Excellent news! I am sure the entire rotor vdr community will be very glad to hear that!
At the moment I use diseqc.conf with goto position commands for each sat position to move the dish With rotor-ng does diseqc use have to be switched off in vdr and the plugin takes care of everything or does it parse diseqc.conf?
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Timothy D. Lenztlenz@vorgon.com wrote:
I only have a Nexus-s for sat card and right now my rotor alignment is all screwed up. Relays went bad and had to replace them. I left the rotor elevation setting untouched but now it over shoots more and more the farther it goes as if the elevation is wrong. Haven't had time to look into it.
Well, it seems I found the problem. The HAUPPAUGE NOVA-S2-HD card (HVR4000 lite / CX24116 frontend) won't lock onto DVB-S2 channels with FEC_AUTO or ROLLOFF_AUTO set. So, I modified the plugin to allow selectable values for FEC and ROLLOFF and now it works fine. I can now lock and scan DVB-S and DVB-S2 channels (QPSK and 8PSK) directly from the plugin menu and move the dish to find and store satellites with diseqc and signal strength meter. Ideal for feedhunting now!
When I get a bit more time I'll tidy up the plugin and release it as it should now act as a pretty good satellite channel scanner irrespective of whether you have a rotor within VDR. I haven't tested the entire satellite transponder scanning functionality yet for DVB-S/S2, that will be the next task but hopefully it won't need many changes.