Oscam server setup guide - Raspberry Pi from scratch.

Oscam server from scratch with Raspberry Pi

This guide assumes you have a Windows PC for downloading the image and transferring it to a correctly formatted SD card.
Items needed;
Raspberry Pi with power supply connected to the network.
SD card (suggested minimum 4GB) with Raspbian “wheezy” (can use other flavours or modifications but you might need to install more packages).
Either a SSH client connected to the network, or Input device direct to the Raspberry Pi connected to a display.

If you have not got an SD card preinstalled with Raspbian, then I would suggest the following.
SD card format tool.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

Unpack and install.

Disk imaging tool

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/Win32-Disk-Imager.shtml

Unpack.

Insert SD card and format the card with SDformatter, ensuring that you turn format size adjustment on.

Download the raspbian "wheezy" image from;

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Scroll down about halfway for the Raspbian Wheezy image and select torrent or direct download.

Unpack image.

Run Win32DiskImager.exe - I get an error message but I ignore it and it works.
Ensure the letter underneath where it says 'Device' is the same as your SD card.
Click the blue folder icon at the top right of the Win32DiskImager.exe app - and browse for the raspbian wheezy image.
When you are happy that you have found the file and you have selected the right device, click 'Write', and 'Yes' to confirm.
Once you get the 'Write Successful" message then you can go to the next stage.

Insert the SD card in your Raspberry Pi, turn on and wait a couple of minutes.

If you are connecting remotely using SSH, then you need to find the IP address of the Raspberry Pi.
You are best doing this anyway because you need to fix the IP address, usually you can do this in your router, the method depends on your router.
You can also do this direct on the Raspberry Pi if you have an imput device and the Rpi is connected to a display.
If you are connected to a display then the raspi-config will auto run on first boot, you can set timezone, etc.
I would suggest changing the memory split if you are using this as a dedicated Oscam server and nothing else - so that only 16mb is alocated to VideoCore.

To do this from an SSH client, then log in as user 'pi' and password 'raspberry' - and then do;

sudo raspi-config

after you have changed the settings to how you want (I at this stage have only set timezone and memory split), then finish and reboot.

Once it reboots then log in as 'pi' and 'raspberry' again
Enable root password;

sudo passwd root

Then enter preferred password twice.
log out as current user.
Log in as 'root' using your chosen password.

Now we are ready to compile Oscam.

Thanks to the respective authors for guides on how to do this ('dui' for getting the info from another forum and 'pr2' for tweaking it) - but I want to put a clear one together for the benefit of all.
For the sake of this, we are going to compile Oscam with Smartreader and PCSC Support.

First, you need to get your packages;

apt-get update 
apt-get -y install apt-utils dialog usbutils
apt-get -y install gcc g++ wget
apt-get -y install build-essential subversion libpcsclite1 libpcsclite-dev
apt-get -y install libssl-dev cmake make 
apt-get -y install libusb-1.0-0-dev nano
apt-get install pcscd pcsc-tools

Then create the following symbolic link so Smartreader support is added during the compile;

ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libusb-1.0.a  /usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.a

Get the Oscam sources;

cd /usr/src
svn co http://www.streamboard.tv/svn/oscam/trunk oscam-svn

Compile Oscam (note the two dots after the 5th line are there because they need to be).

cd oscam-svn
mkdir build
chmod 755 build
cd build
cmake -DHAVE_LIBUSB=1 -DHAVE_PCSC=1 -DWEBIF=1 -DHAVE_LIBCRYPTO=1 -DWITH_SSL=1 ..
make

Make yourself a coffee - you have a bit of time and deserve one!

Now it is installed - we need to move it;

cd /usr/src/oscam-svn/build
cp oscam /var/local/

and move the list_smargo tool;

cd /usr/src/oscam-svn/build/utils
cp list_smargo /var/local/

They are both now in /var/local - now we need to change permissions;

cd /var/local
chmod 755 oscam
chmod 755 list_smargo

Now oscam needs to start at boot by adding it to rc.local, and you can edit with nano;

nano /etc/rc.local

arrow down to a line just above 'exit 0' and below 'fi', and add the following;

/var/local/oscam &

To save, exit with 'CTRL' and 'x' - select 'y' and 'enter'.
Oscam will now run at boot.

