I have a HH100, how would an actual diseqc.conf look like?
You have 2 possibilities, one now and one in the next future (a week or
two):
1) Use actual rotor-plugin (v. 4): you can move the dish East/West,
store the position, go to a position. In diseqc.conf you will find
commands like: E0 31 6B XX, where 6B is the Goto To Position command and
XX is the stored position. Internally, positions are stored as steps of
the step-by-step motor inside the rotor from the 0.
The procedure is long and tedious !
2) Use next rotor-plugin (v. 5) supporting the GotoXX diseqc command.
It's also called USALS or diseqc 1.3. Are commands like: E0 31 6E E0 60
- means go 6 degrees east from the 0. In this way you can specify
exactly where to point your dish. But it'n not so easy. Infact the patch
in the list didn't take care of Earth being a "ball": satellites are
on an arc and not on a line, from viewpoints different from the equator,
so you have to use trigonometric calculations.
Next version of the rotor plugin will take care of this. You will
indicate your position (lat and longitude), select a satellite present
in sources.conf and if your rotor is correctly setup, it will point the
right satellite ! Satellite position data is taken directly from
sources.conf - you can modify it at will ! This will work from the
plugin menu. You can copy the diseqc commands in diseqc.conf file if you
want to move the dish by zapping (I don't want, for example). I don't
know if the plugin author will create other methods.... I am in contact
with him, I'm not the developer !
Probably the best way to use the rotor will be using 2) to point the
satellite, then with the plugin move the dish to get the better signal
then store the position and recall the positions in diseqc.conf.
Francesco
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