[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.3.15

[Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net>]

Le lun 01/11/2004 à 19:13, Thomas Bergwinkl a écrit :

> 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.

You could also time the rotor and see how long it takes to go from one
horizon to another. I think that to switch from Astra 19.2 to BskyB 28.x
takes about 10-12 seconds on my dish.

I have given up on rotors - when mine breaks I will buy two more disks
and a DiSEqC splitter box which will cost about 75% the price of a
decent rotor. This will cover the three satellites we watch. They will
be shared between two tuners and zapping from BBC 1 to Eurosport will be
much easier I think?

Cheers

Tony Grant

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