Testing New White Sky UK Card - CAID 963

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mgcamd works also fine for me for updating the blue card in NewCS.

Curious me wanted to know why entitlement updates from mgcamd are ok, but from CCcam are not, so I had a closer look at newcs's logs. When mcgamd forwards an EMM to newcs, it adds a 7 byte header, which newcs will strip and send the remainder to the card. With CCcam, it's a different story: only 4 bytes header (card address is missing), and the EMM to the card gets totally garbled and has a wrong length. These EMMs get usually rejected, because EMMs are signature protected. Even worse: EMM processing by the card takes eccessively long (sometimes more than one second, compared to about 100 millesecs on correct EMMs) and in one instance, a malformed EMM caused the card to lock up: I had to remove and reinsert the card and restart newcs - reader reset wouln't do the trick. I guess this could have also easily fried the card if I had been less lucky. Also a good thing I tested this on a FTV card rather than my regular subscription card.

So I would advise if you are running CCcam as a client to newcs to make sure to have EMM forwarding to newcs disabled.
 

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Hello,
I report my situation.
DM8000, Inside reader, Nabilosat Enigma2 Black Hole V0.11 with NewCS 1.67 + CCcam 2.1.2.
After some problems, now I see all the Packages (Premium Channel HD included).
However I have 2 doubt on my configuration.
I would like to be Ok for the card month update and for the safe of the card - No burn.. )(-red.
My newcs.xml configuration is
<readers name="Dreambox SCI">
<globals>
<listening-ip>127.0.0.1</listening-ip>
</globals>
<device>

<name>SCI Lower Slot</name>
<type>sci</type>
<mhz>358</mhz> Is better 357 or 358 ?
<node>/dev/sci0</node>
<parity>none</parity>
<reset>normal</reset>
<export>yes</export>
<enabled>yes</enabled>
<blocksa>no</blocksa> Is correct ?
<blockua>no</blockua> Is correct ?
<blockga>yes</blockga> Is correct ?
<blockC0>yes</blockC0>
<!--<boxkey>0000000000</boxkey>


Thanks for your help.
Do you have other suggestions for me ?
 

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digit, use my Config Creator it will make the correct configs for you. Find it by clicking the link in my Sig.
 

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Thanks !!
Do you suggest me NewCS CCcam Config Creator v0.6.1.rar or V0.5.4 ?
Just a question.. If I keep my configuration, do you think that it will work well ?
Very very interesting your Blog... Thanks again.
 

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digit, use the latest configurator from B16MCC (which is 070 if I recall). The frequency doee not matter if using an external omnikey reader as it follows the ISO standard (reader adjusts frequency according to card specs) OR it will be automatically set for you on internal readers when using the great tool from B16MCC


digit said:
Thanks !!
Do you suggest me NewCS CCcam Config Creator v0.6.1.rar or V0.5.4 ?
Just a question.. If I keep my configuration, do you think that it will work well ?
Very very interesting your Blog... Thanks again.
 

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....The frequency doee not matter if using an external omnikey reader...

I'm using the Internal reader with the config of NewCS 1.67 + CCcam 2.1.2
Problems with mhz>358</mhz ??
 

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Not all internal dmm readers are/act the same. There are many posts describing how some heat cards more than others, etc... but considering all that, 358 should be fine; that is how I tested my dm800. The only way, in my opinion, is to get yourself an omnikey reader €7 (£5) and never worry again
 

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digit , as mentioned latest version is v0.7.0
 

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But is omnikey reader as fast as internal or its same like smargo? My card was freezing with smargo, than had to put in dm800 and its ecm time is 0.14, dm500 reads at same ecm time as dm800.

I am still waiting for my entitlement update! yesterday I received 5000+ emm but the entitlement is still same. 3 more days to go!!! will wait tonight in dm800 if not have to stick in smybox tomorrow!
 

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Just checked the entitlement and the date is now showing Jan 2010!

