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I would also like some support for rotors in vdr, I can offer Klaus a free sat dish and an old rotor if that would motivate him...
Klaus, as a minimum in vdr core we need the ability to specify a ´lapse value´ between a diseq command being sent (for non rotor users this would be zero, I´d imagine) and vdr tuning to a transponder or trying to add new channels. So in short if this value say was set to 30 seconds, then vdr would not add new channels or try to tune to a transponder. That would allow the rotor to do its job (with the existing diseqc.conf
Fixed number would help a little, but would get anoying and be in the way a lot of time. Going from one sat to the next is with in 2-3 sec's. It's when you need to do a full swing you run into collecting from the wrong sat.
On 1/23/2011 2:31 PM, Arturo Martinez wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 21:38 -0700, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
Gotox patch (thanks to Ales for years of maintenance!) tries to estimate the time for positioner turn by assuming a fixed degrees/second speed and tracking the previous position. The gotox diseqc command insertion includes the variable delay that I think is blocking vdr channel operations for this time (hope so).
I made this patch because the relationship of vdr diseqc core and rotor plugin was flaky. Despite of diseqc command repetition the command success rate was well under 100%. Without repetition it was close to zero for me. My positioner may be picky with respect to signal timings. It was pretty annoying when vdr updated channels from wrong position. This patch has been reliable. The problem is that it lacks many features of rotor plugin. OTOH I think there should be a separate channel channel scan plugin.
Now the most annoying thing for me is that the vdr streamdev connected 2nd and 3rd instances time out when channel switch includes long enough waiting.
BR, Seppo
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