[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.3.15

["Thomas Bergwinkl" <bergwinkl.thomas@vr-web.de>]

Luca Olivetti
>
> Someone reported that 1.3.14 didn't work with a steerable
> dish. I didn't
> try that version but this one doesn't work either: when I change
> satellite, once the position has been reached the new channel
> won't show
> anything ("ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach
> receiver!") unless
> I tune to a different channel. Worse yet, if I don't touch anything,
> after a while the dish moves again, but neither to the
> original channel
> nor to the new one: the original channel was at 13.0E, the
> new one was
> at 28.2E but the dish moved to 19.2E ?!?
> Back to 1.3.12 :-(
>

Hello,

if you switch to a "live" channel there is no problem with vdr-1.3.15,
because vdr doesn't wait for a lock anymore. But if you request a
channel from another satellite via transfer mode, this error message
(device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver!) comes because the timeout
(5s) defined in device.c is not enough, when the dish has to rotate.
I have changed device.c line 26 to: #define TUNER_LOCK_TIMEOUT 100000 //
ms
So the timeout is now 100s which should be long enough for steerable
dishes.
The only disadvantage I could see is that as long the dish is rotating,
vdr doesn't react anymore because it is waiting for a lock.


Thomas