[vdr] Re: Motor Diseqc works -- well almost ;o))

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

Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote:
> 
> Hi Klaus, Oliver, all
> 
> I finally got diseqc to work with the motor dish setup
> --- almost
> 
> Klaus: did you change anything in the final developers
> 1.1.12? Only after downloading the last version, did I
> get it to work at all. But please don't ask me how ;o)) I
> tried about a zillion things and after a while I couldn`t retrace
> exactly what I had done. (back to using the old drivers as I didn`t
> get NEWSTRUCT to work (yet ;o))
> 
> Diseqc doesn`t quite work tho. I send the diseqc command to
> move the dish to Astra (e.g). The motor starts moving and drives
> to the correct position. Of course, as expected the TV goes black
> during this process. However, after reaching the correct position,
> it STAYS black (tail messages no longer says DVB not Syncd).
> The trick I am using to make it work is:
> 
> turn diseqc on
> switch to a channel on another satellite
> wait for the dish to reach it
> switch  diseqc off (!)
> switch to a channel on the SAME satellite (!)
> switch back to the channel I want to watch
> 
> (kinda complicated just to get to another satellite;o))
> 
> Any idea why I need to turn diseqc on and off? I tried various
> paramters (tone on & off  Waiting xx and Waiting xxxxxxx
> i.e. short 50ms and long 50 000ms, not waiting at all).
> 
> Nothing seems to help. The LNB line voltage (13/18) doesn`t
> make a difference either.
> 
> Interestingly if I switch to a different channel on the same
> satellite (i.e. dish doesn`t need to move AND doesn`t)
> while I have diseqc turned on, the screen also goes black
> and I can`t recieve the program. I.e. I have to:
> 
> switch  diseqc off
> switch to a channel on the SAME satellite
> switch back to the channel I want to watch
> 
> Idea, tips, tricks, patches welcome ;ö))

I'm afraid I have no idea why you have to turn DiSEqC off and on to
actually tune to a channel. I guess you'll have to experiment yourself
with what's happening in the cDvbDevice::SetChannel() function...

Klaus
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