[linux-dvb] How to determine DVB-S2 capability in S2API?

[linux-dvb] How to determine DVB-S2 capability in S2API?

[Klaus Schmidinger]

I'm currently adopting the patch that makes VDR use S2API,
but I can't figure out how an application is supposed to find out
whether a DVB device is DVB-S or DVB-S2.

Clearly I must be missing something, since S2API is said to be
"technically superior" than the "multiproto" API (where, BTW,
this was no problem at all ;-).

Klaus

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Re: [linux-dvb] How to determine DVB-S2 capability in S2API?

[Christophe Thommeret]

Le samedi 22 novembre 2008 16:43:07 Klaus Schmidinger, vous avez écrit :
> I'm currently adopting the patch that makes VDR use S2API,
> but I can't figure out how an application is supposed to find out
> whether a DVB device is DVB-S or DVB-S2.

This bit is missing in current api.
Will be added soon, i guess asa someone provides a patch :)
A that time, i solve that with a user toggleable "S2 capable device" ui 
option.

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Christophe Thommeret


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Re: [linux-dvb] How to determine DVB-S2 capability in S2API?

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 22.11.2008 18:37, Christophe Thommeret wrote:
> Le samedi 22 novembre 2008 16:43:07 Klaus Schmidinger, vous avez écrit :
>> I'm currently adopting the patch that makes VDR use S2API,
>> but I can't figure out how an application is supposed to find out
>> whether a DVB device is DVB-S or DVB-S2.
> 
> This bit is missing in current api.
> Will be added soon, i guess asa someone provides a patch :)
> A that time, i solve that with a user toggleable "S2 capable device" ui 
> option.

Considering that the "multiproto" API did think of handling this,
I really don't understand why the "technologically superior" *S2*API
didn't even think of this.

Requiring the user to configure this is a workaround that even
more disqualifies the decision to go S2API.

But anyway, it looks like we're stuck with this inferior API, so
I've posted a patch that adds this capability. Let's hope it gets
adopted - VDR 1.7.2 will require it, anyway.

Klaus

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Re: [linux-dvb] How to determine DVB-S2 capability in S2API?

[Michel Verbraak]

Klaus Schmidinger schreef:
> I'm currently adopting the patch that makes VDR use S2API,
> but I can't figure out how an application is supposed to find out
> whether a DVB device is DVB-S or DVB-S2.
>
> Clearly I must be missing something, since S2API is said to be
> "technically superior" than the "multiproto" API (where, BTW,
> this was no problem at all ;-).
>
> Klaus
>
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>   
Klaus,

I have the same problem with diseqc version. There is no request we can 
do to determine which version is supported by te device. This was 
allready missing in V3 of the API.

Michel.


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Re: [linux-dvb] How to determine DVB-S2 capability in S2API?

[Andreas Oberritter]

Michel Verbraak wrote:
> I have the same problem with diseqc version. There is no request we can 
> do to determine which version is supported by te device. This was 
> allready missing in V3 of the API.

FE_DISEQC_RECV_SLAVE_REPLY sets errno to EOPNOTSUPP if DiSEqC 2.x is
not supported by the device driver. Set slave_reply->timeout to 0 to
avoid blocking.

Have you ever seen a switch, LNB, motor or other satellite equipment
which actually provides useful data via DiSEqC 2.x?

Regards,
Andreas

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