[linux-dvb] Re: Full featured card summary

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

On Monday 15 March 2004 00:10, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Holger Waechtler wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 March 2004 23:55, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > > The problem with 1.1.0 is VDR isn't doing the full DISEQC init
> > > sequence, and so no voltage was ever being sent to the LNB.
> >
> > that's definitely illegal.
>
> Note that I _do_ turn on LNB power now when setting up the devices in VDR.
> The only thing is that I don't send the "old-style" tone, voltage and burst
> commands, but simply use plain DiSEqC codes like [E0 10 38 F0].
> This works absolutley fine with the DVB driver, and I would expect it
> to still work in dvb-kernel. However, there it only works sometimes...

the spec requires you to send both SEC and DiSEqC commands, and these even 
consistently.

Usually switches and LNBs prioritize DiSEqC over SEC commands, but this if I 
remember correctly this is not necessarily the case.

Holger


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