how to use ftv card in Dreambox 500???

[mhku]

CH4 and Five will work with CCcam with no file editing.

 

[billnot]

This is the Dreambox 500 forum. I don't have a 500. I have a 7025 and a couple of Mutant 200S. But CCcam seems to be the same whatever your hardware.

In all cases, CCcam is one of the options in the add-ons menu (on the 7025, it's part of Gemini's Blue Panel), so I keep it updated that way. I do change the CCcam.cfg a bit, but only for c**d sh**ing. For a single Sky card, on every box I've tried it on, it reads a Sky card straight "out of the box".

Because I've come to Dreamboxes through Linux rather than the other way round, I tend to do my file editing manually in a Telnet session.

In fact with CCcam you don't need any editing for any channels, even the premium channels (Sports and Movies) which only work in the married Sky box.

For the "six mixes" a Sky card will work in any Sky Digibox. Therefore CCcam doesn't have to present it with any specific box number.

For Sports and Movies, a Sky card only works in the box to which it is paired ("married"). CCcam can extract the necessary information from the card and make it think it's in the right box.

You may have gathered I'm quite a fan of CCcam when it comes to Sky cards (which are my main area of interest and activity) and you'd be right!

Hope this helps.

 

[wordy]

Well, I still can't get the bloody thing to work, despite trying different versions of CCcam and the different downloaded configs.

I'm considering reimaging my Dreambox, then installing CCcam (and nothing else) and seeing if that makes any difference.

The card works fine in my Sky box, so the card is fine. I've never had a card in my Dreambox, so I guess the Dreambox card reader could possibly be faulty.

 

[mhku]

Are you setting CCcam as the default cam?

 

[wordy]

Erm, yes, if I'm understanding you.....

I'm installing it first through the blue panel, then, again through the blue panel, moving off Mgcamd and onto CCcam, and then selecting 'Start/Restart Cam'. And it loads the cam so it is shown on the button of the screen when you change channels, but it doesn't clear C4&5.

Haven't had the chance to reimage the DB yet, let me know if anything else comes to mind.

 

[mhku]

That's right but no bright ideas here...

 

[billnot]

This is weird. Can you open a browser and go to

http://dreambox.ip:16001

(i.e. if your dreambox is 192.168.0.5
http://192.168.0.5:16001 )

This will open the CCcam server. Open the entitlements tab and it should give you info on your Sky card. What does it say?

 

[JTA]

what image are you using ? CCcam has it's own cardserver, so it should be used with NO cardserver installed. CCcam can connect to other cardservers (like NewCS), but this means installing the CCcam config files and editing them to connect CCcam to the cardserver you use.
I'm currently still using 1.7.0 of CCcam with my Sky subscription card and a seca-2 card (CanalDigitaal) using the internal CCcam cardserver in PLi, and both work without a glitch. And I'm getting Premiere, D+ and TPS (dreambox 7000 model).

 

[wordy]

Ok guys, I connected to CCcam via my browser and this is what it tells me on the Entitlements tab:

card reader /dev/sci0
no or unknown card inserted

So, it does know that a card reader exists, but, it either doesn't recognise my card, or can't even see that there's a card in there.

The card, it goes in with the gold chip pointing down??? And the navy blue side pointing upwards???

I currectly have CCcam 2.0 loaded, and Gemini 3.6 - Any suggestions??

Really hope my card reader isn't knackered.

 

[wordy]

lads - youre not gonna believe it.

To be honest I thought the card didnt seem to go in to the slot as far as Id have thought it would - but it went in a good two thirds, and I just thought it was because the 500 is such a little receiver.

Ive just, not ten minutes ago, pulled the card out and pushed in back in 7 or 8 times and no change.... then Ive just done it once more and its gone in an extra couple of centimetres and, viola!!!

Thank the lord..... C4 & 5 no problems.

Feel like a bit of an arse, but I had no way of knowing really. Thanks for all your help, makes a nice change to speak to some articulate people on this kind of thing.

Ive now got this on the Entitlements tab:

card reader /dev/sci0
handled 9(8) ecms and 0(0) emms
Nds card 1a9efd1

Entitlement info
b8c0 26-10-2007
b766 26-10-2007
b765 26-10-2007
b773 26-10-2007
b860 05-10-2007
b772 26-10-2007

What do the dates refer to? Is it to do with when the card needs to be updated?

 

[JTA]

yes - you won't get an image if these dates are exceeded. Luckally your dreambox will update the card when needed, so that you can continue to watch.
these dates should allways be about 6 weeks in advance.

 

[wordy]

right oh - excellent.

Ok, I now need to figure out why I'm losing some of Prem/D+/TPS/Polsat when I use CCcam.

Should CCcam clear all these without problems?

 

[sonic1]

For all these you need to carry out a daily key update, sometimes more than once. No Polsat as far as I know but the rest are all ok;)

 

[wordy]

D+ seems to need daily updates at least I'd agree.

But whats odd tho, is when I change to Mgcamd, often they clear - with the same keys.

Its wierd.

Even Prem seems dodgy with CCcam - yet its always on with Mgcamd.

 

[mhku]

Different emus use different key files. Not all files are updated with every key release.

 

[wordy]

ok, I see.

So I need to note what results I get with the different bundles - and use the one that works best with CCcam.

 

[mhku]

New keys are released (at the moment) when there's a key change but keybundles are often not updated for up to 24 hours.

I don't know how you update by try looking at keylist.txt and manually "update" it yourself (or softcam.key). I can't remember which one CCcam uses.

 

[wordy]

I'll have a go tonight at updating manually and see how I get on.

I did try it once before but I must've been using out of date keys or editing the wrong file.

 

[billnot]

CCcam uses softcam.key, and I find the best way to update it is with the Satan updater

 

[sonic1]

MgCamd 1.24 is Prem AU CCcam is not as far as my testing goes;)