Discussion and Request Thread

    My preferred way is to rename the existing version. ex: oscam711.bak

    That way if anything sneaks up it's easy to revert to the previous version.

    ....but then again, that's me