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[14:18] <recyclehero> hi
[14:20] <recyclehero> guys I have a kodi + tvheadend on a gentoo machine as my HTPC setup.
[14:21] <recyclehero> I have some plugs on my new home. I dont know which one is dvb-t and which one is dvb-s.
[14:21] <recyclehero> if I am seeing some good signal strength and under 50% SNR on the tvheadend gui does it mean I have connected to the right outlet?
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[21:19] <okabe> hi big noob here, ive got myself a TBS6522, ive installed drivers and copied in firmware and gotten dbs-apps working although it seems with femon i am not recieving any signal... it is correct to take cable directly from satellite dish LNB into the card right?
[21:21] <okabe> root@secondary:/home/okabe# femon -H
[21:21] <okabe> FE: TurboSight TBS 6522 DVB-S/S2/S2X/T/T2/C/C2/ISDB-T  (ATSC)
[21:21] <okabe> status       | signal   0% | snr   0% | ber 1 | unc 0 |
[21:43] <Jester01> yeah LNB to card
[21:44] <Jester01> not familiar with femon, but you did tune to an appropriate mux, right?
[21:53] <okabe> i think i found the issue
[21:53] <okabe> it was a loose connection
[21:53] <okabe> heh
[21:53] <Jester01> we like easy fixes :D
[21:53] <okabe> tightened with some plyers and now signal is 93%
[21:54] <okabe> how do i tune it?
[21:57] <Jester01> my info is a bit old, but for testing I used to use the szap program (assuming you have a workable channels.conf set up)
[21:57] <okabe> no channels.conf, i was trying to make one using scan and some of the prebuilt lists found in /usr/share/dvb/
[21:58] <okabe> although im now seeing another issue...
[21:58] <okabe> scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/atsc/ca-ON-Toronto
[21:58] <okabe> >>> tune to: 189028615:8VSB
[21:58] <okabe> WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
[21:58] <okabe> dmesg is showing errors too
[21:58] <okabe> [ +12.966125] si2157 5-0060: found a 'Silicon Labs Si2157-A30'
[21:58] <okabe> [  +0.414612] si2157 5-0060: firmware version: 3.0.5
[21:58] <okabe> [  +0.053862] si2183 1-0067: set_params failed=-22
[21:59] <okabe> that set_params error shows up with each tuning attempt
[21:59] <okabe> is it that i have wrong firmware ?
[22:01] <Jester01> heh, nice that femon works for you :D
[22:02] <Jester01> FE: Montage Technology M88RS6000 (DVBS)
[22:02] <Jester01> Problem retrieving frontend information: Unknown error 524
[22:02] <Jester01> status SCVYL | signal   0% | snr   0% | ber 0 | unc 1 | FE_HAS_LOCK
[22:03] <Jester01> let me see what scan does
[22:04] <okabe> what kind of card are you using ?
[22:05] <Jester01> DVBSky S952 v3
[22:06] <okabe> oh okay thats similair tto the one i got
[22:08] <Jester01> tune to: 189028615:8VSB
[22:08] <Jester01> that ^^^ looks suspicious though
[22:08] <Jester01> not sure what freq ranges your satellite uses
[22:08] <Jester01> but what I have is in the tens of MHz not hundreds
[22:09] <okabe> im trying to recv from Telstar-11N-37.6W
[22:10] <Jester01> https://www.lyngsat.com/Telstar-11N.html
[22:10] <okabe> but just testing with random files, in my area, which is probably not going to work properly XD
[22:12] <Jester01> are you in Canada then?
[22:12] <okabe> yeah
[22:13] <Jester01> what do you want to receive from that satellite? the only north Americas I see are listed as "(feeds)"
[22:13] <Jester01> the others are Europe/Africa
[22:13] <okabe> anything, i just randomly picked it because it seems like a straight line of site from my backyard
[22:13] <Jester01> haha
[22:14] <okabe> maybe there is a better one
[22:14] <okabe> oh this is interesting
[22:14] <okabe> i tried this
[22:15] <okabe> scan /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB
[22:15] <okabe> and dmesg says this
[22:15] <okabe> [  +0.000029] TBSECP3 driver 0000:04:00.0: DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 803028615 out of range (950000000..870000000)
[22:22] <Jester01> do you know what LNB you have?
