* [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 @ 2009-11-02 19:52 TD 2009-11-02 20:17 ` Goga777 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: TD @ 2009-11-02 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-dvb Hi all. I'm at the end of my tether here so hopefully someone can offer a clue. I'm building a MythTV box with a Happauage WinTV Nova-HD-S2 PCI card which I'd like to use to receive Freesat via Astra (2D) here in the UK. I've built a DVB-T MythTV box in the past, so I'm not too green. The card itself is recognized by my 2.6.30 kernel, and I've got the firmware loading. [ 139.141728] i2c-adapter i2c-2: firmware: requesting dvb-fe-cx24116.fw [ 139.176026] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Waiting for firmware upload(2)... [ 143.271646] cx24116_load_firmware: FW version 1.20.79.0 [ 143.271653] cx24116_firmware_ondemand: Firmware upload complete However, that's where the good bits end. I tried a channel scan in Myth which was mostly underwhelming, and I realised that it was mostly picking up channels from Astra 2A and 2B, which are encrypted, and not what I want. I then tried the (dvb)scan utility, as it operates at a lower level and lets me see what's going on more. I had output like: $ scan -x 0 /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E scanning /usr/share/dvb/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' <***snip ***> initial transponder 12629000 V 6111000 3 initial transponder 12692000 V 19532000 1 >>> tune to: 11720:h:0:29500 DVB-S IF freq is 1120000 WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! >>> tune to: 11720:h:0:29500 (tuning failed) DVB-S IF freq is 1120000 WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! >>> tune to: 11740:v:0:27500 DVB-S IF freq is 1140000 0x0000 0x1776: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- Bravo+1 (running, scrambled) 0x0000 0x1777: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- LIVING2 (running, scrambled) 0x0000 0x177c: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- Challenge+ (running, scrambled) 0x0000 0x177e: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- Bravo+ (running, scrambled) 0x0000 0x1788: pmt_pid 0x0000 BSkyB -- Bravo~ (running, scrambled) ... I'm not sure what "tuning failed" means, but I bet it has something to do with my problem. NB I can watch the few clear channels that it does pick up e.g. Sky News, Luxe etc. The setup is that this is a newly-built flat, with a double F-socket on the wall. I followed it down to the distribution panel in the basement, and it's connected to a Delta MS 5024 N multiswitch. From what I could make out, said switch has four cables going in (vertical 0khz, horiz 0khz, vertical 22khz, horiz 0khz), and lots of cables going to the flats. I don't know much about it, but it seems to me that if the switch is designed to have Sky digiboxes plugged into it, that it is designed to appear as an LNB to equipment, therefore I don't need to mess around with DiSEqC or anything similar? No magic going on? Anyway, I'd really appreciate some guidance here as I just don't know what to do, or how I can debug this further. (I'm going to borrow a Sky box from a friend tonight just to verify the uplink to the flat is working properly.) -- TD _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@vger.kernel.org linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-02 19:52 [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 TD @ 2009-11-02 20:17 ` Goga777 2009-11-03 0:11 ` TD 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Goga777 @ 2009-11-02 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-dvb; +Cc: linux-media Приветствую, TD you have to use scan-s2 http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 or dvb2010 scan http://hg.kewl.org/dvb2010/ also you can use szap-s2 http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/szap-s2 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-02 20:17 ` Goga777 @ 2009-11-03 0:11 ` TD 2009-11-03 2:01 ` Another Sillyname ` (3 more replies) 0 siblings, 4 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: TD @ 2009-11-03 0:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-media; +Cc: linux-dvb On 2009-11-02, Goga777 <goga777@bk.ru> wrote: > Приветствую, TD > > you have to use scan-s2 > http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 Hi, and thanks for your quick reply. I tried it but no better: <snip> initial transponder DVB-S 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO initial transponder DVB-S2 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO ----------------------------------> Using DVB-S >>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: DVB-S IF freq is 1120000 WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! >>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: (tuning failed) and the channels.conf was no better than before - it didn't include *one* BBC channel, for example. > > or > > dvb2010 scan > http://hg.kewl.org/dvb2010/ Once I got it working, same: Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10714 H DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 AGC:0% SNR:0% Can't tune Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10729 V DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 AGC:0% SNR:0% Can't tune Where do I go from here? -- TD ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-03 0:11 ` TD @ 2009-11-03 2:01 ` Another Sillyname 2009-11-03 12:43 ` TD 2009-11-03 4:40 ` BOUWSMA Barry ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Another Sillyname @ 2009-11-03 2:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-media 2009/11/3 TD <topper.doggle@googlemail.com>: > On 2009-11-02, Goga777 <goga777@bk.ru> wrote: >> Приветствую, TD >> >> you have to use