[vdr] Re: Premote Plugin

["Reinhard Walter Buchner" <rw.buchner@freenet.de>]

Hi Micael, all,

 > Yes, I have that jumper in addition to the one
> mentioned above (which

I see, so you have two jumpers total. I only have
one on my -S CI modul.

> to the inverting transistor (which in turn goes to the IR receiver
> module). 

Hmm interesting. I wonder why they made that selectable
for -C DVB cards.

> You mean the normal CI/CAM stuff? Well it works, but I

No, on the -S version the 1.6 doesn't work at all (a friend
of mine has this problem and I also recall a discussion
on this ML some time ago, where someone had the
same problem)

> have to reload the firmware a couple of times before it
>works well (is this related to the CI?).

The nausiating necessity to reload the DVB driver is one
of the * B I G * bugs of the convergence firmware, on which
there is no info available to the public. The convergence
firmware is so picky about cams that you have to call yourself
lucky to find a CAM that works at all (which really sucks!)

This is another reason why we need a hardware combo and
information download center, so that we can finally get
EVRYTHING working. Klaus is doing all possible to make
VDR the "one and only" software and people are stumbling
on stupid things like diseqc & cam support.

Of course I must say we ARE lucky to have convergence
and Klaus that are making 90% open source (not like the
Dreambox, where it was supposed to be 100% open source
and now its more like 15% open and 80% closed (the last
5% noone knows about ;o)) Imagine you have to buy this
box, which was supposed to come out in 2001 and the soft
is still BETA at the end of 2002!

"I" would be willing to pay convergence to improve the soft.
Even if everyone only chips in with 20 Euro, I think it is
safe to say there are 1000 VDR users out there, this would
make a total sum of 20, 000 Euro.

Greetz,
Reinhard


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