So, I bought an Amiko SDH 8340 receiver. I am using the newcamd protocol, and it seems to work fine. I had a hard time finding/installing a s/w firmware, however you call it that was an "emu" version (whatever that means). At first I was trying the "official" firmwares found on the amikostb.com website: trouble was in the menu/internet menu, there was no option to enter the cardsharing server details.
So finally I installed an "emu" version on the box and after that I had a "net client config" option in the internet menu. Here I was able to enter all the server details and the service is working! So good news!
I have the Sky UK package and it took me a while to get rid of all the duplicates channels and non-working channels.
I have been using the service for about a week now, and sometimes there are a few channels that don't work (black screen "Scrambled"), so the channel stays encrypted. Sometimes when I restart the server, or I restart the box, it works. Sometimes it only comes back the following day. I don't know whether it's a temporary fault on the server's side or if I'm doing something wrong.
One thing that puzzles me, however: I read a lot of technical stuff about setting up/configuring, writing programming lines and so on...I didnt do any of that. And the service works - with some occasional problems that I described above.
I'm just wondering, am I missing something here? Basically, I havent't dealt with any mgcp, cccam...or any of that stuff...Sorry,if I'm being technically wrong, I'm really not up to speed with these things.
Regards