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TBS: CI/CAM support and other improvements (3 Viewers)
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Hi there,
Hoping someone can help me. I have a TBS S2 dual tuner (6910) and am trying to use it with a CI module. Ironically, after lots of tinkering I managed to get it working back in December (although only for one tuner), but after a recent hardware upgrade I'm back to square one....
Issues:
I have tried versions 1.22, 1.26 (which worked previously) and 1.27, in combination with the patch from page 81, without any luck. I've also tried the patch from page 51, again with no luck. Finally, I've tried quite a few versions of TbsCIapi.dll, to no avail.
I would be very grateful if someone can give me some pointers as I haven't got a clue where I'm going wrong.
Thanks for your feedback.
Hoping someone can help me. I have a TBS S2 dual tuner (6910) and am trying to use it with a CI module. Ironically, after lots of tinkering I managed to get it working back in December (although only for one tuner), but after a recent hardware upgrade I'm back to square one....
Issues:
- When I scan for channels, the encrypted channels do not appeart (only a handful, instead of >250). Scanning FTA channels works fine.
- I can't open the CAM menu.
- (when I recently did manage to find scrambed channels - since lost functionality again), I could not watch the scrambled channels
I have tried versions 1.22, 1.26 (which worked previously) and 1.27, in combination with the patch from page 81, without any luck. I've also tried the patch from page 51, again with no luck. Finally, I've tried quite a few versions of TbsCIapi.dll, to no avail.
I would be very grateful if someone can give me some pointers as I haven't got a clue where I'm going wrong.
Thanks for your feedback.
HI.
Im not 100% sure, but I think you should not use page 81 patch anymore. Code is merged to few latest releases, so in my opinion 1.27 shoudl work without patch. Only make sure TbsCIapi.dll is available in tvserver installation folder, and in tcservice setup make sure that cam is enabled.
I have an old tbs dvb-c card and it works without patching, at least from version 1.26 onwards.
ps. logs are mandatory to get help here
Im not 100% sure, but I think you should not use page 81 patch anymore. Code is merged to few latest releases, so in my opinion 1.27 shoudl work without patch. Only make sure TbsCIapi.dll is available in tvserver installation folder, and in tcservice setup make sure that cam is enabled.
I have an old tbs dvb-c card and it works without patching, at least from version 1.26 onwards.
ps. logs are mandatory to get help here
Thanks a lot for your feedback te3hpurp!
I'll try a clean install of 1.27 with only TbsCIapi.dll added to the install folder (and CAM ticked in the setup) and post the logs here. Sorry about not posting logs earlier, forum newbie here
Thanks again
I'll try a clean install of 1.27 with only TbsCIapi.dll added to the install folder (and CAM ticked in the setup) and post the logs here. Sorry about not posting logs earlier, forum newbie here
Thanks again
Hi.
No obivius reasons found for crash of tvserver. There are some things to check. For example tuning parameters your try to scan are missing:
Error loading tuningdetails: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TuningParameters\dvbs\1.9°E BulgariaSat 1.xml
timestamp for that error is a bit confusing as it seems that scan is still going on as seen from tvservice log.
Anyway there are quite a lot of:
LockInOnSignal could not lock onto channel - no signal or bad signal
So, maybe you should check signal quality and or tuning parameters you try to use. Second things to try is to increase timeout pat/pmt waiting during tune request. They can be alteredf in tvsetup. I cant remeber where though.
Br,
No obivius reasons found for crash of tvserver. There are some things to check. For example tuning parameters your try to scan are missing:
Error loading tuningdetails: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TuningParameters\dvbs\1.9°E BulgariaSat 1.xml
timestamp for that error is a bit confusing as it seems that scan is still going on as seen from tvservice log.
Anyway there are quite a lot of:
LockInOnSignal could not lock onto channel - no signal or bad signal
So, maybe you should check signal quality and or tuning parameters you try to use. Second things to try is to increase timeout pat/pmt waiting during tune request. They can be alteredf in tvsetup. I cant remeber where though.
Br,
Update: I tried another clean install of MP 1.27, added TbsCIapi.dll, bearing in mind your points above.
I scan 23.5E (Astra B), again only getting a handful of channels. I should point out that I always usually scan like this, thus not using the advanced tuning options. Until very recently, I would get all channels on 23.5E. When I had my dish installed back in November, the company placed a diseqc switch so that I can also watch 28.2E & 19.2E. When I scan those two, it works fine. When I use DVBViewer, scanning for channels works as it should.
When you say "tuning parameters your try to scan are missing", should I be doing something prior to scanning? I did update the satellite list. I'm not sure why it finds 1.9°E BulgariaSat 1.xml to be missing, I'm not scanning for this satellite. I had a look in the folder C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TuningParameters\dvbs and 158 files were updated when I refreshed the satellite list.
Finally I also tried scanning just one transponder, and this time I did get all channels on that transponder. But after when I scanned for all of 23.5E, the same issue as before.
Signal quality should be good, especially as it works with DVBViewer and because I could watch scrambled channels on 23.5E until 2 weeks ago.
I'm really at a loss here, any feedback is much appreciated. Logs attached.
I scan 23.5E (Astra B), again only getting a handful of channels. I should point out that I always usually scan like this, thus not using the advanced tuning options. Until very recently, I would get all channels on 23.5E. When I had my dish installed back in November, the company placed a diseqc switch so that I can also watch 28.2E & 19.2E. When I scan those two, it works fine. When I use DVBViewer, scanning for channels works as it should.
When you say "tuning parameters your try to scan are missing", should I be doing something prior to scanning? I did update the satellite list. I'm not sure why it finds 1.9°E BulgariaSat 1.xml to be missing, I'm not scanning for this satellite. I had a look in the folder C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TuningParameters\dvbs and 158 files were updated when I refreshed the satellite list.
Finally I also tried scanning just one transponder, and this time I did get all channels on that transponder. But after when I scanned for all of 23.5E, the same issue as before.
Signal quality should be good, especially as it works with DVBViewer and because I could watch scrambled channels on 23.5E until 2 weeks ago.
I'm really at a loss here, any feedback is much appreciated. Logs attached.
Good news: I found the issue that was causing problems whilst scanning channels. So I can now scan properly. Next step: getting the CAM module to work. I'll have another crack at it tomorrow and post logs depending on how it goes.
Thanks for your help so far, to be continued
Thanks for your help so far, to be continued