KidOtaku
13-03-2009, 09:59 PM
Hello everyone,
I received my Elite last week, with a brand new dish and LNB; this is my first satellite system, and so far things are pretty good. After fiddling for a while, I managed to get MultiCAS properly installed, and the card from my provider works correctly in the card reader (with the latest firmware - before it was freezing all the time).
Now, I'm trying to go a bit further, and I have to say I am surprised by the general lack of information out there; not only about this box, but in the whole sat scene in general. It seems that all the forums I find are loaded with people who already know everything about every receiver, every emu, CAMs, cards, encryption systems, keys... but nowhere is a tutorial or a newbie-friendly explanation to be found! :nopity:
So anyway, here are my questions of the day; hopefully some kind soul will get me out of the pit! :respect-061:
1) Is the update thingie in the plugins section supposed to work? The default url, 'azupd dot com', leads to a bogus plugin (mwkeytest - does it do anything interesting? it just sits there when I start it); someone suggested to replace the URL with 'ng-box dot com', but then there is no plugins.lst file. Is there another up-to-date server I could use?
2) I am trying to open some channels with MultiCAS, as it is my understanding that this program is supposed to do more than just read cards, but the provided set of keys does not seem to work. How do you get around to updating the keys? I tried to upload a Diablo KEYS.BIN file (read somewhere that those are supposed to work), and MultiCAS does not see it. If I rename it to Key.bin (without the 's' at the end, like the one find by default in the MultiCAS folder), MultiCAS simply overwrites it with its own version. In fact, if I replace any of card_key.bin, Key.bin or Data9F.bin, it gets recreated when I restart MultiCAS, crushing whatever was there. So how do you get around to changing the keys??? I tried to update them manually, using the data I found in a softcam.key file, but the number of digits in the file vs in the interface on the box is not the same! I am utterly confused. Could someone point me to a good source of information about keys and their various formats, and generally, how to use them?
3) Are incubucamd and gCam only useful for cardsharing, or can they also be used with keys? Right now I am not too interested in card sharing, I might go there someday when I feel blocked only with the keys, but this is another area where information is really not easy to find. Anyway, as far as keys are concerned, should I go this route instead of MultiCAS? If so, how do I get around to updating the keys on those?
Thanks for your answers! :respect-048:
I received my Elite last week, with a brand new dish and LNB; this is my first satellite system, and so far things are pretty good. After fiddling for a while, I managed to get MultiCAS properly installed, and the card from my provider works correctly in the card reader (with the latest firmware - before it was freezing all the time).
Now, I'm trying to go a bit further, and I have to say I am surprised by the general lack of information out there; not only about this box, but in the whole sat scene in general. It seems that all the forums I find are loaded with people who already know everything about every receiver, every emu, CAMs, cards, encryption systems, keys... but nowhere is a tutorial or a newbie-friendly explanation to be found! :nopity:
So anyway, here are my questions of the day; hopefully some kind soul will get me out of the pit! :respect-061:
1) Is the update thingie in the plugins section supposed to work? The default url, 'azupd dot com', leads to a bogus plugin (mwkeytest - does it do anything interesting? it just sits there when I start it); someone suggested to replace the URL with 'ng-box dot com', but then there is no plugins.lst file. Is there another up-to-date server I could use?
2) I am trying to open some channels with MultiCAS, as it is my understanding that this program is supposed to do more than just read cards, but the provided set of keys does not seem to work. How do you get around to updating the keys? I tried to upload a Diablo KEYS.BIN file (read somewhere that those are supposed to work), and MultiCAS does not see it. If I rename it to Key.bin (without the 's' at the end, like the one find by default in the MultiCAS folder), MultiCAS simply overwrites it with its own version. In fact, if I replace any of card_key.bin, Key.bin or Data9F.bin, it gets recreated when I restart MultiCAS, crushing whatever was there. So how do you get around to changing the keys??? I tried to update them manually, using the data I found in a softcam.key file, but the number of digits in the file vs in the interface on the box is not the same! I am utterly confused. Could someone point me to a good source of information about keys and their various formats, and generally, how to use them?
3) Are incubucamd and gCam only useful for cardsharing, or can they also be used with keys? Right now I am not too interested in card sharing, I might go there someday when I feel blocked only with the keys, but this is another area where information is really not easy to find. Anyway, as far as keys are concerned, should I go this route instead of MultiCAS? If so, how do I get around to updating the keys on those?
Thanks for your answers! :respect-048: