hi,
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer? normally i want to see astra, only sometimes hotbird, so i don't want to use one dvb-s card only for hotbird. i found a diseq-switch, wich has two in and one out connectors. is it possible to connect one line from astra an one from hotbird to that switch and from the switch to one of the dvb-cards. the other card stays at the second line from astra. is it possible for vdr to handle this?
and what if for example i watch with the dvb-card (1) which is connected directly to astra and at the same time i want to record at astra with the other dvb-card (2). should work. now i stop watching on 1 and want to see hotbird. what does vdr do? switch recording to 1 and watch hotbird via 2?
any other possibility to include hotbird? better solution?
thanks
olli
Oliver Joa wrote:
hi,
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
Get another quad-lnb (or a twin-lnb if you only need to connect two receivers) and connect output 1 from the lnb's via the first diseqc-switch to the first DVB card and output 2 from the lnb's via the second diseqc-switch to the second DVB card.
Regards, Richard
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
hi,
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
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thanks
olli
Oliver Joa wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
hi,
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
The easiest way to have full support for multiple sat positions and multiple DVB cards is to use a multiswitch.
Klaus
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
hi,
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
The easiest way to have full support for multiple sat positions and multiple DVB cards is to use a multiswitch.
yes, but i want to save money. i need hotbird only for 1 or 2 channels and only very seldom. a multiswitch is very expensive and need powersupply.
thanks
olli
On 2006-04-21 10:13, Oliver Joa wrote:
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
The easiest way to have full support for multiple sat positions and multiple DVB cards is to use a multiswitch.
yes, but i want to save money. i need hotbird only for 1 or 2 channels and only very seldom. a multiswitch is very expensive and need powersupply.
No, VDR does assume that all channels are available on all cards of the same type (DVB-S/T/C)... ...but you might make use of the CA-field in channels.conf to dedicate channels to one card (CA value 1-4 dedicates the channel to the corresponding card) but I don't know how VDR handles the diseqc.conf on the card that lacks a disecq-switch.
If you want to save (some) money buy a third diseqc-switch for your third card instead of a multiswitch and you'll get all the benefits of a multi card system.
/Richard
On 21 Apr 2006 Oliver Joa ojoa@gatrixx.com wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
Not out of the box but look for the SourceCaps Patch. It lets you define which card can receive which source.
BTW: Probably something what should be included into VDR soon.
Regards.
Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
On 21 Apr 2006 Oliver Joa ojoa@gatrixx.com wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
Not out of the box but look for the SourceCaps Patch. It lets you define which card can receive which source.
BTW: Probably something what should be included into VDR soon.
I agree. :-)
Klaus, is there anything I can do to the SourceCaps patch to make it acceptable to you?
Carsten.
Carsten Koch wrote:
Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
On 21 Apr 2006 Oliver Joa ojoa@gatrixx.com wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote:
Oliver Joa wrote:
i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer?
Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card).
and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and which not. is it possible to configure this?
Not out of the box but look for the SourceCaps Patch. It lets you define which card can receive which source.
BTW: Probably something what should be included into VDR soon.
I agree. :-)
Klaus, is there anything I can do to the SourceCaps patch to make it acceptable to you?
Carsten.
Well, there is also the problem with "LNB sharing", which also goes into that direction. If I start working in that area, I want to implement a "clean" solution that covers everything.
But right now there won't be any new VDR developer versions, anyway. Version 1.4 needs to "settle" first, and then I'll start working on things where I already have an idea on how to do them ;-)
Klaus
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