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[guiri]

If you, like I, suffer from inexplicable hiccups or even freezes using CCcam 2.2.1. and CCcam 2.3.0. crashes immediately connecting to the CCcam server, try OScam.

Perhaps you tried the OScam client in the past but you discarded it because it didn't start decoding the channel you wanted to record, like I did. You may want to try this workaround for oscam-1.20-unstable_svn-r0 (svn8631). I use it on an AZBox Elite HD.

The idea is to restart OScam when the recording starts. You do this by checking /etc/enigma2/timers.xml every minute.

Therefore you create a script /home/root/bin/kickoscam with this content:

#!/bin/sh
LOG=/tmp/kickoscam.log
if grep "<timer begin=\"$(date +%s | cut -c-9).* disabled=\"0\" " /etc/enigma2/timers.xml >> $LOG; then
    date >> $LOG
    date +%s >> $LOG
    if ls -l /etc/init.d/softcam | grep softcam.oscam > /dev/null; then
        echo "timer starting. restart oscam..." >> $LOG
        /etc/init.d/softcam restart >> $LOG 2>&1
    else
        echo "timer starting. softcam is not oscam. skip..." >> $LOG
    fi
    echo >> $LOG
fi

To execute this script every minute you create /etc/cron/root with:
*     *     *     *     *         /home/root/bin/kickoscam

and a startup script /etc/init.d/cron with:

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
    crond -c /var/spool/cron
    ;;
stop)
    kill $(cat /var/run/crond.pid)
    rm /var/run/crond.pid
    ;;
restart|reload)
    $0 stop
    sleep 1
    $0 start
    ;;
*)
    echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac
exit 0

Give it the right permissions with chmod 755 /etc/init.d/cron and create these links in rc?.d:

rc0.d/K50cron  rc2.d/S50cron  rc4.d/S50cron  rc6.d/K50cron
rc1.d/K50cron  rc3.d/S50cron  rc5.d/S50cron

Reboot and enjoy. In /tmp/kickoscam.log timestamps of when OScam was kicked. Also the responsible timer will appear.
 

[Taapat]

Sorry if I'm wrong and you have a special case, but it seems to me that if you all this time that you spend to create such a workaround would have spent to study oscam settings, then you would be able to configure oscam correctly, and any oscam restart you do not need.

Edited by Taapat, 24 November 2015 - 08:07.

[Pr2]

Azbox is not supported by OpenPLi and OScam is working fine once properly configured on a good STB. Moreover you a refering to a very old version of OScam please use an up-to-date one.

[guiri]

@Taapat: I did study the settings, I tried them all, nothing worked. Most probably because of the old version of OScam. See below.

@Pr2: There is a version of OpenPli3.0 for AZBox called OpenRSI. As development has been frozen users can't update OScam to a more recent version. For them this workaround may be interesting.

AZBox is definitely not perfect but I never had to replace anything in its hardware. I read about caps in the power supply of the ET-9000?!

AZBox is now obsolete. That's why this workaround may be valuable to die hard users.

[Tony il Capo]

That is not an OpenPLi image, it is based on OpenPLi as far as I know.

I think latest oscam is avaiable for that box

[Pr2]

LOL because the feed is down you cannot update OScam.

Start reading a little bit around and you will learn how to manually update your OScam version. It is not complicated.

[guiri]

One would expect the files for mips-azbox in http://download.osca...tory=1.20_TRUNK

to work, but they don't.

[Tony il Capo]

Why?

You should extract oscam from those gz archives, and replace the old oscam file with that one.

You need to stop oscam > locate oscam in box > Filezilla FTP (binary transfer) > send - replace file> start oscam on stb

 

That's close to what I do to update oscam on my stbs.

[guiri]

I transfer the file by scp, that shouldn't make any difference. But then:

 

root@azbox:/var/volatile/tmp# ./oscam
-sh: ./oscam: not found
 

I checked the file types using the linux file command (version 5.09).

 

Not working oscam svn11172:

 

file oscam

oscam: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 rel2 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

 

 

Working oscam svn8631:

 

file oscam
oscam1: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, MIPS32 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, with unknown capability 0xf41 = 0x756e6700, with unknown capability 0x70100 = 0x1040000, stripped
 

 

Interesting huh? Perhaps they compile for the newer AZBox ME. Mine is older AZBox HD.

[Pr2]

chmod 755 oscam

 

and be careful that in between some parameters have changed (exemple switching from seconds to milliseconds)... so restart with a clean setup otherwise you will get into troubles.

Edited by Pr2, 24 November 2015 - 23:47.

[guiri]

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       1591656 Nov 24 12:32 oscam
 

root@azbox:/var/volatile/tmp# ./oscam
-sh: ./oscam: not found

[betacentauri]

Then your oscam binary is not in /tmp. Try executing oscam without ./ instead.

Edited by betacentauri, 25 November 2015 - 07:09.

[guiri]

root@azbox:/var/volatile/tmp# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       1591656 Nov 24 12:32 oscam

 

root@azbox:/var/volatile/tmp# ./oscam
-sh: ./oscam: not found
 

Any suggestions? My theory is that it's compiled for the AZBox ME processor (SIGMA SMP 8655 AD @ 667 MHz + 333 MHz), not for the AZBox HD which has a SIGMA processor SMP 8634 LF @ 300 MHz.

[betacentauri]

Yes, strange error message. Then I would also say binary is for other architecture.

[Erik Slagter]

That is almost certainly the cause of this error.

 

OTOH it might be that /tmp restricts files to be non-executable, but I doubt that.

Edited by Erik Slagter, 25 November 2015 - 18:42.

[guiri]

Tried that too. If I put the working OScam (svn8631) in /tmp it works as a charm...

[hemertje]

For oscam problems please ask your questions at the oscam forum!

[guiri]

Thanks everybody for your input. I was quite satisfied with my workaround but because you insisted I did too and I found out that there are OScams compiled for the AZBox HD architecture on http://download.oscam.cc but not where you expect them.
So don't try mips-azbox but go to:

 

Home / 1.20_TRUNK / mips-tuxbox-oe1.6 and download oscam-svn11178-mips-tuxbox-webif-Distribution.tar.gz

 

or go to:

 

Home / 1.20_TRUNK / mips-tuxbox-oe2.0 and download oscam-svn11178-mips-tuxbox-oe2.0-webif-Distribution.tar.gz

 

Don't ask me why but both work on the AZBox HD. For more information try the oscam forum as suggested by Jerom.

Edited by guiri, 28 November 2015 - 01:22.