[vdr] Re: DiSEqC support

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote:
> 
> ...
> >Are you sure your motor reaches the position within 3.5 seconds?
> >From any initial position of the antenna?
> >That's quite a fast move!
> 
> No, of course it won't, but it should at least start moving, which
> it doesn't. BTW using this conf I see a problem with the time
> out. For example, If I switch from a channel on 19,2 East to
> a channel on 13E, it takes my motor about 4+2(initial delay)
> seconds to move to the new position. But if switch to a channel
> on Hispasat it takes quite a bit longer (because the sat is 30W)
> My motor move between 0,7 and 1,3 degrees per second depending
> on actual line voltage. The problem: the necessary delay depends
> on how I switch from one satellite to another one. It would be a
> pain, if I needed to zap through all satellites between 19,2 E
> and 30W one by one. However, in your current config, the
> DVB card will timeout (and quit adjusting to the channel), once
> the delay time is up. The delay time is NOT the same for each
> switch to a new satellite since it depends on where my dish is
> AND to which position it must drive. Do you have an idea how to
> solve this problem? My Nokia simply displays "no signal" until
> the satellite is reached. After the motor stops moving and an
> additional delay of 1-2 sec, the picture appears (so I don't
> know if the Nokia tunes to the channel, sends the diseqc
> command and just waits until it can receive a transponder,
> or if it sends the diseqc command, waits (although I have
> no idea how it would know how long to wait) and then tunes
> to the channel. Since diseqc 1.x devices can`t receive diseqc
> info, I guess the first way is the way nokia works.

It should be possible to rearrange things that way, but I didn't have
enough time to go through this today. I'll keep it in mind for a later
change...

Klaus
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