[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.3.15

[Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>]

Thomas Bergwinkl wrote:

> Hello,
>
> if you switch to a "live" channel there is no problem with vdr-1.3.15,
> because vdr doesn't wait for a lock anymore. But if you request a
> channel from another satellite via transfer mode, this error message
> (device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver!) comes because the timeout
> (5s) defined in device.c is not enough, when the dish has to rotate.
I'm using a dxr3, so it's probably always using transfer mode (at least 
what I described occurred viewing live tv)

> I have changed device.c line 26 to: #define TUNER_LOCK_TIMEOUT 100000 //
> ms
> So the timeout is now 100s which should be long enough for steerable
> dishes.
> The only disadvantage I could see is that as long the dish is rotating,
> vdr doesn't react anymore because it is waiting for a lock.
That's not an acceptable solution (IMHO). I also though about patching 
vdr so that AttachReceiver checks for the position of the dish but I 
don't think that's a good solution either.
BTW, why the dish is moving to a satellite that has nothing to do with 
either the previous channel nor the new one?

Bye
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