Tvheadend

This article describes how to build and configure oscam.

Note that this oscam configuration is configured to work with Ziggo as provider.

It might work with other providers, but that needs to be confirmed.

Make sure you have cmake and subversion installed, these are required for checking out and building oscam.

create the required directories

{{{

mkdir -p /opt/oscam/src/

}}}

Now we need to checkout the oscam source code using SVN

{{{

svn co http://oscam.ump2002.net/svn/oscam/trunk/ /opt/oscam/src/

}}}

Now we need to build oscam

{{{

cd /opt/oscam/src/

make

}}}

After oscam is built you should have a file like 'oscam-1.00-unstable_svn-i686-pc-linux' in /opt/oscam/src/Distribution/.

We need to copy this file to an alternate location

{{{

cd /opt/oscam/src/Distribution/

cp ./oscam-1.00-unstable_svn-i686-pc-linux /opt/oscam/oscam.bin

}}}

Ok, the binaries are installed :)

Now we need to configure oscam first create the configuration directories

{{{

mkdir -p /opt/oscam/etc/

mkdir -p /opt/oscam/etc/cw/

}}}

Note: /opt/oscam/etc/cw/ is used for caching keys. 

Now, create oscam.conf in /opt/oscam/etc/oscam.conf

{{{

[global]

usrfile                       = /opt/oscam/oscamuser.log

logfile                       = /opt/oscam/oscam.log

cwlogdir                      = /opt/oscam/etc/cw

disablelog                    = 0

disableuserfile               = 0

usrfileflag                   = 0

clienttimeout                 = 2000

fallbacktimeout               = 1500

clientmaxidle                 = 120

failbantime                   = 0

bindwait                      = 120

netprio                       = 0

clientdyndns                  = 0

resolvedelay                  = 2

unlockparental                = 0

nice                          = -1

serialreadertimeout           = 1000

maxlogsize                    = 10

waitforcards                  = 1

preferlocalcards              = 1

saveinithistory               = 0

readerrestartseconds          = 5

lb_mode                       = 0

lb_save                       = 0

lb_nbest_readers              = 1

lb_nfb_readers                = 1

lb_min_ecmcount               = 5

lb_max_ecmcount               = 500

lb_reopen_seconds             = 900

resolvegethostbyname          = 0

[monitor]

port                          = 988

nocrypt                       =

aulow                         = 120

hideclient_to                 = 0

monlevel                      = 0

appendchaninfo                = 0

[newcamd]

port                          = 15050@0604:000000

key                           = 0102030405060708091011121314

allowed                       =

keepalive                     = 1

mgclient                      = 0

[webif]

httpport                      = 15080

httpuser                      = username

httppwd                       = password

httprefresh                   = 0

httpallowed                   = 127.0.0.1,YourIpRange

httphideidleclients           = 0

httpreadonly                  = 0

}}}

Now create oscam.server in /opt/oscam/etc/oscam.server

{{{

[reader]

Label = Ziggo

Device = /dev/ttyUSB0

mhz = 600

cardmhz = 600

Protocol = mouse

EMMCache = 1,3,2

Group = 1

caid = 0604:0000

rsakey = 3C8633AAC0D367533DEC7BB2EEEDEB8CA3ADA52E58B99BB34672783277A1DAAC3B6106AD0909774E031B2A6E30195B437683AD0FC599B87D08CEA47BE1B6C76A

boxkey = 1122334455667788

fallback = 0

}}}

Now create oscam.user in /opt/oscam/etc/oscam.user

{{{

[account]

user = tvheadend

pwd = tvheadend

uniq = 0

group = 1

ident = 0604:000000

caid = 0604

au = Ziggo

}}}

Now you need to change the owner and group of /opt/oscam to nobody (because you should run oscam as a unprivileged user)

{{{

chown -R nobody:nobody /opt/oscam

}}}

Ok, if everything is configured correctly we can test the oscam installation

{{{

/opt/oscam/oscam.bin -c /opt/oscam/etc/& touch /opt/oscam/oscam.log ; tail -f /opt/oscam/oscam.log ; killall oscam.bin

}}}

this should create some output like this

{{{

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>> OSCam <<  cardserver started at Thu Oct 28 11:06:01 2010

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s version=1.00-unstable_svn, build #, system=i686-pc-linux, nice=-1

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s client max. idle=120 sec, debug level=0

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s max. logsize=10 Kb

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s client timeout=2000 ms, fallback timeout=1500 ms, cache delay=0 ms

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s auth size=4788

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s Cannot open file "/opt/oscam/etc//oscam.services" (errno=2)

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s userdb reloaded: 0 accounts freed, 2 accounts loaded, 0 expired, 0 disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s signal handling initialized (type=sysv)

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s can't open file "/opt/oscam/etc//oscam.srvid" (err=2), no service-id's loaded

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s can't open file "/opt/oscam/etc//oscam.tiers" (err=2), no tier-id's loaded

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s can't open file "/opt/oscam/etc//oscam.provid" (err=2), no provids's loaded

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s can't open file "/opt/oscam/etc//oscam.ird" (errno=2) irdeto guessing not loaded

