[vdr] CAM auto resetting - feature request??

[Marco Göbenich]

Hi!

Got the same problem here, would be nice to have  at least a possibility
to check for crashed CAM's per SVDRP and maybe the possibility to reset it.

Regards

Marco


Simon Baxter schrieb:
> Hello
>
> My v 1.6.0 system has 2x Alphacrypt multi-CAMs.
>
> Occasionally one of the CAMs seems to "crash" and if I go into Setup >
> CAM one of the CAMs changes from "Alphacrypt" to "CAM Ready" - and
> will no longer decrypt channels.  I then correspondingly get a bunch
> of timer conflicts, as 1/2 my CAM resources have vanished.  Only ever
> one CAM fails, never both.
>
> I rectify this by selecting the CAM, and then hitting "reset"
> (sometimes a couple of times) - and it comes back.
>
> Unless I go into the Setup > CAM menu, I'm unaware that the CAM has
> "crashed".
>
>
> My request is......
> Is there a way I can either
> 1)Automatically reset a CAM if it falls into this state
>
> or
>
> 2)Be notified, by generating a console/kernel message, so I can know
> to come in and fix this.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
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