Posts by kemestri

I have a openbox s9 in one of the rooms in my house and have just bought S12 for another room.
I know that i can use the same channel list on the S12, but can i also use the same software as the s9?

Crime HD is not usually on during the day. normally starts about 8pm.

ecm times with the smargo on a *ky channels were 135ms - 142ms
with the omnikey on the same channel are steady at 92ms to 97ms

I followed the advice of silverfox and bought omnikey reader from eb*y for £7.99. works so much better and as silverfox said reduces the ecm times considerably.

more info about BBC moves here:
BBC - About the BBC: Changes to BBC services on satellite on 24th February 2012

All BBC channels move to Astra 1N Friday 24th February

BBC1
BBC1 HD
BBC2
BBC3
BBC4
BBC HD
CBBC
CBeebies
BBC News

now available in southern spain with 1 metre dish

I think i would start by doing a fresh install of Ubuntu. I use ubuntu 10.10 server edition

this is good news for all living out in Spain. previously many of these channels could only be received with 2.4m dish. now for 1N all ok with 1M

many of the bars here in spain now have abu dhabi for football instead of ***.
every prem.game with english commentary and studio for abour 200 euros per year

I found using a omnikey cardreader gave much better ecm times than a smargo

thanks for that Ten Below,( and of course to alamski) worked straight away and reduced ecm times by about 40% over smargo

thanks for replies, Ten Below are you saying that all i need to do is edit oscam config file. (i did use alamski install)

Hi help needed please:

i have seen and followed so far the tut on setting up on ubuntu.

when i give this command nano /etc/opensc/opensc.conf
I expected to see these lines (or something similar as from the tut and them edit them as shown.

And change thise lines by removing # from front and reader_drivers lines u delete one comand too:
reader_drivers = pcsc, ctapi;
try_emulation_first = yes;
lock_login = false;
provider_library = /lib/libpcsclite.so.1

however what i see is nothing like the tut.
do i simply add these lines into the config. file and remove what is there.

more new channels on astra 1N:
10714 H
10729 V
10758 V
10832 H
10906 V

mainly itv regions, chan 4, more 4 film 4 etc

thanks for that, you are correct it is part of the smartreader tools, but did not work anyway, perhaps my problem was different as the server does recognise the smargo, but just doesnt read the card.
anyway i was thinking of trying a omnikey reader but unsure which model to buy as there appear to be several different models. could anyone tell me which is the one most used with ubuntu server?
i see 3121 advertised most, is this ok?

thanks for this info
i am ok with opening and soldering the link ok but what is this:
Run ./srp_update_x86 -b

do i just type ./srp_update_x86 -b in Run in the start up menu or is it something i should download?

wish i had asked the question before i ordered a spare. i ordered on this morning for £29.
by the way lfc4ever I was going to try a omnikey reader myself, but did not know which one to order as there seem to be many different models.
can you tell me which model you use?

has anyone ever had any luck resurecting smargo

one i had was working ok until yesterday then without warning stopped working. rebooted server and this is result from my oscam script.

2012/02/03 17:23:22 94C1FE0 r Using 0x82 as endpoint for smartreader hardware detection
2012/02/03 17:23:22 94C1FE0 r Found smartreader device 005:002
2012/02/03 17:23:22 94C5450 h HTTP Server listening on port 8888
2012/02/03 17:23:22 94C1FE0 r reader ***uk initialized (device=005:002, detect=cd, mhz=357, cardmhz=357)
2012/02/03 17:23:23 94C1FE0 r s*yuk card detected
2012/02/03 17:23:29 94C1FE0 r Error activating card.
2012/02/03 17:23:35 94C1FE0 r Error activating card.
2012/02/03 17:23:42 94C1FE0 r Error activating card.

i have tried another smargo and server works fine, so problem with the smargo.

can you tell me which model omnikey you use that you can buy six of for the similar price to smargo triple card reader.
i have looked for one but there are several different models

ok thanks for advice