scan-s2 >> http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 > > Hi, and thanks for your quick reply. > > I tried it but no better: > <snip> > initial transponder DVB-S 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > initial transponder DVB-S2 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > ----------------------------------> Using DVB-S >>>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: > DVB-S IF freq is 1120000 > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! >>>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: (tuning failed) > > and the channels.conf was no better than before - it didn't include *one* BBC > channel, for example. > >> >> or >> >> dvb2010 scan >> http://hg.kewl.org/dvb2010/ > > Once I got it working, same: > Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10714 H DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 > AGC:0% SNR:0% > Can't tune > > Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10729 V DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 > AGC:0% SNR:0% > Can't tune > > Where do I go from here? > -- > TD > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb users mailing list > For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@vger.kernel.org > linux-dvb@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb Are you running myth .21 or .22? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-03 2:01 ` Another Sillyname @ 2009-11-03 12:43 ` TD 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: TD @ 2009-11-03 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-media On 2009-11-03, Another Sillyname <anothersname@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Are you running myth .21 or .22? Hi, I'm running 0.22-fixes. -- TD ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-03 0:11 ` TD 2009-11-03 2:01 ` Another Sillyname @ 2009-11-03 4:40 ` BOUWSMA Barry 2009-11-04 0:33 ` TD 2009-11-03 12:43 ` Goga777 2009-11-03 20:38 ` Simon Kenyon 3 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: BOUWSMA Barry @ 2009-11-03 4:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: TD; +Cc: linux-dvb, linux-media On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, TD wrote: > On 2009-11-02, Goga777 <goga777@bk.ru> wrote: > > Приветствую, TD > > > > you have to use scan-s2 > > http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 > > Hi, and thanks for your quick reply. > > I tried it but no better: > <snip> > initial transponder DVB-S 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > initial transponder DVB-S2 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > ----------------------------------> Using DVB-S > >>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: First of all, some background info, in case you aren't aware: All Freesat services are presently DVB-S. There are currently no DVB-S2 transponders carrying any FTA services, although there is always the possibility that the existing FTA HD services which are on DVB-S transponders may move to DVB-S2 in the not- too-distant future, particularly when the terrestrial UK DVB-T2 services start before the end of the year, and Channel 4 and Five join the existing ITV and BBC HD services. Therefore the failure to tune DVB-S2 transponders has nothing to do with reception of Freesat. Enough background, what I see from the above is that the frequency of 11720 has a symbol rate of 29500 which I know is what is used by the BSkyB encrypted programmes. So your ability to tune isn't going to help you see any additional services, just as those in your original post are also scrambled Sky programmes. If it concerns you that you can't tune this DVB-S2 transponder, then you'll need the advice of others with DVB-S2 familiarity. > and the channels.conf was no better than before - it didn't include *one* BBC > channel, for example. The BBC channels, as well as most ITV, Channel 4, and similar ``interesting'' Freesat services, are on the Astra 2D satellite, as per your subject. This bird covers the frequencies from 10714250 h 22000 through 10935500 v 22000. Its footprint is a narrow beam focussed on the UK, and can only be received with some difficulty elsewhere that the remaining signals from the other Astra and Eurobird satellites deliver useable signals. That is, were you to be somewhere outside the UK, you might need to more accurately position your dish. But that shouldn't be your problem as per your original message. > Once I got it working, same: > Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10714 H DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 > AGC:0% SNR:0% > Can't tune > Where do I go from here? I note that your first listed frequency is 11720, just above the transition from low to high band, in your first message. Do you get any results with success at any frequencies below 11700, and do your successes above 11700 include both horizontal and vertically polarised services? If you have a complete lack of any results with one particular polarisation/band combination, then suspect possibly your cabling, unless a regular FTA/Freesat/Sky receiver connected to the same is able to successfully find all services. You should be able to receive services from 11200 to 11700 in both bands with DVB-S, as well as above 11700, as the former are not on a particular spotbeam. Hope this info helps. Feel free to send me off-list your `scan' output (DVB-S) if you can't spot any patterns. thanks, barry bouwsma ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-03 4:40 ` BOUWSMA Barry @ 2009-11-04 0:33 ` TD 2009-11-04 5:44 ` BOUWSMA Barry 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: TD @ 2009-11-04 0:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-media <removed linux-dvb x-post> On 2009-11-03, BOUWSMA Barry <freebeer.bouwsma@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, TD wrote: > > First of all, some background info, in case you aren't aware: > > All Freesat services are presently DVB-S. There are currently > no DVB-S2 transponders carrying any FTA services, although > there is always the possibility that the existing FTA HD services > which are on DVB-S transponders may move to DVB-S2 in the not- > too-distant future, particularly when the terrestrial UK > DVB-T2 services start before the end of the year, and Channel 4 > and Five join the existing ITV and BBC HD services. > > Therefore the failure to tune DVB-S2 transponders has nothing > to do with reception of Freesat. I wasn't aware - I thought the Freesat HD channels were DVB-S2, that's why I got that card. Now upon further research, it appears that talk of DVB-S2 with Freesat has died down, so looks like I've wasted some money (for now). > Enough background, what I see from the above is that the > frequency of 11720 has a symbol rate of 29500 which I know > is what is used by the BSkyB encrypted programmes. So your > ability to tune isn't going to help you see any additional > services, just as those in your original post are also > scrambled Sky programmes. > > If it concerns you that you can't tune this DVB-S2 transponder, > then you'll need the advice of others with DVB-S2 familiarity. No, it just concerns me that I can't get Freesat from Astra 2D. >> Once I got it working, same: >> Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10714 H DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 >> AGC:0% SNR:0% >> Can't tune > >> Where do I go from here? > > I note that your first listed frequency is 11720, just above > the transition from low to high band, in your first message. > Do you get any results with success at any frequencies below > 11700, and do your successes above 11700 include both horizontal > and vertically polarised services? My channels.conf contains both horizontal and vertical channels, but nothing below 11700. So it looks like I'm not getting anything via low band? > If you have a complete lack of any results with one particular > polarisation/band combination, then suspect possibly your > cabling, unless a regular FTA/Freesat/Sky receiver connected > to the same is able to successfully find all services. As per my OP: = The setup is that this is a newly-built flat, with a double F-socket on the = wall. I followed it down to the distribution panel in the basement, and it's = connected to a Delta MS 5024 N multiswitch. From what I could make out, said = switch has four cables going in (vertical 0khz, horiz 0khz, vertical 22khz, = horiz 0khz), and lots of cables going to the flats. Surely it must be the switch, I don't see what else it can be, especially if there is no special signal that a Sky box sends down the wire to the switch, that my setup would need to replicate. There is a caveat above, which is that we are the first people in the block, so who knows what reception others are getting. I've already had the cables from the switch to our flat moved to a different switch, as when I mentioned the situation to the builder (still on-site) he told me that people in another block had had a problem on that switch. However, it's always possible that the cables aren't labelled properly, we have found that with other services. *sigh* So perhaps the cables that were moved, weren't the ones that lead to our flat! > > You should be able to receive services from 11200 to 11700 > in both bands with DVB-S, as well as above 11700, as the > former are not on a particular spotbeam. > > Hope this info helps. Feel free to send me off-list your > `scan' output (DVB-S) if you can't spot any patterns. > Thanks for your very informative assistance. I will borrow a Sky box and plug it in before I continue the thread. :) -- TD ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-04 0:33 ` TD @ 2009-11-04 5:44 ` BOUWSMA Barry 2009-11-04 21:46 ` BOUWSMA Barry 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: BOUWSMA Barry @ 2009-11-04 5:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: TD; +Cc: linux-media On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, TD wrote: > <removed linux-dvb x-post> Oooh, that's a mistake (from my view) -- it means your reply doesn't appear in my inbox, and it's only through luck that I find it amongst the uninteresting (to me) posts that I check infrequently on linux-media via gmane -- I thought there was to be a separation between developer mail, and dvb-user mail, and this clearly falls into the latter. And is more my bag. But that's a rant I don't want to get into, as I'm in the minority here. > > Therefore the failure to tune DVB-S2 transponders has nothing > > to do with reception of Freesat. > > I wasn't aware - I thought the Freesat HD channels were DVB-S2, that's why I > got that card. Now upon further research, it appears that talk of DVB-S2 with > Freesat has died down, so looks like I've wasted some money (for now). Happy to offer the background. I wouldn't say you've wasted money -- rather, you've future-proofed yourself. Sadly the Freesat specs don't appear to have mandated the more efficient H.264 AVC video codec for SD resolution services, so there is no possibility of that for a Freesat-only (no BSkyB) service that wants to save transmission costs, yet still be received by the handful of non-HD-able receivers out there. I'd liken it to my decision not to buy any DAB-only receiver without the DAB+ (and DMB) capability that is presently in use (if not in the UK or other countries), or any further DVB-S cards without -S2. And DVB-T2. What seems like a waste of money today will guarantee you don't have to spend as much later -- with your DVB-S2 card and a suitably