huanix

I’ve spent the last several hours trying to configure mythtv (Mythbuntu and Knoppmyth) to record my incoming IPTV stream. I haven’t had any success yet, but let me give you my details and hopefully we’ll figure something out.

I have a fiberoptic to the home (FTTH) internet connection, and with that comes IPTV. The IPTV is run through Amino 125 STB’s running Kasenna middleware.

The Amino box is accessible through Telnet. It’s not difficult to connect - I may elaborate later, but once you get the ip of the box, you can use
telnet [ip to box]
login: root
password: root2root

Inside the box is a basic linux directory system and a pretty extensive busybox implementation (Busybox offers basic GNU commands without a complete linux install).

My current issue is an inability to connect my mythtv installation to the IPTV network. I can spoof a MAC from one of the amino boxes using a “hw address” call added to the init script. (more later if you need it).

The problem is that the amino box uses specific network paramaters to request DHCP and I’m having trouble (lots of trouble) getting them right. I telnetted into a running box and set a static interface to mimic the directives (bcast, address, netmask) (I did not specify gateway as I can’t find it again - though I did see it in the config files on the STB).

The bonus is that the config files are all available in simple config scripts available on the STB. If I pull it off the closed Kasenna network I can give it my own DHCP and explore it all day long.

There is a LOT of info on the VLC forums about using these boxes, but like I said, I’m not interested in the box, I’m interested in connecting myth to the iptv stream.

I’m going to add a directory listing of the rc.d files to try to attract some traffic to what I’m doing. If I can find even one person to commit to working with me, I’ll be glad to set up a wiki and do some in-depth documentation.

./init.d:
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root            0 Jan  1 00:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 CVS
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          319 Jan  1  1970 mountscript
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          989 Jan  1  1970 rc
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          922 Jan  1  1970 rc.STBremoteconf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          323 Jan  1  1970 rc.ami_wm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          276 Jan  1  1970 rc.av_router
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1124 Jan  1  1970 rc.bootmcastbootd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          475 Jan  1  1970 rc.ca_app
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          493 Jan  1  1970 rc.ca_kmod
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3503 Jan  1  1970 rc.checkforupgrade
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          483 Jan  1  1970 rc.cookies
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          566 Jan  1  1970 rc.daemon_app
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          454 Jan  1  1970 rc.davincistb_gfx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          338 Jan  1  1970 rc.davincistb_os_core
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          613 Jan  1  1970 rc.dvbttx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11009 Jan  1  1970 rc.ethernet
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           94 Jan  1  1970 rc.final
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          831 Jan  1  1970 rc.finalise_upgrade
-rwxrwxr-x    1 root     root          481 Jan  1  1970 rc.gpio_driver
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1166 Jan  1  1970 rc.ir_driver
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          662 Jan  1  1970 rc.js_management_pages
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          499 Jan  1  1970 rc.linkstate
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          302 Jan  1  1970 rc.norflash_driver
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2335 Jan  1  1970 rc.ntpclient
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          338 Jan  1  1970 rc.opera
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          689 Jan  1  1970 rc.osk
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          558 Jan  1  1970 rc.remote_login
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          499 Jan  1  1970 rc.smartcard
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          288 Jan  1  1970 rc.telnetd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          450 Jan  1  1970 rc.tira
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1456 Jan  1  1970 rc.tistb_av_core
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 rc3.d
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 rc5.d
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          743 Jan  1  1970 rcS

Your comments and help are appreciated.

Config (Testing):
1. Set the mythtv MAC to an Amino mac: “ifconfig eth0 inet hw ether ##:##:MA:C#:## up” (you will have to take the network down first.