I was planning to use my digi tv viewing card with VDR by installing the sc-plugin. My understanding this is legal as I would still need to use my real viewing card.
The card reader I have seems to support the CCID interface, therefore I found the tools needed for communication from http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html
I installed the pcscd daemon that in my understanding uses libusb for communincating with the smart card. After that the pcsc_scan was able to printout correct info from my card.
I though that it would mean that I could connect the card to VDR by using the sc plugin, but I was wrong as sc plugin seems to only support smart cards that has serial port or serial port over usb support, like phoenix card readers.
So I think there would be 3 options
1) Install newcs daemon (as it can read also CCID cards. I want however avoid this as there is no sources available for it.
2) Create virtual serial port driver over CCID library
3) Modify smartcard.c from sc plugin to support also the CCID cards.
Has anybody worked with items 2 or 3 earlier?
Mika
I though that it would mean that I could connect the card to VDR by using the sc plugin, but I was wrong as sc plugin seems to only support smart cards that has serial port or serial port over usb support, like phoenix card readers.
So I think there would be 3 options
- Install newcs daemon (as it can read also CCID cards.
I want however avoid this as there is no sources available for it.
Create virtual serial port driver over CCID library
Modify smartcard.c from sc plugin to support also the CCID cards.
Has anybody worked with items 2 or 3 earlier?
Ok, attached is a patch for sc plugin to support CCID smart card readers. The patch is not originally from me but I modified it to work with sc code available in sc trunk.
So far I have tested it with vdr-1.7.0 and liblianis multifrontend drivers with the pay channels that I have subscribed (and thus have the smart card key)
I have not tested yet with s2 api version of vdr as I have still problems to watch even free channels with my card when using vdr-1.7.0 or 1.7.1 with s2 api patches in place. (and without having any plugins)
Attachment contains the patch and in addition also the modified files in their final form. Code is simply using #ifdefs for places where CCID and serial interface differs instead of trying to abstract common c++ base class that both the serial and ccid implementations could inherit.
Mika
If I enable my subscription with my provider again, that uses irdeto2, will it work?
On 05/10/2008, Mika Laitio lamikr@pilppa.org wrote:
I though that it would mean that I could connect the card to VDR by using
the sc plugin, but I was wrong as sc plugin seems to only support smart cards that has serial port or serial port over usb support, like phoenix card readers.
So I think there would be 3 options
- Install newcs daemon (as it can read also CCID cards.
I want however avoid this as there is no sources available for it.
Create virtual serial port driver over CCID library
Modify smartcard.c from sc plugin to support also the CCID cards.
Has anybody worked with items 2 or 3 earlier?
Ok, attached is a patch for sc plugin to support CCID smart card readers. The patch is not originally from me but I modified it to work with sc code available in sc trunk.
So far I have tested it with vdr-1.7.0 and liblianis multifrontend drivers with the pay channels that I have subscribed (and thus have the smart card key)
I have not tested yet with s2 api version of vdr as I have still problems to watch even free channels with my card when using vdr-1.7.0 or 1.7.1 with s2 api patches in place. (and without having any plugins)
Attachment contains the patch and in addition also the modified files in their final form. Code is simply using #ifdefs for places where CCID and serial interface differs instead of trying to abstract common c++ base class that both the serial and ccid implementations could inherit.
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