[vdr] Re: Some questions about plugin-features of vdr-developer...

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> I don't think that DiSEqC is something that should be handled by a plugin.
> My plans are to replace the 'diseqc' parameter in the channels.conf file
> with a more general 'source' parameter. In case of a satellite channel,
> this would be the satellite position. Then a yet to be written function
> cDvbDevice::SetDiSEqC() shall take the satellite position, frequency and
> polarization and generate the necessary DiSEqC commands to set the equipment
> to receive this channel. In doing so, it shall read a yet to be specified
> file 'diseqc.conf', which maps the satellite position, frequency and
> polarization to the installation specific DiSEqC setup.
> 
> Of course this needs to go into the core cDvbDevice implementation.
> If you can come up with a useful implementation of a cDvbDevice::SetDiSEqC(),
> please let me know.
Is it possible with this implementation to use DVB-s *AND* DVB-c cards 
in the same system?