Hi,

I friend of mine got his Cable Dbox2 some days ago, his is waiting for
the smartcard to see the encrypted _free_ channels (stupid Kabel
Deutschland). If everything goes well for him, I will also buy such a
box. And you can be sure Freevo will get support for it asap.

Timo Drick wrote:
> Rob Shortt schrieb:
>
>>Timo Drick wrote:
>>
>>>I installed freevo2 but i do not get it work. (Mainly because of no
>>>time) But i am working on it.
>>>The dbox2 have an easy web control interface. With that interface i zap
>>>the channels. And the ts stream offered from a special port and can
>>>directly read by mplayer and xine. Just over a URL like
>>>http://dbox:31339/vpid,apid
>>>
>>
>>Does that return an mpeg stream?
>>
> Yes it does. (TS or PES both is possible. But for my setup it would be
> easyer to use ts stream. For PES i have to switch the box in a special
> mode. (But i have an old version running.)

Nice. So I can read the stream from the box and put it into the
kaa.record filterchain just like a normal dvb card.

> To zap to an other channel i have to send an http command to the
> dbox2. It is not enough to connect to the url with right apid and
> vpid.
> I has wirtten a small python module (44 lines of code) that can do
> follwing things:
> - bouque infos from the box (Full list of every channel name and id
>   available).
> - zap to a specific channel and get the right url
> - After record it is necessery to send a cleanup command to the dbox
> Again the dbox2 (neutrino) do send TS and PES streams. (But only one
> at the same time.)

http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/apps/tuxbox/neutrino/daemons/nhttpd/api_doku.txt?rev=1.43&view=markup

This looks even better than expected. I can write a LCD plugin showing
the Freevo status on the Dbox2 LCD. :)

> I am still searching the right place to start coding. You sugestion is
> good but i think to manage the zaping. I have to write a modified
> URLDevice. I think a good name is Dbox2Device or sometihng like that.
> I see that the URLDevice has a method that return a bouque list. Is
> that method used by the record server to determine the channel list?
> I just ask to avoid placing my dbox2 device at the wrong location. (I
> do not have an overview because the design is more complex than freevo
> 1.5)
> Should i add my Dbox2Device class to the kaa.record.device.py file?
> What changes are necessary to register the device to the mbus?

Well, I'm thinking of something with the same mbus interface as
freevo-tvdev but it uses the external dbox as card. Or add it into the
normal tvdev as special device Dbox2 with the ip as paramater (BTW, is
there a ay to find the DBox2 in the network? That is the good thing
about mbus, you just find something. maybe a small C based mbus module
on the device itself would be nice)

> PS: My freevo2 installation work now :-)

Great, so start coding :)


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