Conax Cam plugin – CnxCam

July 6, 2008 – 21:58

CnxCAM is an emulator for original Conax Cas3 – Cas7 cards. It’s a plugin for the most common DVB viewing software (ProgDVB, AltDVB, DreamTheatre). What this means is that you will be able to view your encoded (pay to view) DVB (satellite, cable, terrestrial) channels with your pc, a TV-card and/or USB device and a phoenix interfaced card reader. You still need your valid smartcard but you will be able to view and record everything the way you like.

My Test setup:

  • ProgDVB 4.91.1(Also tried the new 5.15.1 but this actually didn’t work out for me with my DVB-T receiver)
  • Easylite DVB-T USB tuner
  • Infinity USB Unlimited smartcard reader/programmer

I tested the plugin myself trying to view the Digitenne (DVB-T) channels from KPN in the Netherlands. It wasn’t a straight forward succes, but after some trial and error I was able to get it fully working. At first I installed the cnxcam 0.1.0.3b, it was working and receiving ECM packets but not the EMM packets. Later on I found out the PID (Packet ID, used to the identify audio/video streams) are different for the ECM and EMM.   The problem is cnxcam 0.1.0.3b uses the same PID for both! This is a problem because when the smartcard isn’t receiving EMM packets (and processes) the smartcard can not be activated or be updated to decode the signal. My smartcard was activated before trying this but to process this activation an EMM packet needs to be written to the smartcard for an update. Now, beacause cnxcam 0.1.0.3b isn’t receiving these EMM packets because of the wrong PID, nothing happens.

After this I uninstalled 0.1.0.3b and installed 0.1.0.4. In this new version there’s a new option to scan on which PID the ECM and EMM are being transmitted. Now you’re also receiving the EMM packets and they are being written to your smartcard. Unfortunatly the screen was still showing nothing but a black screen. Despite the cnxcam monitor was showing me everything was ‘ok’ and ‘up and running’.

What Next? I uninstalled cnxcam 0.1.0.4 and installed cnxcam 0.1.0.3b once again. After doing this I finally got audio and video on all the encoded channels! The only disadvantage is that cnxcam 0.1.0.3b still isn’t receiving EMM packets and therfore won’t be updating your card when it needs to. This means cnxcam 0.1.0.4 has to be installed everytime the card need to be updated, that’s pity. I hope there will be a solution or a new version of the cnxcam soon.

Download cnxcam 0.1.0.3b here

Download cnxcam 0.1.04 here

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  1. 7 Responses to “Conax Cam plugin – CnxCam”

  2. Thanks! I found this article to be very useful! I’ll report later to let you if I was able to get it all working.

    Greets,

    Hans

    By Hans on Jul 6, 2008

  3. Excellent info.

    By MrM on Dec 1, 2008

  4. Hi

    I’m living in Holland sice 1 month ago, and I would like to try your hack. Where can I found a phoenix interfaced card reader?

    Tnnx

    By rufus on May 23, 2009

  5. Sorry for late reaction Rufus since I just saw your comment. You can order an infinity USB reader (which has an phoenix interface) at http://www.cardwriter.nl service is a bit shitty but not too many stores sell them.

    Besides the above I’d like to mention that i’ve found a better solution for sharing you keys over your network or internet. I haven’t found the time to write a tutorial on it but if you’re interested google for: “satellite cardsharing”. My method is fully based on those principles.

    By KaiserSoze on Jul 1, 2009

  6. hello i`m hut and from the top of the netherlands and i`m having a laptop with vista on it and a infinity unlimited cardreader i have progdvb version 6.3.201 i have the conax version and a legal card from digitenne but i still can`t get it working so i was wondering if you could help me out with this step by step and what i must see on my conax scan because i don`t know what to do anymore
    greetings hut

    By hut on Jan 31, 2010

  7. Hi Hut,

    I wouldn’t recommend this method no more. Read my blogpost on the Hadu plugin for Windows. It should work with the instructions in that post. There’s probably a newer version of Hadu, i’d suggest you use the newest version.

    http://www.kaisersblog.com/2009/08/hadu-cccam-client-plugin-for-windows/

    By KaiserSoze on Jan 31, 2010

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