Hercules Smart TV Satellite

Card information

This card is a clone of Twinhan VP-1030A PCTV Sat CI card.

So far the difference are:

• different sticker on tuner
• Firmware returns a "DST-CI" identifier instead of the "DSTMCI" identifier returned by VP-1030A firmware

Connectors:

• Sat input
• CI connector for CAM module
• Internal 8 pins connector (unknown purpose. Anyone knows ?)
• Internal sat output

Required software

For FTA, any kernel after 2.6.7 should do.

Do de-scramble programs, you must have:

• Linux kernel 2.6.9 or greater
• DVB CVS
• patch for dst_ca.c (See mailing list archive)
• Load dst_ca module

So far:

• driver is still in development.
• dst_ca API is not yet frozen.
• no real dvb application (like vdr or xine) support this new API.

Required modules

Add dvb-bt8xx in your /etc/modules files and add these lines in you modprobe.conf:

options bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 
options dst_ca   new_ca=1
install dvb-bt8xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dvb-bt8xx; /sbin/modprobe dst

CAM tests

CAM tests on Hercules Smart TV Satellite

Type	HW version	Firmware version	Results
SCM Red Viacess	1.0	1.06	Working, but random failures are observed
Aston Dual	?	?	Not working