Posts by supwiddiss

  • 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

  • No news about new VU+'s?

    Been thinking about getting the latest, best receiver for some time. My osmio4k performs brilliantly.
    I started a thread over on satuniverse last night. What is the best receiver today? I'm thinking "inside the box".
    In other words a nice flashy oled front display is cool. Pluggable tuners would better. Remotes? It's a plastic world out there.

    More and more I hear that Broadcom is getting out of the FTA, consumer sat receiver chipset market.
    And a receiver with a HiSilicon chipset is more robust, feature rich, and clearly more modern than the dated chips used in even the newer boxes.

    The thread started is about multistream reception. Tons of current receivers tout being capable.
    And more and more blindscns are turning up more multistream results.
    It came back in my face as many queries of channel reception assistance has.
    "Send a 10 minute .ts file and we'll look at it." I oblige. And it comes back rather fast that the stream doesn't contain what they look for. And.
    "You need to record the stream with a DVB card."

    Does that mean that no Enigma2 receiver can produce a picture and audio from a received multistream transponder without first having the transport stream analyed with a DVB card in a computer? Or were the chipsets in the receiver(s) just too dated to handle multistream?
    Confusing? Damned right.

    Further. Money in hand and a kind member here offering to purchase from the sponsor here the "best of the best" VU+ receiver with a fancy front panel display with an option to return it to him if it didn't work out on this side of the pond.
    This side of the pond being important. The Osmio4k & 4k+ receivers work well because factory support has helped develop the TNAP image tailored for over here. If things on satellite....over here....are so much more advanced (??) and the rest of the world will adapt. Things like being able to accurately scan and receive 4 MHz spaced tp's. ACM/VCM capabilities. Things I know little about. But am interested in learning about.

    So what happens in the pre-buy support questions posted on the VU+ forum and I believe the sponsors site?
    Does it blindscan well? What chipset does this or that tuner I need to select have in it?. Very important and pertinent questions to ask before the return policy runs out while you're trying to learn the full functionality of the package you just spent a pile on. Agree?
    Well. Nobody would answer clearly. Some screamed back at me. It really turned me off. Screw VU+. And that was a few years ago before the Covid crisis.

    The best receiver to me today is a pc that I build myself out of components I know what they are.
    Finding the best, feature rich, not leaving me for wanting DVB card appears to be one of the TBS cards.
    Again. Which one? It's simple. 1 or 2 LNB ports and does everything that modern satellite reception requires of electronics.
    The best supported software package and plugin support. Diseqc working to move my dish. And perhaps able to send channels over my LAN.
    And not getting freaking yelled at when asking assistance of what works the best for the stack of cash that will be spent.
    Or a commercial rack mount or sat/ip card receiver. Christ!
    (sorry for the rant)

  • Pluto TV EPG

    Hey guys. I need a refresher.
    I downloaded Mohamed's settings and opened the lamedb in E-Channelizer.
    Copied just the Pluto TV US bouquet and pasted in my existing channel list.
    Wrote to my receiver. When I navigate to the bouquet all I see for channels is categiroes (Movies, News + opinion, etc.)
    But the channels show as <n/a>
    Did a search here for info what I did / didn't do right.
    I know. I missed something. Need a little help please.

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Quote from sonicman
    Quote from supwiddiss

    Just by chance could the latest keys for 101W 4020H be gotten?
    If the hash mode or something has changed to kill a/v I might have the guru to figure it out.
    Then maybe get a fix for it. Remember AFN a few years ago when they kept changing hash modes on a regular basis?

    p 00 4172015CE56CA0 ;

    p 01 1BDE64952B9AA4 ;


    Quote from lme

    Do not forget these ch are from Discovery Networks.

    No ch from this provider can be opened by oscam.

    Changed recently then. 4020H was clearing nicely last week.
    Keys died again! Crap.

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Just by chance could the latest keys for 101W 4020H be gotten?
    If the hash mode or something has changed to kill a/v I might have the guru to figure it out.
    Then maybe get a fix for it. Remember AFN a few years ago when they kept changing hash modes on a regular basis?

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Ka-Rap! Did it roll again? Could you check for a new keyset.....please??

  • Channel Hash / EMM ECM Suggestions help request.

    Yes. The alternating hash freaked me out a bit. Hence, scanning the channels on the 'dummy' sat. I created in my xml.
    Then it was pick and choose who to move into the bouquet. I guess it's working pretty good.
    Perhaps I didn't catch something.
    Your EMM has no dummies under it. Does it not need something like this to work?

    P 016E 004F1DF6 28D3FD510949EB ;EMM Key

    P 016E0193 00 00000000000000 ; ECM Key 193 is the SID

    P 016E0193 01 00000000000000 ; ECM Key 193 is the SID
    ...and so on and so on for each SID.

    mmmm guiness...perhaps in a few hours.

  • Channel Hash / EMM ECM Suggestions help request.

    Something escaped me in my rant.
    Initially before assigning a group to the hash, the actual hash alternated between 2 different ones before settling down to one steady one.
    Of course that's the one I then used. It was doing the funky chicken thing.


    (emu) channel hash: 30E30F2D, group id: 0000

    next time....
    (emu) channel hash: F8AC4363, group id: 0000
    eventually (not long) settling on the first one. And that's the one I gave a group id to.


    Still learning this one method of course.
    From this very helpful reply to one of my requests:

    RE: Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites


    Is it permissible to use more than one group id for different hashes?
    And this. Without a group id leading the F's. Would it be considered non-functional?

    P 0000FFFF 00 00000000000000 ; ECM Key

    P 0000FFFF 01 00000000000000 ; ECM Key


    Haha. Almost done! 2 more things.
    What's correct here? I see formats all over the place.
    Just want to make sure someone hasn't slipped in something new that streamboard or the wiki hasn't updated.