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s monitor: initialized (fd=7, port=988)

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s camd33: disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s camd35: disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s cs378x: disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s newcamd: initialized (fd=8, port=15050, crypted)

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s CAID: 0604

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s provid #0: 000000

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s cccam: disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s radegast: disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s http thread started

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s creating thread for device /dev/ttyUSB0 slot 0

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B73DF6C0 s waiting for local card init

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B7375280 r reader thread started (thread=B7375280, device=/dev/ttyUSB0, detect=cd, mhz=600, cardmhz=600)

2010/10/28 11:06:01 B76EA280 h HTTP Server listening on port 15080

2010/10/28 11:06:04 B7375280 r card detected

2010/10/28 11:06:08 B7375280 r ATR: 3B 9F 21 0E 49 52 44 45 54 4F 20 41 43 53 20 56 35 2E 37 9A

2010/10/28 11:06:09 B7375280 r Maximum frequency for this card is formally 6 Mhz, clocking it to 6.00 Mhz

2010/10/28 11:06:10 B7375280 r detect irdeto card

2010/10/28 11:06:10 B7375280 r caid: 0604, acs: 6.08, country code: NLD

2010/10/28 11:06:10 B7375280 r providers: 4, ascii serial: xxxxxxxxxxx, hex serial: XXXXXX, hex base: XX

2010/10/28 11:06:13 B7375280 r active providers: 4 (xxxxxx,xxxxxx,xxxxxx,xxxxxx)

2010/10/28 11:06:13 B7375280 r found cardsystem

2010/10/28 11:06:14 B7375280 r entitlements for provider: 1, id: XXXXXX

2010/10/28 11:06:14 B7375280 r chid: 0001, date: 2004/08/16 - 2004/09/15

2010/10/28 11:06:14 B7375280 r chid: 000B, date: 2004/08/16 - 2004/09/15

2010/10/28 11:06:14 B7375280 r chid: FFE0, date: 2004/08/16 - 2004/08/20

2010/10/28 11:06:14 B7375280 r chid: 0384, date: 2004/08/16 - 2004/09/15

2010/10/28 11:06:14 B7375280 r chid: 000D, date: 2004/08/16 - 2004/09/15

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B7375280 r [irdeto-reader] ready for requests

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B73DF6C0 s init for all local cards done

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B73DF6C0 s anti cascading disabled

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B736E280 c client connected to 15050 port

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B7367280 c client connected to 15050 port

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B7367280 c Connection closed to client

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B736E280 c Connection closed to client

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B7367280 c thread B7367280 ended!

2010/10/28 11:06:19 B736E280 c thread B736E280 ended!

}}}

Oscam is now running on serverip:15050.

Open your tvheadend web interface.

Go to Configuration -> Code Word Client

Click Add Entry

Doubleclick 'hostname' type your server ip or hostname that is runnin oscam. 

Doubleclick 'port' type the port number (if you made no changes to config files it should be 15050).

Doubleclick 'username' type the username as configured in oscam.user.

Doubleclick 'password' type the password as configured in oscam.user.

Doubleclick 'DES key' here you can insert your DES key. If you haven't changed it in oscam.conf (you should!) then this should be: 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14

Check 'Update Card', ~~at this moment tvheadend does not support EMM updates this option won't be used anyway~~ builds as of today support EMM updates.

Now check Enabled and click 'Save Changes'

When you click Save Changes you will see something like this in the system logs

{{{

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Connected as user 0x0x to a Irdeto-card [0x0604 : xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx] with 5 providers

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: irdeto card

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Provider ID #1: 0x000000 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Provider ID #2: 0x000001 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Provider ID #3: 0x000002 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Provider ID #4: 0x000003 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Provider ID #5: 0x000004 xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

Mar 24 20:55:38 cwc: 10.2.0.2: Will forward EMMs

}}}

now to kill oscam press ctrl+c in the console.

Ok tvheadend is now connected to oscam and is able to descramble channels that your card gives you access to.

~~At this moment tvheadend does not support EMM updates, this means you have to update your card atleast once a week.

This can be done by inserting your smartcard for 30 minutes in the retail dvb-c setop box.

After that restart oscam.~~

== For Gentoo users i have an init script ==

nano -w /etc/init.d/oscam

{{{

#!/sbin/runscript

# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation

# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# $Header:

depend() {

        use net

}

start() {

        ebegin "Starting oscam"

        start-stop-daemon \

                --start \

                --user $OSCAMUSER \

                --name $OSCAMNAME \

                --exec $OSCAMBIN -- $OSCAMOPTS

        eend $?

}

stop() {

        ebegin "Stopping oscam"

        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 2 --name $OSCAMNAME

        eend $?

}

}}}

nano -w /etc/conf.d/oscam

{{{

# /etc/conf.d/oscam: config file for /etc/init.d/oscam

OSCAMOPTS="-b -c /opt/oscam/etc/"

OSCAMUSER="nobody"

OSCAMNAME="oscam.bin"

OSCAMBIN="/opt/oscam/${OSCAMNAME}"

}}}