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Edit: This feature would reduce the need of performance, too!

Imagine: Two or more connections are available via Oscam or something. Currently TVH tries all of them if one is accessable / decryptable. If one is not decryptable it gets a fail from Oscam and tries the next one until one works. With the settings of this feature request TVH is able to access directly to the right Oscam connection. This avoids a try-and-error process and saves performance on both systems: TVH and Oscam.

There are two ways to solve your requirements:

1) set your descrambling CAIDs as EXCLUSIVE in the CA filter list (in this way only this CAID is used when found)
2) use only one OSCAM DVBAPI/CAPMT connection to a OSCAM proxy which will serve your requests to multiple card servers.. you may modify priorities using oscam.dvbapi file

Also, you may prefer specific PID (not CAID but CA PID) for a service - see the service edit form. It's same as the proposed CAID selection. The CAID handling belongs to services not channels. And yes, this might be improved to show the list of available CA PIDs.

Thanks for your explanations.

1) I'll try and I think this might work. But then I'm not able to prefer a special card (use explicit connection) in case of doubled descrambling abilities (e.g. 2 cards, one of Sky with HD+ and a special HD+ card...)

2) In my case the cards are direct connected to the Oscam server (via newcamd service) with card readers. As far as I know it is not possible to map multiple CAIDs to one newcamd port. So there will always be a "try-and-error" to walk through the cards 'til one works. But I'm no real expert in this.

To the last one: Ah! In past this was shown up at the table grid. I totally missed to use / look at the edit form. Great hint, thx! But the one topic is still open (for me): To map it to a special card / connection. But maybe this is really a problem between ME and OSCAM, not TVH, which I weren't able to solve / understand.

I don't talk about newcamd - I talk about OSCAM's DVBAPI network interface (dvbapi through socket). It's called CAPMT CA client in TVH. See help in TVH.

Ok. I tried out, but I can't get it work. No descramling:

Dec  1 20:17:27 oscam: :27  1988DE0 c dvbapi: [ADD PID 0] CAID: 0xxx ECM_PID: 0xxx PROVID: 000000
Dec  1 20:17:27 oscam: :27  1988DE0 c dvbapi: Found 1 ECMpids and 1 STREAMpids in PMT
Dec  1 20:17:27 oscam: :27  1988DE0 c dvbapi: New program number: xxxx (abcde) [pmt_list_management 1]
Dec  1 20:17:27 oscam: :27  1988DE0 c dvbapi: Unsupported capmt. Please report

Do you use 'OSCam net protocol (rev >= 10389)' ? The older modes probably won't work.

HI. There is such a question. For example, there are 2 scrambled channels and 2 CAs. Is there any way to ensure that these 2 channels do not use the same CA ? Тhese CAs are the same provider, and the newcamd servers of thes CAs allowing only one connection for 1 channel. Please help. Тorment for several days and nothing happens...

David Nersesyan wrote:

HI. There is such a question. For example, there are 2 scrambled channels and 2 CAs. Is there any way to ensure that these 2 channels do not use the same CA ? Тhese CAs are the same provider, and the newcamd servers of thes CAs allowing only one connection for 1 channel. Please help. Тorment for several days and nothing happens...

There's an option to force CAID in the services tab (when editing a service).

I think he is talking about load balancing (making sure to use two different CAs when two channels are tuned.)
I have never done it, but it should be possible to do with oscam. So instead of setting up two CAs connecting directly to the server(s), create a CA connection to oscam and configure oscam to load balance between the two servers.

Mark Clarkstone wrote:

David Nersesyan wrote:

HI. There is such a question. For example, there are 2 scrambled channels and 2 CAs. Is there any way to ensure that these 2 channels do not use the same CA ? Тhese CAs are the same provider, and the newcamd servers of thes CAs allowing only one connection for 1 channel. Please help. Тorment for several days and nothing happens...

There's an option to force CAID in the services tab (when editing a service).

I try, but not working

Joe User wrote:

I think he is talking about load balancing (making sure to use two different CAs when two channels are tuned.)
I have never done it, but it should be possible to do with oscam. So instead of setting up two CAs connecting directly to the server(s), create a CA connection to oscam and configure oscam to load balance between the two servers.

Yes You are right, I want to making sure to use two different CAs when two channels are tuned.
I'll try with oscam...
Thank You

Hi
Please help me
I can't do it at all
I want force use 1 scr. channel with CA1, 2nd scr. channel with CA2, 3 scr. channel with CA3 etc. With tvheadend or with oscam. Please help
Thank you

There's 'ratelimit ECM' configuration per reader in oscam. Set this value to 1 (one service only) and define multiple readers with CAID filters.