CopyPoint wrote:

has anyone tried one of these 8/1 or 10/1 diseqc switches ? do / will they work with vdr?

They sure will, provided that you know how to command the switch, and your dvb-s card and its driver can do diseqc properly. I have a full-featured Hauppauge dvb-s and it works just fine.

Enable diseqc in your vdr, and with diseqc.conf you can do pretty much anything you want.

For example, I have five LNBs in two dishes, cabled together with one 4-port diseqc switch and one A/B switch like this:

# --------------------- # | 4-port switch |-- to receiver # --------------------- # 1 2 3 4 # | | | | # 19.2E 13.0E 28.2E A/B # LNB LNB LNB | | # 5.0E 1.0W # LNB LNB

With a diseqc bus spec pdf, I was able to craft up a suitable diseqc.conf for my LNB configuration.

Drop me a note if you want a copy the the diseqc spec or my sample config.

-sjm

CopyPoint wrote:

Hi all,

has anyone tried one of these 8/1 or 10/1 diseqc switches ?

What type, model or make ?

CopyPoint wrote:

That's the point: How do they work inside? Just as an A/B - 4-p switch cascade?

Try it? Also, you can study the diseqc PDF spec and make an educated guesss.

It might be a 4-port switch with A/B in each of the four ports, or vice versa. Or something else. :)

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Drop me a note if you want a copy the the diseqc spec or my sample config.

Yes, both files please.

Take a look at these:

http://almamedia.fi:8000/~sjm/vdr/DiSeqC_bus_spec.pdf http://almamedia.fi:8000/~sjm/vdr/diseqc.conf

-sjm