Andrey Vlassov wrote:

Hi,

this question directed to maintainer of the plugin but anyone having experience welcome to share it.

I started to use this plugin with main accent on GotoXY function.

This what I was able to acomplish so far:

After I messed up with motor motor settings I had to reset it to factory settings.

It looks like plugin found "Telstra 5/Intelsat Americas 5" by just choosing the satellite in the plugin and pressing "OK" on Nexus-S remote. Then I can receive FTA program on TV.

Then I move dish to other position by controls of the plugin and "Ctrl-C" VDR. On next start VDR will reposition dish to last selected channel and I will get pricture/sound. I very happy that this part works very well.

Then of course I would like to check that I can position dish to other satellite and scan for channels. I choose 110.0W or 121.0W and reposition dish. Then I use "Ctrl-C" and switch to "scan" utility to scan transpoders for channels. To my surprise I found very few channels and it looks very suspicios to me.

Are these channels from the right satellite?

Unfortunately my "Fortec Lifetime Ultra" after last reflash refuses to start (constantly reboots) and I can not confirm that "rotor" plugin has positioned dish correctly. May be number of channels found by "scan" utility has something to do with fact that channels on these satellites are crypted. But I believe that information should be available anyway and scan utility should find them.

Yes, crypted channels should also be found.

What was your experience with this plugin and scan utility? Is there reliable source of transpoder list? (SatcoDX/Lygsat

• I could not find many channels which was found by "Fortec

Lifetime Ultra" in blind search mode when it still worked for me)

lyngsat.com is very reliable. For scanning channels you can also try the channelscan plugin. With uptodate transponder ini-files it works quite well.

Thomas

Andrey Vlassov wrote:

I will try to use channelscan. Where can I find uptodate transpoders.ini files? I found a few sources for ini files but not sure if I can trust them.

I found this page through google: http://joshyfun.peque.org/transponders/index.html cannot say how accurate it is.

Is it possible convert transpoder list from gTools into ini/vdr_channels format. (gTools download information from SatcoDX. I guess that SatcoDX provides more or less correct information for Europe but not sure about North America)

NOTE: I have written a script which uses SatcoDX to retrieve transpoder for each satellite. Could you give a try to the script and post back your findings? The script consits of two files -- once script itself (requires perl and LWP,Errno modules) and second has SatcoDX zones with respective satellites. If the results will be found valid it could happen that the script will be adopted by community.

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~andreyv/dvb/transpoders.pl http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~andreyv/dvb/zones

Interesting. I thought of doing something similar but then I found the above page with ready made ini files ;-)

Bye

Andrey Vlassov wrote:

Thomas,

I did try channelscan plugin yesteday tonight. I guess that something was wrong. I position the dish through "rotor" plugin then I run channelscan and select corresponding .ini file. As only I hit "Ok" the dish start to move right (if I look from behind the dish) all the way to the west limit.

It looks like the channelscan plugin tuned to a channel of another satellite. So the rotor plugin tries to move the dish to this position. Which ini file did you use (perhaps you can mail it to me)? And which values for site lattitude / longitude have you entered in the setup menu of rotor plugin? Perhaps I can reproduce this error.

I am not sure how "rotor" + "channelscan" work together. I will try to figure out it today tonight.

rotor and channelscan should work together without problems. The channelscan plugin just switches through channels and the rotor plugin sends the diseqc command according to the desired satellite position. Just the way it does when you manually switch through channels.

Thomas