The below hasn't changed:

| 2590 | 2009-11-14 | 00:00:00 |
| B920 | 2009-11-14 | 00:00:00 |
| B921 | 2009-11-14 | 00:00:00 |
| B928 | 2009-11-14 | 00:00:00 |

Does anyone know what channels are these?

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The omnikey reader is outstanding and it costs 1/10th of a Smargo. I don't want to sound like an ad but for the price, it's unbeatable! I would go as far as stating that it's FASTER than the internal and most of all, the card remains COLD. Well built, leds, the works...
 

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Can't agree more. The omnikey is a great reader. Mine runs in a dedicated linux pc and so most likely helps for excellent performance, my ecm times range from 0.099 to 0.115 and the card is stone cold. Updates are working via MGCamd and all is well. NewCS uptime is currently a personal best at 37 days.
 

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Following on from my previous post regarding the white uk card and the Smargo card reader... (for those wishing to make use of their existing Smargo)

I can confirm that entitlements are successfully updated when using the Smargo and the following setup:

* DM800 running Gemini 4.50 (have updated since last post)
* Mgcamd 1.31 with NewCS 1.67 (entitlements updated with Mgcamd)

* Matching boxkey
 

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Thanks for the update... any chance you can share how you got the smargo working with the 0963 card?

Cheers


Whitelighter said:
Following on from my previous post regarding the white uk card and the Smargo card reader... (for those wishing to make use of their existing Smargo)

I can confirm that entitlements are successfully updated when using the Smargo and the following setup:

* DM800 running Gemini 4.50 (have updated since last post)
* Mgcamd 1.31 with NewCS 1.67 (entitlements updated with Mgcamd)

* Matching boxkey
 

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hi guys recently had a thread going about not been able to get white sly card working in ireland on dm500s, thanks for those who helped with replies to thread i managed to finally wipe my hands of it and complete it!!!this a quote from b16mcc - "It seems you have little knowledge on what your actually doing here, please read a lot more and don't expect to get this working this week" - im glad i did get it working this week!! thanks for motivation and awesome program to easily do it- it is as easy as people say using that program i just didnt have joy on my gemini 4.2 image, after alot of thinking today i said i will change image and flashed nablisto darkstar 2 and soon as it downloaded and used the program it went off quite well. thanks alot guy- im still learning so thanks for patience to.. great work at sharing knowledge if only they were all like ye. thanks guys!!!!
 

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just updated my image bout 2 weeks ago to the Nabilosat Blackhole v0.12 and using CCcam still,

so I thought now might be a good time to setup the Omnikey reader which I bought a while ago, also got a white sky card..

so what do i need to do??

also do i connect it up 1st or apply settings etc before i connect??

also I have a viaccess cam, what do I with that??

cheers,
 

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WildBit said:
Thanks for the update... any chance you can share how you got the Smargo working with the 0963 card?

Cheers

My configs have evolved over time so knowing the exact changes is difficult. I have compared my newcs.xml file with the stock one from the Gemini Blue Panel, below are the notable differences.

type: smartreader+
mhz: 357
node: /dev/usb/tts/0
enabled: Yes
boxkey: convert box id from decimal to hexadecimal, add leading zeros if not 8 characters

Rest of the config is as per usual.

Also ensure your Smargo is in dreambox mode.

Code:
root@dm800:/tmp# ./srp_tools_mipsel

smartreader+ version v1.3

MODE    autoswitch
FREQ    3.69 Mhz
KERNEL  dreambox
T_MODE  t = 0
EGT     0

I've found it helpful to run NewCS from the console as follows.
Code:
newcs_1.67 -nd
This lets you see if the card init was successful. If you see it failing, kill NewCS, remove the Smargo from the Dreambox, plug it back in and try NewCS again.

I'd advise on getting NewCS working and showing the card entitlements before moving onto configuring CCcam / Mgcamd.

Hope this helps.
 

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What model of Omnikey to buy? Is 3121 good or 1021 for Linux PC server?

Thanks
 
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