[vdr] Re: Feature Request: Simpler DiSEqC config, Was: DiSEqCforDummies

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Dave Chapman wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > On Astra many transponders contain references to other transponders, so
> > if you have one initial transponder chances are VDR will find other
> > transponders, too. On Hotbird it looks like they don't have these
> > references, so you need to define at least one channel for any given
> > transponder to make VDR automatically find all the other channels on
> > that transponder.
> >
> > Later VDR will automatically scan the TP frequencies, but that's not
> > a priority at the moment.
> 
> I may be wrong, but whilst the contents of each transponder may change
> frequently, it is rare for the basic parameters (frequency, polarity and
> symbol rate) to change.
> 
> VDR could be distributed with transponder lists for the main satellites,
> and these can be used as the starting point for channel scans.  All the
> user needs to do is tell VDR which satellites it is connected to (but
> VDR could even attempt to detect that if it was being clever - the
> satellite_delivery_system descriptor in the NIT includes the "orbital
> position").

You're forgetting that there is also Cable and Terrestrial DVB.
We'll need a transponder scan there, too.

Klaus


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