How to add Headend support for DVB-T2 HEVC with CI+ CAM modules (encription)?

General Hardware
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Especially if Headend runs on RPI and even more if it runs in Dockerized environment (issues with hardware access from Docker to USB native ports previously solved).

Another thing is which CAM reader would be best (supported) to solve this problem ?

Remark: Usually if DVB-T2 receiver is used for “quasi-analog” view, we locally watch services without cards (CAM only). To watch the same thing with IPTV Headend would be a nice thing to assemble and especially because of PVR which curently does not work on regular DVB-T2 HEVC. So we would like to assemble a Linuxserver.io Headend with USB DVB-T2 supported card and CAM (Cardbus) CI+ service unlocker on another USB port of RPI (RPIs 4 or 5 with enough of processor power and RAM as idea).

The plan is to watch all streams FTA and “Unlocked via CAM” on same list.

2nd level improvement would be to do all of the above, but with DVB-S2 instead of DVB-T2.

And ideas ?

Sincerely
Silver - Meteo.Sat operator

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I would suggest asking somewhere more specific to dvb technology. Only a handful of us run tvheadend and it’s not with any cards etc.

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More info on Headend setup with linuxserver.io images is here:
How to set up Tvheadend with your DVB-T2 receiver | LinuxServer.io

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Yes that’s our article. I’m more specifically talking about your usage of CAM.

We have an oscam image which has instructions about how to map a usb device to the container but we aren’t going to help with what card reader is best or how to decrypt any encryptions.

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Questionable was is this technically possible at all. Obviously yes, so your answer is more then I asked for. Thanks.