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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

New D+ card and NewCS

Yes, long time without entries in this blog, but my real life job is eating all my time, including the free time. Today I get a bunch of time to write this post.

This month spanish D+ is changing their SECA cards V9.0 (still secure) by a new one V10.0 (or A.0 ;) ) and I had received some emails saying that it works fine with PMCAM but NewCS (cardserver for DreamBox and others) fails to initialize the card. Well, NewCS works fine with this new card but you must disable SECAPPV feature in the configuration, this setting ONLY WORKS IN SECA1 cards, so cards with a version equal or bigger than 7.0 can not be set in AutoPPV mode and the only way to get a PPV event is extracting the card from DreamBox and put it in official received or PMCAM (PPV script active).

To change this setting in NewCS for DreamBox you can use Neveto software or manually using FTP. Edit the file "/var/tuxbox/config/newcs.xml" and look for an entry like this:

<Seca-PPV>Yes</Seca-PPV>

and change it by

<Seca-PPV>No</Seca-PPV>

now your NewCS should bootup correctly.

PS: To get PPV support in NewCS request to the authors of NewCS, to add PPV authorization instruction to the code. The implement should be quite easy, they only have to answer with a given instruction when ECM reports a specific status code, and this mode is fully compatible backwards for all SECA cards, SECA1, SECA2 and "SECA3", while the one used now (set the m80 register) only works in SECA1 (pre v7.0).

Good luck to everybody.

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