    P 52D5DD4A group 2101 ; Duzzit go here?

    P 2101FFFF 01 4DBD0416207780 ; ECM ;

    P 2101FFFF 00 4172015CE56CA0 ; ECM ;

    P 52D5DD4A group 2101 ; Or duzzit go HERE?


    P 2101 006072A2 4DBD0416207780 ; added by Emu Sun Oct 2 23:04:53 2022 UA: 005BD33B

    P 2101 006072A2 00 4DBD0416207780 ; added by Emu Sun Oct 2 23:04:53 2022 UA: 005BD33B

    Keep the zereoes (zed's) or not.

    Wow. Any insight would help. Even from the "big guys" here.
    Jen's always comes through.



    Oh yeah. Doesn't that mess up the childrens song a whole lot?
    A-B-Ceeee-Deeee-E-F-G. Achh-I-J-K-Ellameno-Pee............
    .........Double-you-X-Y-and-ZED!!!!
    ZED??? Zed Leppelin?
    Where the Heck did Zed come from?
    And kilowatts? What happened to good 'ole Horsepower?
    And a pint. A pint-o-Guiness works. But cold...chilled. Not warm so it tastes like carb cleaner!!
    (i'm so messed up on conventions these days. where's good old gorski when you need him?? he'll set me bluddy straight!!)
    lol!!!

  • Channel Hash / EMM ECM Suggestions help request.

    Oh it's crazy. Let's see here.

    There are 6 pv channels on this tp. After the initial scan I get in live log for example:

    (emu) channel hash: 52D5DD4A, group id: 0000
    And every channel in that tp shows the same, although they do not clear at this moment.
    Cool?

    So in my keys file it gets this format:

    P 52D5DD4A group 0101 ;

    P 0101FFFF 00 0011AC66CB543F ;

    P 0101FFFF 01 A128ECC63B7FB5 ;


    Keys are only an example. Also tried the FFFF lines above the group assignment as I see in some key files here.
    I think 'someone' mentioned that oscam scans bottom to top. Hmmm.
    A restart of oscam then clears all channels for the tp.
    For awhile. Until I'm watching one and new keys get written at the bottom of the keys file.
    And that key is verified to have the same SID of the channel I'm watching. Both the 00 & 01 UA.
    And a pair of P 0101FFFF UA keys. 00 & 01.
    Just like normal.

    Okay then. I leave that channel and go to BBC (It opened before). And wait. And wait more.
    Key not found forever.
    So I add the newly added keys back in the tp section of the file. Restat oscam. One or two channels now clear. Or not!. If not I cold boot the osmio4k.
    Still no joy.
    Still tuned in? It get's "funner". Or "more funner"!!


    So. What the hell. I build a UA key. Like this:
    P 0101 00613875 F5482A87516975 ; added by Emu Fri Sep 30 04:44:17 2022 UA: 00613875

    P 010100C6 00 00000000000000 ;

    P 010100C6 01 00000000000000 ;
    (again, keys only an example).
    ....and so on and so on for each SID in the group to get a set of dummy pairs. Restart osam.

    Nope. Won't clear. What's worse is now the old key that was working to clear all channels will not.
    IF I wait until the channels expire (BBC might last 2 days and all others follow). And THEN enter the new UA.
    Nope again!

    Second to last I build a group/sid key just like good old times for each channel.
    No joy there either after a restart of oscam/restart receiver.
    This happens randomly for other sats also. I think I'm doing it like the book says.

    Last ditch is to fire up thelastdrakkar and grab 25-50k EMM keys and send them through pvhe to get a set of keys.
    And they work if they are valid. For a few days.

    So. In desperation. I created a dummy transponder in satellites.xml. So my dish wouldn't move. And to get a new channel hash.
    Scan the tp. Delete the channel(s) that do not clear in E-Channelizer in the sat bouquet and then move the newly scanned replacements into the bouquet.
    Format the softcam.keys file for the new hash/group. And all that crap.
    Now the channels open fairly reliably. Until BBC craps out again. Then I get the dice out.
    It seems to be the only transponder that does this. And this is a few month old complete rebuild of my keys file.
    To start out clean using the new hash method.

    I need a beer.




  • Channel Hash / EMM ECM Suggestions help request.

    This is on 127W tp 4100H. Using the standard method and new group id method for this tp. It has BBC which changes keys often. Not always updating the pv key and ua.
    When manually updating the key and restarting oscam. The channels that all cleared would not.
    As a test I scanned the same tp on a dummy sat. created in satellites.xml.
    The channels were found to have a new channel hash.
    The same tp scanned on the target sat. retained the same channel hash. I assigned unique group id's to each hash.
    Ex: P 30E30F2D GROUP 9127 ; P FA44CC36 group A127 ;

    A127 did not exist before. I would update keys for 9127. I know the keys were good because the channel is on another sat and always did clear before.
    But they did not suddenly.

    If you're sill following.I got curious and scanned on the "dummy sat. Moved the sacanned channels to the target bouquet.
    Discovered the new group of (emu) channel hash: FA44CC36, group id: 0000

    Gave it a group id: A127. And set up the format as should be.
    The channels cleared for the new A127 id.

    Without changing anything I edited 9127 (which had good keys but not clearing channels) to 9A27.
    Restarted oscam. The channels now clear.


    FYI. Also using the standard format for the tp.

    If this all makes sense. What would make this happen? Are there other snippets of files in other oscam-emu folders that could be purged to straighten the behaviour out and restore normal function?

    I can supply configs, logs, etc. if anyone has a clue.
    Running Mohamed's 11713. But this has been going on since implementing the channel hash method randomly on other sat/tp's for some while now.
    Thanks for any tips!