luca@ventoso.org(Luca Olivetti) 07.06.05 20:28
Don't worry: I don't need the feature and I've also disabled the automatic epg scan (as I said, I don't like the dish moving randomly when an epg scan starts).
Your motor dish seem to have the same problem with VDR as a sharedLNB. How do you prevent VDR from moving the dish when you are watching TV and a timer should record a channel only available in an other dish position or 2 timers are trying to record from two different satellites? Or other way: While a recordings from pos 1 is running, it would be no a good idea to move the dish for the live screen to pos 2...
The problem looks very similar to those with "sharedLNB". If one timer requires vertical polarization and the other horizontal, it is not allowed the second timer to switch the polarity. And of cause the user should not switch polarization while zapping.
Why is that an entire separate patch and can't be handled like a "motor dish with 4 positions"? (hor/vert lo/hi freq).
Rainer
Rainer Zocholl wrote:
luca@ventoso.org(Luca Olivetti) 07.06.05 20:28
Don't worry: I don't need the feature and I've also disabled the automatic epg scan (as I said, I don't like the dish moving randomly when an epg scan starts).
Your motor dish seem to have the same problem with VDR as a sharedLNB. How do you prevent VDR from moving the dish when you are watching TV and a timer should record a channel only available
actually I don't record that much, but in that case I simply wouldn't: if I'm watching live tv I can manually stop the timer or simply leave it recording. I just cannot do the two things at once and I know that.
in an other dish position or 2 timers are trying to record from two different satellites?
I just tried and the first timer scheduled is the one that "wins" and that seems fine to me. Again, I don't expect to be able to record from two satellites at once (just like with a fixed dish it's impossible to record from two transponders at once).
Or other way: While a recordings from pos 1 is running, it would be no a good idea to move the dish for the live screen to pos 2...
In fact vdr doesn't let me do that (but that's no different than with a fixed dish).
Bye
luca@ventoso.org(Luca Olivetti) 08.06.05 00:44
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Rainer Zocholl wrote:
luca@ventoso.org(Luca Olivetti) 07.06.05 20:28
Don't worry: I don't need the feature and I've also disabled the automatic epg scan (as I said, I don't like the dish moving randomly when an epg scan starts).
Your motor dish seem to have the same problem with VDR as a sharedLNB. How do you prevent VDR from moving the dish when you are watching TV and a timer should record a channel only available
actually I don't record that much, but in that case I simply wouldn't: if I'm watching live tv I can manually stop the timer or simply leave it recording. I just cannot do the two things at once and I know that.
Ok, the LNBsharing patch "blocks" that automatically.
in an other dish position or 2 timers are trying to record from two different satellites?
I just tried and the first timer scheduled is the one that "wins" and that seems fine to me.
Again, I don't expect to be able to record from two satellites at once (just like with a fixed dish it's impossible to record from two transponders at once).
No, but sh*t happens...
Without the LNBsharing patch it could easily happen, that the user zaps to vertically polarized channel while recording at hor. That OTOH blocks the horizontal signal, which caused VDR to "panic" and to try a restart... Too it's not so obvious which channel is running and what polarization and sometimes channels moves...
Or other way: While a recordings from pos 1 is running, it would be no a good idea to move the dish for the live screen to pos 2...
In fact vdr doesn't let me do that (but that's no different than with a fixed dish).
Hm, ok, so where is that handeled? Maybe only some few lines would be sufficient to block change of polarisation too.
I only found "disseq.conf" which seems to define the parameters, but not LNB specific.
Rainer
Rainer Zocholl wrote:
Again, I don't expect to be able to record from two satellites at once (just like with a fixed dish it's impossible to record from two transponders at once).
No, but sh*t happens...
Without the LNBsharing patch it could easily happen, that the user zaps to vertically polarized channel while recording at hor.
But that patch is probably only needed with multiple card fed by the same lnb. I don't plan to connect more than one card to the steerable dish, I think that would be a nightmare ;-) Everything I said only applies to a single card setup. If I ever need another card (which I doubt) I'll connect it to a separate, fixed, dish and use the sourcecaps patch.
Bye
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