Posts by Sandman

Quote from gordyboy

Thanks for moving the post. I have a vu+ duo on vix 2.1. Should an existing cccam file and oscam or mgcamd work with blackhole ?

Gordyboy,

I've found the quickest thing to do is install the latest raw BH image, then grab the latest copy of TS Panel and install it manually from your addons manager!

Therein you can get your OSCam & CCcam and ecm fixes along with various other useful plugins!

Like MG says...ensure you have copies of your OSCam & CCcam configs...if you store all other settings on your hard disk or USB then you'll just need to remount them when you reload and you're all but set!

Quote from master G

If you are using oscam + CCcam you can check CCcam log in /var/log/messages, look for newcamd and see when its dropping off.

I'll keep an eye out!

Quote from master G

Do you have EPG set to download at a certain time or some other cron setup ?

I do...but its not happening at that time....sometimes it just happens while I'm watching something!

Lets see if its stable for a couple of days....If logs tell me anything when it happens again I'll report back...

Quote from master G

Open webinfo and restart oscam from blue button, watch the info that scrolls down the screen in webinfo, if there are any errors it should show at startup.

Only error before removing oscam.srvid was no oscam.ird....

2011/12/12 16:08:52        0 s can't open file "/var/tuxbox/config/oscam.srvid" (err=2 No such file or directory), no service-id's loaded
2011/12/12 16:08:52        0 s 37 tier-id's loaded
2011/12/12 16:08:52        0 s 1000 provid's loaded
2011/12/12 16:08:52        0 s can't open file "/var/tuxbox/config/oscam.ird" (errno=2 No such file or directory) i***** guessing not loaded

I had been watching that before increasing my log file size earlier and there was nothing obvious going wrong...

Quote from master G

What errors are in webinfo if any to help find a solution.

Are you using oscam configs from 6018 version that was on the forum, if so the oscam.srvid file may be the problem because its too large and has been causing crashes, so we remade the configs for this reason.

I've just today turned logging on so will see what happens when it crashes again! I've since deleted my oscam.srvid file...it will be the one that came with BH 1.6.6 Sly UK ready...wasn't very big though (23k!)

Will see how that goes and report back!

edit - removing oscam.srvid has also cured my Sly 3D issue....logs were reporting unable to find ecm for that channel so I was getting a black screen!

I never really see anyone else complaining so can't believe its just me....conspiracy I say!!

Since I got my Vu+ I've always loaded BH as my preferred image...

I recently upgraded from 1.6.2 which was green screening on me quite frequently..say at least twice a day which is annoying but tolerable...

EPG downloads would crash the box as well and sometimes a lot of faffing about was required to even get an EPG to load...

roll on 1.6.6 I thought! No crashing, great! No EPG issues, great! Now on a daily basis I get OSCam collapsing...cards go to '0' OSCam restart required! Totally random as well so there's not a lot I can fix! Does no one else get their cards loading as 'CRD' rather than 'NET'? (ie. loading as CRD means you can see the channels fine but peers can't lol)

I'm running 6073 and have updated every time I see an OSCam CCcam release so am I the unluckiest Vu+ user ever?!

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Quote from dan44762000

my current Sly +hd subscription

like mutz says...if you're keeping your Sly sub then you definitely don't need to be buying anything (or ever should!! Don't fund these muppets!)

You should get plenty of shares with your current sub as its pretty popular!

If you're getting rid of your Sly subscription then I'd recommend you get a cheaper card (or 2) and you'll still get plenty of shares and I'm sure your desired football channels should be easy enough to get!

Quote from s7uat

Done all that.

It has a full 7 day EPG for 99% of the channels. However, on Watch HD, 5 USA, Fiver, Five +1, and a few more it just adds now and next???

yea...Watch HD, Dave HD, C5, C5+1, 5USA, 5USA+1, 5*, 5*+1, Entertainment, Information TV, Propeller, Showcase etc etc etc...theres at least another dozen and most don't have picons either so dear knows!

Quote from scoot1690

depending on the ultimos price

Whats the latest on that? £600 or so?

Looks like I need a new amp so somethings gotta give :dribble:

Wow a Belkin HDMI cable?! :waaaht:

I've seen them regularly go for around £300 in mint condition with some warranty left on the classifieds section at avforums.com

You'll not get much cheaper than that until the i5 comes out!

Quote from musogeek

Only one of my peers has this working, so I now know he is using OSCam! The others are reporting as clearing but with a blank screen it is a good channel, I have to close this off from other peers for it to work.

So it opens fine if you (the host) have OSCam running...you're blocking it from certain peers because they aren't using OSCam or? I'm getting a blank screen from my peer but we're both using OSCam!

Quote from andy ray

I would like to add premiersports and boxnation they appear to fairly rare i hope there useful to others apart from me

I just get blank screens with them....I can't imagine subscribing to them though...I've also turned into an HD snob :haha:

Quote from shamonemf

BFBS tv channels.

Had to look that one up!!

What's the rarest share you have?

I'm lucky enough to have pretty much everything I need but Digiturk HD with Lig TV seems to be pretty scarce!

And...football aside, whats the most useful share you have?

Are you getting freezing? 0.143s isn't high? I'm getting similar on my Sly channels...

Just to tie these in for future reference -

How to set up a cron on BlackHole

I've finished bastardising 2 OSCam check scripts and can confirm this works well!

save the following as oscamcheck.sh and put it in your /usr/script directory

#!/bin/sh




founds=`tail -10 /var/log/oscam.log | grep "not found" | wc -l`
founds2=`tail -10 /var/log/oscam.log | grep "exit with signal" | wc -l`
founds3=`tail -20 /var/log/oscam.log | grep "timeout" | wc -l`




if [ $founds -gt 3 ] || [ $founds2 -ge 1 ] || [ $founds3 -ge 1 ]
then
       echo "Error found, restart...";
       /usr/bin/killall -9 oscam
       /usr/bin/oscam &
else
echo "OSCam is working!" >> /var/log/oscam.check
fi




exit

Notes -

1. ensure you have logging turned on in oscam.conf ie. logfile = /var/log/oscam.log
2. "else echo "OSCam is working!" >> /var/log/oscam.check" --> this line is optional but useful for checking the script is running

Quote from shamonemf

Do you use channel lists?

I was about to say that...try downloading a recent channel list that suits your setup - http://linuxsat-support.com/enigma-2-channel-list/

Right! I've got this working :)

Best thing to do is create a cron job from the BH blue button (blue, blue, Black Hole Cron Manager)

I created a reboot at 04:30 every morning and this creates a bh.cron and root file in the /etc/bhcron directory (like fogonero says!)

Since I want to run the command every x minutes I needed to do this manually via ftp as the Cron Manager doesn't allow for that sort of customisation...

Open edit and save the bh.cron and root files with the new line and do a hard reboot of the box...

when you go back into the Cron Manager, you should see your new line!

I've let it run now for half and hour and its done my check every 5 minutes so happy days!

Quote from fogonero

hi;
for FTP

Code

/etc/bhcron

edit click rigth

bh.cron
root

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one step closer! I'll take a look at that - cheers!

Quote from cazuela

Although the image is from an UNO, you get the idea :make sure you get the spacing right :

Code

crontab - e

Caz,

spacing is ok...'crontab -e' is the right entry...if you leave the extra space it just shows you the correct options available as it doesn't recognise the space as a command!