[22:22] <okabe> i can find out
[22:22] <okabe> second
[22:26] <okabe> DUAL LNBF AE128 CCS2800
[22:29] <Jester01> can't find info about that, is it K or C band?
[22:29] <okabe> hmm
[22:29] <okabe> good question
[22:30] <Jester01> then again, I don't know if C band LNBs are different actually
[22:34] <okabe> i guess its supposed to be tuned for Bell ExpressVu so could figure out how that works to answer the question
[22:34] <okabe> if its Ku or Cu
[22:35] <okabe> here we go
[22:35] <okabe> Nimiq 4, located at 82? W primarily serves Bell's high-definition television content. Nimiq 6, located at 91.1?W primarily serves Bell's standard-definition television and radio content. Each satellite has 32 Ku-band transponders.
[22:35] <Jester01> ahha
[22:35] <okabe> from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Satellite_TV
[22:36] <okabe> hmm tuning fails for all files in /usr/share/dvb/dvb-legacy/dvb-s
[22:38] <Jester01> 11N does not seem to have anything in the Ku band for you
[22:39] <okabe> hmm okay
[22:40] <okabe> im trying to bruteforce a scan file XD
[22:40] <okabe> no dice from anything it seems
[22:41] <okabe> like even if my dish is pointed in the wrong direction, it should be able to at least tune the LNB properly
[22:41] <Jester01> that is true
[22:42] <Jester01> cat > ~/.szap/channels.conf
[22:42] <Jester01> RTL Television:12187:h:0:27500:163:104:12003
[22:43] <Jester01> if you have the szap program (likely) you can then szap 'RTL Television'
[22:43] <okabe> okay ill try
[22:43] <Jester01> of course that won't work because that's an european astra satellite
[22:43] <Jester01> but in terms of tuning it's Ku band
[22:43] <Jester01> it should print something like
[22:43] <Jester01> sat 0, frequency = 12187 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00a3, apid = 0x0068 sid = 0x2ee3
[22:44] <okabe> oh this is interesting output
[22:44] <okabe> okabe@secondary:~$ szap 'RTL Television'
[22:44] <okabe> reading channels from file '/home/okabe/.szap/channels.conf'
[22:44] <okabe> zapping to 1 'RTL Television':
[22:44] <okabe> sat 0, frequency = 12187 MHz H, symbolrate 27500000, vpid = 0x00a3, apid = 0x0068 sid = 0x2ee3
[22:44] <okabe> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
[22:44] <okabe> Version: 5.11  	 FE_CAN { DVB-T + DVB-T2 + DVB-C (A) + ISDB-T + DVB-C (B) }
[22:44] <okabe> Not a valid QPSK device!
[22:45] <Jester01> ahha that's not the DVB-S frontend :)
[22:45] <Jester01> do you have multiple frontends in /dev/dvb/adapter0 ?
[22:45] <Jester01> try szap -f 1 'RTL Television'
[22:46] <okabe> oh thats working
[22:46] <Jester01> good :)
[22:46] <okabe> okay so i should tune my scanning like that as well
[22:46] <Jester01> probably as it also has an -f option
[22:47] <Jester01> but if you find a better satellite you can fill out the channels conf from the data on the website
[22:47] <Jester01> at least for a single channel for testing :)
[22:48] <okabe> from lyngsat?
[22:49] <Jester01> yeah
[22:49] <okabe> what about this guy https://www.lyngsat.com/Intelsat-11.html
[22:49] <okabe> im pretty much pointed in the same direction atm
[22:50] <okabe> my sat tunner is comming in from amazon so ive eyeballed which way to face things
[22:50] <Jester01> the Ku band stuff is at the bottom and those are for brazil
[22:50] <okabe> maybe this doesnt work
[22:55] <okabe> gf is bugging me to do dinner stuff
[22:55] <Jester01> haha
[22:55] <okabe> but progress has been made so im happy about that
[22:55] <okabe> thanks for help
[22:55] <Jester01> yw
[22:55] <Jester01> find a satellite with Ku band beam covering your area
[22:55] <Jester01> pick a non-encrypted channel
[22:56] <Jester01> write the frequency stuff into the config
[22:56] <Jester01> good luck :)
[22:56] <okabe> will do
[22:56] <okabe> thanks man
[22:56] <okabe> ill be idling here anyways as i explore more
[22:56] <okabe> o/