Re: It does not work

[heino.goldenstein@microplex.de]

Hi,

thanks for the kind reply.

Ralph Metzler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the patches for use with your multi-switch.
> 
> I should have pointed out more clearly that I only tested and
> programmed the driver for my simple 4-way switch and not for the
> bigger switches which also translate DiSEqC to voltage, etc.

> Now that I know from you that this also works I will put your patches
> in the next release.

Great, that´s more I expected.
 
> The "front.diseqc=-1" for initialization might break it for other
> people. So, i don´t know what to do about that patch. Maybe #ifdef it.

I thought, this couldn´t do any harm, because after a front.power=0
front.power=1 sequence any DiSEqC only Device (e.g a Relay witch only
interprets DiSEqC switch criterias) should be set to DiSEqC switch
state 0. I am not sure, maybe someone can test it.

But the initialization is not as that simple. Wat´s if someones first
LNB is not focused on ASTRA or none of the LNB´s is focused on ASTRA.
Or another Program should be used as default.
Maybe a look at the ANNEX A of this Document
http://www.eutelsat.com/docs/diseqc/1.pdf
give some more possible combinations.

Wat´s about this idea:

insmod dvb.o dvb_s_freq=<tuner-frequency> volt=<0/1> tone22kHz=<0/1>
  tonburst=<0/1> diseqc_38=<DiSEqC-switchstate> srate=<srate>
  video_pid=<video-pid> audio_pid=<audio-pid> tt_pid=<tt-pid>

to overwrite the compiled in defaults.

With this someone can startup with his prefered default and set his
nessesary switch-criterias.

> gVideo will be much different in the next release and such things as
> DiSEqC switching and oscillator offsets (which also can be different
> for different LNBs then) will be part of the config file.
> 
> Ralph

Heino