positioned dish, you could be receiving the french-german `arte' where occasional programmes capture my interest, as well as other FTA services that have not yet interested me in a pure -S2 form. Also, while the Beeb may not presently be transmitting -S2 for their HD service, I wouldn't rule it out. There's a long and sordid history behind Freesat and the Continent that limits what is available via Freesat and its quality to what the 2D satellite can deliver, and any future services (such as the recent Freesat `Five') will need to be shoehorned into that already overfilled space. > My channels.conf contains both horizontal and vertical channels, but nothing > below 11700. So it looks like I'm not getting anything via low band? Thanks for confirming this. This points to a potential, but unlikely, problem with your device, that it can't switch into the low band (I had a problem where one of my devices could not receive anything in the high band without hackery, or a multiswitch which spoke to it differently). If you are not aware of it, in case it helps, the switching between low (below 11700-ish) and high band is normally accomplished with a 22kHz tone signal, absent for low band. It can also be accomplished by a particular DiSEqC signal which my one device speaks to the multiswitch I got which solved that problem, that being the opposite to what you are experiencing. The other possibility, given that two of the four inputs to your multiswitch work, is that the two low-band inputs have been crossed. > > If you have a complete lack of any results with one particular > > polarisation/band combination, then suspect possibly your > > cabling, unless a regular FTA/Freesat/Sky receiver connected > > to the same is able to successfully find all services. > > As per my OP: > > = The setup is that this is a newly-built flat, with a double F-socket on the > = wall. I followed it down to the distribution panel in the basement, and it's > = connected to a Delta MS 5024 N multiswitch. From what I could make out, said > = switch has four cables going in (vertical 0khz, horiz 0khz, vertical 22khz, > = horiz 0khz), and lots of cables going to the flats. > > Surely it must be the switch, I don't see what else it can be, especially if > there is no special signal that a Sky box sends down the wire to the switch, > that my setup would need to replicate. Yeah, a third possibility could be the switch. I glossed over the details in your original post about the switch, and completely forgot it was newly-built. While I would normally expect everything to work in a new installation, I've read enough to convince me otherwise. As a confession, when I have to replace the cabling into my multiswitch, these days I determine the proper wiring by a process of elimination as to which of the four cables goes where. I recently had to do this with my dish pointed at 28,2/28,5°E and I'm always wary when I have the mathematically improbable result of the randomly selected cables being connected to the right inputs. But enough of my confessions why you wouldn't hire me to install anything you care about. > There is a caveat above, which is that we are the first people in the block, > so who knows what reception others are getting. I've already had the cables > from the switch to our flat moved to a different switch, as when I mentioned Different switch, or different output of the same switch? Not that it's important. > the situation to the builder (still on-site) he told me that people in another > block had had a problem on that switch. Here is where my unfamiliarity with building practices in the different countries rears its ugly head. (Not to mention the differences between the same language wielded in different regions, but I'm going to try to hide that by not mentioning it...) > However, it's always possible that the cables aren't labelled properly, we > have found that with other services. *sigh* So perhaps the cables that were > moved, weren't the ones that lead to our flat! If it makes you feel better, I've noted that my cheap^H^H^H^H^H affordable multiswitch has a couple outputs where what I do on them affects what the remaining outputs see. Technically, there is leakage so that if I'm watching a high-band channel on the aforementioned output, the other outputs are unable to receive any low-band signals. Or else they're blocked from receiving any other of the four satellite positions. I've simply capped those outputs so as not to use them, and so far things have been fine. What I mean to say is, these days, not everything works perfectly. I've worked around this by future-proofing my purchase with more outputs than normally needed. An unlikely possibility could be that someone else is tuned into a high-band signal and the 22kHz switching signal (constant) is leaking into your input, causing it to switch to high bands when tuning. Although, normally, for the above, there is some overlap, so that you may see some results for low-band transponders but they are actually services sent in high-band. Note that I'm blathering in the above, but I just want you to know there are plenty of possibilities for causing problems that have nothing to do with your kernel or DVB stack. Also, it's either early or late pub o'clock from which I'm posting. > Thanks for your very informative assistance. I will borrow a Sky box and plug > it in before I continue the thread. :) You're welcome. With the results you have (no low-band at all) I'd include a possible cable mismatch between the two low-band inputs from the LNB. That is, two of the four cables may be wrong, those feeding Auntie's services amongst others, but from this distance I don't want to commit myself to that. Just for your information, the four cables from the single LNB going into