To get it to restart daily at 5.45 am and to free memory every hour, edit the crontab file;

nano /etc/crontab

add the following two new lines;

05 * * * * root echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
45 05 * * * root /sbin/reboot

and to save, exit with 'CTRL' and 'x' - select 'y' and 'enter'.

I won't go on about log files here because Oscam runs without them, and can be added later if you need them. Your config files (oscam.conf, oscam.user and oscam.server) go in /usr/local/etc

If you want, you can now delete the sources, which are found in /usr/src - just delete the oscam.svn folder.

you need to forward the port to the internal IP address of your Raspberry pi - this should have been fixed in your router as I went over earlier on, alternatively edit the /etc/network/interfaces file. Take care in doing this if you haven't got an input device and display for your Raspberry Pi as if you set this wrong then you will have no means to connect to your device. See the following for more info on this

http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration

From this point, I prefer to use an scp client to edit and add my config files. As a start - you can create an oscam.conf file in /usr/local/etc and add;

[webif]
httpport                      = 8888
httprefresh                   = 5
httpallowed                   = 127.0.0.1,192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255

Save this.
Reboot your Raspberry Pi. You should now have Oscam running on reboot and you will be able to access the webinterface as well.
You can log on to webinterface locally on the Raspberry Pi if you use startx to run GUI and after running a web browser, use;

127.0.0.1:8888

or from a remote computer by using the local IP address of the Raspberry Pi and port 8888 again
From this you can do all the setting up of your server - rather than add files to /usr/local/etc you can also cut and paste the info from your configs in the files section of webinterface if you prefer

This works with 2 Omnikey readers, one in each USB port and with a Hub, as tested by myself. For further info about card configs etc, this info is all over the forum so the search bar is your next step!

Enjoy!

Quote from hs5424

Great tutorial.
I think that I have setup the Pi correctly to run oscam. I only have oscam.config and oscam.server in usr/local/etc. Is this correct.
Thanks in advance.

There are a number of config files you could have in usr/local/etc

oscam.conf is the most important because with this you can activate the webinterface by adding the following;

[webif]
httpport                      = 8888
httprefresh                   = 5
httpallowed                   = 127.0.0.1,192.168.0.0-255.255.255.255

that way you can either access the oscam webinterface from a web browser either on the raspberry pi gui http://127.0.0.1:8888 or from a browser on a remote PC in your lan http://192.168.x.x:8888

with the webinterface you can then add readers, users, edit configs etc.

oscam.conf, oscam.user and oscam.server are probably the 3 most important, but you also put the srvid, services, provid, cert, ac and one or two others in here.

Quote from big kid

I'm planning on getting one of these today and tranfering my setup from pc tower to this, I run 2 instances of oscam now on the pc one for cache only and one for shares, may need some help in getting 2 instances running?

Shouldn't be a problem especially as the new models have double the RAM - consider it is pretty much the same as having oscam running on a debian server, not tried it but sure it is possible. If you can't manage then consider the Raspberry Pi is so cheap you might want to just get 2 Raspbery Pi's!

all should work if all instructions are followed completely - did you note this?

Compile Oscam (note the two dots after the 5th line are there because they need to be).

the requirement to install these packages was already stated as part of the guide, under the heading "First, you need to get your packages" Have you missed anything else out?

not sure what the problem is cause i only compiled mine a couple of weeks ago and I followed this guide to make sure it is sending people down the right track, unless something has changed with the image, packages or sources etc - you could always try the binaries I created, pick up the guide from after the compile part, create the folders as stated, and move these into the folders and change attribs as stated.

http://linuxsat-support.com/os…sion-oscam.html#post89796

7982 is the latest - you want the arm-coolstream one - not sure if it is compiled with the support for pcsc or smargo but worth a go - not tried it myself I have the one I posted working fine for 2 weeks 100% stable.

give me an hour and i will see if i can compile it.

probably not an issue around the raspberry pi - do you have the external share set up in the Raspberry Pi and the Amiko Alein at the same time? Post logs from Pi server so we can see what is happening