Hi
I've got a new Irdeto2 card with its own decoder , the card shows ACS 6 and can't run even under the newest OSCam version , so I think if I could monitor the traffic between the card and the receiver I might find something useful , or develop an Idea of sharing from inside the STB - even if that only clears one channel - .
The point is that I made a simple interface by connecting the card I/O Pin to MAX232 RX Pin And its TX Pin to my PCs RX , I disabled all the hardware and software flow controls and tried deferent baudRates and deferent Parity options , all went to a series of continuous symbols and characters that I couldn't make any use from !!

Any ides here ? what am I missing ? and how to find out more about the smartcard communication protocol ??