[vdr] Re: Will these work for linux?

["William E. Mrozinski" <wem@dcshome.com>]

I went chasing down this same rabbit hole about a year ago
and thats what I learned/concluded.  There should be some
threads in the archive to that effect from around that
time.  Understand, I'm not saying that it can't be done in
theory; but its going to take some off the shelf stuff,
custom mods to the CI code that is there which currently
isn't reliable yet, and a willingness to sacrifice some
hardware in the $100's of dollars just to see if its
possible with customizations.  Any of the current DVB
boards will pick up 'in the clear' DISH channels just fine
( I've done it with a DVB-S board ) but there is not much
but barker channels in the clear.  The cam is the key... I
think a soft-CAM may go about things differently but I
never dug deep into that.

    Bill

Stan Moon wrote:

> Outch.  Where did you get this info?  from people that
> have allready tried it or someone just told you?
>
> Thanx,
> Stan
>
> --- "William E. Mrozinski" <wem@dcshome.com> wrote:
> > Here are the two gotcha's:
> >
> > DISH uses a proprietary version of Nagravision, not
> > generic...
> >
> > Every DISH box made has an internal serial number in
> > firmware that is keyed with the card assigned to
> > you.  So
> > to do this you need to use the registered DISH card
> > in
> > your CAM ( no one has ever even tried this much of
> > the
> > process to my knowledge ) and the support code for
> > the CAM
> > must allow for providing the box key value to be
> > used in
> > the decrypt.  Oh yeah, getting to the box key
> > involves a
> > major hack to the registered box with probable risk
> > of
> > destruction of the box if not done perfectly.
> > There's
> > more, but this was enough to send me looking for
> > something
> > else to do(g)...
> >
> > Unless you're a glutton for punishment or on an
> > unlimited
> > budget these things have prevented anyone that I
> > know of
> > from making this fly...
> >
> > Sorry for the reality check, but I just couldn't
> > watch you
> > swinging in the wind any more...(g)
> >
> >     Bill
>
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