Posts by ilikenwf

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    That worked, but I find adding their group hash seems to be easier to make it work.


    Thank you very much! I did have to adjust group number, but:


  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Anybody have working keys for 4100 H on 127W? That's BBC NA HD S2 - however none of the keys I have found or tried work.


    I guess if I need to I can learn how to dump the EMM and run pvhe (or if you have any linux specific tools that do the same let me know) to find it.

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    I ended up just using the "secret menu" in this cheapo satfinder (like $38 on aliexpress, sometimes cheaper) to open and export the softcam.key from it, and those "auto ecm keys" are all it has from the factory, and they're just PV keys from what I can tell, I think EMM but if not, I guess it just tries all of those in sequence?


    It has the ability to accept more keys, but just this setup is somehow enough for it to autoroll, so I suspect that list may be known "common" and default keys pehaps, considering they're using 0000 for all of them, with a slot 0 and slot 1? Format is weird:


  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites


    So in regard to these "auto ECM keys" that GTMedia uses successfully to descramble almost everything, is there a mechanism in oscam-emu or ncam to auto try these given keys when descrambling is otherwise unsuccessful?


    A "catch all and try these until one works or we run out of keys" option? Seems this is how GTMedia is doing it? Seems it could potentially save us all some time since these appear to be mostly "default" keys?

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    ..switching back to ncam seems to make that work...but again why doesn't it have the option to "auto try" given group EMM keys for a given transponder on a given satellite...or does it?


    edit:


    For channels with the same service id, the correct ECM key will be detected automatically, but each key needs a unique groupid. If you need different ECM keys for channels with the same service id, make sure they belong to different groups, like in the example:


    Ok...good.


    That said, are most of the people hunting keys using TBS dvb cards on desktops or are you just grabbing ts streams, extracting EMM, and using povervu home edition or some other tool to find them? I've got a few good GPUs and cpus and could pitch in on that...or at least want to learn how.

  • North America, turbo-fec, DN, Bell and enigma2

    For the USA lyngsat and satbeams are best - I like 127W and 125W personally...I only really enjoy history and reelz - those are HD on those birds. They have other HD and a lot of SD, otherwise.


    I have a 10 footer...it doesn't look bad and my neighbors don't hate it.


    I do have an IPTV sub but this is a hobby, and more satisfying...and the HD is better quality.

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

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    Running into weird issues on 127W where some channels like Revolt HD give me audio but no video, or sometimes neither, with messages like the snippet below. My v8 finder from gtmedia somehow autorolls these without trouble so I don't know if it is an issue with my h7s, openatv, or ncamd:


    You don't have your softcam key file setup properly for this service looking at the log.

    Should see your group id something like 1272FFFF .

    emu seems to be working properly but we wont know if it opens channels until you get softcam key fixed.a

    Assuming I'm a linux guy and programmer who just reentered this hobby after 20 years with nagra being my last fun, can you point me in the right direction for reading material? I don't necessarily need to be spoonfed but I've more or less jumped into the deep end without really learning how to tread water first on some subjects.

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Quote from supwiddiss

    I would forget nv and instead look at pv.

    I was up late, I was struggling with 127W and found most of my troubles to be config related; however I still have a few random channels that sometimes will roll and work and other times, most of the time, will either not work at all or will only play back audio on that particular bird. The log output in my previous message is one of those, Revolt HD.


    Reelz is the only channel (FTA) I really care about on 127W but the fact that my v8 finder with just a small handful of pv keys (see below) can decrypt those problematic ones that my H7S cannot drives me crazy. A couple of them are gross adult channels but others are just black music and other such channels that roll fine on the handheld v8 finder but not from openatv...happy to share my configs if that really needs to be done.


    Here's the powervu EMM keys that v8finder uses:


  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Running into weird issues on 127W where some channels like Revolt HD give me audio but no video, or sometimes neither, with messages like the snippet below. My v8 finder from gtmedia somehow autorolls these without trouble so I don't know if it is an issue with my h7s, openatv, or ncamd:


  • Hello! I'm new here, and in North America - Question Time!

    I should mention I got PowerVu decoding properly now...


    The only issue I run into is that despite all things otherwise being equal, my v8 finder somehow finds ~150 channels, the h7s with the current build of openatv does not...while the finder gets all the channel names properly, in addition the h7s also does not...and I've also yet to figure out EPG.


    Advice/hints welcome!

  • Hello! I'm new here, and in North America - Question Time!

    Apologies to the mods if this is the wrong place!


    Just wanted to say hello as I have finally come back to this hobby since a couple decades away. I was last around when Nagra2 was still a thing here in North America.

    I'm sure I will annoy plenty of you with questions, but look forward to the discourse.


    Now, I'm playing with E2 boxes, Softcams, and FTA, and while I currently have a zgemma h7s, I think I may get a USB device at some point as well. I'm a Linux guy for 15-20 years now which makes the learning curve a lot lower for me.


    As an aside, can anyone suggest a good way for me to get up to date on BISS and PowerVu? I'm aware of the need to get EMM keys from the stream but am otherwise not sure what tools exist to try and pull keys out of the stream afterward. I have a 1080TI and a 4070, which if anything exists, I would love to attempt to get working for key extraction.


    Oh...and why would my $38 GTMedia sat finder be able to decrypt powervu channels on 127W while my fancy h7s, even with "current" softcam settings is not able to do but a few of the channels - am I doing something wrong?


    I look forward to being here and talking to you all!

  • Softcam.Key Enigma2 for American Satellites

    Hi, I'm new here, but not to the hobby (well, this version of it I am - but was around during the Nagra2 days of old). Does anyone have anything for 131W?


    What is strange to me is that my GTMedia handheld finder apparently has keys for nearly everything on 131W, but none of the keys I've gotten online are up to date enough for most of the channels...I may be doing something stupid or wrong, but seems weird that my fancy H7S is struggling with any emu while my $38 handheld has no issues...