Cam emulation vs Card emulation.

[MarineBoy]

I've done a fair bit of reading of the links that I have discovered so far.

One thing that never gets spoken about much is the difference between CAM emulation and CARD emulation. I am guessing that the first is less 'naughty' than the second - but feel free to put me straight.

My 2nd assumption is that a CAM emulation should be pretty *stable* - otherwise TV stations would have to be sending out new CAM modules all the time - no?

The reason for my confusion is that I have a Dragon Cam (2.29) and even though the firmware is slightly old, I am thinking that the cryptoworks CAM emulation should still be working. (I notice it was first mentioned in v2.02 on http://www.dragonmodule.com)

10.05.2004
Predator 202 for Dragon & embedded Cam and Emulator All In One
Emulation .../...
Re-integrated support for original cards, this version does work with:
Seca, Irdeto, Viaccess, Conax, Cryptoworks, Nagra smartcards

The thing is that we have an official card - Slovak Link - for EuroBird 28.5 - Cryptoworks and I was hoping to use that card with the Dragon Cam.

Should that be theoretically possible?

The error message I get is 'error decoding card' which it does seem to recognise as Cryptoworks. It could be that I'm having problems because of the receiver - an old Humax F1VACI - which isn't explicitly listed as 'compatible' although it isn't listed as 'not compatible' either.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

[3tv]

i have a dragon cam and an old f1vaci. Works fine its not to good with official cards though so i'm making do with emulation

[Hassan]

Works good for me too!!

Have you tried without the card? does it still work, could be the case that u have a faulty cam!!?

:nowords:

[MarineBoy]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

The trouble is that I currently only have access to 28 degrees - via a Zone 2 $ky Dish so the only channels available are Cryptoworks encoded - which isn't currently 'busted' as I understand it. We really want the Slovak / Czech channels you see - for family reasons.

So unless someone tells me about any other channels I can try it with now, I need to get off my ash and set up my old 1m motorised system so that I can test the cam and box with some other encryptions.

I can at least go into the Cam setup, where it reports the following: Irduhto, Sucko, Negravision, Viyuckses and Clonax - so I'm fairly confident it's all at least 'there' and waiting.