the multiswitch and ideally appearing as one universal LNB are switched by the following, apart from a particular DiSEqC sequence: Vertical or horizontal polarisation, regardless of lo/hi band, is selected by a voltage from the receiver: 13 or 14V for vertical, and nominally 18V for horizontal. You have no problems in the high band with this switching, it seems. Low- or high-band is selected by the absence (low-band) or presence (high-band) of a 22kHz tone superimposed on the voltage. This is where you appear to be having problems, as your high-band works. But in your case, a multiswitch also comes into play. I hope my remote diagnosis is useful. If your borrowed Sky box works, then you may have an obscure hardware/linux problem. If it doesn't, than slap the installer about the head for a spell. thanks, barry bouwsma ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-04 5:44 ` BOUWSMA Barry @ 2009-11-04 21:46 ` BOUWSMA Barry 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: BOUWSMA Barry @ 2009-11-04 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: TD; +Cc: linux-media Replying to myself is the first sign that I need to be committed to a mental institution. So here goes. On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, BOUWSMA Barry wrote: > The other possibility, given that two of the four inputs to > your multiswitch work, is that the two low-band inputs have > been crossed. Thinking more about this, I don't think this is the case, if someone hasn't already corrected me -- there is a range of frequencies which, last time I scanned, were shared by both polarisations, with identical symbol rates. Although this was not legitimate input for an earlier `scan' and I've hacked a script to work around this. ### frequency pairs, h+v, mostly 27500 from 11200 upwards S 11222170 H 27500 S 11223670 V 27500 # S 11259670 V 27500 #### This has an odd SR.... NO MORE... S 11264470 H 22000 S 11261170 H 27500 # S 11307000 V 27500 S 11307000 H 27500 # S 11343000 V 27500 #### This has an odd SR.... NO MORE... S 11344000 H 22000 S 11344500 H 27500 # S 11388830 H 27500 S 11390330 V 27500 This continues, more or less, through 11500. In other words, if your two low-band inputs to the multiswitch were reversed, you'd still get something on the above frequencies, even if the actual parameters you'd be reading wouldn't match what is actually transmitted. Sorry for the misleading info I posted earlier. If there is any cabling problem, I'm positive it would have been noted as the BBC channels are certain to be ones checked by any halfway competent technician. As far as the possibility that your tuner card isn't properly switching into low-band, if you were to modify your scan file so that the successfully-tuned frequencies above 11700 are repeated but with a value corresponding to the different IF frequency, and you can again receive the same services, then that would point to that problem. I'd give an example, but that would require me to think. But here's the idea -- if you've tuned 11720, that's with an IF of 10600. With an IF of 9750, you'd want to be tuning to 11720 - (10600-9750) MHz. If that makes any sense. thanks, barry bouwsma ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-03 0:11 ` TD 2009-11-03 2:01 ` Another Sillyname 2009-11-03 4:40 ` BOUWSMA Barry @ 2009-11-03 12:43 ` Goga777 2009-11-03 20:38 ` Simon Kenyon 3 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Goga777 @ 2009-11-03 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-dvb; +Cc: linux-media I forgot to mention that you should use the transponders lists - ini file (for scan-s2) and xml file (for dvb2010) from here http://www.vdr-settings.com/download/channels/CLyngsatSP.tar.bz2 Goga > > you have to use scan-s2 > > http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/scan-s2 > > Hi, and thanks for your quick reply. > > I tried it but no better: > <snip> > initial transponder DVB-S 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > initial transponder DVB-S2 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > ----------------------------------> Using DVB-S > >>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: > DVB-S IF freq is 1120000 > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! > >>> tune to: 11720:hC34S0:S0.0W:29500: (tuning failed) > > and the channels.conf was no better than before - it didn't include *one* BBC > channel, for example. > > > > > or > > > > dvb2010 scan > > http://hg.kewl.org/dvb2010/ > > Once I got it working, same: > Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10714 H DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 > AGC:0% SNR:0% > Can't tune > > Astra 2A/2B/2D/Eurobird 1 (28.2E) 10729 V DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6 ONID:0 TID:0 > AGC:0% SNR:0% > Can't tune ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [linux-dvb] Struggling with Astra 2D (Freesat) / Happauage Nova-HD-S2 2009-11-03 0:11 ` TD ` (2 preceding siblings ...) 2009-11-03 12:43 ` Goga777 @ 2009-11-03 20:38 ` Simon Kenyon 3 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Simon Kenyon @ 2009-11-03 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-media [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 332 bytes --] TD wrote: > I tried it but no better: > <snip> > initial transponder DVB-S 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO > initial transponder DVB-S2 12692000 V 19532000 1/2 AUTO AUTO see if this channels.conf file is of any use to you i'm sure it is horribly out of date but i know that the BBC services work i do use them with myth -- simon [-- Attachment #2: channels.conf.gz --] [-- Type: application/gzip, Size: 13018 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
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