[vdr] Re: Strange OSD-Message concerning CAM

[nschmidt-nrw@t-online.de (Norbert Schmidt)]

Hi Klaus, 

On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:54, you wrote:
> There should at least be a message in the log file that the
> "IRDETO" menu has been shown (unless you have changed the
> logging level).

Unfortunately not. I could observe the mentioned message
several times during the last hour. Without any additional 
logging in messages and kernel AND without changing the
logging level.

>
> Anyway, as far as I can see this message comes when the EPG
> scan switches to a channel that is encrypted, but can't be
> decrypted by your SmartCard. The CAM then asks for
> inserting the correct SmartCard. Apparently this menu stays
> there forever and doesn't automatically go away after some
> time, so I guess I'll need to implement some timeout here.

This would be great. Will you release a patch?

>
> You should be able to avoid this by making sure that you
> only have such encrypted channels in your channels.conf
> that can actually be decrypted by your CAM/SmartCard.

I have checked my channels.conf by switching to each channel
and deleting those which are no longer supported. Without 
success. 

Any additional ideas?

Thanks for your efforts ;-)
CU Norbert



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