[vdr] Re: motorised disk

["Conrad Micallef" <conrad@waldonet.net.mt>]

I did some further tests, and it is evident that the card is cutting power
to the rotor.

Does anyone knwo some small tweak I can use to de-sensitise the current
sensing loop - and allow it to give me a little more ?


Conrad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerd Arlitt" <gerd.arlitt@gmx.net>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 2:29 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: motorised disk


> On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:20, Conrad Micallef wrote:
> > I have been following the discussion before on setting up a motorised
dish
> > but I was unsuccessful with my attempt.
> >
> > I am using a Technotrend PCI card rev 1.3 - and I cannot get diseqc
rotor
> > to work properly.
> >
> > My setup is a SG-2100 rotor.
> >
> > From the nokia 9600 I can manually go to the setup and change disk
position
> > - i was hoping that setting up vdr would give me easier rotation, but
after
> > setting proper diseqc.conf and enabling diseqc and using rotor 0.5 the
dish
> > does not move, but actually when reconnecting it back to the nokia, it
> > seems to have done some recalculate automatically, and I have to give it
> > goto 0 and re-align it from the remote control.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > is the rev 1.3 perhaps too old to support diseqc motors ? - it heats up
> > quite a lot !!
>
> Works nicely here with a Hauppauge (Technotrend) 1.3, a Stab HH-120 rotor
and
> vdr-1.3.4.
> Check your settings (diseqc.conf, rotor-plugin, LNB) again!
> As my dish is sufficiently well alligned to the south I position directly
via
> the "goto xy". Make also sure, that the settings for your location in the
> rotor plugin are correct. Entries  for longitude and lattitude are thought
of
> having 1 figure after the decimal point e.g my longitude here is 9.2 -> 92
> and my lattitude here is 48.08 -> 481.
>
> Gerd Arlitt
>
>
>
> --
> Info:
> To unsubscribe send a mail to ecartis@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr"
as subject.
>
>




-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to ecartis@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.