Does the Rotor plugin support USALS? I read somewere that it did but so far I can't get it to go to a sat location. I tried entering my lat/lon in the setup.conf. I noticed that then in the on screen setup (which you can't change) it devides the numbers provided by 10, ie lat 32.2127 becomes 3.2 and lon 10.8829 becomes 11.0. I tried pre-multiplying by 10 which didnt work. It did move once by selecting a sat location and pressing the green button for goto when I told it not to use the diesqc.conf, but it seemed to go to the wrong location. Also, I need to be able to use the diesqc.conf because I am using an Invacom Quad with CP/LP LNBF and I need to be able to tell it which to use.
In trying to just get the sat moved to set angles, I tried a command line rotor program on the DVBN forums, but it is very hit and miss that it even responds. Seems to be more likly if I run nscan first set to use a stacked lnb. I think maybe the program dosn't properly turn of the 22khz tone for the required time before sending the commands. When it does move, it always seems off. Dosn't seem to use my lat/lon correctly. There is a option to send to 0 and I can replace that string with data that will send it West of South 0. So I was able to align the dish by sending it to sat 119 which is 9 degrees west for me, But I can't seem to work out the data bytes to make it go east of south 0. I have the pdf on the commands, but nothing I tried worked.
Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
Does the Rotor plugin support USALS? I read somewere that it did but so far I can't get it to go to a sat location. I tried entering my lat/lon in the setup.conf. I noticed that then in the on screen setup (which you can't change) it devides the numbers provided by 10, ie lat 32.2127 becomes 3.2 and lon 10.8829 becomes 11.0. I tried pre-multiplying by 10 which didnt work. It did move once by selecting a sat location and pressing the green button for goto when I told it not to use the diesqc.conf, but it seemed to go to the wrong location.
The plugin supports USUALS. First you have to enter your latitude and longitude in the setup menu of the plugin. When your latitude e.g is 32.2° North have to type in 3 2 2 and with left and right you can toggle between N and S. There is also the option 'Use GotoX on channel switch'. When say 'yes', the diseqc commands will be sent after a channel switch to another satellite. To move your dish manually with GotoX you have to select a sat location and then press the OK button.
Thomas
Ok, got the right lat/lon entered. S110.0W puts it at about 0 which would be right since it should be -.3 (too close to tell with that pointer. S125W puts it at about 18-20 degrees west of south. S148.0W put it at about 45-48 west. Set use DiSEqC yes in LNB setup and the dish stops responding to the goto commands.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Bergwinkl" Bergwinkl.Thomas@vr-web.de To: "'VDR Mailing List'" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:10 PM Subject: RE: [vdr] rotor plugin and USALs
Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
Does the Rotor plugin support USALS? I read somewere that it did but so far I can't get it to go to a sat location. I tried entering my lat/lon in the setup.conf. I noticed that then in the on screen setup (which you can't change) it devides the numbers provided by 10, ie lat 32.2127 becomes 3.2 and lon 10.8829 becomes 11.0. I tried pre-multiplying by 10 which didnt work. It did move once by selecting a sat location and pressing the green button for goto when I told it not to use the diesqc.conf, but it seemed to go to the wrong location.
The plugin supports USUALS. First you have to enter your latitude and longitude in the setup menu of the plugin. When your latitude e.g is 32.2° North have to type in 3 2 2 and with left and right you can toggle between N and S. There is also the option 'Use GotoX on channel switch'. When say 'yes', the diseqc commands will be sent after a channel switch to another satellite. To move your dish manually with GotoX you have to select a sat location and then press the OK button.
Thomas
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Is there a bug with this plugin and vdr-1.3.44? because I can not get it to reliably go to a sat location. I used the 1.3.40 patch because the next one up was 1.3.45. Some times it moves often it dosn't. I tell it to go to 123 and it seems to stop at 121 and won't move again until I use the drive E/W or go up and press the button to move it. I'm using a Nexus card and SG2100 motor. I seem to have plenty of power to run it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Bergwinkl" Bergwinkl.Thomas@vr-web.de To: "'VDR Mailing List'" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:10 PM Subject: RE: [vdr] rotor plugin and USALs
Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
Does the Rotor plugin support USALS? I read somewere that it did but so far I can't get it to go to a sat location. I tried entering my lat/lon in the setup.conf. I noticed that then in the on screen setup (which you can't change) it devides the numbers provided by 10, ie lat 32.2127 becomes 3.2 and lon 10.8829 becomes 11.0. I tried pre-multiplying by 10 which didnt work. It did move once by selecting a sat location and pressing the green button for goto when I told it not to use the diesqc.conf, but it seemed to go to the wrong location.
The plugin supports USUALS. First you have to enter your latitude and longitude in the setup menu of the plugin. When your latitude e.g is 32.2° North have to type in 3 2 2 and with left and right you can toggle between N and S. There is also the option 'Use GotoX on channel switch'. When say 'yes', the diseqc commands will be sent after a channel switch to another satellite. To move your dish manually with GotoX you have to select a sat location and then press the OK button.
Thomas
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