[vdr] Re: Diseq and vdr-1.0.4??

["M Meddaugh" <meddo@gmx.net>]

Thanks for you help I got it running, turned out that in moving the card the
second lnb must have got fried. I slapped in a diferent one and it worked.
Thats what I get for buying a noname el-cheapo lnb I guess...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Endriss" <o.endriss@gmx.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:52 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Diseq and vdr-1.0.4??


> M Meddaugh wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Oliver Endriss" <o.endriss@gmx.de>
> > To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:43 PM
> > Subject: [vdr] Re: Diseq and vdr-1.0.4??
> >
> > > M Meddaugh wrote:
> > > > > M Meddaugh wrote:
> > > > > > I spent the last few days upgrading my faithful old fli4l
> > > > > > router by throwing in my dvb-s and installing vdr-1.0.4. (
> > > > > > And I like it! ) I cant for the life of me get the simple
> > > > > > diseq to work. One Lnb is on
> > > > >
> > > > >                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > > Are you talking about mini DiSEqC aka tone burst?
> > > > > Plain vdr 1.0.4 does not support this. (I posted a patch some
> > > > > time ago.) Nevertheless, full DiSEqC should work.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Astra and the other on Sirius.Only option I found  is on/off
> > > > > > in the osd menu. When I select a channel on the second LNB I
> > > > > > hear the usual clicking sound but no channel come up and vdr
> > > > > > almost crashes.
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you set the DiSEqC parameter for Sirius channels to '1'
> > > > > (-> channel setup)?
> > > > >
> > > > > Oliver
> > > >
> > > > I switched now to 1.1.14, pretty much the same effect so far.
> > > > Sorry for the lack of info... Its a DiSEqC A/B tone burst switch.
> > >
> > > Ok, Mini DiSEqC.
> > >
> > > > It is switching correctly I think, I hear the click on the switch
> > > > at aleast. channels.conf looks like this
> > > > for astra:
> > > > 3sat:11954:H:S19.2E:27500:210:220:0:0:28007
> > > > and for sirius
> > > > telia:12284:V:S5E:27500:210:208:0:0:200
> > > >
> > > > in my diseqc.conf I have
> > > > S19.2E 11700 V 9750 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F0] W15 A W15 t
> > > > S19.2E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F1] W15 A W15 T
> > > > S19.2E 11700 H 9750 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F2] W15 A W15 t
> > > > S19.2E 99999 H 10600 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F3] W15 A W15 T
> > > >
> > > > S5E 11700 V 9750 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F4] W15 B W15 t
> > > > S5E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F5] W15 B W15 T
> > > > S5E 11700 H 9750 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F6] W15 B W15 t
> > > > S5E 99999 H 10600 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F7] W15 B W15 T
> > >
> > > Looks good.
> > > You could try again without the [E0 ...] commands, since they might
> > > confuse your A/B switch, e.g.
> > > S5E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 B W15 T
> > >
> > > > Also tried setting "A" instead of "B" on the SE5 settings
> > >
> > > B should be ok for the second satellite.
> > >
> > > Oliver
> >
> > With these settings  S5E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 B W15 T
> >
> > it doesnt switch LNBs at all. I can still watch ASTRA but i still get
>
> Hmm, this means that your switch does not accept mini DiSEqC commands:
> In this case, the line
> S5E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F5] W15 T
> should work for
> telia:12284:V:S5E:27500:210:208:0:0:200
>
> Anyway, if it still doesn't work, you might replace F5 by
> F4,F6,F7,F8,F9,FA,FB,FC,FD,FE,FF
> One of them should work.
>
> > the error message "channel not sync'ed on dvb card 1"
> > when changing to sirius.
> > Mayby this helps, with windows programs the switch would only work
> > when I set LNB 1 to Position A/option A and LNB 2 to Position
> > B/Option A
>
> Strange. Please verify that all settings of your Sirius LNB (oscillator
> frequency 9750/10600) are the same as for Windows.
>
> Oliver
>
>
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