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Expired Sky Card? FTV?

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Is there any way I can use an expired red Sky viewing card to view the few, well very few, remaining FTV channels that are not FTA now on my Zgemma H7S?
(London Live and Yesterday+1 and maybe something called Insight, or has Insight gone now?)
 
I cant see insight on sky as for yesterday you can get that on freesat and freeview.
 
BrianTheTechHead said:
Is there any way I can use an expired red Sky viewing card to view the few, well very few, remaining FTV channels that are not FTA now on my Zgemma H7S?
(London Live and Yesterday+1 and maybe something called Insight, or has Insight gone now?)
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Oh and 4Music is I believe still only FTV rather than FTA.
 
urie said:
I cant see insight on sky as for yesterday you can get that on freesat and freeview.
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Insight is, or maybe was Sky 451.

Yesterday+1 on Freeview is a joke. Only transmits "teleshopping" for a couple of hours in early morning as far as I can see.
 
You need to install oscam ("latest" will do), transfer attached configs to /etc/tuxbox/config (these work on a white card, and should also do a red one. Otherwise you will have to add boxkey). See forums threads about sky red card 0960.

Blue > softcam manager >
Ensure oscam-latest is set to auto start, will be indicated with a tick, and then start it.

You may have to wait for the card to get valid entitlements.

BTW, there are ABM hacks to treat FTV services as FTA, you will need to update them as the list is from 2016
https://www.world-of-satellite.com/...Hacks-Examples&p=408659&viewfull=1#post408659

Leeds TV
Liverpool TV
Birmingham TV
Bristol TV
Cardiff TV
Tyne & Wear TV
London Live
4Music
 
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Not working with the old red card.
Adding a fake boxid to oscam.server seems to get it interacting with the card but not working.
I guess it might spring to life if I wait.
I will see if I can acquire a white one at a good price.
 
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If you can get access to an old sky box, put card in and connect to dish and router, do new installation via menu and card will activate.

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I'm quite happy with Yesterday +1 to be honest.
I knew I'd kept my old jtagged Pace box for a reason :)
 
abu baniaz said:
BTW, there are ABM hacks to treat FTV services as FTA, you will need to update them as the list is from 2016
https://www.world-of-satellite.com/...Hacks-Examples&p=408659&viewfull=1#post408659
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Well simply updating that to:

Code: 
<custommix>
	<hacks>
<![CDATA[

ftv_IDs = [

	5537, # Leeds TV
	1016, # Liverpool TV
	1078, # Birmingham TV
	5315, # Bristol TV
	5536, # Cardiff TV
	5043, # Tyne & Wear TV
	5090, # London Live
	1758, # 4Music
	2615, # YESTERDAY +1
]

for number in customised["video"].keys():
	if customised["video"][number]["channel_id"] in ftv_IDs:
		customised["video"][number]["free_ca"] = 0
	elif customised["video"][number]["free_ca"] == 1:
		del customised["video"][number]
			
]]>
	</hacks>
</custommix>

and putting it in "/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/SystemPlugins/AutoBouquetsMaker/custom" and doing an ABM scan didn't seem to do anything at all.

What am I doing wrong?
 
Okay. Got it now.
1) I sorted the channels at the top in to order of their IDs, probably didn't need to.
2) In ABM Sky UK provider I set FTA only to off.
The sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml file then sets the listed channels to FTA, I think, (they're actually FTV), and removes all other non FTA channels.

A white Sky card is in the post to me.
I'll be able to test soon.
 
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Yes. Works well with white card.
I presume it would work with the red one if it had been paired with a real sky box and I knew the boxid for it.
For the record this is the sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml file I used:
Code: 
<custommix>
	<hacks>
<![CDATA[

ftv_IDs = [

	1016, # Liverpool TV
	1078, # Birmingham TV
	1758, # 4Music
	2615, # YESTERDAY +1
	5043, # Tyne & Wear TV
	5090, # London Live
	5315, # Bristol TV
	5536, # Cardiff TV
	5537, # Leeds TV
]

for number in customised["video"].keys():
	if customised["video"][number]["channel_id"] in ftv_IDs:
		customised["video"][number]["free_ca"] = 0
	elif customised["video"][number]["free_ca"] == 1:
		del customised["video"][number]
			
]]>
	</hacks>
</custommix>
No amazing new channels so realistically probably hardly worth the £9 I paid for the white card, but I learnt a lot doing it.
 
BrianTheTechHead said:
No amazing new channels so realistically probably hardly worth the £9 I paid for the white card, but I learnt a lot doing it.
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I watch Yesterday a lot so being able to get the +1 is a real bonus for me.
I've only just realised that @abu baniaz had posted oscam config files :o
If I read things properly I could have saved myself some effort there!
 
Willo3092 said:
I watch Yesterday a lot so being able to get the +1 is a real bonus for me.
I've only just realised that @abu baniaz had posted oscam config files :o
If I read things properly I could have saved myself some effort there!
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Two heads better than one! I added for both card reader slots though.
 
It was interesting to see two different sets of oscam files, though I did use Abu's set. Well he was first after all.

Yes Yesterday+1 is probably the ace in the pack.
Lately I'm quite into their "Abandoned Engineering" series.
I occasionally watch some of the reruns of old stuff on 4Music and it's nice to have that at the higher bit rate and resolution on satellite compared to Freeview.
London Live isn't a bad channel either. I could probably get it on Freeview if I had my own aerial and didn't have to use the filtered feed provided by the landlord.
 
Drat. I've found a problem. Setting the ABM Sky UK provider to "FTA Only"="no" means my autotimers sometimes set timers for channels that are neither FTA or FTV which then don't work!
I had an autotimer to record a certain film the first time it was on any channel and it chose Film4 HD which it obviously won't be able to record.
 
Not sure what to do now :(

Has ABM (and more importantly whatever runs the code in the sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml file) got access to the list of channels that autotimers search through?
If so can I delete the subscription channels from that list too in the elif part in the code in sat_282_sky_uk_CustomMix.xml ?
 
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